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Healin’ Good Demigods

HI! After forever, I’m back with this series! Today, I’ll be linking the girls to the gods of the Celtic pantheon!

*Keep in mind that this was a little harder because Ireland was very much Christianised by the time someone actually thought to (low-key) write them down in the Book of Invasions.

**Also, before the Catholics came the Romans, so you will see associations with Roman/Greek gods as well. (The Romans liked to mash gods together like it was nothing.)

So, here we go! More below the cut.

Hanadera Nodoka (Cure Grace) was the daughter of the Horned God Cernunnos. He was a god of fertility, nature, fruit, grain, the underworld, and wealth, and was associated with horned animals like the bull, stag, and a ram-headed serpent. He named her Roisin (ro-sheen), meaning “little rose”. He was associated with the Roman god of the underworld Dis Pater.

Sawaizumi Chiyu (Cure Fontaine) was named Shannon (”wise river”) by her mother Brigantia, a goddess of river and water cults. She was linked to the Celtic goddess Brigid and the Roman goddess Minerva (Athena).

Hiramatsu Hinata (Cure Sparkle) was the cheerful daughter of Lugus (also called Lug, or Lugh), a god of craftsmanship and the sun. He loved her very much and named her Aoife (ee-fa), meaning “beautiful, radiant, or joyful.” The Romans associated him with the god Mercury (Hermes).

Furrin Asumi (Cure Earth) was named Eimear (ee-mur) (”swift”). Her mother was the earth-mother goddess Danu (also spelled Anu or Dana). She was the god(dess) of fertility, wisdom, and the wind.

They all lived happily and peacefully in Ireland for hundreds of years. When the Romans came, Cernunnos took the girls deep into the forests and told them to not come out. They obeyed and stayed, but when the Romans came to cut the trees, they found the girls. They fought hard against them but were taken captive. When their parents caught wind of this, they rushed to their aid and took them back, but they were badly beaten and hurt and the gods had no choice but to let them go and be reborn.