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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 11:37:11 GMT -5
Gwyn ap Nuad
Also known as Gwynn ap Nudd
(Welsh) King of the Fairies and the underworld. Later he became King of the Plant Annwn, or subterranean fairies. His name means "white son of darkness" and he was the child of the sun/death God Llud, also called Nuad or Nudd, the leader of the hunt.
God of war, death, and the hunt, and a patron God of fallen warriors. He is equated with Ireland's Fionn MacCumhal as both Gwyn and Fion mean "white". As the master hunter, he rode a wild horse and had three massive hounds; one red, one black, and one white. In an early Welsh poem he is a God of battle and of the Underworld, the escort of dead souls to Annwn. Rural people claim they can sometimes hear his wild chase at night. (The hunt is a metaphor for gathering souls for the Otherworld.)
Today he is often thought of as king of the Tylwyth Teg, the faeries of Wales who can be equated with the Tuatha of Ireland. Modern legend has him living on the summit of high Welsh hills looking down on his people.
(http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deitiesg-h-i.html)
The south-Welsh god of the underworld. He abducted Creiddylad when she eloped with Gwythr ap Greidawl. She had long been fought over by the followers of Gwynn and Gwythr. This fight (which started on May Day) is believed to represent the seasonal contest between summer and winter.
(http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/gwynn_ap_nudd.html)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 11:41:54 GMT -5
Gwythur ap Gwreidwl
Also known as Gwythyr
(Welsh) Opposite and rival deity of Gwyn ap Nuad. He is King of the Upper World, and a solar deity who was sentenced to battle eternally for the hand of the Creiddylad, daughter of Llud. The two combatants represent the polarities of dark and light and as such are the personification of the Holly King/Oak King who fight for rulership of the winter and summer halves of the Celtic year.
(http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deitiesg-h-i.html)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 11:47:38 GMT -5
Hafgan
Also known as Havgan.
In Welsh mythology, Hafgan battled with Arawn for the dominion of the underworld. When Arawn traded places with Pwyll for a year and a day, Pwyll defeated Hafgan at the end of this period.
(http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hafgan.html)
(Welsh) He was the rival of Arawen for the kingship of the Otherworld. He was defeated at the hands of Pwyll.
(http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deitiesg-h-i.html)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 11:59:04 GMT -5
Abandinus
A Romano-Celtic god of whom is little known, except for an inscription found in Cambridgeshire, England.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
A vaguely known god known only from inscriptions near Cambridgeshire, England. One theory has him as the eponymous god of the neary river Ouse, earlier called the Abona or Afon. However, given that rivers are otherwise associated with goddess in Celtic culture and most IE peoples, the alternative theory that he is synonymous with the Celtic god Mabon/ Maband (Welsh mab, fab, ap, 'son') seems more likely.
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts1.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:01:23 GMT -5
Abarta
An Irish/Celtic god, a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
"Performer of Feats". Member of the Tuatha de Danann. He was also known as Giolla Deacair ('the Hard Servant'), and sought to become the servant of Fion Mac Cumhail.
Abarta's main trial has him tricking a party of warriors of the Fianna into mounting a magical horse, buy which means her carried them off to the Otherworld. However, Fianna chased them down to rescue them.
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts1.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:04:08 GMT -5
Abellio
The Gallic god of apple trees. A local deity of the Garonne valley.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
Insciptions to this god are found in the Garonne valley of southern France. One interpretation has him as a god of apple trees. He also seems to be the eponymous god of Alava near Hadrian's Wall.
Also in central Gaul was the town of Aballo (Avallon), now Yonne, France. A 1st C AD temple there included a head of Minerva. The god identified there has not been identified.
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts1.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:05:11 GMT -5
Abhean
An Irish/Celtic god, harper of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:08:50 GMT -5
Abilus
Worshipped at Ar-nay-de-luc (in the cote-d'Or) in France. Associated with the Celtic goddess Damona.
