Atlas Mythica

Fomorians vs Tuatha Dé Danann Just as the Olympians struggled with the Giants, the Æsir fought the Jötuns, and the Devas the Asuras, so there is warfare in the Celtic Gaelic spiritual world between two superhuman hosts.

Diancecht, the Celtic Irish god of medicine, had several children, of whom two followed their father’s profession as healers. These were Miach and his sister Airmid, and were considered as seen as a god and goddess of healing.

Goibniu, the Gaelic Hephaestus, who made the Tuatha Dé Dannan, the people of the goddess Danu, invulnerable and immortal with his magical mead, and was also the forger of their weapons. The name is derived from goban = smith. Goibniu was part of the triad of the gods of craftsmanship, alongside Luchtainé, the divine carpenter, …

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The goddess of war, whose name appears to mean scald-crow. She is depicted as a raven or a hooded crow. Bird-shaped, red mouthed and with a sharp countenance, the Badhbh was one aspect of the triad goddess the Morrighan, her other aspects being Macha and Nemhain. There are countless triple goddesses in Celtic and other pagan systems. 

The most ancient Celtic or Irish divinity of whom we have any knowledge is Danu herself, the goddess from whom the whole hierarchy of gods received its name of Tuatha Dé Danann. She was the universal mother. Her husband is never mentioned by name, but one may assume him, from British analogies, to have been …

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