A Rainbow of Spirituality

Goddess - Definitions

"I who am the beauty of the green earth and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters, I call upon your soul to arise and come unto me. For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe. From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return. Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold - all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. And you who seek to know Me, know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire."
Doreen Valiente

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Names

While there are stories behind each of these names, I am briefly listing them out for now.

Adsullata - A Continental Celtic Goddess of spring; may be equated with Sul, the Sun Goddess of another pantheon.
Aeife - She was among the instructors of Cu Chulainn, whom he married for a year and bore him a son. She was condemned to be a demon of the air as punishment.
Aibheaog - In the County of Donegal, she was worshipped at Tover Breda. The well's waters were held to be an effective remedy against toothache, so long as the petitioner left a little white stone beside the well as a substitue for the sore tooth. It is believed that she was also an ancient Fire Goddess.
Aige - Turned into a fawn and plunged into the bay now named after her.
Aine - This is the Bright Faery Goddess to whome the mountain Knock Aine on the shores of Lough Gur is dedicated, and she is one of the great goddesses of ancient Ireland. Daughter of the Tuatha king, Egogabal, and a shapeshifter, her alternate form is that of a swan and a red mare. Also as a Moon Goddess, patron of crops and cattle. Her name is derived from Adeh (fire) and could also be identified with Bridget. The Mid-summer festivals were in her honor prior to St. John's Day. Her energy is the "Big Sun" between Beltain to Samhain.
Airmed - Tuatha who had great magickal powers, especially in herblore.
Amaterasu - (Omikami) - Japan. Goddess of the Sun. Chief God. Worshipped especially by the Kamikazi Samuri of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII.
Anath - Goddess of Mars. Greek Anathema - Devoted to evil.
Andarta - (Andrasta) The Goddess of Victory invoked by the Celtic Queen Boadicea.
Anna - Goddess of the Dark Moon. Psychic work, healing and protection.
Anu - (Anann) Deae Matronae of Ireland, Goddess of fertility, prosperity and abundance. Anann is worshipped in Munster Ireland as a goddess of Plenty.
Aoibhinn - Queen of the Faery of North Munster, Ireland.
Aphrodite - (Venus) Goddess of love, young and beautiful, planet Venus, element Water. Aphrodite was concieved from the ocean foam said that when Cronos castrated Uranus and threw the member in the ocean, Aphrodite walked forward.
Aradia - Goddess of Air, protection.
Arianhod - Welsh Goddess of Air.
Artemis - (Diana) Goddess of the new moon. Healing and protection. As Diana, Goddess of Mars and the Full Moon then ruling psychic work, healing and protection. On Earth, she is Goddess of the woods and the Hunt. In the Sky she is Phobe (Selene) Goddess of the Moon; in the Underworld she is Hecate.
Asherah - Goddess of love. Planet Venus.
Astarte - (Ashtoeth) Goddess of love. Planet Venus. Queen of Heaven with cresent horns. Ashtoreth, in hebrew.
Aynia - A Faery Queen of Ulster, Ireland.
Ban Chuideachaidh Moire - The midwife to the Virgin Mary, and a title given to St. Bridget
Banfathi - The Goddess who accompanies troops into battle, of strategy.
Ban Naomha - (Banna Naomha) A fish Goddess
Bast - Goddess of the Sun
Becuna Cneisgel - Fertility Goddess
Beltis - Goddess of love. Planet Venus.
The Black Virgin - The Goddess worshipped by the Dryadesses of Sena on the Isle D'e Sein. One of their major religious sites later became the Chartres Cathedral.
Blathnat - Daughter of Midir, King of the Gaelic Underworld. She helped Cu Chulainn steal her father's magick cauldron.
Boadicea - (Boudiga) Queen of the Iceni tribe who personally led a rebellion against the Romans in 61 A.D. Boudiga occurs a a name of a Goddess meaning Victory.
Boand - The Divine Ancestress of the Celtic Boii tribe. Her name means "white cow"
Branwen - Goddess of love
Bridget - (Brigid) Goddess of Fire, ruling Mars and the Moon. She is the triple goddess of poetry, healing and smithcraft. Psychic work and protection.
Brizo - Moon Goddess, psychic work, healiing and protection.
