Celtic Pantheon: Symbols, function & Correspondences

ABUNDANCE, PROSPERITY, HARVEST
Anu / Artio / Bo Find / Campestress / Deae Matres / Lady Godiva /
Henwen / Latiaran / Nantosuelta / Taillte

ANCESTOR GODDESSES OF THE CELTS
Arianrhod / Cessair / Dana / Dwyvach / Ernmas / Modron

ANIMALS (General)
Ardwinna / Flidais / Henwen

APPLES
Ailinn / Badb / The Cailleach

ASTRAL PROJECTION / INVISIBILITY
Bellah Postil / Ethne / Luned

BATTLEFIELDS
Bellona / The Morrigan

BEARS
Artio

BEAUTY & PHYSICAL FITNESS
Aife / Deirdre / Luaths Lurgann / Scathach / Taillte / Triduana

BEES
Derbforgaille

BIRDS
Aife / Brighid (lark) / Cliodna (sea bird) / Corra (crane) / Dechtere /
Derbforgaille / Edain (swan) / Fionnuala (swan) / Garbh Ogh (eagle) /
Gwennoliak / Gwenddoleau / Princess of the Sun (swan) / Rhiannon /
Sequana (duck) / Uairebhuidhe

BLACKBERRIES
Brighid

BOARS
Ardwinna

BOATS / SHIPS / SHIPPING
Becuma / Grainne ni Malley

BOUNDERIES
Coventina / Ratis / Tamara

BUTTERFLIES
Edain

CATTLE
Aine / Blathnat / Bo Find / Damona

CAULDRON
Babd / Blathnat / Cerridwen / Cymidei Cymeinfoll / The Morrigan

CHALICE / GRAIL
Condwiramur

CHARIOTS
Flidais / Garbh Ogh / Princess of the Sun

CHILDREN & CHILDBIRTH
Ban-Chuideachaidh Moire / Brighid / Caireen / Modron

COURAGE & STRENGTH
Artio / Lavercam / Taillte

CRAFTSMANSHIP & SMITHING
Airmid / Brighid

CREATIVITY & INSPIRATION
Brighid / Canola / Cebhfhionn

CRONES
Babd / The Cailleach / Carravogue / Cerridwen / Gwyar / The Morrigan
/ Macha / Neman

CROWS
Babd / The Cailleach

DAWN
Genovefa

DEATH . OTHERWORLD / REGERNERATION
Babd / Cliodna / Cymidei Cymeinfoll / Dahud-Ahes / Queen of Elphane / Gwyar / Lady of the Lake / LeFay / Macha / Moingfhion / Morgan LeFay / The Morrigan / Nantosuelta / Neman / Niamh / Rhiannon / Taranis / Vivionn

DEER
Garbh Org / Genovefa / Saba

DIVINATION / PROPHECY
Andraste / Corra / Drem / Emer / Fedelma / Fleachta of Meath / Franconian-die-Drud / Gwendydd

DESTRUCTIVE MAGICK / BANISHING
Babd / Queen of Elphane / Macha / The Morrigan / Neman

DISEASE (giving & curing)
Airmid / Queen of Elphane

DOGS
Nehalennia / Turrean

DREAMS
Caer Ibermeith / Canola / Franconian-die-Drud / Mare / Rhiannon

DRUIDS
Amerach / Argante / Birog / Drem / Eadon / Franconian-die-Drud / Luned / Maer / Tlachtga

DUCKS
Sequana

EARTH
Achall / Bo Find / Campestres / Eire / Magog / Sequana / Taillte

EELS
The Morrigan

EQUAL ARMED CROSS
Brighid

FAERY WORLD
Achtland / The Beansidhe / Biddy Early / Biddy Mamionn / Blathnat / Caer Ibermeith / The Cailleach / Cliodna / Cred / ruantia / Edain / Queen of Elphne / Fand / Fedelma / Feithline / Grain / The Lady of the Lake / Liban / Meg the Healer

FEMININE MYSTERIES
Kele-De / Sheila-Na-Gig

FERTILITY
Aine / Anu / Arianrhood / Bo Find / Brighid / Campestres / Damara / Damona / Deae Matres / Epona / Finchoem / Fleachta of Meath / Magog / Modron / Nantosuelta / Tanit / Taillte

FIRE
Adsullata / Aine / Brighid / Ebhlinne / Inghean Bhuidhe / Lassair / Princess of the Sun / Rosmerta / Sul

FISH
Bean Naomha (trout) / Liban (salmon)

FLOWERS
Aine (meadowsweet) / Blodeuwedd / Deae Matres / Guinevere (hawthorn) / Plur na mBan

