Epona

Goddess of Abundance

Celtic Mother Goddess of Abundance

Epona is the Celtic Goddess of Fertility
Holder of the Gates to the Otherlife
after death
and accompanying the soul on it journey.

Mistress and Protector of Animals,
horses are under her special protection.

Epona was worshipped throughout entire Gaul, and as far as the Danube and Rome.
Her cult was eventually adopted by the Roman army
and they spread her worship wherever they went.
She was the only Celtic Goddess to be honored by the Romans with a temple in their capital city. Among the Gaulish Celts themselves, she was worshipped as goddess of horses, asses, mules, oxen, and, to an extent, springs and rivers.

The Goddess was associated both with water/healing and with death.
In Gaul she was depicted in the guise of a water nymph.
Frequently, she was also represented with a dog which could reflect either healing or death.