On May Eve,
May Day & May Time,
Besides celebrating
Beandía
Danu
&
her children
&
the Fey's Greenman & the Greenfolk,
It is also
a wonderful time to review some of the other
myths &
legends of the Emerald Isle
& Prytannic
Isles as well.
You may wish
to think about Cliodna & Tadg
& study
their stories too.
This is a
nice time to do so.
We will add
more about them later.
Beltane/Beltain/Beltinne
Cetshamain
or La Bel Tinne,
Bel tinne,
Shining One's Fire
(Beltaine)
is one of the great Fire Festivals.
In Éire,
Beltaine is a delight to behold..
Bel: Bright,
Brilliant Shining....
Beltane still
stands for the month of May in Irish.
Beltinne-The
first, Bel/i in the world was known as
a feminine
deity named Belili (Bright Maiden of the Hollow).
Bel means
shining, bright or brilliant.
Later her
celebration was transformed or subsumed
by many into
one thought to be for Bile.
Bile was
often said to be one of the first
son's created
by All Mother Danu,
some describe
him as also becoming her consort. ;o)
He is also
sometimes described as being created by her,
with his
life starting out as a great tree.
Some describe
Bile as kind of a "male Dispater figure",
but there
is much more to him than even this.
Daghda:
Daghda, was
another of the son's of Dánu
who is most
well known today.
Although
he is seen as a Daddy figure in a sense, to many,
& modern
people may therefore refer to him as "All Father",
he did not
precede Beandía Danu,
The Divine
All Mother Dánu
who is the
original
"Mother of
All The Gods & Goddesses
of the Tuatha
de Danann."
There are
many tales of Daghda, who is known as
Daghda, The
Good God, apparently not because of his
being "good"
in the chaste or modern moral sense
some might
think of that word sometimes used today,
but rather
because he was said to be many gifted
& good
at any & all of the skills he tried. ;o)
Dánu/Anu/Dana
Prior to
the coming of The Tuatha de Danann,
the indigenous
people of The Emerald Isle,
were said
to already have a Universal Mother Goddess,
named `Anu'.
It is easy
to see why they would have recognized her in
Dánu
of The Tuatha
de Danann, as well.
The names
are Anu & Dánu & Dana
are usually
used as different forms of the same name,
by many historians
& others.
Dánu,
is also known as "The Lasting One".
The two hills
in Munster, still known as "Da Chich Anann"-
"The Paps
of Anu", because they symbolize her breasts.
Her cult
was especially powerful in Munster
even surviving
into the modern era.
Áine:
Divine Daughter
of Dánu,
Áine-"A
Maiden Goddess of Love & Fertility".
Knockainy,
"Áine's Hill" is her hill in Kerry.
Áine
is thought to be either the great mother Dánu/Anu
in a Maiden
aspect,or one of her Divine Daughters.
At any rate
they are very closely associated.
For those
that honor & love her,
Áine
is wonderful at blessing lovers
or even bringing
them together.
She is often
associated with Spring & Summer as well.
She is very,
very beloved & popular to this day.
"Oenghus Mac
Óc" (The Young Son):
Daghda &
Bóinn (Boanne) had a Divine Love Child named,
"Oenghus
Mac Óc" (The Young Son)
or now sometimes
spelled as
Aonghus Mac
Og who is an "Irish Love God" too.
Aonghus has
a Divine Harp (a living harp)
& Love
Birds or Doves can circle around his head, like kisses.
He can shapeshift,
most notably to Fey Swan Form.
Some of the
greatest stories surround his own conception
& also
Aonghus's, own later wooing of his own lover/mate,
the Divine
Fey Swan Maiden,
Caer Ibormeith
(Yewberry).
Bóinn, The River Boyne, & Brugh na Bóinne (New Grange):
The River Boyne was named
for Beandía Bóinn.
(The Goddess
Boinne) Her name means "She of The White Cow".
White Cows
were sacred to the Sidhe, as well.
(Interestingly,
the Pan-Celtic Goddess Brighid,
was said
to have been nursed
on the tits
of a White Fey Cow, as well.)
Yet of course,
it is Bóinn & her Divine Love Child ,
"Oenghus
Mac Óc" The Love God who are rightly most closely
associated
with the sacred site originally named for her,
Brugh na
Bóinne. The Magic Palace of Bóinn
along the
River Boyne, also named for her.
Brugh: Palace,
Fairy Fort, Fairy Mansion,
Otherworld
Feasting Place, Verge, Brink, Fairy Hill.
Bóinn:
(Bóind, Bóann, Boyne) She of The White Cow,
All Seeing
One, Wise One..
Goddess who
gave her name to The River Boyne
& Brugh
na Bóinne.
