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General deities were known by the Celts throughout large regions, and are the gods and goddesses called upon for protection, healing, luck, and honour. The local deities from Celtic nature worship were the spirits of a particular feature of the landscape, such as mountains, trees, or rivers, and thus were generally only known by the locals in ...
Beltane is Irish festival of the start of summer, and the Gaulish god Belenus was associated with the Greek sun god Apollo. Aryanrhot (Arianrhod) means "silver wheel" and is associated with the moon; her one son, "Lleu," means light ("lleuad" is the Modern Welsh word for moon), while her other son, Dylan ail Don , is associated with the waves ...
More tentatively, links can be made between ancient Celtic deities and figures in early medieval Irish and Welsh literature, although all these works were produced well after Christianization. The locus classicus for the Celtic gods of Gaul is the passage in Julius Caesar 's Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( The Gallic War , 52–51 BC) in which ...
Irish mythology has the largest written body of myths, followed by Welsh mythology. The supernatural race called the Tuatha Dé Danann is believed to be based on the main Celtic gods of Ireland, while many Welsh characters belong either to the Plant Dôn ("Children of Dôn") or the Plant Llŷr ("Children of Llŷr").
The Dagda - supreme god and king of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Danu - mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Dian Cecht - god of healing; Étaín - heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne; Lir - god of the sea; Lugh - legendary hero and High King of Ireland, god of leadership, skills, the sun, and alliances, associated with friends.
Irish mythology is the body of myths indigenous to the island of Ireland. ... Wales, and Ford and Bailie, Belmont, Massachusetts. Welsh edition 1958, English ...
Celtic paganism, as practised by the ancient Celts, is a descendant of Proto-Celtic paganism, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European paganism.Many deities in Celtic mythologies have cognates in other Indo-European mythologies, such as Celtic Brigantia with Roman Aurora, Vedic Ushas, and Norse Aurvandill; Welsh Arianrhod with Greek Selene, Baltic Mėnuo, and Slavic Myesyats; and Irish Danu ...
This category includes the most important and best-known gods of the Celtic world. For more, see the categories Gods of the ancient Britons , Gaulish gods , Irish gods and Welsh gods . See also Category:Celtic goddesses .