EADON - (AE-don) - Celtic

Goddess of poetry who was also a bard. Female bards wereknown, but most of their legends have not survived.

EDAIN or ETAIN (EE-dawn)(AY-deen) - Celtic

She was a beautiful blond queen of the Tuatha De Danaan, and a superb horsewoman for which she earned the name "Edain the Horse Rider." Her story was immortalized in Fiona MacLeod's "The Immortal Hour." Ask Edain to help you with past or future life explorations, invoke her to enhance personal appearence. Correspondances include lilac oil, the butterfly, the serpent (espically one with its tail in its mouth to symbol reincarnation.)

EDAIN OIG - Celtic

Edian's daughter who was hidden away beacuse of her barrenness. However, she gave birth to a daughter who would later be the mother of King Conaire Mor.

EILE - (EL-lee) - Celtic

The sister of Queen Maeve of Connacht.

EILEITHYIA - (Latin: Ilithyia) - Greek

Greek goddess of childbirth. Daughter of Zeus and Hera. Sister of Ares, Eris, Hebe and Hephaistos. Her cult appears to have originated in Crete, where it remained most popular after its spread to the rest of the Greek world. In Homer she is described as the personification of the pain of childbirth. In later times, she was largely superseded by Artemis as a goddess of childbirth.

EIR - Norse

Goddess of healing, patroness of health-care workers, called on against sickness or injury. She is one of the goddesses on the mountain called Lyfia ("to heal through magic"), and gives both physical and psychic means of healing; shamanic healing, especially, falls into her realm.

EIRE - (AIR-uh) - Celtic

The native form of her name, Erin, has been used as a poetic name for Ireland for Centuries. She has been worshipped as the Goddess/Protectoress of Ireland. She was a daughter of the Dagda and Delbaeth, the maiden/spiritual part of a triplicity with Banbha and Foldha, and was the third of the three to be approached by the Milesian invaders. Eire's magic was so potent that she was able to throw mud balls down on her enemies whereupon they turned into hundreds of warriers when they smached. Eire won the battle, but lost the land.Yet, out of respect for her power, the Milesians agreed to name the land after her. She was also the wife of MacGreine, the Sun of the Son, so she may be part of the creation myths. Call on her for qualities of leadership, to aid in keeping memories as in keeping one's name alive, and for finding creative ways to overcome enemies. She corresponds with the harp and the shamrock, the age old symbols of Ireland, and with the color green.

EIRENE - (Latin: Irene) - Greek

"Peace". Greek goddess of peace. One of the three Horae (Seasons) along with her sisters Dike and Eunomia. Daughter of Zeus and Themis. Equated by the Romans with their goddess Pax.

ELVE - Norse

Usually called "alfs" in the Troth to avoid confusion with the elves of Shakespeare or Tolkien. The Elves sometimes appear to be the ghosts of dead ancestors still dwelling in mounds or hills; sometimes they are more similar to land-wights (earth spirits). The Elves are worshipped together with the Disir (see above) and often with Frey. Sometimes they are kindly, as names like Alfred (Elf-Counsel) show; when offended, they shoot humans or animals with elf-shot, causing stroke and other forms of sickness. They are divided into Light Elves (often seen as wights of sun and air), Dark Elves (the dead in the mound), and Swart Elves (see "dwarves"). Old Norse Álfar (singular álfr), Anglo-Saxon Ælf, Modern English Alf.

EMER - (EE-mer) - Celtic

A heroic woman of great pride in all she accomplished, which was considerable. She was also beautiful, intelligent, witty, and multi-talented, which she was all well aware. Call on her when you need a boost of self esteem or self pride. She can also help you to release your own creative spirit and mental prowess.

ERNMAS - (AIRN-maas) - Celtic

A granddaughter of Nuada of the Silver Hand who was the mother of several tripple goddesses. Use her energy for fertility rites or earth spells.

EMPOUSAE - Greek

Greek demonesses and emissaries of Hecate.

ENCELADUS - Greek

One of the Greek Titans. Son of Gaea. After the Titans were defeated by the gods led by Zeus, he fled to Sicily, where he was killed by Herakles or Athena. Mount Aetna was placed over his body and was believed to come to activity whenever he turned over or hissed.