FORTIFICATIONS
Macha / Ratis / Tea & Tephi

GIANTS
Garbh Ogh / Vivionn

HARP
Canola / Eire

HAWTHORNE
Guinevere

HEALING & HERBALISM
Airmid / Aibheaog / Argante / Arnamentia / Bidddy Early / Biddy Mamionn / Brighid / Clota / LeFay / Liban / Princess Marcassa / Meg the Healer / Rosemerta / Sul

HEATHER
Uroica

HENS
Cerridwen

HORSES
Aide / Caer Ibormeith / Cartimandua / Edain / Epona / Franconian-die-Drud / Lady Godiva / Macha / Mare / Rhiannon

HOT SPRINGS
Adsullata / Rosemerta / Sirona / Sul

HUNTING
Flidais / Garbh Ogh

JUSTICE
Aerten

LOVE
Ailinn / Aine / Deirdre

MAGICK (general)
iddy Early / Caolainn / Gwendydd / Luned / Morgan LeFay / Rhiannon / Tlachtga / Vivianne

MILK
Brighid

MOON
Anu / Arianrhod / Fleachta of Meath / Rhiannon / Tanit

MOON, Dark
Cerridwen

MOON, Waning
The Cailleach / Babd

MOTHER GODDESS
Brighid / Caireen / Cerridwen / Cessair / Dana / Deae Matres / Dechtere / Domnu / Dwyvach / Latairan / Macha / Magog / Modron / Taillte

MOUNTAINS / HILLSIDES
Aine / Magog / Momu

MUSIC
Banbha / Canola / Eire / Emer / Fionnuala / Rhiannon

OTTERS
Liban

PLEASURE / DIVERSION / GAMES/ COMPETITION
Fand / Liban / Taillte

POETRY
Brighid / Eadon / Fachea / Lavercam

PRECIOUS GEMS
Fand

PROTECTION / GUARDIANSHIP
Aine / Babd / Brighid / Caolainn / Eire / Ethne / Ratis / Tea & Tephi

PRUIFICATION
Arnamentia

QUEENS / CLAN CHEIFS
Aeval / Aife / Aille / Ain & Iaine / Boudicca / Caolainn / Cartimandua / Ebha Ruagh ni Murchu / Queen Maeve / Maire ni Ciaragain / Veleda / Vennolandua

RAVENS
The Cailleach / The Morrigan

REGICIDE
Nair

REINCARNATION
Arainrhod / Edain

SACRED SITES
Nemetona / Tea & Tephi

SALMON
Liban

SEASONAL RITES
Aine / Arianrhod / Damara / Ebhlinne / Inghean Bhuidhe / Lassair / Latiaran / Moingfhion / Tlachtga / Tanit

SERPENTS
Corchen / Melusine

SEVERED HEADS
The Morrigan

SEX
Achtland / Aeval / Arianrhod / Epona / Fand / Queen Maeve / Modron

SHAPESHIFTERS
Badb / Carridwen / Dechtere / Edain / Flidaid / Flaithius / Liban / Melusine / The Morrigan / Gwennolaik

SHEEP
Brighid

SHIELDS
Badb / Brighid / Derbforgaille / Queen Maeve / Scathach

SLEEP
Caer Ibermeith / Fionnuala

STAFF
Arianrhod / The Cailleach

STARS
Arianrhod / Sirona

STORMS
The Cailleach / Muireartach

SOVEREINGTY
Achall / Ain & Iaine / Condwiramur / Creiddylad / Deirdre / Eire / Flaithius / Genovefa / Lady Godiva / Goewin / Grainne / Isolde / Lady of the Lake / Queen Maeve / Nair / Olwen / Scathach / Vivianne

SOWS
Cerridwen / Goleuddydd / Henwen

SUN
Adsullata / aimend / Aine / Bean Naomha / Gillagriene / Grainne / Grian / Princess of the Sun / Sul

SWANS
Caer Ibermeith / Edain / Fionnuala / Princess of the Sun

TEACHERS
Aife / Scathach / Uathach

TREES
Druantia / Gillagriene

TREFOIL / SHAMROCKS
Brighid / Olwen

TIME MANIPULATION
Amerach

TRIPLE GODDESS
Anu/Danu/Badb ; Badb/Macha/Neman ; Bo Find/Bo Dhu/Bo Ruadh ; Brighid ; Deae Matres ; Dechtere ; Edain ; Eire/Fodhla/Banbha ; Queen of Elphaine ; Epona ; Fiongalla ; Flaithius ; Garbh Ogh ; Guinevere ; Latairan/Inghean Bhuidhe/Lesair ; Melusine/Melior/Palatina ; The Morrigan ; Olwen

