Glossary Entries A - C

Aesculapius (m.) (Greek, Pelasgian) = Pelasgian hero, King of the Thessalian crow-totem tribe of Lapiths; = son of Coronis (f.) ("Crow"); = son of Athene according to Tatian's Address to the Greeks; = son of Apollo; = Midach in Irish legend (p 52)
see also Coronus, Bran

Albina (f.) (British Isles) = "the White Goddess," from whence (according to Nennius) Britain gains its earliest name, Albion; = eldest of the fifty Danaids; = origin of German words elven, an elf-woman, alb, elf, and alpdrücken, the nightmare or incubus, and is connected with the Greek words alphos, "dull-white leprosy," alphiton, "pearl-barley," and Alphito, "the White Goddess," who in Classical times had degenerated into a nursery bugbear but seems to have originally been the Danaan Barley-goddess of Argos, Io (p 67)

Amathaon (m.) (Wales, Ireland) = Amaethon; = god of ploughmen (amaeth), a tribe of the Tuatha dé Dannan; =? Amathaounta (f.), Aegean sea-goddess; = taught Gwydion wizardry, maternal nephew of Math Hen (p 51)

Apollo (m.) (Greek) = father of Coronus King of Sicyon in Sicily and Aesculapius; = to whom the crow is sacred and has the famous Shirne of Tempe in Lapith territory (p 52); = Underworld oracular hero (p 53)

Arawn (m.) (Wales, Ireland) = King of Annwm, god of divination and prophecy according to the Romance of Math the son of Mathonwy, along with Bran god of resurrection (p 56)

Arianrhod (f.) (Wales) = daughter of Beli and sister of Gwydion and Amathaon according to the Triads of Wales; = "silver wheel" (p 56)

Ashima (f.) (Samaria) = goddess of the Amathite colony in Samaria (p 51)

Balan (m.) (Britian) = Bran; = brother of Balin in Malory's Morte D'Arthur (p 60)

Balin (m.) (Britian) = Beli; = brother of Balan in Malory's Morte D'Arthur (p 60)

King Ban of Benwyk (m.) (Britain) = in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = "the square enclosure"; = Caer Pedryvan in Preidden Annwm; = Bran (p 60)

Bel (m.) (Babylon) = Beli; = Belus; = Belinus (p 56); = Babylonian earth god from a male trinity, succeeded the mother of Danaë, Belili (p 58); = supreme lord of the universe, father of the sun god and moon god, creator, ultimately identified with Marduk god of the Spring sun and thunder and becoming together a "solar Zeus" (p 59)

Beli (m.) (Wales, Ireland) = a Danaan god; = Bel; = Belus; = Belinus; = father of Arianrhod, the sister of Gwydion and Amathaon according to the Triads of Wales; = Supreme God of Light championed by Amathaon in the battle of the trees; = associated with Belinus (p 56); =? British Belin or Beli; =? Belus father of Danäus (according to Nennius); =? Bel (p 58); = willow god, divinatory son of Belili (p 59); = Balin in Malory's Morte D'Arthur (p 60)

Belili (f.) (Sumeria) = Sumerian White Goddess; = mother of Danaë; = Ishtar's predecessor; = goddess of the willow and wells and springs, goddess of trees, a moon goddess, love goddess, underworld goddess, and sister to and lover of Du'uzu or Tammuz, corn god and pomegranate god; = succeeded by the Babylonian earth god Bel; = Belial (semitic Beliy ya'al, "from which one comes not up again," i.e. the underworld) as in Biblical "sons of Belial," sons of destruction; = Slavonic beli, white; = Latin bellus, beautiful (pp 58-59)

Belinus (m.) (British Isles) = a Danaan god; = Beli; = Bel; = Belus; = fought with his brother, Brennius, for mastery of Britain in the fourth century B.C.E. according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's mediaeval History of the Britons (p 56)

