Here is a list of a few of the Celtic gods. Though there be many more then this, a few of the important ones are listed. Each clan may take strong in one particular god but they are all worshiped by the Celts.

Abarta
An Irish god of mischief, his name means "doer of deeds." One of the Dananns, Abarta led Finn Mac Cumaill and 14 members of the Fianna on a journey to the Otherworld on a wild gray horse.

Aine
Aine is the Irish Goddess of love, fertility and agriculture. She is sometimes referred to as the "fire" aspect of Brighid. Daughter of Eogabail, who was the foster son of the Manx sea god Manannan mac Lyr, Aine's main responsibility was to encourage human love. King Ailil Olom of Munster, one of Aine's mortal lovers, attempted to force himself on her, but was slain by her magic. Her festival is Midsummer E

Amaethon
Amaethon, whose name means "laborer," or "ploughman," is the Welsh god of agriculture and son of the goddess Don. He is responsible for the war between Arawn, Lord of the Otherworld, and the Tuatha de Danaan. Amaethon stole a hound, a deer and a bird from Arawn, thus starting the Cad Goddeu (Battle of Trees). In this battle, Amaethon's brother, Gwydion, transformed trees into warriors.

Andraste (Andarta [Gaulish])
The Briton war-goddess invoked by the Iceni Queen Boudicca when she revolted against the Romans. Often is associated with the hare, Andraste is the only native Celtic war-goddess mentioned by contemporary Roman and Greek writers. Her name most likely means "unconqerable," or possibly "victory." Boudicca's name also is said to mean "victory" and some believe she may the warrior aspect of this goddess. Some evidence exists to link the appeasement of Andraste to female blood sacrifice as was done to Boudicca's Roman female prisoners after her sack of London.

Arawn
Welsh god of the Annwn, the Otherworld, a paradise of peace and plenty. When Amaethon stole from him, it led to the Cad Goddeu. Later, the Dyfed chieftain Pwyll and he changed places, Pwyll agreeing to kill Arawn's rival, Hafgan. Arawn leads a pack of wild, white hounds with red-tipped ears. He is considered a powerful protector of dangerous places.

Arianrhod
"Of the Silver Wheel," Arianrhod is the Welsh mother- and star-goddess, her palace, or spiral tower is called Caer Arianrhod (Aurora Borealis). She is the goddess of destiny, reincarnation and the wheel, and also the Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Wales. A goddess of the moon, Arianrhod is the daughter of Don and Beli, and mother of Llew Llaw Gyffes and Dylan.

Balor
Balor was the one-eyed Fomorii god of death and king, often called the Irish cyclops. Husband of Cethlenn and son of Buarainech, a look from his one eye could kill, and the eyelid had to be held up by four servants. It was prophesied that he would be slain by his own grandson. Despite his tactics to avoid this, Balor was killed by the sun-god Lugh in the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh. Lugh was son to Balor's daughter, Ethlinn, and the Danann Cian.

Bile (Belanos [Gaul], Beli [Briton & Cymru] and sometimes associated with Cernunnos)
A god of Light, his name means "shining one." In Irish, "bile" means "sacred tree" and it is thought that Danu's waters fed the oak and produced their son, The Dagda. Patron of sheep and cattle, Bel's festival is Beltane. As Beli, he is the father of Arianhrod by Don. Some myths say he is married to Belisama, another patroness of light, fire, the forge and crafts. As the Gaulish Belatucadros, whose name means "fair shining one," he is the god of destruction and war and transports the dead to Danu's "divine waters."

Blodeuedd (Blodeuwedd)
Her name means "born of flowers," or "flower face," Blodeuedd was conjured from the blossoms of oak, broom and meadowsweet by Math and Gwydion for Llew Llaw Gyffes. She betrayed him with Gronw Pebyr (Goronwy), the lord of Penllyn, and planned his murder. When attacked, Llew changed into the form of an eagle and escaped. Gwydion turned her into an owl, bird of the night.

Boann
Irish water-goddess and mother of Aonghus, the Irish god of love. Her name means "she who has white cows." Sometimes consdidered a fertility and sovereignty goddess, Boann was married to Nechtan or to Elcmar, depending on the myth. As the wife of Nechtan she misused the well that he served as guardian and the well poured over, drowing her and creating the River Boyne. The Dagda, chief god of the Tuatha de Danann, was Boann's lover and father of Aonghus.

Bran the Blessed (Bendigeidfran)
Bendigeidfran was a god of the Otherworld, a British king and son of the sea god Llyr. He allowed his sister Branwen to marry the Irish king Matholwch, without the consent of her half-brother Efnisien. Hostility broke out between the Irish and the Britons as a result, but Bran avoided war by presenting Matholwch with a magic cauldron that would bring men back to life, but without restoring their speech. Still, Branwen was made a work in the palace kitchens despite the fact that she had given Matholwch a son, Gwern. Bran raised and army and sailed to Ireland to save his sister. Bran and his army massacred the Irish, but he died in the process from a poisoned arrow. He told his followers to cut off his head (which is where the Celts believed the soul resides) ­ which still talked and ate on the voyage home ­ and bury it beneath White Hill in London facing Europe to ward off invaders. It is thought this site is now the land where the Tower of London is built.

Bres
Demigod of fertility and agriculture, Bres was the son of Elatha, a Fomorian prince, and of Eriu, part of the triple Sovereignty goddess. He also was the husband of Brighid. After the First Battle of Mag Tuireadh, Bres became the tyrannical ruler of the Tuatha de Danaan. He was replaced by Nuadha when his lost hand was replaced with a silver one, which precipitated the Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh. To save his life Bres promised to instruct the Tuatha de Danann in agriculture and made Ireland a fertile land.

Brigid (Breo Saighead, Brid, Brighid [Eriu], Brigindo, Brigandu [Gaul], Brigan, Brigantia, Brigantis [Briton], Bride [Alba])

Breo Saighead, or the "Fiery Arrow or Power," is a Celtic three-fold goddess, the daughter of The Dagdha, and the wife of Bres. Known by many names, Brighid's three aspects are (1) Fire of Inspiration as patroness of poetry, (2) Fire of the Hearth, as patroness of healing and fertility, and (3) Fire of the Forge, as patroness of smithcraft and martial arts. She is mother to the craftsmen Sons of Tuireann: Creidhne, Luchtaine and Giobhniu.

Excalibur, King Arthur's sword, was forged by the Lady of the Lake, a figure sometimes associated with Brighid because of her fire and forgery aspect. Like the Arthurian Avalon, or "Isle of Apples," Brigid possessed an apple orchard in the Otherworld to which bees traveled to obtain it's magickal nectar.
Brigid, which means "one who exaults herself," is Goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare (derived from "Cill Dara," which means "church of the oak") and often is considered to be the White Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess. She was Christianized as the "foster-mother" of Jesus Christ, and called St. Brigit, the
daughter of the Druid Dougal the Brown. She sometimes also is associated with the Romano-Celtic goddess Aquae-Sulis in Bathe.

Brighid's festival is Imbolc, celebrated on or around February 1 when she ushers Spring to the land after The Cailleach's Winter reign. This mid-Winter feast commences as the ewes begin to lactate and is the start of the new agricultural cycle. During this time Brigid personifies a bride, virgin or maiden aspect and is the protectoress of women in childbirth. Imbolc also is known as Oimelc, Brigid, Candlemas, or even in America as Groundhog Day.

As the foundation for the American Groundhog Day, Brigid's snake comes out of its mound in which it hibernates and its behavior is said to determine the length of the remaining Winter.

An ancient Irish story tells of how on the eve of this day, The Cailleach, or White Lady, drank from the ancient Well of Youth at dawn. In that instant, she was transformed into her Maiden aspect, the young goddess called Brigid. Wells were considered to be sacred because they arose from oimbelc (literally "in the
belly"), or womb of Mother Earth.

Because of her Fire of Inspiration and her connection to the apple and oak trees, Brighid often is considered the patroness of the Druids.

The Cailleach
The Scottish Triple Crone or hag-goddess, the owl and the deer are sacred to The Cailleach. She sometimes is referred to as the hag-goddess who cares for the "fairy cattle," or female red deer. Her three aspects include (1) Cailleach Mhor Nam Fiadh, (2) Cailleach Mhor A Chilibric (The Great Hag of Clibric), and (3) Cailleach Beinn A Bhric.

Camulos
Camulos was the god of the Remi, a Celtic tribe from Belgium. Camulos was said to weild an invincible sword. He also was worshipped as a war-god in northern Britain, his name forming the etymological basis for the city of Camelot.

