Suria, also Syria, is the female deification of supposedly good flowing water, conceived as a weaning
Mother goddess
A mother goddess is a goddess who represents a personified deification of motherhood, fertility goddess, fertility, creation, destruction, or the earth goddess who embodies the bounty of the earth or nature. When equated with the earth or th ...
, in ancient
Celtic polytheism
Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because the ancient Celts did not have writing, evidence about their religion is gleaned from archaeology, Greco-Roman accounts ...
. She was worshipped in
Roman Britain and altar-stones raised to her have been recovered at various sites in the
United Kingdom. Her name may be derived from the
Proto-Celtic ''*Su-rejā'' meaning "good-flowing water".
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Celtic goddesses