"So it is in the Book of Invasions
that we learn of the arrival of the faerie-folk in Ireland
descending from the sky in flying ships amidst a great storm cloud that covered
the island for three days and taking possession of the land from the mountain tops rather than the coasts. More like Gods than the general modern idea of 'fairies', they
were very much like Tolkien's elves - tall, graceful, wonderfully talented in music, poetry and the arts and sciences. They also understood the secrets of magic.
They are the beings that inspired the tales of the faeries, their size shrinking as they were pushed even further from the consideration in the everyday world."
"So it was that the Tuatha De Danann came to Ireland. In this manner they came: in dark clouds. They landed on the mountains of Conmaicne Rein in Connacht; and they brought a darkness over they sun for three days and three nights."
"In the book of invasions we hear how the Tuatha landed on a mountain in Connaught in the west of Ireland on the first of may (Beltane) amid dark clouds... The Tuatha are described in this account as 'the most handsome and delightful company, the fairest form, the most distinguished in their equipment and apparel, and their skill in music and playing; the most gifted mind and temperament that ever cam to Ireland The Tuatha De excelled all peoples of the world in their proficiency in every art"
The Gods bought with them four objects from four regions; "The Stone of Destiny from Falias, The Sword of Nuada from Gorias, The Spear of Victory from Finias, and the Magic Cauldron from Murias."
The cauldron of Daghda is the element of water. And Daghda, is the 'good god' and the 'All Father'. Daghda was sometimes seen as a counterpart to the Roman Saturn. One of the inspirations for the creation of Santa was through Daghda and the Saturnalia, Winter Solstice.
Santa as many have pointed out is an anagram of Satan.
Because of the corruption of pagan history by the xtianisation of Ireland, the Tuatha De Danann are, in the conventional historical narrative, preceded by biblical characters, noah and such.
In the book of Druimm Snechta/Cín Dromma Snechtai though, a much older set of texts pre dating the conventional version of the Book of Invasions, Banba/Macha, the daughter of Irnmas, a Mother Goddess a part of the Tuatha De Dannan is the one who is said to have first come to Ireland with 'three men and fifty women, two hundred and forty years before the Flood.'
We have so little becasue 'the medieval Irish tradition was keen to remove all trace of pre-Christian religion'. Converting pagans through corruption of their stories, our history.
Faeries of the celtic lands - Nigel Suckling (xtian sympathiser, but still useful)
Wikipedia
Hail Satan!
88!
the island for three days and taking possession of the land from the mountain tops rather than the coasts. More like Gods than the general modern idea of 'fairies', they
were very much like Tolkien's elves - tall, graceful, wonderfully talented in music, poetry and the arts and sciences. They also understood the secrets of magic.
They are the beings that inspired the tales of the faeries, their size shrinking as they were pushed even further from the consideration in the everyday world."
"So it was that the Tuatha De Danann came to Ireland. In this manner they came: in dark clouds. They landed on the mountains of Conmaicne Rein in Connacht; and they brought a darkness over they sun for three days and three nights."
"In the book of invasions we hear how the Tuatha landed on a mountain in Connaught in the west of Ireland on the first of may (Beltane) amid dark clouds... The Tuatha are described in this account as 'the most handsome and delightful company, the fairest form, the most distinguished in their equipment and apparel, and their skill in music and playing; the most gifted mind and temperament that ever cam to Ireland The Tuatha De excelled all peoples of the world in their proficiency in every art"
The Gods bought with them four objects from four regions; "The Stone of Destiny from Falias, The Sword of Nuada from Gorias, The Spear of Victory from Finias, and the Magic Cauldron from Murias."
The cauldron of Daghda is the element of water. And Daghda, is the 'good god' and the 'All Father'. Daghda was sometimes seen as a counterpart to the Roman Saturn. One of the inspirations for the creation of Santa was through Daghda and the Saturnalia, Winter Solstice.
Santa as many have pointed out is an anagram of Satan.
Because of the corruption of pagan history by the xtianisation of Ireland, the Tuatha De Danann are, in the conventional historical narrative, preceded by biblical characters, noah and such.
In the book of Druimm Snechta/Cín Dromma Snechtai though, a much older set of texts pre dating the conventional version of the Book of Invasions, Banba/Macha, the daughter of Irnmas, a Mother Goddess a part of the Tuatha De Dannan is the one who is said to have first come to Ireland with 'three men and fifty women, two hundred and forty years before the Flood.'
We have so little becasue 'the medieval Irish tradition was keen to remove all trace of pre-Christian religion'. Converting pagans through corruption of their stories, our history.
Faeries of the celtic lands - Nigel Suckling (xtian sympathiser, but still useful)
Wikipedia
Hail Satan!
88!