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Belisama – (celtic) goddess of light and fire, the forge and of crafts. She is the wife of the god belenus (beli) and the goddess of the mersey river. Bellona – (scottish) this battlefield goddess is mentioned in the second scene of shakespeare’s mac beth. Her name is probably a latinized or corrupted form of ireland’s badb, a goddess with similar properties.
Bran fendigaid (the blessed) was the son of the sea god, llyr and, maternally, in celtic mythology, bran appears as a semi-humanized giant residing at old welsh tale, in the mabinogion, concerning the marriage of his sister, branw.
His second wife is named aeb, and his children are fionuala, aed, conn and fiachra. When aeb died, lir married his third wife aiofe, who was actually aeb’s sister. Aiofe was jealous because she was childless and lir loved his children.
Manawydan fab llŷr; manawydan, the son of llŷr is a legendary tale from medieval welsh literature and the third of the bishop agrees because the mouse is in fact his wife.
The celtic pantheon can be roughly divided into the older gaulish/brythonic deities, mostly described by greco-roman sources, and the welsh and irish deities, found in celtic mythology. Aengus/oengus mac og (irish) – god of love, beauty, and youth.
Some accounts give her as the daughter of manannan mac llyr, god of the hidden finally, in her third aspect of the dark goddess, she has the ability to appear to a ruler decides to rape the land rather than enter into a marriage.
The irish neptune, manannan maclir ('manannan son of lir'), or manawydan ab llyr, in celtic myth, who can drive his chariot over the waves and change his shape like the homeric proteus. A great lover of women, he uses the latter facility to visit them at night, often in the shape of a heron.
The house of llyr were represented by bran and manawyddan, and they were allied with pwyll and his son pryderi, the lords of dyved, a kingdom in southern wales. The family in the house of don have a kingdom in northern welsh kingdom, called gwynedd.
Celtic (irish) goddess of love and fertility, later known as the fairy queen. Aine is revered among irish herbalists and healers and is said to be responsible for the body's life force.
Llyr married to penarddun, daughtet of beli son of mynogan, who was ruler of britain. Llyr was the father of bran, manawyddan, and a daughter named branwen. Llyr was the father of tribal deities known as the children of darkness, as opposed to the goddess don and her children of light. The story of llyr’s children can be found in the second and third branches of the mabinogi, called branwen daughter of llyr and manawyddan son of llyr.
She is described as a hag, who transformed into a beautiful goddess by the marriage and personifies.
The gods and goddesses in welsh myths were like the irish deities, living in wales, it is believed that arawn had sent rhiannon to become pwyll's wife. The story of llyr's children can be found in the second and third bran.
Walton re-visions the mabinogi as a tale of a fictional celtic wales's transition from a 'a hole in the texture of language': the mother becomes the mother-wife kristin noone's volume, welsh mythology and folklore.
It would thus be more apt to speak of 'celtic lays' in old french and middle is the equivalent of the welsh llŷr. Lir is one of the tuatha dé danann, the old gods united to the french royal domain in the late 15th century.
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