Buana - Which means Good Mother. Irish Goddess as a cow, similar to that of Hathor or Hera. Cally Berry - Ulster Ireland's Goddess, who has been reduced from a nature spirit, the personification of winter and the guardian of the wild deer, to a malignant supernatural Hag. Her name is derived from the Indian Goddess Kali-Ma, Goddess of birth and destruction.
Calliope - "Beautiful One" Muse of epic poetry.
Canola - Goddess of Music
Cardea - Goddess of Air
Carman - Wexford, Ireland Goddess, Gaelic name of Wexford is Lock Garman (Loch gCarman). May have a Phoenician or Greek connection.
Carravogue - Hag of winter. Gabhog & Ghaereagain
Cebhfhionn - A Goddess of inspiration who stood next to the Well of Knowledge constantly filling a vessel with its water and pouring it out without letting wisdom-seeking humans taste it.
Ceithlenn - The Crooked Tooth; Wife of Balor, the old God who appears in legend as the King of the Formorians
Ceridwen - Goddess of the Cauldron of life. Moon Goddess. Psychic work, healing and protection.
Ceres - (Demeter) Mother Earth. Searched the Earth for her other half, her daughter is Persephone.
Cetnenn - A great warrior in Irish legend
Clio - Muse of History.
Cliodna of the Fair Hair - Irish Goddess of great beauty
Coventina - Goddess who was patron of healing wells and springs
Crobh Dearg - Red claw, ancient Goddess who was said to be the sister of Latiaran.
Cybele - (Rhea) The mother Goddess. Planet Saturn. Psychic workings.
Demeter - (See Ceres)
Derbforgaille - A swan maiden, who fell in love with Cu Chulainn, and was wounded by him.
Diana - (See Artimis)
Dil - Cattle Goddess of ancient Ireland
Domnu - Goddess of the Fir Domnann; the goddess brought in with the wave of the Firbolg invasion of Ireland
Dornoll - Warrior Goddess who was among the Amazon instructors of Cu Chulainn, and whose sexual advances he refused.
Druantia - A Fir-Tree Goddess
Dubh Lacha - A Sea Goddess
Eadon - A Goddess of poetry and inspiration
Ebhlinne - (Ebhlenn) The Goddess worshipped in the county of Tipperary, Ireland. Her home was the 12 mountains of Ebhlenn, the daughter of Guaire from Brugh na Boine, and married to a king of Cashel.
Echtghe Aughty - Daughter of the God Nuada. She may be an ancient form of Anu.
Eithne - (Ethniu) Daughter of Danu and Balor, wife of Mackinely or Cian, Mother of Lugh. May be equated with the Welsh Arianrhod.
Ele - (Eile) The sister of Queen Maeve
Eorann - Goddess of the woods, married to Suibhne
Erato - "Beloved One" Muse of erotic poetry or mime.
Eri - Mother of Bres
Ernmas - Which means murder. She is the mother of the Morrigu
Ess Euchen - A War Goddess killed by Cu Chulainn when avenging the death of her three sons, whom he had killed
Estiu - A Warrior and Bird Goddess
Etrange - Mother of the Goddess Macha
Euterpe - Muse of lyric poetry.
Fachea - Goddess of Poetry and Inspiration
Fand - Goddess of healing and pleasure, lover of Cu Chulainn, and wife of Manannan mac Lir. Her name is analogous with the Latin Venus and Norse Vanir
Fea - War Goddess wife of Nuada, King of Tara and the Tuatha
Feithline - A seer who lived in the Cruachen (gateway to hell), hill in western Ireland and appeared to Queen Maeve, attired in a gold crown with seven burnt-gold braids hainging down on her shoulders to fortell the queen's death.
Findabair - Daughter of Queen Medb who died of shame
Flaithius - Was a Kundry, who originally appears as a repulsive Hag, and then once kindness has been given her, turns into a beautful woman.
Flidhais - Woodland Goddess, ruler of beasts. She rode a chariot pulled by deer. Her husband was Adammair, or Fergus.
Freia - Goddess of love, planet Venus
Gaea - Mother Earth rules money and healing. That which is earth herself.
Garbh Ogh - Ancient ageless giantess, whose cart was drawn by elks
Gillagriene - Daughter of the Sun in Irish Legend
Gwyddynod of Gloucester - Warrior goddesses who are rarely mentioned in literature, and who possibly connected to the smith-God, Gwydion
Hathor - Egyptian Goddess, Moon Goddess and of Venus. Psychic work, protection and healing
Hebe - (Juventas) Goddess of Healing, Youth and Beauty. Married Hercules
Hecate - (Brimo, Diana) Goddess of the Underworld, the Dark Moon. Planet Saturn, Psychic, divinations, healing and protection by means of destroying.
Hera - (Juno) Greek Goddess, Queen of the Heavens, presided over marriages and births. A stately Matron bearing the symbol of the crown. Argus, a peacock is at her side. Her holiday is Matronalia Festival.
Hestia - (Vesta) Goddess of Fire.
Hygenia - Goddess of health and healing
Ilat - Goddess of the Sun
Innana - Goddess of the Planet Venus and of fertility, some accounts say the Moon. Also a goddess of War and Excellence in Battle.
Inghean Bhuidhe - Yellow-haired girl, who was the sister of Latiaran. She was honored in Pagan Ireland on May 6th with rituals around a sacred well.
Iseult - (Isolde, Esyllt, Essyllt Vyngwen) Fine hair, Goddess connected with healing,
Ishtar - Mother Goddess of love and fertility
Isis - Moon Goddess, Hers is the spirit and ether, psychic healing, love and protection
Juno - (See Hera)
Kali - East Indian Goddess of Fire, birth and destruction - Shiva is her partner.
Kore - (See Persephone)
Lachesis - One of the three fates. She rolls the thread of mortal lives on the spindle.
Latiaran - A Harvast Goddess. She had two sisters, Lasiar (flame) ruled spring, and Inghean Bhuidhe (yellow hair) ruled summer.
Leanan-Sidhe - Mistress of Peace; the spirit of life. Goddess of inspiration tothe poet and singer. In exchange for her spirit, she burns them up; living off their life spirit so that their earthly life is brief.
Levenah - Moon Goddess
Liban - Irish Goddess of healing and pleasure.
Libanie - Beauty of women. Mermaid Goddess associated with Lough Neagh
Logia - The Goddess worshipped at the Lagan River in Ireland
Luna - (Selene) Moon Goddess, see Artimis
Maat - Goddess of Communication
Mab - (Maeve) Fairy Queen, whose name meant mead.
Mah - Earth Goddess
Mal - The Goddess of Hag's Head.
Mariamne - Goddess of Love
Mari - Full Moon Goddess
Melpomone - Muse of Tragedy
Metis - Goddess of Wisdom
Mia - Goddess of Love
Mnemosyne - Mother of the muses, Goddess of Memory
Moingfhion - (Mongfhinn) White-haired one. She is associated with Samhain; the crone, Goddess of Winter
Morgan le Fay - She is derived of an earlier Goddess of Fate - Fata Morgana.
Moirae - Are the three fates bearing mortal fate.
Morrighan/Morrigan - An Irish earth-goddess of sovereignty. Like their Indo-European coevals, the Celtic goddesses were regarded as local expressions of tribal boundaries. As a result, it was the Chieftain who was ritually mated to the endemic land-goddess as exemplified by the Queen and probably High Priestess. Various place-names and topographical sites are esteemed as Morrighan's place of frequentation proving her to be a land-deity, while contemporary scholars have begun to question the imposed obsolete nomenclature of 'war-goddess'.
Muireartach - Eastern Sea, Goddess of the stormy ocean. A one-eyed crone who lived beneath the waves.
Munanna - Bird Goddess, crying "revenge, revenge" on the Scandanavian sea pirates
Nair - (Nar) Fertility, Earth Goddess. Any King who apparently slept with her died.
Nessa - Ungentle. Originally Assa, or gentle one. Warrior Goddess of Ulster Ireland who defeated King after King.
Niamh - Goddess of great beauty, Lir's Daughter, chose Ossian to be her lover.
Nike - Goddess of Victory, shown as a winged figure carrying a palm or wreath. Guiding the horses of victors into war, or writing their name on a shield.
Nimue - New Moon Goddess
Nuit - Goddess of Air, Heavens, her animal representation is the cat.
Pasiphae - Moon Goddess, married to Dionysus every year. She has given birth to the Minotaur. Pasiphae rules dreams.
Pele - Goddess of Fire
Persephone - (Kore) Earth Goddess, she resides in both realms. Half of which she resides with Hades
Phobe - Moon Goddess
Polyhymnia - Muse of Sacred Poetry
Pomona - Nymph of the gardens and fruits, holding the horn of plenty.
Prithivi - Earth Goddess
Rhiannon - Earth Goddess
Scathach - War Goddess and prophetess from Alba, Scotland, who taught the martial arts to Cu Chulainn, who's name means woman who strikes fear.
Sekhment - Sun Goddess
Selene - Goddess of the moon
Sequana - Divine Ancestress of the Sequani tribe of France.
Shekinah - The Goddess of Spirit/Ether
Sinnan - Granddaughter of the Sea God Lir. Nymph of a river now known as Shannon.
Tea - Goddess of Tara.
Tethys - Daughter of Uranus and Terra. Married Oceanus and gave birth to three thousand nymphs; Oceanids. She is pictured riding a shell chariot followed by dolphins; Tritons.
Terpsichore - Muse of Dance
Thalia - Muse of Comedy, seen holding a mask
Themis - Goddess of equality, peace and law. She sat by Zeus and aided as a counselor of justice. Her attribute is the scales and a sword. We also see her blindfolded as a sign of the partiality of a judge.
Turrean - Wolfhound Goddess
Uairebhuidhe - Bird Goddess
Urania - Muse of astronomy. Wears a starred gown and holds a globe.
Venus - (See Aphrodite)

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