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Anu - probable goddess of the earth and fertility, [42] called "mother of the Irish gods" in Cormac's Glossary [43] Bec; Bébinn (Béfind) Bé Chuille; Bodhmall; Boann - goddess of the River Boyne, called Bouvinda by Ptolemy [44] Brigid (Brigit) - called a "goddess of poets" in Cormac's Glossary, [43] with her sisters Brigid the healer and ...
In olden times the Celtics land and national societies were both linked with the body of the goddess (also attributed as "tribal goddess") and her representative on earth was the queen. Another "ambivalent" character in Scottish myths was the "hag", the Goddess, the Gaelic Cailleach, and the Giantess, a divine being who is harmful. The hag is ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender.
The character was originally conceived as English but was changed to use the natural Inverness accent of the actress playing the part. [4] Bella Caledonia (Scotland as a woman) invokes Scots iconography, including plaid, thistles, and the Forth Railway Bridge. She is an artificial woman, Bella Baxter, in Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel Poor Things. [5]
Scathach is a legendary Scottish woman warrior who appears in the Ulster Cycle. She trains Cuchulainn. Aife is Scathach's rival in war; she becomes the lover of Cuchulainn and gives birth to his son Connla. Liath Luachra, two characters of the same name in the Fenian Cycle.
This category includes the most important and best-known goddesses of the Celtic world. For more, see the categories Goddesses of the ancient Britons, Gaulish goddesses, Irish goddesess and Welsh goddesses. See also Celtic gods.
The name may derive from a Scottish Gaelic surname Neachneohain, meaning "daughter(s) of the divine," and/or "daughter(s) of Scathach," or NicNaoimhein, meaning "daughter of the little saint". [3] Other theories propose that the name derives from the Irish war goddess Neamhain , [ 4 ] or is connected to water-spirits such as the Nixie , Nokke ...
Epona, the Celtic goddess of horses and riding, lacked a direct Roman equivalent, and is therefore one of the most persistent distinctly Celtic deities.This image comes from Germany, about 200 AD Replica of the incomplete Pillar of the Boatmen, from Paris, with four deities, including the only depiction of Cernunnos to name him (left, 2nd from top)