Category: Celtic Mythology

Brigantia was the presiding spirit of the Brigantes, the most populous Celtic tribe of Britain. They ruled a broad swathe of Northern England and the…

Coventina is a water spirit presiding over the Carrawburgh River, Northumberland, once the Roman settlement of Brocolitia. She heals illness, restores fertility, and was venerated…

This goddess with the wonderful name is an ancient spirit of Galicia, now in Spain but once an ancient Celtic kingdom. Orcabella is described as…

Nodens – The Cloud Maker; He Who Bestows Wealth Nodens is a spirit of healing and the sea. Little is now known of him: what…

Nantosuelta The Meandering Stream; The Winding River ORIGIN: Celtic Nantosuelta is a mysterious goddess of fertility and abundance who was once extremely popular in Burgundy,…

Nehalennia ORIGIN: Celtic On 4 April 1970, fishermen, working off Colijnsplaat, an estuary of Holland’s East Scheldt River, recovered three fragments from two altars eighty-five…

Sequana ORIGIN: Celtic Sequana, Goddess of France’s Seine River, held court at a healing shrine at the river’s source, established in the second or first…

Sulis ORIGIN: Celtic Sulis is the presiding goddess of the natural hot springs of Bath, England. The springs and town were formerly known as Aquae…

Dirona (Sirona) In Celtic mythology, a mother goddess who appears to be identical with the goddess known elsewhere as Divona. She is depicted with a…

Grannus is a healing spirit associated with therapeutic springs. Roman historian Dio Cassius, who lived in the late second and early third centuries, placed Grannus…