Cernunnos (sometimes associated with Bile)
Usually depicted sitting cross-legged and possessing a stag's antlers, Cernunnos is the Gaulish version of the pan-Celtic "Horned God. " In Welsh mythology he is the Consort of the Great Goddess and god of the Underworld, nature, virility, fertility, animals, sex, reincarnation and shamanism. Sometimes called the Hunter God, he is the god of plenty, wild animals, and the forest. In medieval times his image, as well as that of the gods Herne and Pan, were transferred to that of the Devil, possibly due to their close association with the "wild hunt" ­ as the Lord of the Otherworld ­ in which spirits of the dead are carried to the Otherworld.

Cerridwen
Cerridwen is the Welsh Goddess of Nature, associated with the Sacred Cauldron of Wisdom that allowed Taliesin to become enlightened. This cauldron of the Underworld is where inspiration and divine knowledge are brewed. When she discovered that Gwion had tasted of her cauldron, she chased him through a variety of shape changes until at last she caught and consummed him as a grain of wheat. Gwion was reborn to Cerridwen as the Druid Taliesin.

Cliodhna
Cliodhna is the Irish Otherworld goddess of beauty. It is said her three magickal birds can sing the sleep and cure them. At one point she fled to Glandore to live with her the mortal lover, Ciabhan. One day on the shore near Cork, after Ciabhan had gone hunting, Mannann Mac Lir, the sea-god, put Cliodhna into a magickal sleep and sent wave to carry her home.

Creidhne
Demigod of metalworking, Creidhne is the goldsmith of the Tuatha de Dannan and the brother of Giobhniu, the smith god, and Luchtar, the carpenter. During the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, when the Dannans defeated the Fomorii, the three brothers were on the battlefield repairing spears with magickal speed.

Crom
Crom Cruaich - (The bowed one of the Mound) Also known as Cenn Cruaich, the Lord of the Mound, and Crom Dubh, the Black Bowed One. Ancient sacrificial God associated with Lughnasadh. The last sunday in July is still called Domhnach Chrom Dubh (Crom Dubh's Sunday), even tho it has been christianized as the day of the spectacular pilgimage up St. Patrick's Mountain.

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.

The 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.

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.

Lir (Llyr [Cymru])
Celtic sea-god and father of Manannan mac Lir, the Manx sea god, magician and god of healing. The Manx sea-god, Lir has given his name to many places, including Leicester, and his Welsh counterpart is Shakespeare's King Lear.

In Welsh mythology, Llyr is the father of Bran, Branwen, and Manawydan.

Luchtaine (Luchtar)
Demigod of carpentry and wheel-making, Luchtaine was the brother of Creidhne and Goibniu.

Lugh (Lleu Llaw Gyffes [Cymru], Lugos [Gaulish], Lugus [British & sometimes Roman])
Lugh is the Irish great god of light and often is called Samildanach, "many skilled." He is the son of the Danann Cian and Ethniu (or Ethlinn), daughter of Balor, leader of the Fomorians. The Fomorii were often described as having only a single hand, foot, or eye, thus the source of Lugh's name. His feast is Lughnasadh, a celebration of the death of his foster mother, Tailtiu. He replaced Nuadha Airgetlamh as king and battle leader leads the Danaans into victory in the Second Battle of Turieadh. Sometimes called the " Shining One," or Lugh Lamhfada (of the "long arm"), Lugh also has attributes of a carpenter, mason, poet, Druid, physician and a goldsmith. The father of CuChulainn, his name became part of the term used to describe the Wee Folk in Irish folklore, because over time he was referred to as "little stooping Lugh," or Luchorpain, which became Lephrechaun. Lugh also possibly gave his name to many cities, including London.

In Welsh mythology, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, "of the Skillful Hand," is the son of Arianrhod. He could be killed neither by day nor night, indoors nor outdoors, riding nor walking, clothed nor naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. His mother laid a series of curses on him, including the promise that he was to have no name unless she gave him one, no weapons unless she provided them and no wife of the human race. With the help of his uncle Gwydion, who raised him, Lleu overcame all these taboos, though the wife, Blodeuedd, created by Gwydion and the magician Math nearly murdered him. She fell in love with another man and plotted his death. When the lovers struck him, Lleu rose into the air in the shape of an eagle. After a long search, Gwydion found him and restored Lleu to human form.

