God Pantheon Cont.

As was requested by an e-mail from a reader here is a more refined Celtic God Pantheon. I keep it limited to just two pages in my Book of Shadows. This is not a Detailed listing of Gods as a referrance, it is a list of Gods as further research material can be found easily in my personal collection of Books.

Aengus (unique strength).Irish. Son of the Daghda. Associated with birds, particularly songbirds. An accomplished musician, He is considered a God of Beauty and perfection of form.

Aeron (slaughtering).Welsh. A war-god, a male Aspect of the Irish Morrigan. He is a later-period male counterpart to Agrona, of earlier British belief.

Arawn. Welsh. Lord of Annwn, the underworld and realm of departed spirits. He makes a pact with Pwyll, to exchange places with him for one year, in order that Pwyll might defeat an enemy, King Hafgan. Though Arawn set no conditions upon the exchange, when the pact was concluded and each had returned to his own heritage, Arawn discovered that Pwyll had denied himself the rights of a husband to Arawn's Lady. Thus Arawn swore a vow of friendship toward Pwyll.

Bran (raven, crow). Irish. A master of the Isle of Britain, he is a cauldron-God, associated with a cauldron of regeneration which would revive the slain while leaving them voiceless. His cauldron destroyed, and he mortally wounded in a war to rescue his sister Branwen, he instructed his adherents to decapitate him and, after many travels, bear the head to London and bury it, where it would become a defense and a protection to the whole Isle.

Cernunnos (horned one) Gaulish. The horned God associated with the Wild Hunt. A lord of the natural world, of animal and vegetive strength. See also, Gwynn and Herne.

Daghda (lord of skill). Irish. An important figure associated with a sacred well, and water in general. Also a fertility God. Various names and epithets of his seem to link him to horse-cults, fire, and knowledge. He is the father of many of the others, including Brigit, Mider, Aengus, Oghma, and Bodb Dearg. One who can be fooled, defeated, or bargained with by plying some idiosyncrasy or personal trait. His favored weapon is a giant club, or maul.

Dioncecht (swift ...).Irish. God closely associated with healing and mending of physical ills.

Goibhniu (smith).Irish. A God of smith craft, one of a trio (see also Credne and Luchta ). He is known as the provider of the Fled Goibnenn, a Sacred Feast. Associated, with brew crafting, he is said to have formulated a draught of immortality.

Gwynn ap Nudd. (Southern) Welsh. A Cthonic divinity, leader of the Wild Hunt, in chase of the White Stag. Closely paralleling the Gaulish Cernunnos and British Herne, he also has affiliations with the northern Welsh Arawn.

Hafgan.Welsh. A lord in Annwyn, and a mortal enemy of Arawn, he may only be slain if struck a single killing blow; to strike a mercy-blow to his mortally wounded body would be to revive him again. This is accomplished by Pwyll when he comes to Arawn's aid.

Lugh (light, brightness). Irish. Son of Cian, considered the Lord of the Tuatha De Danaan. His archetype derives from an early solar deity, and he has many epithets and sobriquets, among which: Long-arm, much-skilled, having many talents; seer; and boy-warrior.

Mabon (son, youth). Welsh. The God associated with youthfulness, he is sometimes conflated with Pryderi. His full name is "Mabon Ap Modron", which simply means "Son, son of Mother".

Manannan (Of the [Irish] sea). Irish. A Child of Lyr, the principal sea-God; his name derives from an earlier form of the Isle of Man. He possesses: the fabulous Crane-Bag, holder of all his treasures, including Language. As with many Sea-Gods, he has a close association with horses.

Oghma. Irish. A Child of the Daghda, a warrior God who is closely connected to knowledge, magick, and eloquence. The inventor of Ogham script; he is said to have designed the letters as a way of encoding knowledge- they were not granted to him by mystical vision.

Pwyll (wisdom, prudence). Welsh. Lord of Arberth. Father of Pryderi, Husband of Rhiannon, trusted associate of Arawn as related in the first book of the Mabinogi.

Taliesin (radiant-brow).Welsh. A semi-mythical figure whose life has become deeply intertwined with the Divinities of the Celts. He apparently lived in the 6th century CE, and was regarded as the premier poet of his or any other time. A book of his work exists from the 13th century; several of the works are regarded as genuine. He figures in many tales, Chiefly the story that he began as the boy Gwion, was asked by Cerridwen to watch the vessel in which she brewed a Knowledge potion, inadvertently tasted it himself, was pursued by her in a chase involving many shape-shifts, was swallowed by Her, to be reborn nine months later as the Divine bard.

Taran (thunder). Welsh/Continental. A war god.