Danand
InIrish mythology,DanandorDonannis the daughter ofDelbáeth,son ofOgma,(Not to be confused with the similarly namedDanu)[1][a] Danand is the mother ofBrian,Iuchar,andIucharbaby her own father, who is occasionally given the nameTuireannor Tuirell as well.[2][b]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Next, it should be pointed out that nowhere in theLebor Gabála Érenn(Book of Conquests of Ireland) – our earliest source on the material related to the Tuatha Dé Danann, compiled between the ninth and the twelfth centuries – doesDanuappear (under any form of her name) in the role of primordial mother. The one figure who appears prominently in the text and has a similar name isDanand(orDonand) daughter of Delbaeth son of Ogma, who cohabits with her own father and has three sons by him: Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba. These three come to be known as thetri Dé Danand,the "three gods of Danand", and we are told that all the Tuatha dé Danann took their name from them, although no logical reason for this appears in the narrative, nor any sense of why the three alone are "gods".[1][page needed]
- ^ "Donann the daughter of the same Delbaeth was mother of the three last, Brian, