Celts

Annwn is the Otherworld of Welsh tradition, raided by Arthur in the poem Preiddeu Annwfn.

Celtic Paganism names the pre-Christian religion of the Celtic peoples.

This source names Celts directly: "Celts: Art and Identity, edited by Julia Farley and Fraser Hunter, British Museum Press, 2015, is the scholarly catalogue accompanying the British Museum and National Museums Scotland's major..."

Cuchulainn's boyhood deeds open the Ulster Cycle, the great heroic literature of medieval Ireland.

Danu is the ancestral goddess whose name the Tuatha De Danann carry; she appears in genealogy rather than in any recorded cult.

Mag Mell, the plain of delight, is an Irish Otherworld reached over sea or beneath the waves.

This source names Celts directly: "Simon James' The Atlantic Celts, published by British Museum Press in 1999, is a scholarly critique arguing that the modern idea of a unified ancient Celtic people spanning the Atlantic fringe of..."

The Hill of Tara was the seat of the Irish high kingship and a center of assembly and myth.

This source names Celts directly: "own distributor describes as the Celts' belief in "benign spirits and demonic forces," a religion that built no churches or temples because nature itself served as its cathedral."

The Second Battle of Mag Tuired is the central mythic battle of the Tuatha De Danann against the Fomorians.

This source names Celts directly: "Romans episode, whose own text lists Celts among its six named episodes; and Culture Unplugged's own distributor synopsis for the Celts episode specifically, stating "The Celts believed in benign..."

This source names Celts directly: "Greeks, Romans, Maya, Inca and Celts as its six named episodes; and Culture Unplugged's own distributor synopsis for the Romans episode specifically, stating "The Romans believed in many different..."

Tir na nOg, the land of youth beyond the western sea, is the best known Irish Otherworld.

The triquetra runs through insular Celtic art, later adopted as a Christian Trinity emblem.

The British Isles and Gaul are where Celtic languages and religion are best attested and longest survived.

Gaul, in modern France, was the Celtic heartland Caesar conquered; Brittany keeps Breton alive today.

Ireland preserved the richest medieval record of Celtic myth and keeps Irish as a living language.

Britain holds the Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish and Manx strands of the Celtic inheritance.

Middle Welsh carries the Mabinogi and the poetry of the Welsh mythological tradition.

Old Irish is the earliest extensively recorded Celtic language and the vehicle of the mythological cycles.

Brigid, goddess of poetry, healing and smithcraft, passed into Christian veneration as Saint Brigid of Kildare.

Cernunnos, the antlered lord of beasts, is named on a Gaulish relief and usually identified in the Gundestrup cauldron imagery.

Cerridwen, keeper of the cauldron of poetic inspiration, belongs to medieval Welsh legend within the wider Celtic mythological corpus.

The Dagda, father figure of the Tuatha De Danann, carries the club, cauldron and harp of plenty and power.

Donn is the lord of the dead in Irish tradition, dwelling on Tech Duinn off the southwest coast, where the souls of the Celtic dead were believed to gather.

Epona, the Gaulish horse goddess, was carried by cavalry devotion as far as Rome itself.

Lugh of the many skills, honored at Lughnasadh, has cognates across the Celtic world in Gaulish Lugus.

Rhiannon belongs to the medieval Welsh Mabinogi, part of the wider Celtic mythological corpus.

The Morrigan, shape-shifting goddess of battle and sovereignty, haunts the Irish hero cycles.