Achall

(AKH-ahl)

She was the sister of a brave young warrior
who died defending her against her abusive husband.
When he died, she grieved so hard that she, too, died.
The Hill of Achall near Tara commemorates
her great love for her brother
and their tragic life.
I actually have a great deal of respect
for this heroine and her heroic brother.
All siblings should be as close
as these two obviously were.
She could teach all of us about the greatness
and importance of sibling love.
Her correspondence is running water.
To use her in magick and ritual,
align with her to help you
with any problems in your own family
with your siblings
or just to strengthen the bonds
you already have with your siblings.

Achtan

(AKH-tan)

This woman was the daughter
of a wicked Druid and ran away.
She ended up sleeping with
the High King of Ireland
on the night before his final battle.
The child she conceived was
the future King Cormac MacArt.
While he was still a baby,
a series of strange circumstances caused
the mother and child to be separated.
Cormac was, then, taken in and raised by wolves.
Years later, a hunter (by the name of Luinge Fer Tri)
found the child and, after finding out who he was,
returned him to his mother
who, then, decided that she needed to risk
the dangerous journey to Tara
so that Cormac could claim
his rightful place on the throne.
During the journey, all the animals
who remembered Cormac
from his being raised by wolves
protected both him and his mother.
His mother eventually married the hunter
"and they lived happily ever after"!
I like this story because it tells about
the persistence and strength and courage
of a mother's love for her child.

Achtland

(AHKT-lawnd)

This goddess is one of my favorites!
She was such a "sexual dynamo"
that no mortal man could satisfy her!
(Aren't we all? Just kidding!)
Her solution was to take on a giant
from the fairy realm as her mate.
It is said that she loved combing his long hair.
You could align with her for sex magick or
for taking on the female role in the Great Rite.

Adsullata

(AWD-soo-LAWT-ah)

She is a goddess of hot springs
who came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul.
She is the origin of the Anglo-Celtic sun Goddess,
Sul, and was most likely
a minor sun Goddess in her own right
before the time when the Celts relegated the majority
of their sun images to male deities,
and moon images to female ones.
This goddess is good to align with for
purification rites and for solar energies.

Aebh

(Aev)

Mother to Fionnuala and her two brothers
who were all turned into singing swans by the
jealous aunt and second wife of their father, Llyr/Lir.
Aebh died while giving birth to the daughter.
This story is one of the "Four Sorrows"
of Irish mythology.

Aaerten

(AER-teen)

A Goddess of fate who presided over
the outcome of war between several Celtic clans.
She had a shrine at Glyndyfrdwy on the banks
of the River Dee,
where legend says that three human sacrifices
had to be made
every three years in order to have
success in future battles.
She is often associated with
the Three Fates of Greco-Roman mythology.
If you wanted to align with her
in magick and rituals,
you could do so to overcome enemies
and to make peace with your enemies.
Her correspondence is the double-bladed axe.