Mabon (Maponos [Gaulish])
Mabon is the son of the Welsh and Gaulish divine mother, Modron. He was abducted when he was three nights old and imprisoned in Gloucester, however, since Mabon was the only one who could control the hound which Culhwch needed to win the hand of Olwen, he was released. He is often associated with the Gaulish Maponos, a god of youth.

Mac Cecht
Mac Cecht was the Irish god of eloquence, the son of Ogma, and was married to Fodla, one of the aspects of the triple Soveriegnty goddess. After the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, he and his two brothers could not decide how to split the land between them, so they consulted a stranger named Ith.Suspecting Ith had designs of his own on the island, they killed him, and provoked the invastion of the sons of Milesius.

Macha (associated with Rhiannon, Edain [Cymru] and Epona [Gaulish])
Macha is a war-goddess with aspects of sovereignty as her name means "plain," or "field." She also is a three-fold sovereignty/horse goddess whose aspects are (1) Seer/Prophecy, (2) Warrior/Rulership, and (3) Matriarch/Fertility.

In her Seer aspect she is the wife of Nemedh, a Scythian ruler and leader of the Third Invasion of Ireland who defeated the Fomorii. Nemed gives his name to the word "nemed," or "nemeton," a sacred grove. She prophesied the Táin Bo Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) from the Leabhar na h-Uidhre (Book of the Dun Cow), and died of a broken heart on Emhain Macha, the fortress of the kings of Ulster.

In her Warrior aspect, she is Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), the 67th monarch of Ireland who ruled from 377 to 331 b.c. The daughter of Aed Ruadh, she established Emain Macha, now known as Navan Fort. She fought the five sons of Dithorba for her right to rule by visiting each as a leper. Despite her disease, each man wished to sleep with her and through their desire she enslaved each one. They were forced to build Emhain Macha. In this aspect she is referred to as Mesrad Machae, or Macha's Mast, and she waits for the end of a battle to collect the severed heads of the slain and convey them to the Otherworld. Macha Mong Ruadh also is credited with instituting the first Irish hospital, Bron-Bherg (House of Sorrow).

Macha's transformation into a hideous form links her to the crone aspect of the ultimate mother-goddess. This ability to take on the crone aspect and her appearances as a crow have sometimes linked Macha erroneously with The Morrighna, the dark goddess of sovereignty.

In her Matriarch aspect, Macha laid a curse on Ulster after her boastful husband, Crunnchua mac Agnoman, said that, though heavy in pregnancy, she could outrun all the king's horses and chariots. When the king of Ulster threatened to execute Crunnchua if she did not race, Macha ran and won, but died as she gave birth to twins. As she died, Macha cursed all Ulstermen with the ces noiden. This curse caused the men to suffer the pain of childbirth for five days and five nights whenever the kingdom was in danger. Her curse came to pass in the Táin Bo Cuailnge during the conflict between Ulster and Connacht. The warrior CuChulainn single-handedly defended Ulster against Queen Medb of Connacht as he was the only non-native Ulsterman in the army. The rest of the Ulster warriors were inficted with labor pains and unable to fight for five days and nights.

Additionally, Macha is the goddess of athletics, festivals and fertility and often appears as a crow. She also is strongly associated with other sovereignty/horse-goddesses such as the Gaulish Epona and the Welsh Rhiannon.

Mannan mac Lir (Manawydan ap Llyr [Cymru]) Culann
Mannan is the Manx god of the sea. Older than the Tuatha de Dannan, Mannan always carried "the Crane Bag", a magick "horn of plenty." He gave the last five letters of the Ogham alphabet to the Druids and could change his shape at will. Also associated with fertility, rebirth, weather, sailing and magick, Mannan also had a ship that moved without sails and was directed by the mind. He often is linked to the Isle of Man and with Tethra of the Fomorii, rules Mag Mell, the "Plain of Joy," an idyllic island where the deceased live.

