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Goddess DANU
Flowing Mother of Abundance
Danu is thought to be the great mother of the race of
the Tuatha De Danaan, the ancient tribe of the Celtic people. She is the great
goddess of flowing rivers and the life force that they bring to the earth.
She is associated with agriculture, cultivation, and the nurturing of the land.
She represents the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, as demonstrated by the
plants of the natural world, just as the humble acorn buried in the ground
becomes the mighty sacred oak tree.
Danu is the Mother of Magick and the Fae. It
is said her people, the Tuatha de Danann (The Children of Danu) were a magical
race, some say gods, who came to Ireland in the time of the Fir Bolg (1897
B.C.E.) and worked their magick until they were driven underground by the
invading Milesians around 1,700 B.C.E.
Here they remain today in Tir-na-noghe, the
"Land of Eternal Youth" as the Aes Sidhe, an invisible race of
magickal beings. It is from them that all Gaelic faery folk come. The Paps of
Anu (Ana) are two mountain in County Kerry known as the living breasts of Danu.
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