for a fair and just realm. Macha is a truly balanced individual, with masculine and feminine qualities which made her a powerful war goddess and caring, loving mother. The respect she was shown in her life mirrored the respect she gave to everyone who valued her as an individual. And it was her warlike qualities that enabled her to return to Ulster to carry out her destiny, to curse the land, to avenge the wrongdoings following her mortal death and to show all of mankind the importance of the female and her life giving qualities.