In Welsh mythology, he is the brother of Bran the Blessed and Branwen, he married Rhiannion on the death of her husband Pwyll. One day he and Rhiannion, along with Rhiannion's son Pryderi and his wife Cigfa, were enveloped in a magical mist. When it cleared, their palace was deserted and the land around it desolate, so they travelled to England, where Manawydan and Pryderi made a living as leatherworkers. This enchantment came from Llwyd, a magicain and friend of Gwawl, the suitor Rhiannion had refused in order to marry Pwyll. In another story, Mannan loves Kentigerna who then gives birth to their son, Mongan, who is half-god, half-human.

Math ap Mathonwy
In the Welsh tradition, Math ap Mathonwy, lord of Gwynedd, was the uncle of Gwydion. In order to help his brother, Gilvaethwy, sleep with 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 inot a staf and a hind for one year, inot 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.

Medb
Medb is the queen-goddess of Connacht who is a humanized war aspect of the sovereignty-goddess. She took nine consorts and through ritual union made them kings. Her name means "she who intoxicates," which is most likely a reference to the cup of sovereignty she would have given to a king. Her first husband was the Ulster champion Fergus, a fertility-god. Second was Conchobar, but their marriage was short-lived as it would have signified a unification of Ireland. Cochobar then raped Medb, only to die when all the kings of Ireland went against him as a result at the Battle of the Boyne. Her third husband was Ailill.

Medb did not only fight for the supremacy of Connacht, but relished in war and destruction, even using her daughter Finnebair to this end. She is noted mostly during her marriage to Ailill and their fight with Ulster and CuChulainn. She died at the hand of her nephew Furbaidhe who used his sling-shot and a piece of hard cheese as revenge for the murder of his mother Clothra.

The Morrigna (Cathobodua [Gaul])
As Mor Righ Anu, her name means "great queen," and she is the destroyer aspect of the All-Mother Danu. In her triple form she is called The Morrigna, and sometimes appears as the battle-furies Badbh Catha, Nemhain and Morrighan. These aspects combine destruction, sexuality and prophecy. They appeared in numerous animal forms, such as carrion birds, or as one aspect of the ultimate three-fold goddess: crone, maiden or mother. She also sometimes is erroneously linked to Macha.

One of the Tuatha de Danaan who helped in both battles of Mag Tuireadh, The Morrighna's aspects have the ability to influence the outcome of conflict by inspiring fear or courage. As Badbh Catha, whose name means "battle-crow," she often takes the form of a crow or battle-raven. Badbh also is connected to the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, where she was said to appear over the heads of the soldiers of High King Bran when he defeated Viking invaders.

The Morrighan sometimes appears as the "Washer at the Ford," a maiden who is seen prior to battle washing the armor and weapons of those destined to die. She marries The Dagdha at Samhain and carries the Divine Child throughout her pregnancy in the Underworld during the dark half of the year.

As Nemhain, whose name means "frenzy," she is the wife of Nuadha Airgetlamh, a leader of the Tuatha de Danaan. Nemhain also appears in the Ulster Cycle when she shrieks on behalf of CuChulainn at the Connacht army and 100 soldiers drop dead with fright.

Nantosuelta
Gaulish goddess depicted with Sucellus in at least one relief. Her name means "winding river."

Nechtan
The Irish water god, Nechtan in some myths is married to Boann. On Nechtan's hill there was a well that was the source of all knowledge, to which only Nehtan and his three cup-bearers had access. Boann found her way to the well and its waters rose from the ground and chased her, becoming the River Boyne.

Nemglan
An Irish bird god, who fell in love with Mess Buachalla, the betrothed to Eterscel, High King of Ireland. On the eve of Mess's wedding, Nemglan came to her in his bird form and seduced her, resulting in their son Conaire Mor. He was passed off as Eterscel's son, but Mess warned him never to kill a bird.

Nuadha Airgetlamh (Nudd [Cymru], Llud Llawereint and Nodens [Briton])
Also known as Nuadha Airgetlamh, "Nuadha of the Silver Hand," he is the Irish god of healing, the Sun, youth, beauty, poetry, and writing. Nuadha possesses the invincible Sword of Nuadha (or Findias), one of the great treasures of the Tuatha de Danaan brought to Ireland upon their invasion of the island. After Nuadha lost his hand, Dian Cecht fashioned him one of silver. Nuadha lost his sword hand in the first battle of Mag Tuireadh against the Fir Bolgs, and had to step down as king because the king could nave no blemish despite the fact that he was outfitted with a hand of silver. His hand restored by Dian Cecht, Nuadha lead the Dannans against the Fomors in the second battle of Mag Tuireadh. In this battle he was physically killed and thereforereturned the Lands of the Sidhe.

