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People/Goddesses Flashcards

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Teuta (5)

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  • early Celtic Queen
  • succeeded King Argon
  • Female Pirate
  • assassinated Roman Governor
  • made a treaty with Rome
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Onomaris (4)

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  • early Celtic Queen
  • crossed the Danube
  • led her settlersand tries to reclaim land for her people
  • Scordisci
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Chiomara (4)

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  • early Celtic Queen
  • wife of Ortogion of the Tolistoboii
  • united the Galatian Celts against Rome
  • raped by a centurion, then decapitated him, gave his head to her husband
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Boudica (8)

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  • tall, red hair, wore a torc
  • early Celtic Queen and priestess of the Iceni Tribe
  • Widow of Prasutagus
  • had two daughter, that got raped by Romans
  • lead revolt against the Romans
  • burnt Colchester the defeat was called the Boudican destruction horizon
  • Boudica fought against Seutonius and lost
  • said: this ‘I thank you Andraste and call upon you as a woman speaking to woman… I pray to you for victory, preservation of life and liberty…’
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Tacitus (2)

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Writter of:

  • the Boudican Revolt
  • Cartimandua
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Cassius Dio (1)

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Writter of the Boudican Revolt

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Cartimandua (5)

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  • did not join Boudica’s revolt
  • could compare her to Queen Medb
  • Queen of the Brigantes
  • married then later divorces Venutius
  • hooks up with Vellocatus
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Venutius (4)

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  • devorces Cartimandua
  • Brihantes on his side
  • inherited the throne
  • violent, anti-Roman
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The Morrígan (3)

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  • Badb
  • Nemain
  • Macha
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Verbeia/wharfe (1)

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-River Goddess

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Sequana/Seine/Saone (5)

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  • River Goddess
  • Female personification of the River Seine
  • appears as a draped divinity wearing a diadem
  • stands in a boat
  • associated with healing
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Matrona/Marne (1)

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River Goddess

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Bouwinda /Boyne/Boan/d (1)

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River Goddess

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Nantosuelta (5)

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  • River Goddess
  • she hols a dish and a house on a long pole
  • name interpreted as ‘winding brook’
  • perceived as the protector of home and hearth
  • associated with the Otherworld
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Andrasta (2)

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  • War Goddess

- Boudica pleads to her

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Babd (2)

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  • War Goddess

- Phantom or Crow Queen

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Morrigan (2)

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  • War Goddess

- Phantom or Crow Queen

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Macha (5)

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  • War Goddess
  • Horse Goddess
  • could be interpreted as a witch because of her curse on the Ulsterman
  • can run faster than a horse
  • Fought battles with magic
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Nem(h)ain/Nemetona (2)

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  • War Goddess/Frenzy

- goddess of sacred grove

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Natusuata (1)

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-Fertility/Healing Goddess

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Aíne (1)

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-Fertility/Healing Goddess

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Cer(r)idwen (1)

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-Fertility/Healing Goddess

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Epona (4)

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  • Fertility/Healing Goddess
  • always with equine companion
  • association with the Mother-goddess type
  • tied to the Otherworld
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Rosmerta (3)

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  • Fertility/Healing Goddess
  • means ‘great provider’
  • associated with prosperity and plenty
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Sulevaie (2)

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  • Fertility/Healing Goddess

- Matres, worshiped at Cirencester, Colchester and Bath

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D/Anu (4)

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  • Mother Goddess, also fertility
  • Don is the Welsh equivalent
  • associated with the river Danube
  • known as the mother of the gods
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Modron (1)

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-Mother Goddess

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Dea Nutrix (1)

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-Mother Goddess

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Deae Matres/Matronae (1)

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-Mother Goddess

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Mór Mumhan (1)

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-Sovereignty Goddess

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Medb Lethderg/Queen Medb of Connacht/Connaught (12)

