~Celtic Goddesses List D..Z~
DANA
Dana, another name for ANU, "The great mother Goddess" Gave her name to the Tuatha De Danann. ("The people of the goddess Dana".) The Tuatha De Danann were a race of wonderful, beautiful but often vulnerable gods who lived in the sparkling otherworld.
DAMARA
An Anglo.Celtic/English, fertility Goddess associated with Bealtaine
DAMONA
Name means:"Divine Cow".
The Gaul Goddess of fertility and healing. The Goddess Damona was associated with fertility and abundance.
DIANA
Also named:Artemis, Agrotera..(Goddess of the Countryside)
Sacred animals: The Bear, The Deer, and the Goat.
Diana is the goddess of Nature and the hunt. She is the goddess of the wild places on earth and in our psyches. Complete unto herself, she was widely worshipped all over the ancient world as a powerful and protective goddess. Although a virgin herself, she is the protectress of women in childbirth. She is also an excellent archer. Diana is the daughter of Zues, and Leto. Apollo, the sun god, is her brother.
It is important to remember that in ancient times the countryside was not a theme park with nature trails that you drive to at weekends, but was recognized as being directly responsible for the day.to.day survival. Now Diana returns as patroness of the eco.green movement.\
DIVONA
A Gaul, fertility Goddess who is associated with water and known only from inscriptions
DRUANTIA
Breten Queen of the Druids
Mother of the tree calendar, Fir Goddess, Fertility, Passion, Sexual Activities, Trees, Protection, Knowledge, Creativity.
EPONA
Name means:"Divine Horse", "The Great Mare".
The Pan/Celtic horse Goddess, Mother Goddess. Fertility, maternity, protectress of horses, horse.breeding, prosperity, dogs, healing springs, crops and small animals.
Epona also won the favour of the Roman army and was depicted in monuments set up at its cavalry barracks as a woman riding a fast steed, her cloak billowing with air behind her. She was even given her own festival in Rome on December 18th. Originally Epona was almost certainly seen by the Celts as a mare, possibly like the great white horse carvedcarved in the chalk downs near Wantage, in southern England. The fact that she is often depicted riding a horse with a foul suggests that she was also a goddess of fertility. In the Welsh myth of Pwyll. There is a connection between Epona and his wife RHIANNON, who is made to carry visitors into her husband's palace.
HABONIA
Ancient goddess of the Hearth, Home, Fertility, and of the Harvest. Habonia is also linked to Cernunos, and her worshippers have mostly blended into the worship of Brigid leaving Habona largely forgotten.
FAND
Fand was the wife of MANANNAN MAC LIR, whom she quarrelled with, causing him to leave. When she was attacked by the FOMORII, Fand sent for CUCHULAINN, via her maidens who appeared to Culchulainn in a vision, beating him with rods, which left him sore for a year. Having gained his attention, they explained that the goddess Fand, needed his help to fight the Fomorii. After defeating her attackers, Cuchulainn stayed on Fand's island for a month. When his wife found out she organised fifty of her maidens to kill Fand. A confused argument took place between Fand, Emer (Cuchulains wife), Cuchulainn and Manannan Mac Lir, who had also learned of the arrangements. But in the end, Fand decided to stay with her husband and forget Cuchulainn. Manannan Mac Lir then shook his magick cloak between Fand and Cuchulainn so they would never see each other again, and druids gave Cuchulainn and Emer drinks of forgetfulness.
FOTLA
An Irish Mother Goddess, worshipped as "One of the Mother's of Ireland".
KORRIGAN
The Celtic/Gaul/France Goddess associated with Nature, especially water. Any spring near or around Dolmens and Megaliths are especially associated to Korrigan. By day Korrigan took the shape of the Crone and from midnight through the dark hours Korrigan was seen as a beautiful woman. It is said the worship of Korrigan involved Sacred Prostitution.
MACHA
The Irish Celtic Goddess Macha, is often identified with BABD, MORRIGAN and NEMAIN. She first married Nemed, a Scythian ruler who defeated the FOMORII, the sea gods who slew her second husband Nuada and herself at the second battle of Magh Tuireadh. A later Macha laid a curse on Ulster after her boastful husband said that, though heavy with child, she could outrun all the king's horses and chariots. When the king of Ulster threatened to execute her husband if she did not race, Macha cursed all Ulstermen to suffer the pain of childbirth for five days and five nights whenever the kingdom was in danger. Macha won the race and gave birth to twins, which is said to be the reason for calling the fortress of the Ulster kings Emain Macha ("Macha's Twin's").
MAEVE
Other Names: Mebd.
The Celtic Goddess Maeve, also known as Mebd, was the Warrior.Queen of Connacht, who fought as fiercely as Morrigan. Apparently she was wild and wilful. According to Irish mythology, no king could reign in Connacht unless he was married to Mebd, who was believed to hold the kingdom's sovereignity in her person. It was also said that she "never was without one man in the shadow of another'. Mebd's most famous action was the invasion of Ulster, when her forces captured the great brown bull of Cuailigne and killed the Ulster hero Cuchulainn. She was herself slain by Forbai, the son of King Conchobar Mac Nessa, while she was bathing in a pool. Forbai had discovered that Queen Mebd was in the habit of regularly taking her bath in a Galway pool. He very carefully measured the exact distance between the spot where she bathed and the shore, then he returned to the Ulster stronghold of Emain Macha and practised with a sling.shot. Satisfied at last that his aim was perfect, he steathily made his way back to the pool and hit Queen Mebd in the centre of her forehead using his sling.shot. Thus was Ulster revenged.
MARI
Known as Lady Justice. The Basque Goddess of The rains and Drought. She used Drought to punish those guilty of lying, stealing and pride.
MORRIGAN
CELTIC HIGH QUEEN
Goddess of The TUATHA De DANANN
Other names: Morrighan, Morrigu, Morgan, Morrigan,
Morgan Le Fey
Morrigan was a trinity:
Macha;Goddess of war and fertility, who could take
the shape of a crow.
Badb;(Nechtan) she was the water Goddess where her
sacred well was a source of knowledge.
Neman;(Nemain)She was the Goddess of War and Battles.
All 3 trinities were bloodthirsty and feared by
the enemies of the Tuatha De Danann.
MORRIGAN, was an Irish Goddess of Death on the Battlefield who helped the Tuatha De Danann at both battles of Magh Tuireadh.
Her favourite form was the crow, and as such she settled in triumph on the shoulder of the Ulster hero CUCHULAIN when he was finally killed in the war against Queen MEDB's forces. Cuchulain had not only refused Morrigan's love, but in anger he had even wounded her.
For such a deed his fate was sealed.
NANA
The Goddess of flowers and plant life.
NANTOSUELTA
The Gallic Goddess of fertility and of the Underworld. Nantosuelta was worshipped in Germany.Saar.
NEMAIN
Name means: "Dreadful", "Venomous".
The Irish War Goddess, In Irish mythology Nemain was a goddess of war. Along with BABD, MORRIGAN and MACHA, she formed one of a group of war dieties who sometimes appeared as beautiful young women and sometimes as crows, screeching over the battlefield. Nemain was said to have been the wife of NUADA, the leader of the Tuatha De Danann.
NEMETANA
The Gallic Goddess of Ancient Roman times. Consort of Mars. Nemetania was the Goddess of the tribe Nemeter, living between Rhein and Mosel.
NIAM
Niam was also know as "NIAM of the Golden Hair". She was the daughter of the sea god Manannan Mac Lir. She fell in love with the poet OISIN and they lived happily together in the Land of Promise, which was one of the otherworld Realms. Niam bore the poet a daughter, Plur nam Ban ("Flower of Woman").
RHIANNON
The Ringantona "Mare" Goddess in Wales. Rhiannon has often been called or refered to also as Epona.
...When first seen by Pwyll, was a vision in white and gold, riding a pearly steed, and clad in brocaded silk. The two seemed made for each other, but a curse clouded their love and marriage. As patient as she was beautiful, Rhiannon endured her lot when blamed for the dissapearance of their only son. The maids were so afraid of Pwyll that they blamed Rhiannon. They laid bones next to thier sleeping mistress and smeared her face and hands with blood. When Rhiannon awoke in amazement, the maids told Pwyll how she had devoured the baby in the night. Pwyll imposed a humiliating penance upon her. Every day she had to sit by his gate, tell her tale to every stranger who came and offer to carry them on her back to the great hall. Not until the eventual return of her son, whom she called Pryderi ("Care"), was Rhiannon excused from her penance
ROSEMERTA
The Goddess of plenty.
SADB
In Irish mythology Sadb was the mistress of Finn Maccool, the great leader of the FIANNA, popularly known as the Fenians, the bodyguard of the High King. She first appeared to the hero while he was out hunting, but although a goddess herself, Sadb had been placed under a powerful spell by a wizard/witch and was compelled to take the form of a deer. That night however, Sadb came to Finn as a woman and for a time they lived happily together. Then, when Finn was away from home, the wizard returned and turned Sadb into a deer again. Finn searched the whole of Ireland for his lost mistress, but the only trace he found of her was a naked boy who had been raised in the wild. The hero recognised him as his own son by Sadb, so he called him OISIN, meaning "Little Fawn". Oisin grew up to become one of the most famous of Irish poets.
SCATHACH
Name means: "Shadowy".
Scathach was a warrior Goddess in the Land of Shadows and tutor in the Martial Arts.. She is Patron of Blacksmiths, Warriors, Dicipline, and Martial Arts. It is said her most famous pupil was the Ulster hero Cuchulain. She taught him his famous battle leap and gave him the spear named Gac.Bolg ("Belly.Spear').
Although it made a single wound on entry, once inside the body of one of Cuchulain's enemies, thirty barbs opened to tear the stomach apart.
SEQUANA
Goddess of the Seine.
SIRANA
Fertility and Spring Goddess of Gallic Ancient Rome. Sirana was also consort of Apollo Grannus.
SULIS
A Goddes of the Underworld, of Wisdom and Fortune.telling. Also Goddess of the thermal baths of Bath.
TAILTU
The Irish Earth Goddess. Tailtu was the daughter of a ruler of the FIRBOLG and wife of Eochaidh Mac Erc, another Firbolg king. She was said to have cleared the forest of Breg so that it became a plain, a task which killed her. Because she was the foster.mother of the sun god LUGH, he declared that the festival of Lughnasadh be held in her honour, which took place on the first day in August.
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