(http://enchantedtempleofisis.com/roman.htm)
God found at Ar-nay-le-Duc, France. He is associated with the 'divine cow' goddess Damona. His name seems to be a variation of Abellio.
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts1.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:12:41 GMT -5
Aed
God responsible for the Underworld.
(http://www.mythome.org/Celticconcord.html)
From OI aed, 'fire'? Chthonic Irish underworld god. Son of Lir ('sea') and Aobh. Cognate of Greek Hades?
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts1.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:29:37 GMT -5
Aes Sidhe
Aes Sidhe are considered the ancestors of, or the spirits of the disincarnate TDD. The "Godly" Sidhe. Our gods and goddesses. These are the ancestors in which made us, and created us. Sidhe are not born like Humans or mortals from two parents. We are created from essances of magickal things and universal source Energy. The more magickal the more potent we are, the stronger our spirits. The Aes Sidhe are the Council, the headers, and no courts apply too them.
(http://grovesofannwyn.tripod.com/TypesOf.html)
'The people of the hills', collective name for the old Irish gods who dwell in hills.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:34:17 GMT -5
Addanc
(Welsh) Also spelled Affanc. Flood/deluge myths are almost a universal phenomenon in world mythology, with the best known in the west being the one concerning Noah in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Addanc is part of the Celtic flood myth, a primordial giant/God/faery (some accounts call him a dragon or demon) who created and rode the crest of the flood near his home on the Lake of Waves.
The God/Hero Dwyvan, and his wife, the Goddess/Heroine Dwyvach, escaped the flood in an ark. Depending on your version of the myth, Addanc was slain either by oxen belong to Hu the Mighty, or by Peredur, and the waters receded.
Though his has been reduced to faery of evil Demi-God by recent mythological scholarship, he was probably once a deity worshipped by the people of the lake region. Today Addanc is a word used to describe any evil fresh water-dwelling faery of Wales.
(http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deitiesa.html#addanc)
Dwyvan, the Welsh Noah, who, with his wife Dwyfach, built their ark Nefyed Nav Nevion, filled it with animals and survived the flood caused by Addanc. A Celtic myth distorted by Christian additions.
(http://www.art-with-attitude.com/village/celtic_gods.html)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:41:30 GMT -5
Ai
The Irish poet god, a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts1.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:45:02 GMT -5
Alaunus
Also known as Alounis.
The Celtic version Apollo, who was venerated in the areas of Mannheim (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria).
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
A Gaulic god equated with Mercurius or Apollo, known from the middle Rhine area of Mannheim and Salzburg. Cf Vellaunus.
Eponymous place names include Alauna (Maryport, Cumberland) and Alauna (Commune Valognes, Dept. Manche, Fr. on the Cotentin pen. In Unelli terr.- possibly their captial.)
He was also found as Alone (Watercrook, Westmoreland).
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts3.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:46:46 GMT -5
Albiorix
"King of the world". An alternative name of the Gaulish god Teutates, which see.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
‘King of the World’; also called Mars Albiorix and thus perhaps an epithet to the Gallic war-god Teutates.
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts3.htm)
Mars Albiorix: He was the protector of the Albici tribe in Southern France, and was also regarded as a mountain god.
(http://enchantedtempleofisis.com/roman.htm)
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Post by sistergoldenhair on Feb 28, 2004 12:52:11 GMT -5
Alisanos
The local god of Celtic Gaul, specifically the region of the Cite d'Or.
Also known as Alisaunus.
(http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html)
A local god of Gaul; found in inscriptions on the Cote d’Or. He was the god of the divine spirit of the rock, and possibly the same as Alisonus, Alisonus, and Alisanus found elsewhere in Gaul; and possibly as the eponymous god of Alesia.
(http://www.geocities.com/cas111jd/celts/minordeities/celts3.htm)
Celtic god worshipped as the spirit of the rock. Earth deity?
(http://enchantedtempleofisis.com/roman.htm)
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