Glossary Entries D - N

Danaë (f.) (Greece) = Donnus (m.); = Danu; = Dôn from the Câd Godden (m.) (p 61); = goddess of agriculture; =? Eurynome (p 62); = Danäus (m.) (p 64); = later associated with Dionë and Diana (p 66)

Danäus (m.) (Greece) = Dôn from the Câd Godden; = Danu (f.); = Danaë (f.); = Donnus (p 61, 64); = son of Belus, father of Linda, Cameira, and Ialysa (formerly titles of the goddess, who also figures as Lamia, daughter of Belus) (p 64)

Danu (f.) (Wales, Ireland) = Dôn (m.) from the Câd Godden; = Donnus (m.); = sister of King Math of Gwynedd and mother of Gwydion and Amathaon from the Romance of Math the Son of Mathonwy (p 50); = Danaë (p 61); = Danäus (m.) (p 64)

Diana (f.) (Greece) = Dionë (p 65); = later associated with Danaë (p 66)

Dionë (f.) (Greece) = Diana; = woodland Great Goddess whose dove-priestesses presided over the oak-tree cult of Dodona in Epirus (p 65); = later associated with Danaë (p 66)
see also Zeus

Dionysus (m.) (Greece) = Io was his nurse (p 67)

Donnus (m.) (Rome) = Dôn from the Câd Godden; = Danu (f.); = Danaë (f.); = divine father of Cottius (p 61); = Danäus (p 64)

Demeter (f.) (Greece) = barley goddess of primitive Greece (p 62)

Du'uzu (m.) (Sumeria) = Tammuz; = lover and brother of Belili; = corn god and pomegranate god (p 58)

Eurynome (f.) (Greece) = "wide rule"; = the Great Goddess; = took Ophion as her lover (p 62)

Fearn (m.) (Ireland) = Irish "Alder"; = third of four sons of King Partholan the Milesian, a legendary ruler of Ireland in the Bronze Age; = associated with Bran (p 51)

Gwern (m.) (Ireland) = King of Ireland, son of Branwen ("White Crow"), the sister of Bran (p 51)

Gwydion (m.) (Wales, Ireland) =? god of Belgic tribes that invaded Britain in 400 B.C.E., given honorary sonship of Danu; = guessed the name of the fruit man, Bran, in the Câd Godden (p 51); = Teuton-Celt deity; = Woden, Odin; = ursurped Bran and Arawn King of Annwm (p 56); = associated with Ash (as Woden-Odin) (p 57)

Hera (f.) (Greece) = wife of Zeus; = a name of the Great Goddess (p 64)

Hercules Melkarth (m.) (Greece) = son of Ino or Plastene; = Melicertes; = god of earlier semi-Semitic invaders (p 63)

Hundred-Headed Serpent (Wales, Ireland) = watcher of the jewelled Garden of the Hesperides, from the Câd Godden (p 44)

Hundred-Clawed Toad wearing a precious jewel in his head (Wales, Ireland) = from the toadstool mysteries, from the Câd Godden (p 44-45)

Io (f.) (Greece) = cow goddess (p 62); = white cow aspect of the Barley-goddess, who was also Leucippe and Choere or Phorcis or Marpessa (p 67)

Indra (m.) (India) = Indo-european god of a trinity with Mitra and Varuna; =? Hades (p 62)

Ino (f.) (Greece) = Plastene; = Leucothea as named by the Greeks; = mother goddess of the Centaurs; = mother of Melicertes or Hercules Melkarth (p 63)

Lamia (f.) (Greece) = a Libyan queen, daughter of Belus and sister of Danäus, formerly a title of the goddess (p 64)

Leodegrance (m.) (Britain) = Arthur's father-in-law in Malory's Morte D'Arthur; = Ogyr Vran in Welsh; = Bran (p 60)

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

Leucothea (f.) (Greece) = Greek name for Ino or Plastene, mother goddess of the Centaurs; = "the White Goddess" (p 63)

Llew Llaw (m.) (British Isles) = Brythonic title of Hercules; = Amathaon in the Romance of Taliesin (p 59)

Marduk (m.) (Babylon) = god of the Spring sun and thunder, later associated with Bel (p 59)

Marpessa (f.) (Greece) = white sow aspect of the Barley-goddess, who was also Io and Leucippe; = "the snatcher," a more polite title for Choere, Marpessa (p 67)

Math Hen (m.) (Wales, Ireland) = math is "treasure"; = "Old Math"; = Math son of Mathonwy; = taught Gwydion magic, so Math son of Mathonwy is Amathus son of Amathaounta? (p 51)

Melicertes (m.) (Greece) = son of Ino or Plastene; = Hercules Melkarth; = god of earlier semi-Semitic invaders (p 63)

Mitra (m.) (India) = Indo-european god of a trinity with Varuna and Indra; =? Zeus (p 62)

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