Ãine
Áine ['a ː n ʴ e] is a common name in Celtic mythology of Ireland. Your holy mountain is 164 meters high Cnoc Áine (now Knockainey Hill in County Limerick ) in Munster (Ireland). She is the patron saint of Munster, although local, mountain and source name associated with it in all of Ireland.
In Lebor Gabala Eirenn a Áine is called the daughter of Partholon and later as a daughter of the Dagda, in the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne, daughter of Manannan. Your brother should be the fire demon Aillen.
Today in Ireland Áine occurs as a female first name meaning " the gloss " on.
The Fairies
- See also: Anu, Chapter: Anu and the fairy Áine
In Irish literature and folklore several Feengestalten bear the name Áine. In the legend of the battle of Mag Mucrama ( Cath Maige Mucrama ) is told that the fee at the Cnoc Áine raped (now Knockainey Hill in Limerick ) by King Ailill Aulom and Aine's father from the companion of the king was slain. In revenge, she bit Ailill from the ears, which led to its name ( aulom, " no ears ").
Another Fairy Áine had sworn in their youth once, never to sleep with a man who already had gray temples. When she was a little older, she fell in love with the young hero Fionn mac Cumhaill. However, the fairy Miluchradh fell also in Fionn and so they turned to a ruse to gain Fionn for themselves. Since they knew of Aine's oath, she enchanted a lake and let Fionn in this for a gold ring dip. As he left the sea, he had silvery hair so that Áine had to spurn him.
After Bernhard Maier and Helmut Birkhan Áine is due to a form of the pre-Christian mythology. The future king of Ireland had ( Old Irish Banais Rigi ) to accomplish with this feminine guardian deity a " sacred marriage " in order to take up his duties can.