MACHA

in Celtic religion, one of three war goddesses; it is also a collective name for the three, who were also referred to as the three Morrgan. As an individual, Macha was known by a great variety of names, including Dana and Badb (Crow, or Raven). She was the great earth mother, or female principle, and a great slaughterer of men, as was another of the trinity, Morrgan, or Black Annis, who survives in Arthurian legend as Morgan le Fay. The third goddess was Nemain.