Overview: Get to know the Good God of Ireland through mythology, history, and modern worship. The Dagda is one of the most well-known of the Irish Gods, a king of the Tuatha De Danann and mediator between the Gods and mortals after the Gaels came to Ireland.

Verdict: A popular God among Irish and Celtic pagans, the Dagda is a powerful figure who reaches out to us from myth and memory. For those seeking to honor him today finding information can be difficult or confusing.

Pagan Portals - the Dagda offers a place to begin untangling the complex history of this deity, an entity that was chief of the Tuatha dé Danann, the foremost of the Irish ancestral gods. Highly skilled and wise beyond measure, he was not only the god of life and death, but of seasons, agriculture, fertility, magic, and druidry as well.

As we learn, the Dagda’s name seems to come from the proto-Gaelic Dago-dēwos, meaning “the great god”, and it is a fitting epithet given his position in Celtic mythology. He held a paternal role in the Celtic pantheon, and one of his epithets was Eochaid Ollathair, or “all-father,” marking his primordial place in mythical Ireland.

Also, the Dagda held dominion over the seasons, fertility, agriculture, time, and even life and death. He was a god of strength and sexuality and was associated with weather and growing things. Seen as both a druid and a chief, he consequently held authority in almost every area of human and divine affairs.

For me, and not knowing anything about the Dagda beforehand, I have to confess that Morgan’s prose not only shows that she is very knowledgeable about the subject matter to hand, but her writing has a very readable, fluid, and most importantly, easy-to-understand style to it.

Furthermore, she has done a rather wonderful job in compiling resources and providing the (possible) lay reader with a solid introduction to both the ancient and modern telling’s with regard the Dagda; from his names, stories, associations and so much more.

And leaving the last word to the author herself, she says: I have been an Irish-focused pagan since 1991 and have long held a deep respect for the Dagda in my worship as a giver of abundance and wisdom. Although he is not one of my primary Gods I honor, he is an important one.

I hope the reader feels that some value is gained from the time spent with this little volume, getting to know the Dagda.

About the Author: Morgan is a blogger, poet, teacher of esoteric subjects, witch, and priestess of the Daoine Maithe. Located in Connecticut, USA, Morgan is a prolific pagan writer, and is one of the world’s foremost experts on all things Fairy.

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