A-B-C
Abarta, Aine, Amaethon, Andraste, Arawn, Arianrhod, Balor, Bile (Beli), Bloudeuedd, Boann, Bran the Blessed (Bendigeidfran), Bres, Brigid, An Cailleach, Camuolos, Cernunnos, Cerridwen, Cliodhna, Creidhne

D-E-F-G

Danu (Anu), An Dagdha, Dian Cecht, Don, Donn, Dylan, Epona, Goibniu (Govannan), Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd

 

H-I-J-K-L-M

Lir, Luchtaine, Lugh, Mabon, Mac Cecht, Macha, Manannan mac Lir (Mananwyddan ap Lyr), Math ap Mathonwy, The Morrighna (Badb and Nemhain)

 

N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z

Nantosuelta, Nechtan, Nemglan, Nuadha Airgetlamh, Oenghus, Ogma, Rhiannon, Sucellus, Sovereignty (Banba, Fodla and Eriu), Tailtu, Taranis, Tiernon

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Danu (Ana, Anu, Dan, Dana, Dann, Don [Cymru])

Also called the Red Mother of All, Danu is the major Irish Mother Goddess, mother of the Gods and patroness of wizards, rivers, water, wells, prosperity and plenty, magick and wisdom. Anu is especially associated with Munster, two hills in Co. Kerry are still known as Da Chich Anann, "The Paps of Anu." She also has given her name to the Tuatha De Danann, which means "Tribe of Dana."

 

Danu also is known as Don, the Welsh Mother Goddess, and the daughter of Mathonwy, sister of Math ap Mathonwy, and the wife of Beli, the Welsh god of death. She had many children, including Amaethon, Arianrhod, The Dagda, Govannon, Gwydion, Gilvaethwy, Lugh, Nudd and Ogma. Lugh, The Dagda and Ogma sometimes are refered to as the Three Gods of Danann.

 

An Dagdha

Danu's son by Bile, The Dagdha, or Good God, also is known as the All Father, Eochaid Ollathair (Father of All), and Ruadh Rofessa (The Red One). With many talents, The Dagda, chief of the Tuatha de Dannan, is master of the harp and possessor of a double-ended club. He also is the god of treaties, life and death, and the master of magic. He usually is depicted as a man in rustic clothes dragging a large club on wheels. With one end of his club The Dagda could slay his enemies and with the other restore the dead to life. He also is a lover of The Morrigan, the Irish war goddess. The Dagda often is associated with abundance and his inexhaustible cauldron.

 

On the eve of the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, The Dagda visited the camp of the Fomorii, where he was forced to eat enough porridge of milk, flour, fat, pigs and goats for fifty men. This test temporarily turned him into a fat old man, but it did not prevent him from making love to a Formorii girl, who promised to use her magick against her people.

 

Dian Cecht

Irish god of healing and physician of the Tuatha de Danaan, the Druid Dian Cecht made the silver hand of Nuadha Airgetlamh. He was the father of Miach, who he slew, and grandfather of Lugh. With his daughter, Airmid, he had charge of a spring whose waters restored the dying gods to life. He also is credited with a sixth-century Brehon Law tract on the practice of medicine.

 

Donn

The Irish god of death, Donn's name means "dark one." His home, the House of Donn, was thought to be an assembly point on the journey to the Otherworld.

 

Dylan

Son of the virgin Arianrhod, Dylan was a sea-creature later slain by his uncle, Govannon.

 

Epona (similar to Macha, Mare [Eriu], Rhiannon, Edain [Cymru], Epona [Gaul])

Gaulish horse-goddess who also is associated with fertility, sovereigny, and agriculture. She is depicted as a woman riding a fast steed her cloak billowing behind her, or riding a mare with a foal, associating her with fertility. Her festival is December 18. Epona often is strongly connected to Rhiannon and Macha.

 

Goibniu (Govannon [Cymru])

God of smithcraft, Goibniu forges the iron of the sould, true-striking swords and keeps the mead of eternal life. He is the smith of the Tuatha de Danaan, along with his brothers Creidhne and Luchtaine. Goibniu was said to be able to make a perfect sword with just three blows of his magic hammer. He also was said to preside over an Otherworld feast called Fled Goibnenn, for which he brewed the ale.

 

The Green Man

It is known that stonemasons drew on many pagan themes for their decorations but we have few pointers as to the meaning behind this particular figure. Sometimes a Green Man carving is given a particular title- Silvanus (god of the forest) at the Abbey of Saint Denis, France; and Okeanus (both god of the sea and a satyr) in Mundanya, Istanbul. This has led many to seek clues in myth, legend and religion. John Barleycorn - celebrated in song - shows the same themes of death and rebirth, as does the Green Knight in the Arthurian story of Sir Gawain. Medieval legends of the Wild Men- dressed in leaves, living in the forest and venturing

forth to take food, have been connected with the Green Man. In some stories of Robin Hood - the robber and hero dressed in green - he attains godlike status and links with the Horned God Herne. Present-day Western pagan thought identifies the Green Man as the symbol of the qualities of godhood within the male, as well as being an expression of the life/death/rebirth cycle and its relationship with the transcendent life-force, the Goddess, the female expression of godhood.

 

Gwydion

In the Welsh tradition, Gwydion was the nephew of Math, lord of Gwynedd. In order to help his brother, Gilvaethwy, rape Gowein, the young woman who was Math's footholder, Gwydion stirred up a quarrel between Math and Pryderi, son of Rhiannon. This meant that Math was away at war. When he returned and discovered the deception, Math turned his nephews into a stag and a hind for one year, into a boar and a sow the next and into a pair of wolves the third. Later, Gwydion took charge of his sister Arianrhod's son Lleu.

 

Gwynn ap Nudd

Master of the Wild Hunt, Gwynn ap Nudd rode the night in a flowing grey cloak upon a pale horse following his Hounds called Cwn Annwn who would seek out and collect souls. He lives at Glastonbury Tor.