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In ancient Celtic religion, Maponos or Maponus ("Great Son") is a god of youth known mainly in northern Britain but also in Gaul. In Roman Britain, he was equated with Apollo. [1] The Welsh mythological figure Mabon ap Modron is apparently derived from Maponos, [1] who by analogy we may suggest was the son of the mother-goddess Dea Matrona.
The name of the stone strongly suggests that this site was a centre of the cult of the Celtic god Mabon or Maponus. The name has its origins in map, the Old Welsh for 'son of' and is suggestive of a divine youth. [2]
Apollo Maponus. A god known from inscriptions in Britain. This may be a local fusion of Apollo and Maponus. Apollo Moritasgus ("masses of sea water"). An epithet for ...
The Dagda (Old Irish: In Dagda, Irish: An Daghdha) is considered the great god of Irish mythology. [1] He is the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann, with the Dagda portrayed as a father-figure, king, and druid. [2] [1] [3] He is associated with fertility, agriculture, manliness and strength, as well as magic, druidry and wisdom.
Nemty – Falcon god, worshipped in Middle Egypt, [23] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods [24] Neper – A god of grain [25] Osiris – god of death and resurrection who rules the underworld and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls [26] Ptah – A creator deity and god of craftsmen, the patron god of Memphis [27]
Interpretations concerning the god's fundamental nature either limit it to this general function or emphasize a concrete or particular aspect of it (identifying him with light, [17] the sun, [18] the moon, [19] time, [20] movement, [21] the year, [22] doorways, [23] bridges, [24] etc.) or else see in the god a sort of cosmological principle ...
In Irish mythology, Aengus or Óengus is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann and probably originally a god associated with youth, love, [1] summer and poetic inspiration. The son of The Dagda and Boann, Aengus is also known as Macan Óc ("the young boy" or "young son"), and corresponds to the Welsh mythical figure Mabon and the Celtic god Maponos. [1]
Caeneus was originally a woman who was transformed into a man by the sea-god Poseidon. [7] Although possibly as old as the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (c. first half of the sixth century BC), [8] the oldest secure mention of this transformation comes from the mythographer Acusilaus (sixth to fifth century BC). [9]