Badb/Badbh

Goddess of Death and Battles who is regarded as a triune deity: Badb, Nemain, and Macha meeting under the name the Morrigan. Badbh Cahth's name signifies a crow or a raven which is a constant Celtic symbol of the War Goddess. She was married to Net who appears as an even more shadowy War God. (Irish)

Balisama

The goddess of the river Mersey.

Balor of The Evil Eye/of The Baleful Eye

A God of Death and most formidable of the Fomorii. He lived on Tory Island. Grandfather of Lugh, In the battle of Magh Tuireadh Lugh Slays his Grandfather by taking out his eye with a slingshot. (Irish)

Banba/Banbha

A triune Goddess with Banba, Fotla, and Eire representing the sovranty and spirit of Ireland. She was the wife of Mac Cuill son of Ogma. An ancestor Goddess, in that she was the mother of Cesair, the leader of the first mythical invasion of Ireland, which occured before the flood. Her name is the symbol for 'Mother Ireland'. (Irish)

Barrex/Barrecis

Known only from one dedication found at Carlisle, name means Supreme?

Belatucadros

Warrior God equated with Mars. Possible horned God of the north Cult confined mostly to Cumberland and Westmoreland. The name means 'Fair Shining One: or The Fair Slayer' Equated with Mars alone as Mars the War God. Invoked in Roman times. Essentially a War God. Celtic origin.

Belen(u)(o)s

Gaulish God cognate with Bel, Belinos, Beli and Bile in Ireland and Britain. A solar God, dispenser of light, and a healer

Beli

husband of Don, he is the God of Death and a later form of Belenus. Corresponds to Bile of Ireland. Father of Lludd and Llefelys. Often called Beli Mawr, he is claimed as an ancestor deity from whom several royal lines of Wales claimed descent. (Welsh)

Bendigeidfran

Bran the Blessed, from the Second branch of the Mabinogi. Son of Llyr and brother of Branwen and Manawydan. For seven years after his death, his head remained alive, as a talisman, talking and encouraging his men.

Bergusia

Counterpart of a Celtic divine couple. Ucuetis and Bergusia were venerated at Alesia in Burgundy. They may have been divinities of Crafts

Bile

God of Death, cognate with Bel and Belenus. Known as the 'Father of Gods and Men' and a husband to Dana. The Irish word 'bile' means 'Sacred Tree' (Irish)

Blodeuwedd

Name means Flower Face (goddess associated with flowers and the moon, maiden of the triple goddess), Wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes, conjured for him by Gwydion and Math. She was turned into an owl by Gwydion. (Welsh)

Boann

The Water Goddess and wife of Nechtan a Water God. The river Boyne is named for her because of a broken taboo against her husband, which left her to be drowned by the river as it rose to chase her for her disobedience. Her name means 'She of the White Cattle'. In another tale, Dagda has an affair with her and she bears him a son. The son of Boann and Dagda is the God of Love, Aonghus Og (Irish)

Bodb Dearg

Bodb the Red, son of the Dagda who succeeded him as a ruler of the Gods. (Irish)

Bolgois

Warrior and protector God

Borvo/Bormo/Bormanus

The name means 'bubbling water'. God of Healing Springs. Gaulish deity associated with thermal waters. He is represented with a female companion, Damona 'Divine Cow'.

Bran

Son of Lir and brother of Manannan and a god of the Otherworld a hero of giant size, he is associated with the protection of Britain, cognate with Bran the son of Llyr in Welsh myth. (see Bendigeidfran above) (Welsh)

Bran the Blessed

Son of Llyr, Ruler of the island of the Mighty. (see above) (Welsh).

Branwen

Daughter of Llyr, sister of Bran and Manawydan. One of the 3 chief ladies (or matriarchs) in the land and the most beautiful woman in the World, she is associated with love and beauty. (Welsh)

Braciaca

God of Intoxication? God of Malt? Very little known but the name points to intoxication by malt beverage. Celtic Origin.

Bregon

A son of Milesius, sometimes recorded as father of Bile and Ith. (Irish)

Brennos

Warrior and protector God

Bres

'The Beautiful'

1. A De Danaan who was killed in the first battle of Magh Tuireadh.
2. A son of the Fomorii's Balor
3. Son of Elatha the Fomorii King who marries Brigid the Goddess of Fertility.He appears to be an agricultural deity. (Irish)

Brian

Son of the Goddess Brigid. (Irish)

Bricta

The female companion of Luxovius, God of the Spring at Luxeuil. It has been suggested that Bricta is linked with the Goddess Brighid.

Brigantia

Goddess of the Brigantes, 'The High One', cognate with the Goddess Brigid who is regarded as one of the principal Celtic Goddesses. She is associated with cattle, poetry and learning. The Brigantes, one of the largest British Celtic tribes of the late Iron Age were named after her. (Britain)

Brigid/Brighid/Brigit

'Exalted One'. A triune Goddess who appears as a Goddess of Healing, a Goddess of Smiths, and , more popularly, a Goddess of Fertility and Poetry. Cognate with Brigantia, she is the daughter of the Dagda. Wife of Bres, half Fomorii ruler of the De Danaan. She had 3 sons by Tuireann. In many tales she appears to be the counterpart of Dana, Mother of the Gods. The Festival of Imbolc was sacred to her. (Irish)