ENYALIUS - Greek

Minor Greek god of war. A companion of Ares, or perhaps merely one of his epithets.

ENYO - Greek

A minor Greek goddess of war who accompanied Ares into battle. Daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. Equated by the Romans with their goddess Bellona.

EOS - (Latin Aurora) - Greek

Greek goddess of the dawn. Daughter of Hyperion and Theia. Sister of Helios (sun) and Selene (moon). Homer referes to her as "rosy- fingered dawn". The morning dew was said to be the tears she shed for her son Memnon who fell at Troy. Hesiod gives her consort as Astraeus, by whom she was said to be the mother of winds Zephyrus, Notus, as well as of the evening star Hesperus. Other versions make her the consort of Aeolos. The Romans referred to her as Aurora.

EPONA - Celtic

Goddess of Horses.

ERATO - (Erebus)- Greek

Greek muse of lyric poetry, particularly love poetry. Daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Usually depicted with a lyre.

EREBOS - Greek

The darkness of the underworld below Hades, personified as a deity in Hesiod. Son of Chaos and Nyx (night). He later became the consort of Nyx, by whom he fathered Aether (light) and Hemera (day).

ERECHTHEUS - (Erichthonos) - Greek

Legendary god-king of Athens, and an earth or ancestor spirit of the Athenian people. He was said to be the son of Hephaistos, whose semen fell upon the earth (Gaea) when he attempted to rape the goddess Athena. Athena raised him at the Athenian Acropolis. Erechtheus was depicted either as a snake or with the tail of a snake.

ERI OF THE GOLDEN HAIR - Celtic

She was a virgin Goddess of the Tuatha. One day she was out at the bank of a river when a man ina silver boat floated down to see her on a beam of light. She was so overcome with emotion at the sight that the two fell in the boat and made love. The man left Eli pregnant with Bres. He left a golden ring to remember him by. Utilize Eri's energy as the female principle of creation. As the mate to the sun, she can be lionked to moon mother images.

ERIDANUS - Greek

Greek river god. It was into the river Eridanus that Phaethon plunged after his ill-fated attempt to drive the sun-chariot. Some have tentatively identified this as the river Po.

ERIN -Irish.

One of the Three Queens of the Tuatha De Danann, daughters of the Dagda, who asked that Ireland be named after them.

ERINYES - (sing. Erinys, Eumenides, Roman Furies) - Greek

Greek avenging goddesses. According to Hesiod, they were born from the blood of the castrated god Ouranos which fell upon Gaea, the earth. Euripedes was the first to give there number as three: Alekto ("unceasing"), Megaira ("jealous"), and Tisiphone ("avenger of murder"). They punished criminals, especially those who sinned against their parents. Depicted with snake-covered heads and bearing torches from the underworld, where they lived. Often referred to euphemistically as the Eumenides ("the kind ones") or as the Semnai ("the venerable ones").

ERIS - Greek

Greek goddess of discord and strife. Daughter of Zeus and Hera. Sister and companion of Ares. Mother of Ate by Zeus. It was her Golden Apple ("apple of discord") which created the strife among the gods that ultimately led to the Trojan War. Eris threw the apple among the guests at a wedding feast, with the inscription "to the fairest". Hera, Aphrodite and Athena each claimed the apple. Zeus attempted to resolve the conflict by having Paris decide the issue. Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite, who rewarded him by helping him to take Helen with him to Troy. Hera and Athena vowed to bring destruction to Troy in revenge for the slight. Her Roman equivalent was Discordia.

EROS - (Roman: Amor) - Greek

Greek god of love and fertility. In Hesiod, he was said to have been born of Chaos. He was later said to be the son of Aphrodite and one of Ares, Hephaistos, Zeus or Hermes. Eros was accompanied by Pothos (longing) and Himeros (desire). Depicted as a winged youth with bow and arrows. His arrows had the power to make both gods and mortals fall in love.

ETAN - Celtic

A daughter of Dianececht who married Qghma.

ETAR - Celtic

A woman who drank Edain when, as a butterfly, fell into Etar'sale. She later gave birth to Edian in human form.

