Aufaniae
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The Aufaniae were one name for Celtic
Celtic mythology
Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure...

 mother goddesses worshipped throughout Celtic Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

. They are known only from symbolical inscriptions and they appear to have been found mainly in the German Rhineland.

Further reading

Miranda J. Green‏, The Celtic World, Routledge, ‏1996
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