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-Sovereignty Goddess
-pale,long-faced, long hair, wearing red cloak, carrying a spear
-originally meant the one who intoxicates
-Warrior queen, incited armies, drives chariot around the battlefield
-Squirel and Raven on either shoulder
-seems ageless
-reared in Tara
-herione in the Táin
has several husbands: Conchobar mac Nessa,Tinne mac Connrach, Eochaidh Dála, Ailill mac Máta
-can run faster than horses
-takes part in battles with weapons not magic
-Fergus is her preferred lover
-is killed by the youth, Furbaidhe by a piece of hard cheese in a sling

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The Cailleach Bhéire (6)

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  • Sovereignty Goddess
  • wise and sinister
  • identical with Buí
  • wife of Lugh
  • appers to a knight as a crone, becomes a beautiful woman
  • passes through seven points of youth so each husband dies of old age
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Branwen (1)

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-Sovereignty Goddess

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Rhiannon (7)

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  • Sovereignty Goddess
  • Horse goddess
  • chooses her husband
  • places an important task for her husband who fails to use his wit, she then gives her counsel
  • bag on plenty (fertility)
  • she is wrongfully accused of infanticide, but suffers the penance peacefully until justice prevails
  • her offspring is a colt
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Posidonius (3)

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  • Classical writer
  • Gives us most of the accounts of Iron Age Law
  • wrote about the nine priestesses of the Island Sena
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Druids (4)

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  • training lasted apox. 20 yrs
  • priests, who communcated with the deities to control supernatural forces
  • teaching was oral
  • said to have started Ogham
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Philosophers and Poets (2)

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  • believed the gods could be neutralized if one human life were exchanged for another
  • had special knowledge of: astronomy, astrology, medicine, legal matters and functioned as teachers and tradition bearers
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Vates/Uates (4)

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  • discipline took 12 yrs
  • related to Philosophers and Poets
  • accredited to the powers of prophecy
  • masters of poetry
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Bards (3)

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  • training lasted 7 years
  • writing praise-poetry,bringing benefits to their patrons
  • had the power of satire, could cause physical blemish, bad luck, or even death
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Fedelm (5)

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  • a beautiful woman armed and riding in a chariot
  • long blonde hair
  • three irises in each eye
  • warns Queen Medb of the impending doom of her army against Ulster
  • the prophetess of Cruachain
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Brigit/d (8)

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  • associated with some attributes of the goddess Brigantia
  • associated with rivers and water cults, cattle raising and other agricultural animals (oxen)
  • lamented the dead with weeping and shrieking
  • territorial deity of Leinster
  • born in a druid’s house and fed milk from otherworldly cows
  • the protector against drowning and burning
  • associated with fire
  • feb 1st St. Brigit’s day (light, spring, coming of life)
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Gwenffrwei/Winefride (5)

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  • from Treffynnon/Holywell
  • Caradog, the son of the prince, attempted to abduct her, she refused to go with him and he cut off her head
  • a well sprang up where her head touched the ground
  • Beuno, her uncle-saint, raises her from the dead
  • the place of a healing bathing pool, a refuge for priests and Jesuits
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Melangell (4)

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  • Irish princess who lived in Wales as a hermit
  • Saves the life of a hare, a sacred animal for the pre-Christian British
  • Symbolizes refuges and protection
  • Feast day: May 27th
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Conchobar mac Nessa (4)

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  • one of Medb husbands
  • was left by Medb because of pride of mind
  • he raped her while she was bathing
  • killed Tinne mac Connrach
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Eochaidh Dála (2)

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  • one of Medb husbands

- saved her after Conchobar killed Tinne

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Ailill mac Máta (5)

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  • originally a champion
  • one of Medb husbands
  • challenged by Fergus
  • had a spear thrower kill Fergus after witnessing them cheating
  • Medb makes fun of him for being less determined
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Fergus (3)

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  • prefer lover of Medb
  • unsatiable in bed
  • killed by spear thrower sent by Ailill
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Cú Chalainn (3)

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  • Man of Ulster
  • young
  • Medb gets his foster-brother Fer Dia Dunk, by offering her daughter, to engage in single combat fight him
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Gallizenae (6)

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  • accredited with superhuman powers
  • ability to raise storms at sea by incantations
  • shape shifter
  • cures incurable diseases
  • foretells the future
  • one of the nine priestesses on the island of Sena

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