ETHNE - Celtic

A daughter of Aengus MacOg, who when he tried to rape her, she escaped by becomming a being of pure light. When she vanished from humanity, she took with her the Tuatha's Veil of Invisibility, which had protected them from the invading Milesians.

ETHER - Greek

See Aether.

EUMENIDES - Greek

See Erinyes.

EUNOMIA - Greek

"Good Order". Greek goddess of law and order. One of the Horae (Seasons) along with Dike and Eirene. Daughter of Zeus and Themis. The Horae were entrusted with guarding the gates of Olympus. They were collectively honoured in the annual festival of the Horaea.

EUPHROSYNE - (Euphrosine) - Greek

"Joy". One of the Greek Charites (Graces). Euphrosyne was the personification of joy and festivity. The Charites were said to be the daughters of Zeus and either Hera or Eurynome.

EUROS - (Eurus) - Greek

Greek god of east wind. Son of Eos, possibly by Astraeus. Sometimes equated by the Romans with Volturnus, the god of the river Tiber.

EURYALE - Greek

One of the Greek Gorgons, daughters of Ceto and Phorkys. Her sister Gorgons were Medusa and Stheno.

EURYDICE - Greek

A Greek Dryad (woodland nymph); wife of Orpheus. She was bitten by a snake while fleeing Aristaeus, whence she died and descended to the Underworld. In a famous tale, her husband Orpheus descended to the Underworld to retrieve her. Hades allowed Eurydice to follow Orpheus to the surface, on condition that Orpheus refrained from looking upon Eurydice until they had left the Underworld. The two reached the threshold between the Underworld and the world of the living, but Orpheus turned to look at Eurydice before they had actually crossed the threshold, and Eurydice was immediately whisked back to the realm of Hades, condemned to eternal death.

EURYNOME - Greek

One of the Greek Oceanids (Okeanides), daughters of Okeanos and Tethys. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, Eurynome was a primordial goddess who ruled Olympus with Ophion before the advent of Kronos. She had a cult centre at Phigaleia in Arcadia.

EUTERPE - Greek

Greek muse of flute playing, variously given as the patron of tragedy or of lyric poetry. Daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Her symbol was the double flute, which she was said to have invented.

FACHEA - Celtic

A goddess of Poetry and patron Diety of Bards. Invoke her to inspire creativity in yourself.

FANUS - (Greek:Pan) - Roman

God of the Woodlands.

FATES - (Latin Fata or Parcae; Greek Moirae) - Greek

Hesiod gives the Greek Moirae as Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis. Their Roman counterparts were Decima, Nona (goddesses of birth) and Morta (goddess of death).

FEA - (fee) - Celtic

See also the Morrigan. This war goddess whose name means "The Subordinate One" is a subordinate diety.

FEDELMA - Celtic

She was a faerie Queen who can be invoked to increase psychic abilities. She corresponds with glass.

FINNCAEV - Celtic

Her name means "fair love" and she was a minor Princess among the Tuatha De Danaan, perhaps a diety of Love or Fertility.

FENRIR - Norse

The great Wolf, son of Loki and his giant-wife Angrboda, who will swallow Odin at Ragnarok. The commonly seen form "Fenris" is a grammatical error based on a misunderstood Old Norse poetic convention of identifying things by their type and a possessive: "the ash of Yggdrasill", askr Yggdrasils; "the wolf of Fenrir", úlfr Fenris.

FLORA - Roman

Goddess of Spring and Birth.

FORSETI - Norse

Patron god of the Frisians and giver of their laws. Silence had to be kept while drinking from the spring on his holy island, which he had brought forth from the rock with his axe, and beasts on the island could not be harmed. In the Old Norse sources, he appears as the son of Balder, whose hall Glitnir, "Glistening", is pillared with gold and thatched with silver; he is also a settler of lawsuits and quarrels. Frisian: Fosite, Foseti.

FORTUNA - Roman

Goddess of Fate.

FRANCONIAN-DIE-DRUD - Celtic

A Druidess associated with the horse goddess Mare, the bringer of dreams.