TRISKELE
All the triple Goddesses

TURNIPS
The Cailleach

VICTORY
Andraste

VIRGIN GODDESSES
Anu / Isolde / Nemain / Triduana

WARRIORS / WARFARE
Aerten / Aife / Ain & Iaine / Andraste / Badb / Banbha / Cartimandua / Cymidei Cymeinfoll / Ebha Ruagh ni Murchu / Grainne ni Malley / Luaths Lurgann / Macha / Queen Maeve / Maire ni Ciaragain / Muireartach / Nessa / Scathach / Sin / Uathach / Veleda

WATER / SEAS / LAKES / RIVERS
Adsullata / Arnamentia / Boann / Cebhfhionn / Cliodna / Dahud-Ahes / Domnu / Fand / Lady of the Lake / LeFay / Latis / Liban / Melusine / Morgan LeFay / Muireartach / Nantosuelta / Nehalennia / Sabrina / Sequana / Sionnan / Tamara

WAVES
Cliodna

WEATHER MAGICK
Stine Bheag

WEAVING
Arianrhod

WELLS
Aibheaog / Brighid / Bean Naomha / Caolainn / Cebhfhionn / Finchoem / Liban / Momu

WINE / ALE / MEADE
Latis / Sin / Uroica

WINTER
The Cailleach

WISDOM / INTELLECT / KNOWLEDGE / WIT
Ailbhe / Bean Naomha / Cebhfhionn / Nessa

WOLVES
Badb / The Morrigan

WOODLANDS
Ardwinna / Flidais / Garbh Ogh / Saba

*List accumulated in Celtis Womens Spirituality by Edain McCoy

If you want to research a specific Deity before I post it I suggest using Mythica Encyclopedia online at http://www.pantheon.org/

God/dess of the Day

The Morrigan

(Pan Celtic) A triple goddess composed of the three Goddesses of war, battle, death & destruction: Badb, Macha, and Neman. At battlefeilds the Morrigan took the form of a crow or raven and flew sheiking overhead, often calling upon the spirits of slain warriors. Celtic war trophies (severed heads) were offered to her as were "the Morrigan's acorn crop".

Excerpt from "Celtic Women's Spirituality" by Edain McCoy

God/dess of the Day

Dian Cecht
(by Micha F. Lindemans found at Pantheon.org)

The great god of healing and the physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He made the silver hand for his brother king Nuada to replace the one he lost in battle. Dian Cecht had blessed the well Slane in which the wounded Tuatha Dé bathed. It healed all their wounds so they could resume their fighting. He had a son, Miach, whom he slew out of professional jealousy. Miach had replaced the silver hand Dian Cecht had made for Nuada with Nuada's own hand. Some claimed it was jealousy, while Dian Cecht said is was the disrespectful manner in which the replacement was done. He is also the grandfather of Lugh.

DEFINITION/HISTORY OF THE DAY

Brigid: In Irish-Celtic myth, the triple goddess of fertility, the hearth, childbirth, abundance, healing, and poetic inspiration. Name Cognates: 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 Dagda, 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. Gailleach, 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.

