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Here is a list of the God and Goddesses my people in Tara worship.
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Aine | goddess of love
Banbha | one of the trio of goddesses who lent their name to Ireland
Boann | goddess of water and fertility; bore Oenghus to the Daghda
Brigit (Brighid) | goddess of fertility, healing, and poetry
Cian | the father of Lugh
Cliodna | goddess of beauty and the Otherworld
Creidhne | god of metalworking; one of the trio of craft-gods of the Tuatha De Danaan
Daghda | god of the earth; leader of the Tuatha De Danaan
Danu | goddess who is a version of the Great Mother; mother of the Tuatha De Danaan
Dian Cecht | god of crafts and healing
Donn | god of the dead; the "dark one"
Eriu | another of the three goddesses after which Ireland was named
Fodla | third of the trinity of goddesses of Ireland
Goibhniu | god of the smith; one of three craft-gods of the Tuatha De Danaan
Luchta | god of wrights; one of the triad of craft-gods of the Tuatha De Danaan
Lugh | god whose name means "shining one"
Macha | goddess of war and fertility; called "Macha the crow"
Morrigan | goddess of war and death; had a triple aspect; wife of the Daghda
Nechtan | water-god whose sacred well was a source of knowledge
Néit | god of war; husband of Nemhain
Nemhain | goddess of war and battle
Nuada | one of the kings of the Tuatha De Danaan
Oenghus | god of youth and love
Ogma | god of eloquence and language
Tuatha De Danaan | the Irish race of gods who descended from the goddess Danu; patrons of magic and arts
These are the dieties of Pretaigne (Britain)
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Belatucadrus | god whose name means "fair shining one"
Cocidius | god associated either with forests and hunting (linked with the Roman god Silvanus), or war (equated with Mars)
Condatis | god who personified the joining of two bodies of water in the Tyne-Tees area of North Britain; also conflated with the Roman god Mars
Coventina | goddess who personified a holy spring (that was reputed to have healing powers)
Cuda | mother goddess
Latis | goddess associated with water (and possibly beer as well)
Matres Domesticae | an aspect of the three mothers, who were considered goddesses of the homeland (Britain)
Mogons | god who was worshipped mainly in North Britain; his name means "great one"
Nodens | god of healing; he is related to the Irish god Nuada
Sulis | goddess of healing, she presided over hot springs in Aquae Sulis (modern Bath); often conflated with the Roman goddess Minerva
And of Wales
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Arianrhod | goddess whose name means "silver wheel" (i.e., the moon)
Blodeuwedd | a maiden of flowers created to be the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes
Bran | the god of fertility, war and of the dead
Branwen | the daughter of Llyr
(go through to the study to read about her)
Dewi | god who was represented by the Red Dragon, which has become the emblem of Wales
Don | mother goddess; the Welsh equivalent of the Irish Danu
Govannon | god of smiths & metalworkers
Gwynn ap Nudd | god of the Underworld
Lleu Llaw Gyffes | god who is the Welsh equivalent of the Irish Lugh
Llyr | god of the sea, father of Bran and Branwen
Mabon | this son of Modron was a warrior
Math ap Mathonwy | god of sorcery
Modron | goddess whose name means "divine mother"
Pryderi | son of Pwyll and Rhiannon
Pwyll | he was the Prince of Dyfed and a hero in the Mabinogion
Rhiannon | the wife of Pwyll
Taliesin | a renown bard whose name means "shining brow"
The last of my list is for the Gods of Gaul
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Abnoba | goddess of the hunt, similar to the Roman Diana
Andraste | goddess of victory
Belenus | god of light; his name means "shining one"
Borvo | god of healing; his name is associated with springs
Cernunnos | god of fertility and animals; referred to as the "horned one"
Damona | goddess of fertility and healing; her name translates as "divine cow"
Dispater | Roman god of the underworld; his cult thrived in Gaul also
Epona | goddess of horses
Esus | god equated with the Roman deities Mars and Mercury
Nantosuelta | goddess of nature; the wife of Sucellus
Nehalennia | goddess of the sea
Ogmios | gods of eloquence and knowledge; equated with the Roman hero Hercules
Rosmerta | goddess who was the native consort of the Roman god Mercury; her name signifies "great provider"
Sirona | goddess of healing
Sucellus | god of agriculture and forests; also a hammer god, his name means "good striker"
Taranis | god whose name means "thunderer"; compared to the god Jupiter
Teutates | god of war; roughly equivalent to the Roman god Mars
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