FREYA - Norse

Freya is one of the best-known and best-loved of the goddesses today. Her title simply means "Lady"; her original name is not known. Freya is the "wild woman" among the deities of the North: free with her sexual favours (though furious when an attempt is made to marry her off against her will); mistress of Odin and several other gods and men; skilled at the form of ecstatic, consciousness-altering, and sometimes malicious magic called seidhr; and chooser of half the slain on the battlefield (Odin gets the other half). Freya's chief attribute is the necklace called Brisingamen, which she bought from four dwarves at the price of four nights of her love. This necklace is sometimes seen today as embodying her power over the material world; the necklace has been the emblem of the earth-goddess since the earliest times. This goddess drives a wagon drawn by two cats, perhaps large forest-cats such as lynxes, and is seen today as the patron goddesses of cats and those who keep them. As a battle-goddess, she also rides on a boar called Hildisvini (Battle-Swine). Like Odin, Freya is often a stirrer of strife. As Gullveig ("Gold-Drunkenness"), she came among the Aesir to cause trouble. She was stabbed and burnt three times, but arose from the flame each time; through this torment, she transformed herself into Heith ("the Glorious"), mistress of magic, in a typical shamanic initiation. This also seems to have started the war between the Aesir and the Vanir. Freya is sometimes seen as a fertility goddess, but there are no sources suggesting that she was called on to bring fruitfulness to fields or wombs. Rather, she is a goddess of riches, whose tears are gold and whose "daughters", in the riddle-poetry of the skalds, are precious objects. However, the giants are always trying to take her away from the gods, and it is clear that this would be a great disaster: she was obviously known to be the embodiment of the holy life-force on some level. Perhaps because of this, Wagner gave her some of Idunna's attributes, making her the keeper of the golden apples without which the folk of Asgard would wither and die. Old Norse Freyja, Old English Freo, Modern German Frau, Wagnerian Freia, Modern English Frowe.

FREY - Norse

Son of Njord, twin brother of Freya. "Frey" is a title simply meaning "Lord"; his original name was apparently some form of Yngvi/Ing. Together with Thor, Frey was one of the best-loved gods of the Viking Age. Frey was the main god of kingship among the Swedes, whose royal family, the Ynglings, was descended from him. His holy animal was the boar, which appears several times on richly decorated helmets from the sixth century through the eighth. Frey was called on for protection in battle, for frith (fruitful peace) at home, and for good weather and gentle rains. He was, and is, often thought of as a giver of riches, whose blessing is called on for fruitfulness and growth in all fields of endeavor. His priests at Uppsala were said to ring bells and clap their hands with effeminate gestures, and it has been suggested that this cryptic reference hints at a tradition involving shamanic cross-dressing. Frey is the lord of the elves (see below), and is especially connected with the blessings and worship given to the ancestral spirits and possibly land-spirits. His image was often shown with an enlarged phallus; like his twin sister, he is sometimes seen today as a deity of love and pleasure. Frey owns a gold boar called Gullinbursti (Gold-Bristled) on which he can ride over air and water. He once had a horse named Bloody-Hooved (perhaps having to do with his role as battle-god) and a sword, but these he gave to his manservant Skírnir (the Shining One) for winning the giant-maiden Gerd for him. At Ragnarok, he will fight Surt with a stag's antler. Old Norse Freyr or Yngvi-Freyr, Ingunar-Freyr; Anglo-Saxon Ing or Frea, Old High German Fro, Modern German (Wagnerian) Froh, Proto-Germanic *Ingwaz, also called Fro Ing (Lord Ing).

FRIGG - (Frigga) - Scandinavian

Her name means "wife" or "beloved." Goddess of marriage and justice, associated with fertility and love. Her home in Asgard was the beautiful palace Fensal. Shehad eleven maidservants, sometimes considered to be various aspects of Frigg herself: Fulla, Hlin, Gna, Lofn, Vjofn, Syn, Snotra, Eir, Var, Gefjon, and Vor. Wife of Odin. Mother of Balder and Aesir. Frigg, although she did love Odin, was known to have affairs, so did Odin. Frigg also knew the future, but never spoke of it to anyone.

FUAMNACH - Celtic

The jealous wife of Midhir, who turned his captured bride, Edain, into a pool of water, a brown worm, and a mayfly. In some legends, Edain was not rescued, but rather blew away in a furious storm raised by Fumnach.

 

 

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