Wiccan Definition of the Day

What Traditions I follow: Celtic Wicca & Druidry
definitions from Wikipedia

Celtic Wicca is a current of Wiccan neopaganism, loosely syncretized with elements of Celtic mythology, mostly, as noted by authors including Hutton, Kelly, Greer and Cooper, by way of the Romanticist Celtic Revival. Raeburn (2001) is aware of the ahistoricity of "Celtic Wicca", establishing "a firm distinction between historical Celtic inspiration and modern Wiccan practice". Followers practice meditation, divination, nature mysticism and "magickal herbalism". Emphasis is placed on the Celtic pantheon, history, traditions, food, and music. Celtic Wiccans occasionally call themselves "druids", putting themselves close to Neo-Druidism, which is likewise an outgrowth of the 19th century Celtic Revival. Wicca, as established by Gerald Gardner in the 1940s, contained a few Celtic elements, along with elements from many other cultures (Greer and Cooper, Hutton, Kelly); Celtic Wicca can be seen as emphasizing such Celtic elements as there are to be found in Gardnerian Wicca while de-emphasizing the non-Celtic elements.
Neo-druidism or neo-druidry is an attempt to construct a modern spirituality based on the ancient religion of the Celts, as presided over by the priestly caste of druids. A fundamental difference between ancient druidism and modern, or neo-druidism, is that present-day druids do not hold the prominent place in society that was enjoyed by druids in pre-Roman times. In general, Neo-druids promote the peace, preservation and harmony of nature. The original ceremonies of the neo-druids involved gathering in a wooded place periodically (usually weekly, but some groups used astrology to calculate meeting times), for the ritual consumption of "spirits" (Scotch or Irish whiskey blended with water) called "the water of life" (uisce beatha, or whiskey), the singing of religious songs, the performance of ceremonial chanting, and, occasionally, a sermon.
The written RDNA liturgy calls for a "sacrifice of life", reflecting the core of the Reform, namely plant rather than animal sacrifices, and (for the ordination of a priest) an outdoor vigil.
Specifically in the Mother Grove, the use of Scotch rather than Irish whiskey has been an ironic tradition dating from the first ceremony, at which a partial bottle of Scotch whisky had been at hand, left unfinished at the end of a party the previous night. The major holy days are the quarter days (solstices and equinoxes) and the solar festivals (approximately half way in between the quarter days, these are: Beltane, Lughnasadh, Samhain and Imbolc). These are celebrated with (usually outdoor) parties with a religious theme, much singing of religious songs, dancing in circles, etc. Various individuals will also have their own private ceremonies. Often, small groups will break off, and perform their own separated ceremonies before rejoining the general group - these groups are often split along initiatory lines as those of higher degree work their own ceremonies. Individual choice is a major theme. So is ecology, though more in the sense of being sensitive to it and living lightly on the land than in the sense of a study of the interrelationship of lives at various scales.
The major gods are, in RDNA liturgy, the Earth-Mother (addressed as "our Mother"), seen as the personification of all material reality, Béal, the personification of nonmaterial essence, and Dalon Ap Landu, the Lord of Groves. The first two are sometimes referred to as the Earth and the Sun (named in Gaelic). Some individuals prefer to devote most of their praise, however, to other gods, like Health or Music (usually also named in Gaelic). And "A Druid Fellowship" has various scholastic posts and honors, though usually in the arts as devoted to religious praise rather than as formal studies. ADF's liturgy is considerably more complex than that of the RDNA, though its roots in the older group are obvious, based on Bonewits's theories of a common pattern to Indo-European worship.
Neo-druidism is considered a neo-pagan religion. It is important, however, to realize that the founders of RDNA intended it to complement or supplement "organized" religion, not to supplant it; most of the founders were practicing Christians. They were very surprised when RDNA continued after the college repealed the religious attendance requirement. As someone put it, "Apparently our disorganized religion appealed to those who couldn't stomach organized religion!" Present-day adherents range from those who are exclusively Druids to those for whom it is, indeed, a complement to another faith.

Druidry: In Celtic polytheism the word druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles until they were supplanted by Roman government and, later, Christianity. Druidic practices were part of the culture of all the tribal peoples called "Keltoi" and "Galatai" by Greeks and "Celtae" and "Galli" by Romans, which evolved into modern English "Celtic" and "Gaulish". They combined the duties of priest, arbitrator, healer, scholar, and magistrate. The Druids were polytheists (worshiped morthan one god/dess), but also deified elements of nature[1], such as the sun, the moon, and the stars, looking to them for "signs and seasons". They also venerated other natural elements, such as the oak, certain groves, tops of hills, streams, lakes and even plants, especially mistletoe and holly. Fire was regarded as a symbol of several divinities and was associated with the sun and cleansing. Their calendar year was governed by the lunar, solar, and vegetative cycles. Archaeological evidence suggests that ceremonies were conducted to celebrate the two solstices and two equinoxes every year. These festivals would have been governed by the position and motions of the Sun alone. In addition to these, four holidays were celebrated according to the lunar and vegetative cycles. These include Imbolc (Imbolg) to denote the first signs of spring, Beltane (Beltain) to recognize the fullness of life after spring, Lughnasadh to celebrate the power of the Solar deity Lugh, and Samhain to recognize the lowering of the barrier between the world of the living and that of the dead. The timing for these latter four festivals would have been determined by the presence of a full moon and the signs of life implied by the above. Imbolg would thus be celebrated at a full moon roughly halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox, Beltane between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice, Lughnasadh between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox, and Samhain between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. This is contrary to popular "New Age" beliefs about Druidism that celebrate a given holiday according to the Julian calendar, which of course did not exist at the time of the formulation of these holidays. In modern times, Imbolg has been transformed into Groundhog Day, elements of Beltane have been absorbed into Easter, and Samhain has become Halloween (or All Hallows' Eve or All Saint's Day).
Modern attempts at reconstructing or reinventing Druidism are called Neo-druidism.