Belus (m.) (British Isles, Greece) = a Danaan god; = Beli; = Bel; = Belinus (p 56); = father of Danäus (according to Nennius) (p 58); = father of Danäus and Lamia (p 64)

Blodeuwedd (f.) (Wales, Ireland) = Olwen; = May-Queen; = daugter of the Hawthorn (or Whitethorn or May Tree); = the flower woman of the Câd Godden (p 41)

Bran (m.) (Wales, Ireland) = fruit man from the Câd Godden; = "Crow" or "Raven" or "Alder" (Irish fearn) (p 51); = associated with Aesculapius (p 52); = Brennius (p 56) = god of resurrection, alongside Arawn King of Annwm god of divination and prophecy from the Romance of Math the Son of Mathonwy (p 56); = Balan, King Brandegore (Bran of Gower), Sir Brandel or Brandiles (Bran of Gwales), King Ban of Benwyk, Leodegrance, and Uther Ben in Malory's Morte D'Arthur (p 60); = associated with crows, ravens, scald-crow, and other large black carrion birds which were not always differentiated in early times (p 67)

Bran of Gower (m.) (Britain) = King Brandegore in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Bran (p 60)

Bran of Gwales (m.) (Britain) = Sir Brandel in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Brandiles in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Bran (p 60)

King Brandegore (m.) (Britain) = in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Bran of Gower; = Bran (p 60)

Sir Brandel (m.) (Britain) =in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Brandiles in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Bran of Gwales; = Bran (p 60)

Brandiles (m.) (Britain) = in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Sir Brandel in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Bran of Gwales; = Bran (p 60)

Brennius (m.) (British Isles) = Bran; = brother of Belinus, defeated after fighting with Belinus for master of Britain in the fourth century B.C.E. and forced North of the Humber according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's mediaeval History of the Britons (p 56)

Bridgit (f.) (Ireland) = the Three-fold Muse (p 23)

Caer Pedryvan (m.) (Britain?) = in Preidden Annwm; = King Ban of Benwyk; = Bran (p 60)

Caridwen (f.) (Wales, Ireland) = chased Gwion in the Romance of Taliesin; = Cerridwen (p 67)

Cerdo (f.) = Spanish "pig"; =

Cerridwen (f.) (Wales, Ireland) = Caridwen; = white sow goddess and grain goddess according to Dr. MacCulloch's Religion of the Ancient Celts; = cerdd, "gain" and "the inspired arts, especially poetry" and wen, "white"; =? associated with Cerdo (pp 67-68)

Choere (f.) (Greece) = white sow aspect of the Barley-goddess, who was also Io and Leucippe; = Phorcis, Marpessa (p 67)

Coronis (f.) (Greece) = "crow"; = mother of Aesculapius; =? a title of Athene to whom the crow is sacred (p 52)

Coronus (m.) (Greece) = "crow"; = cheiftain of the Thessalian crow-totem tribe of Lapiths, killed by Hercules; = son of Apollo, king of Sicyon in Sicily (p 52)
see also Aesculapius

Cottius (m.) (Rome) = son of Donnus and sacred king of the Cottians, a Ligurian confederacy that gave its name to the Cottian Alps (p 61)

Cottys (m.) (Greece) = classically the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of Zeus against the titians on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly, called the Hecatontocheiroi (the hundred-handed ones) (p 62)

Cotytto (f.) (Greek) = Cotys; = goddess in Thrace, Corinth, and Sicily, with nocturnal orgies (the Cotyttia) similar to those of Demeter and Cybele (according to Strabo); = associated with boughs hung with fruit and barley-cakes (p 62)

Cronos (m.) (Greece) = hero of barley-cult; = son of Uranus and father of Zeus; = name orginates from root cron or corn that gives the Latin and Greek corone and cornix, crow; =? Bran (p 67)

Cybele (f.) (Phrygia) = lion-and-bee goddess of Phrygia (p 62)

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