The Dagda

Also: An Dagda

Celtic (Irish) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: abundance, druidry, kingship
Symbols and attributes: Huge club; a cauldron that never empties; a harp
Partner: The Morrígan, Boann
Children: Aengus Óg, Brigid

Folio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.

Key myth

'The Good God', who in Cath Maige Tuired meets the Morrígan at the river Unius before the battle. With a huge spoon he eats a porridge feast prepared by the Fomorians.

Primary sources

Cath Maige Tuired

All sources for the Celtic (Irish) pantheon

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.

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with The Dagda: earth, harvest and fertility, creation and first beings, war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse