Cult of Gods

Aengus Óg

Celtic (Irish) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
love, youth, poetry
Symbols and attributes
Four birds circling his head, kisses
Parents (per the sources used)
The Dagda and Boann
Folio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.
Folio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.

Key myth

He took Brú na Bóinne from his father, the Dagda, by a trick of words. He fell in love with Caer in a dream; she turned out to be a swan.

Primary sources

  • Aislinge Óenguso
  • Tochmarc Étaíne

All sources for the Celtic (Irish) pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: The Dagda, Boann.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

DanuLirManannán mac LirThe DagdaThe MorríganBoannNuadaBalorOgmaDian CéchtBrigidAengus ÓgEthniuCianLugh

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Aengus Óg: love, desire and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Egyptian

Hathor

love, music, joy

Hindu

Parvati

power (shakti), marriage, mountains

Hindu

Krishna

love, divine play, the Gita's teacher

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