Danu (Irish goddess)

Danu is a goddess in Celtic mythology of Ireland. The origin of the name " Danu " can be derived from two different entities, from the Old Irish Mother Goddess Anu ( the old Irish name with a previously set "d") or by the legendary figure Danann, a subsidiary of the people of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the more times a Lebor Gabála Érenn ( "The Book of acquisitions of land in Ireland " ) is mentioned. The name Danu themselves immersed in the old Irish mythology as such to never, but ( " The tribes of the goddess Danu " ) and Tri Dée Dána derived from the traditional terms Tuatha Dé Danann ( " The three gods of Dána ").

Danann and the Tri Dée Dána

A character named Danann (also Dinand, Dianann and Donand ) occurs next to Anu in Lebor Gabála Érenn, where it is referred to as the sister of the fairies Chuille Be and Be Theite and as a subsidiary of Flidais and Tuirenn, a son of the god Ogma. In the Cath Maige Tuired ( "The Battle of Mag Tuired " ) she fights with her sister Be Chuille with a witch Tuatha Dé Danann on the page. The history Aided Chlainne Tuirenn ( " The Death of the Children Tuirenns " ) talks about her three sons with Tuirenn (in another version Bress ), Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba. In Immacallam in dá Thuarad ( " The conversation of the two ways " ) in Lebor Laignech ( "The Book of Leinster " ) is the goddess Brigid referred to as the mother of the Tri Dée Dána what Marie Henri d' Arbois de Jubainville led to Brigid and Danu equated with each other. In Tochmarc Etaine ( " The wooing of Étaín " ) the tri Dée Dána with the Dagda, Lugh and Ogma are identified, again elsewhere with the three gods of craftsmanship Goibniu, Credne and Luchta.

Etymology

Gerhard Kobler and Julius Pokorny reconstruct * Danu as a proto- Indo- European form with the meaning " flowing water", the Old Irish forms - danu nominative, genitive Danann, dating danainn - suggest a pre- Irish form * Danona that the ancient Celtic suffix -on for " large" contains (as in Matrona - " great mother ", Maponos - " great son "). tri Dée Dána will, however, also translated as " three gods of the art" or "three gods of craftsmanship " because Dana is in Old Irish "craft", in this case, would Danu from proto Celtic * dƒnu (" gift", "gift" ) can be derived.

Danu is probably also with the goddess Annea, as well as the British legendary figures Black Annis (Wales ) and Gentle Annie (Scotland ) to get in touch.