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divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, witchcraft, occult
knowledge. Plants: Blackberry Animals: Oxen and Ram.
Caillech:
Great Goddess in her Destroyer aspect; called the Veiled One. Disease, plague,
cursing. Wheat.
Cerridwen
Caridwen
Ceridwen:
Wales. Moon Goddess; Great Mother; grain Goddess; Goddess of Nature. the white
corpse-eating sow representing the Moon. Welsh bards called themselves Cerddorion
(sons of Cerridwen). The bard Taliesin, founder of their craft, was said to be born of
Cerridwen and to have tasted a potent from her magick cauldron of inspiration. Wife
of the giant Tegid and mother of a beautiful girl Creirwy and an ugly boy Avagdu. In
her magickal cauldron, she made a potion called greal (from which the word Grail
probably came). The potion was made from six plants for inspiration and knowledge.
Her symbol was a white sow. Death, fertility, regeneration, inspiration, magick,
astrology, herbs, science, poetry, spells, knowledge. Plants: Vervain, Acorns.
Creiddylad
Creudylad
Cordelia:
Wales. Daughter of the sea God Llyr. Connected with Beltane and often called the
May Queen. Goddess of summer flower, love and flowers.
The Crone:
One aspect of the Triple Goddess. She represents old age or death, winter, the end of
all things, the waning Moon, post-menstrual phases of women's lives, all destruction
that precedes regeneration through her cauldron of rebirth. Crows and other black
creatures are sacred to her. Dogs often accompanied her and guarded the gates of her
after-world, helping her to receive the dead. In Celtic myth, the gatekeeper-dog was
named Dormarth (Death's Door). The Irish Celts maintained that true curses could be
cast with the dog's help. Therefore, they use the word cainte (dog) for a satiric Bard
with the magick power to speak curses that came true.
Danu
Danann
Dana:
Ireland. Probably the same as Anu. Major Mother Goddess; ancestress of the Tuatha