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…
-
-
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…
-
Áine: The Irish Goddess of Midsummer and Sovereignty
A ninth-century Munster storyteller needed to explain why one of the province’s founding kings had a ruined ear. His answer…
-
Badb: The Irish Battle-Crow Goddess
A hooded crow drops onto the roof-beam of a hall where a king sits feasting, and every man inside stops…
-
Caer Ibormeith: The Irish Swan Maiden
A god fell in love with a woman he had only ever seen asleep. For a year he ate nothing….
