Celtic Mythology
The Dagda
Abundance, the cauldron, the club, the harp
In the Celtic Mythology table used by the Who Watches Over You calculator, The Dagda answers to the number 8: the day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit.
Born under The Dagda
The Dagda carries a cauldron that never empties and a club that kills with one end and heals with the other. You are abundance and power in one body, generous to a fault and formidable when crossed. You feed people; be careful what you also break.
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The psychic number is the day of the month reduced to one digit, so these are the days of any month that answer to 8.
- 8
- 17
- 26
About the Celtic Mythology gods
The gods of Ireland and the Celtic world were never tied to planets, so this table follows the numbers' own characters: Lugh of the long arm for the sun, Danu for the mother, Brigid for the forge and the poem, down to the Morrígan for war. It is a reading, not a reconstruction.
The same number in other traditions
- HadesGreek Mythology · Underworld, death, riches, judgment
- SetEgyptian Mythology · Chaos, storms, deserts, foreigners
- HelNorse Mythology · Death, the underworld, the dishonored
- EnmaJapanese Mythology · Underworld, judgment, karmic justice
- CizinMayan Mythology · Earthquakes, death, rebirth
- SaturnRoman Mythology · Time, harvest, wealth, liberation
- NinurtaBabylonian Gods · Farming, hunting, healing, the plough
- HanumanHindu Deities · Strength, service, devotion, courage
- ObatalaYoruba Orishas · Creation, purity, wisdom, peace
- MoranaSlavic Mythology · Winter, death, the turning year
- CaishenChinese Deities · Wealth, prosperity, trade, the lucky eight
- SupayInca Mythology · The underworld, the mines, death, wealth below
- VerethragnaPersian Gods · Victory, strength, the ten forms
- WākeaHawaiian Gods · The sky father, the chiefs, lineage
- RanginuiPolynesian Gods · The sky father, the heavens, grief as rain
- MictlantecuhtliAztec Gods · Death, the underworld, the bones, Mictlan
- EreshkigalSumerian Gods · The underworld, the great below, the dead
- MotPhoenician Gods · Death, drought, the dry season, the end
In the Vedic table the number 8 belongs to Lord Hanuman, through Saturn.
The other Celtic Mythology gods
Frequently Asked Questions About Numerology
- How is The Dagda linked to the number 8?
- Through the psychic number of Vedic numerology: the day of the month you were born, reduced to one digit. Each pantheon on this site assigns one god to each number from 1 to 9, and The Dagda holds 8 in the Celtic Mythology table.
- Is this a traditional Celtic Mythology belief?
- No. The gods and their domains are traditional; pairing them with birth numbers is a modern numerological reading, and it is presented here as reflection rather than doctrine.
- What if my life path is different from my birth day number?
- They are two different numbers. This page follows the day of the month; the life path uses your whole date of birth and has its own pages under Numbers.