Sulis: Celtic Goddess of the Sacred Hot Spring at Bath
In the west of England, in a valley of the river Avon, hot water rises out of the ground at…
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Cliodhna: Irish Goddess of Love, Beauty, and the Sea
The tide at Glandore has a woman’s name. Twice a day it comes up the harbor in County Cork, and…
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Nantosuelta: Gaulish Goddess of Home and Nature
She carries a house on a stick. On a carved stone from Sarrebourg, in the hills of eastern France, a…
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Boann: Irish Goddess of the River Boyne
There was one well in Ireland nobody was allowed to look at. Boann walked up to it and circled it…
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Epona: The Celtic Horse Goddess
On the wall of a Roman stable, above the straw and the reek of it, somebody painted a woman on…
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Rhiannon: Welsh Goddess of Horses and Sovereignty
A woman on a white horse walks past a hill in Dyfed, and every rider who spurs after her falls…
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Danu: The Irish Mother Goddess
An entire race of gods carries her name. She herself has no story. That is the puzzle of Danu. The…
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Cailleach: Triple Goddess of Wisdom, Transformation and Life
Cailleach is the old woman of winter. Across the Gaelic-speaking north and the southwest of Ireland, people spoke of her…
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The Morrigan: Irish Goddess of War, Fate, and Sovereignty
A warrior rides out to battle and passes a woman at the ford, washing clothes in the river. The water…
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Brigid: Triple Goddess of Healing, Poetry, and Smithing
Meet the goddess who refused to be retired. When Christianity swept through Ireland, most of the old gods faded into…
