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Abandinus
A Romano-Celtic god of whom is little known, except for an inscription found in Cambridgeshire, England.

Abellio
The Gallic god of apple trees. A local deity of the Garonne valley.

Abnoba
Romano-Celtic forest and river goddess (Black Forest area). Source of the English river name "Avon" and its cognates in continental Europe. Also goddess of the hunt (similar to the Roman Diana).

Achtland
In Celtic legend, this mortal queen could not be satisfied with human men, so she took a giant as her spouse.

Adsullata
A Continental Celtic river goddess.

Aericura
A Romano-Celtic chthonic underworld god.

Agrona
The Celtic goddess of strife and slaughter. The river Aeron in Wales is named after her.

Alaunus
The Celtic version Apollo, who was venerated in the areas of Mannheim (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria).

Albiorix
"King of the world". An alternative name of the Gaulish god Teutates.

Alisanos
The Welsh god of agriculture, son of the goddess Don. He is directly responsible for the war between the deities of the underworld, led by Arawn, and the Children of Don. In the Battle of the Trees (Battle of Cath Godeau) Amaethon's brother Gwydion transformed trees into warriors with whose help the deities of the underworld were defeated Ambisagrus A Continental Celtic god. The Romans with equated him with Jupiter.

Ancamna
A water goddess from Continental Celtic mythology.

Andarta
A Gallic warrior and fertility goddess in Celtic France.

Andraste
The goddess of war in Celtic Britain. In 61 AD the leader of a rebellion against the Roman occupation, the Queen Boudicca (Latin Boadicea), sacriced captive Roman women to this goddess in 61 AD.

Anextiomarus
A British-Celtic tribal deity

Annwn
An underground Netherworld region found in Welsh legend. Surviving from pre-Christian Celtic mythology, it's immortal inhabitants are the fair folk, demons or thinly disguised deities depending on the viewpoint. Neither Heaven nor Hell in the Christian sense, humans can enter spiritually or corporeally. Annwn, or Annwfn, is ruled by Gwyn ap Nudd or Gwyn, son of Nodons, a briton god whose temple was at Lydney in the forest of Dean. He often appears among mortals to meddle in their affairs. Folklore transforms him into the leader of the Wild Hunt, riding through the clouds raising human shades, along with the red-eared hounds of Annwn.

Arawn
The Welsh god of the underworld. The god Amaethon stole from him a dog, lapwing and roebuck with led to the Battle of the Trees, in which his forces were defeated. A tale in the Mabinogion relates how he persuaded Pwyll to trade places with him for the span of a year and a day. In this period, Pwyll defeated Arawn's rival for dominion of the underworld Hafgan. Because Pwyll also refrained from sleeping with Arawn's wife, they became close friends.

Arduinna
The Gaulish (Celtic) goddess of the moon, hunting, and forests. She was very popular in the Ardennes, to which she gave her name. She is accompanied by a boar, her sacred animal. The Romans equated her with their Diana.

Arianrhod
Arianrhod ("silver wheel", thus, the moon), is one of the descendants of Don. She had two brothers, Gilfaethwy and Gwydion the sister of Math ap Mathonwy, whose quality was that he required a virgin's lap to place his feet in, unless he was at war. When this virgin was raped, Math asked for a replacement, and Arianrhod volunteered. But when she stepped over his rod, she immediately gave birth to two children: a young boy and a blob. (This is likely because the word morwyn may mean either 'virgin' or 'free young woman', but it also indicates her divine status.) The boychild was named Dylan; he was a sea-being who returned to the waves. The blob was snatched up by Arianrhod's brother Gwydion, who hid it in a chest until it grew into a baby. Arainrhod imposed three geases upon this boy: he would have no name unless she named him, he would bear no arms unless she armed him, and he would have no human woman to wife. Thus, Arianrhod denied him the three essential passages to manhood. Nevertheless, Gwydion raised the nameless boy, and one day Arianrhod spied a young boy killing a wren with a single flung stone. She called out that he was a bright lion with a sure hand, and thus he took that name: Llew Llaw Gyffes. Later, Gwydion faked an alarm, and tricked her into arming the boy.

Arnemetia
The British-Celtic water goddess

Artio
Artio of Muri, usually depicted in the form of a bear, she was the continental Celtic goddess of the bear cult. Known from inscriptions in the Bern region of Switzerland.

Arvernus
The Gallic god of the Arverni. Aufaniae Continental Celtic deities. They seem to have been matron-like figures.

Avalloc
Found in Welsh pedigrees as the father of the goddess Modron. His own status is unclear. He is occasionally mentioned as the king of the otherworldly kingdom of Avalon.

Aveta
The Gallic goddess of birth and midwifery.

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