The pantheon of Welsh gods and goddesses came largely from two mythic
families: the Children of Dôn and the Children of Llyr. Dôn
was a goddess of the sky, and Llyr was a god of the sea. Charles Squire
speaks of a struggle and opposition of these two divine families of the
sky and of the sea. He envisages a general conflict of the powers of the
sky/light/life versus the sea/darkness/death.
| AERON / AERFEN |
A Goddess of fate who presided over the outcome of war between several
Celtic clans |
| AMAETHON |
Welsh god of Agriculture. A son of Don and brother of
Gwydion |
| AGRONA |
Goddess of slaughter and war often equated with the Morrigan |
| ARAWAN |
God of the dead and the underworld Annwn. God of revenge, terror,
and the dead |
| ARIANRHOD |
Goddess of beauty, fertility, and reincarnation. Known as Silver
Wheel and the High Fruitful Mother, the palace of this sky goddess
was Caer Arianrhold (Aurora Borealis). |
| BARINTHUS |
A charioteer to the residents of the Otherworld who was once probably
a sea or sun God |
| BELI |
The primary Welsh father God, husband of Don, and father of Arianrhod.
Also a minor sun God who some feel is the Welsh equivalent of Balor |
| BRAN THE BLESSED |
His name means 'crow', or 'Raven'. Associated with ravens, he is
the God of prophecy, the arts, leader, war, the Sun, music, writing.
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| BRANWEN |
One of the three matriarchs of Britain; Lady of the Lake (cauldron);
Goddess of Love and Beauty. Welsh love goddess |
| BLODEUWEDD |
"Flower Face"; "White Flower". Lily maid of
Celtic initiation ceremonies. Also known as the Ninefold Goddess of
the Western Isles of Paradise |
| CERNUNNOS |
Known to all Celtic areas in one form or another. The Horned God;
God of Nature; God of the Underworld and the Astral Plane; Great Father;
"the Horned One". |
| CERRIDWEN |
Moon Goddess; Great Mother; Grain Goddess; Goddess of Nature |
| CONDWIRAMUR |
An archetypal guardian of the feminine mysteries and a Goddess of
sovereignty who appears briefly in the Grail legends as the wife of
Sir Percival |
| CREDDYLAD |
Daughter of the sea god Llyr |
| CYHIRAETH |
Once a Goddess of streams, she later bacame thought of as a faery
spirit who was a portent of death |
| CYMIDEI CYMEINFOLL |
Her name means 'big belly of battle.' She is a war Goddess who is
always paired in stories to her husband Llasar Llaesyfnewid |
| DWYFAN |
DwyFan and his wife, Swyfach, are the heroes of the Welsh flood
myth. Together they built an ark, filled it with animals, and survived
the great flood caused by Addanc, a lake God/dragon/faery |
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| DYLAN |
God of the Sea. His symbol was a silver fish. |
| GOEWIN |
The Goddess of sovereignty who held the feet of Math while he reigned.
She was only exempt from doing so when he went to war |
| GOVANNON |
God of smiths and metalworkers. The weapons he makes are deadly
in their aim, the armor unfailing in its protection |
| GWYDDNO |
This one time sea God came down in myth as a monster of faery of
the ocean |
| GWYN AP NUAD |
King of the Fairies and the underworld |
| LLUD |
Known in Wales as the son of Beli, and a death God in his own right |
| LLYR |
God of the Sea |
| LUGH |
Pan-Celtic, The Shining One; Sun God; God of War; "Many Skilled";
"Fair-Haired One"; "White or Shining"; a hero
god |
| MODRON |
Goddess whose name means "divine mother". She is one of
the most potent of the Celtic archetypal mother Goddess |
| MORGAN LeFAY |
Welsh death-goddess; Morgan the Fate. Glamorgan in Wales is said
to be her sacred territory. She can cast a destroying curse on any
man |
| MYRRDIN WYLLT |
A woodland God who deliberately grew feathers so he could leap from
tree to tree |
| NIMUE |
Welsh, Cornish, Celtic Moon Goddess; also called Morgan |
| OLWEN |
Also Olwyn. A daughter of the king of the Giants, Ysbadadden. Her
name means "the golden wheel", which makes some see her
as an opposing force to Arianrhod of "the silver wheel |
| PRYDERI |
The son of Pwyll and Rhiannon |
| PWYLL |
Often represented as a mortal Prince of Dyfed |
| RHIANNON |
"The Great Queen"; Goddess of birds and horses, believed
to be the Welsh counterpart of Gaulish horse goddess Epona |
| TALIESIN |
"Radiant Brow", Prince of Song; Chief of the Bards of
the West; a poet. Patron of Druids, Bards, and minstrels; a shape-shifter.
Writing, poetry; wisdom; wizards; Bards; music; knowledge; magic |
| TEYRNON |
In Welsh folklore, he was the one who found the child Pryderi, the
stolen son whom his mother, Rhiannon, was accused of eating. The child
was found in a stall and was raised by Teyrnon and his wife until
they discovered his true identity |
| VIVIENNE |
Also Nimue, Niniane, or Chwibmian. She was the lover of Merlin who
is sometimes associated with attributes of the Lady of the Lake, and
some legends claim she is the Lake Lady's daughter. |
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