Also known as the Briton Llud Llawereint ("silver-handed"), he ruled Britain when it was plagued by a May Eve scream. The scream came from two subterranean dragons battling one another. They were soothed by sinking mead into a pit dug through the center of the earth.

As Nodens he was the Briton god of healing, whose magick hounds were believed to cure the sick. Ruins of his temple have been found on the River Severn.

Oenghus (Aonghus, Angus Og)
The god of fatal love, Oenghus was the love-child of the Dagda and Boann. Four birds always hovered above his head which were said to represent kisses. Birds also feature in his courtship of Caer, a faerie maiden whose father was the Danann Ethal. Oenghus and Caer lived together as swans, as Oeghus won her hand after recognizing her from several other swans. He saved his foster-son Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and his lover Grainne, a princess who had been promised to the High King Finn Maccool. Oenghus could not save Diarmuid from his fate, that of being slain by a magic boar and brought Diarmuid back to his palace at New Grange on the River Boyne, where he breathed a new sould into Diarmuid's body so that he could speak to his foster-son.

Oghma (Ogma, Ogmios)
The Irish god of eloquence, Oghma also is called the "Sun-Faced" One. He invented Ogham, the earliest form of writing in Ireland. Also an Irish god of music, spells, and the arts. Followed by many bards, Ogma Sun-Face is the son of The Dagda and was responsible for conveying souls to the Otherworld, a peaceful resting place for the sould prior to its next rebirth into the world. Oghma was married to Etain, the daughter of the healing god Dian Cecht. At the Second Battle of Mag Tuirreadh, Oghma slew Indech, son of the Fomorii goddess Domnu. He claimed his prize as a magickal sword that was capable of recounting all the deeds it had performed.

Rhiannon (Rigantona [Gaul], linked to Epona [Gaul], Macha, Mare [Eriu], Edain [Cymru])
Her name means "Maid of Annwn," or it's older Gaulish version means "great queen." In Welsh mythology, Rhiannon is the daughter of Hereydd, wife of Pwyll, a chieftain of Dyfed and mother of Pryderi. Her spurned betrothed, Gwawl, put a curse on her household. After years of barrenness she gave birth to a son, only to be falsely accused of his murder. As punishment she was made to carry visitors on herback. Pyrderi was later found and retured by his foster-father Teirnon. Rhiannon often is associated with birds and horses and so sometimes is linked to the Gaulish horse goddess Epona.

Gaucellus
Gaulish god who carries a hammer in his left hand. Sucellus is deicted on a relief found near Metz with Nantosuelta. His name means "he who stikes with good effect," and had thus fits into The Good God archetype much like The Dagda.

Sovereignty (Banbha, Fodla, Eriu)
These three sisters are the Irish Goddess of Sovereignty. She has three aspects: (1) Banbha, whose name means "woman of the cows." She is the mother of Cessair, leader of the first invasion of Ireland and often is associated with livestock. (2) Fodla (or Fotla), whose name means "under earth," and is associated with agriculture, and (3) Eriu, "one who is elevated."

They greeted the Milesians, specifically Amairgen, when they landed in Ireland. All three asked that the island after her in exchange that the island would forever belong to the Gaels. Amairgen promised Banbha and Fodla that their names would be a name for the island, but to Eriu, he promised that her name would last forever. Eventually they married three sons of Ogma: Eriu married Mac Greine, Banbha married Mac Cuill, and Fodla married Mac Cecht.

Tailtu
Tailtu was the daughter of the Firbolg ruler and wife of Eochaidh Mac Erc, another Firbolg king. She cleared the forest of Breg so that it became plain, a task which killed her. She was the foster mother to Lugh, who declared the feast of Lughnasadh on August 1 in her honor.

Taranis (Taran [Cymru])
His name means "thunder," and the word "taran" is still used as the Welsh word for this phenonmenon. Known all over the Celtic world, even the Romans equated this god with Jupiter. He usually is depicted with his symbol, the wheel.

Tiernon (Tigernonos [Gaulish])
A god whose name means "great king," he often is the consort of Rhiannon or Rigantona. He is a herdsman with supernatural powers and deep wisdom.