NOTE:
When part of her land was taken
over by a medieval
Cistercian Abby of Mellifont nearby
to be used
as one of their `new granges'
of farmland,
that is when the name of Brugh
na Bóinne,
was sadly changed to "New Grange",by
them.
The real name of `New Grange' is
therefore,
still Brugh
na Bóinne.
The Place
Lore states that the River Boyne was at first a well,
surrounded
by nine magic Hazel Trees of Wisdom,
until Bóinn
risked her life to obtain it's wisdom,
& the
waters chased her to the Sea, becoming the River Boyne.
The ancient
Salmons of Wisdom, are also a part of this story.
See the Tale
of The Well of Saegis.
Archaeologically,
it is true that Brugh na Bóinne
was there
with the folk of The Emerald Isle,
millennias
before the coming of even the
Gaels or
"Celts" or later Romans, Christians or Vikings even.
(It is even
older than the pyramids of Egypt!)
No other
land's people or invaders can claim credit for the
original
building of the Brugh na Bóinne, try as they might.
The Brugh
na Bóinne predates them all
& The
Brugh na Bóinne most definitely belongs to this
marvelous
Island from the beginning
&
Bóinn is of a very early part of the Island herself.
The Tuatha
de Danann are a part of it's Lore
because they
became one with the indigenous island folk
& their
Divine Deities in a special way, no one really has since.
Besides,
Danu's son Daghda got to have a Love God Son,
by Bóinn
herself. ;o) wink
Isn't that
wonderful!
Bóinn
& her Divine Love Child, Oenghus Mac Óc
along with
his Fey Swan Love-Caer Ibormeith
preside over
Brugh na Bóinne to this day!
Even Dánu's
descendent, Daghda himself
helped make
sure of that. ;o)
May Eve is
a nice time to visit Brugh na Bóinne
in your dreams,
if you show
proper honor to them & their Magical Palace,
both here
& across the Otherworld Veil.
(More On These To Come Later On)
Éire,
Bamba & Fodla Blessed Be.
Bóinn,
Daghda & Aonghus Love Thee ;o)
& Dánu
Keep Thee Free.
Eternal Blessings
to The Sidhe.
The Tuatha
De Danann:
May Eve is
one of the Great Sidhe Spirit Nights!
The Sidhe
are thought to be at their most joyful
& their
dancing, pipes, music & revelry rings through the air!
The Tuatha
de Danann landed on the Emerald Isle of Destiny
Innis Fal
(coming to/landing on west-side) on May Eve
long, long
ago.
They came
from "up there" , their landing shrouded in a mist.
They named
what we now call Éire (Ireland)
by their
name of "Isle of Destiny".
After arriving,
it is said they burned their ships,
perhaps so
they would have no second thoughts,
about going
back to wherever they came from..
So "Isle
of Destiny" is a suitable name,
for many
reasons. ;o)
It is not
clear whether these Sky Ships or Sea Faring Ships,
or even Inter-dimensional Ships, only that they came from "up there"
in ships of some kind, so they did not simply walk over to the
Island by foot or swim there. ;o)
The Tribe
of Dánu, came as Shining Being of Brightness.
In some notable
legends, they are
described
by some as "Gods (& Goddesses,) yet not Gods",
it is clearly
inferred that they were certainly
something
more than an average human though.
(Their offspring
reportedly eventually did breed with some humans
of the Island
at a later time.)
The Tuatha
de Danann had materials & treasures,
of the like
that had never been seen there before.
When they
came they brought several
very special
treasures with them,
from each
of The Tuatha de Danann Secret Cities.
More to come
about this later..
The descendants
of Divine Dánu,
The Tuatha
de Danann,
became as
"The Old Gods & Goddesses of Ireland".
They are now
often loved & celebrated & honored
as the "Fey
Folk", "The Gentry", "The People of Peace"
& known
by many other secret names or code names.
It is important
to speak highly of them.
They can
hear everything..
May Eve is
a very special time for them
& the
Veil between Physical Earth Realm
(what some
call "the mundane world")
& those
of the wonderful Otherworld Realms
are
more open now.
Thresholds
between worlds are easier to traverse,
especially
in psychic dreams or vision quests or journeys..
or soul traveling
& so on.
(If you do
so, please be sincere & respectful of others.)
Birch, Hawthorne
& Apple Trees are wonderful trees
to celebrate
at this time.
Many may
be moving from Willow to Hawthorne
while celebrating
for three days & nights, starting May Eve.
Birch makes
a nice Sky Ladder ;o) wink
& Apple
Trees are fond reminders of
Otherworld
Lands of Promise.
Happy May Time!
More To Come!
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