Pagan Pantheon
Gods and goddesses of the old European traditions
The gods of the Irish, Welsh and Gaulish Celts, known from medieval Irish and Welsh tales and Roman-era inscriptions. Many are tied to the land, the seasons and the sabbats of the Wheel of the Year.
Brigid
Goddess of fire, poetry, healing and smithcraft
A triple goddess of the forge, the hearth and the healing well, whose sacred flame was tended at Kildare for centuries — later honoured as Saint Brigid.
Symbols: the flame, Brigid’s cross, sacred wells
Sacred to them: cows, ewes, snowdrops, oak
Special day: Imbolc (1–2 February)
Traditional offerings: milk, butter, bread, a lit candle, poetry
The Dagda
The "good god" — father, provider and druid
Chief of the Tuatha Dé Danann, whose cauldron left no one hungry and whose harp could summon the seasons.
Symbols: a great club that kills and revives, a bottomless cauldron, a magical harp
Sacred to them: oak, the cauldron, pigs
Special day: Samhain
Traditional offerings: porridge, ale, music
Danu (Anu)
Mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann
The ancestral mother of the divine race of Ireland; the Paps of Anu, two breast-shaped hills in Kerry, bear her name.
Symbols: rivers, the earth, abundance
Sacred to them: rivers, hills, the land itself
Special day: any time of honouring ancestors
Traditional offerings: water, flowers, grain
Lugh
God of all skills, light and craft
The "many-skilled" god who won his place among the gods by mastering every art; he founded the harvest games of Lughnasadh in honour of his foster-mother Tailtiu.
Symbols: the spear, the sling, the sun
Sacred to them: ravens, the harvest
Special day: Lughnasadh (1 August)
Traditional offerings: bread from the first grain, crafts you have made
The Morrígan
Goddess of fate, war and sovereignty
A shape-shifting great queen who foretells fate and grants sovereignty to kings; many modern pagans see her as a fierce protector.
Symbols: the crow and raven, the battlefield, the washer at the ford
Sacred to them: crows, ravens, wolves
Special day: Samhain
Traditional offerings: red wine, honest words, commitment to a cause
Cernunnos
The horned god of animals, wilderness and plenty
Known from carvings such as the Gundestrup cauldron, he sits cross-legged among animals — central to the Horned God of modern Wicca.
Symbols: antlers, the torc, the serpent
Sacred to them: stags, bulls, serpents, the forest
Special day: Beltane
Traditional offerings: bread, wine, time spent in the wild
Cerridwen
Welsh goddess of the cauldron, wisdom and rebirth
She brewed a potion of wisdom that fell by chance on the boy Gwion, who, after a shape-shifting chase, was reborn as the great bard Taliesin.
Symbols: the cauldron of inspiration, the white sow
Sacred to them: sows, hens, grain
Special day: Samhain, the waning Moon
Traditional offerings: grain, herbs, a written poem
Rhiannon
Welsh queen of horses, birds and sovereignty
A proud otherworld queen whose birds could wake the dead and lull the living to sleep; wrongly accused, she bore her punishment with dignity until justice came.
Symbols: the white horse, three singing birds
Sacred to them: horses, songbirds
Special day: the full Moon
Traditional offerings: apples, songs, patience
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