Boreades wrote:Belinus - that sounds so close to Belenus (the Celtic god of light and fire, "The Shining One") - maybe they are the same?
Belenus sounds rather too Biblical. The early-modern Celtic Revival may have messed up the whole business of course and it could be that Belenus is the British Apollo. But Belenus sounds like bull, appropriately pagan. Bull seems to be a way of saying 'male' across the board and is one of those animals that were emblems or totems, and indeed deities as with the Golden Bull (aka Baal).
From which we get Beltaine as well.
Beltane, 1st May, comes under Taurus!