Anu is considered to be ancestor of all Gods, Tuatha dé Danann, who found themselves obliged to reside in Otherworld when Miled brought Celts to British Isles. She still looks down on us from night's sky where she appears as Llys Don, better known as constellation of Casseopeia. Anu was especially popular in Munster, though her most lasting memorial is a mountain in County Kerry called Dá Chích Anann or "Breast of Anu". The Dane Hills in Leicestershire are also named after her and this area, perhaps a major centre for her cult, is where her memory lives on as Black Annis. This hideous old crone's habit of eating young children was, no doubt, invented by incoming Christians to blacken name of Celtic Goddess. In Christendom, lady usually took on guise of St. Anne, however, in order to smooth path of conversion. This saint's popularity in Brittany probably stems from previous worship of Celtic Goddess there. Anu was also patroness of springs and fountains, hence numerous St. Anne's Wells throughout Britain today. Symbols: Emeralds, Blood, Moonstones

Cailleach was an ugly, crone and hag. She had teeth of wild bear and tusks like a boar The meaning of word "cailleach", is old woman or veiled one. She only has one eye. see beyond duality of things to She oneness of life. She is a weather Goddess controlling winds, Winter cold. She is winter Goddess. . Cailleach is a dark Goddess. She represents winter and a going within. She kills all that s no longer needed, But she holds in frozen earth seeds of a new beginning. For all things are born in darkness into light. Cailleach is about transformation in some stories just before Spring appears she washes in a stream and becomes young again. Cailleach to be 'other' face of Goddess Brighid. In this legend, on eve of Latha Fheill Bride, Cailleach goes to Well of Youth. There at Well she drinks of water and emerges as youthful fair Brighid, whose touch turns grass to green once more. In Scottish folklore, An Cailleach is born old and ugly and grows younger as year turns to Spring and Summer Cailleach teaches us that there is a time to let go and let die even our most cherished. We must look at things we are most attached to and let them go. Cailleach prunes that which is no longer beneficial to each of us. Ultimately, we must let go of all.

Every culture has an underworld, dark, hag goddess, whose primary fnction is to facilitate transformation from one state of being to next. We are in time of letting go and making room for new. Wee cannot create that which we want without room in our lives to do that. So we must let go of old to have room for new. Goddess I am experiencing a time of transformation help me to know what to let go of and how to be reborn. gleaned from: Celtic Goddesses: Warriors,Virgins and Mothers Miranda Aldhouse Green Clan of Goddess: Celtic Wisdom & Ritual for Women By C. C. Brondwin The Red-Haired Girl from Bog: Celtic Spirituality & Goddess in Ireland By Patricia Monaghan The Celtic Goddess: Great Queen or Demon Witch? By Claire French