Cailleach Beara (Bheur)

Old Woman or Hag of Beara. She originally appeard as a triune Goddess with Cailleach Bolus and Cailleach Corca Duibhne. Also known as Cailleach Bui, wife of Lugh, the God of the Arts and Crafts. (Irish) The blue-faced winter hag, probably once worshiped as the crone aspect of the earth mother. (Scots)

Camulos

Associated with Mars, a Warrior God of Gaulish origin. His name is generally only found in strict military context . Associated with Remi in Gaul where again he would be equated with Mars.

Caradawc

Son of Bran. (Welsh)

Caswallon

Son of Beli. (Welsh)

Cathubodba

An inscription in Gaul thought to be to the Goddess Badb Catha 'War Fury'.

Ceridwen

Welsh Goddess, Wife of Tegid Foel and mother of Afagddu. She gave birth to the poet Taliesin. Goddess of fertility and poetry, she was also seen as the dark aspect of the triple goddess.

Cernunnos

Gaulish horned god. Lord of animals, fertility, abundance and regeneration, the male aspect of nature. 'The Horned One' or 'Peaked One' Thought to be a direct import from Gaul because traces of his cult are largely confined to areas of Belgic settlement. Associated with Jupiter, sometimes equated with Mercury or Mars. Sometimes equated with Dis Pater and therefore the Dagda in Irish myth.

Cian

Son of Dian Cecht The God of Medicine. (Irish)

Cliodhna

Goddess of Beauty. A Goddess of the Irish Otherworld. She took the form of a most beautiful woman: She possesed 3 magical birds decked in bright plumage, which ate from the apples of the Otherworld tree. The birds could utter such sweet music that the sick would be lulled to sleep and healed. (Irish)

Clud

British Goddess that gave her name to the Clyde. Also Clota and Clwyd.

Cocidius

Warrior God, God of Soldiers, The Red One (God of slaughter) also equated with Mars in the west and Silvanus in more easterly regions. Possible horned God of the north. Also thought to be a God of the forest in the protective roll. North British God.

Conall Cernach

Great warrior-ancestor (Celtic)

Condatis

God of the Watersmeet. Gaulish God of Confluence. British God of the watersmeet or confluence. Deity linked with thermal waters and War. Seems to be a local God found in the Tyne basin of the Tees. His Celtic name implies a water symbolism, perhaps even evocative of healing.

Conlai

Son of Cuchulainn and Aoife. (Irish)

Conn

Son of Lir. (Irish)

Corotiacus

Another native God invoked at Martlesham, Suffolk.

Coventina

She seems to have been a Goddess of healing and due to the number of pins found in her sanctuary (water pool), it seems that she offered women a safe childbirth. She is a British Goddess but she was known in Gaul and in Spain. Other names for her are 'Augusta' and 'Sancta'. The goddess of a sacred well in the Roman fortification at Carrowborough, Northumberland. She was venerated with votive offerings.

Crom Cruach

A golden idol worshipped by Tigernmas (Lord of Death) on Magh Slecht (Plain of Adoration) where human sacrifices were offered. (Irish)

Cruithne

The progenitor of the Tuatha Cruithne or the Picts.

Cu Chulainn

originally named Setanta he became known as the 'Hound of Culann'. Son of Lugh Lamhfada 'Lugh the Long Hand', God of the Arts and Crafts. Cu Chulainn was well loved by the Morrigan but thwarted her affections, she eventually foretold of his death as she appeared to him as 'The Washer at the Ford', washing the blood from his clothes prior to his last battle.(Irish)

Culann

Manannan Mac Lir in human form, a smith who forged Conchobhar's weapons. (Irish)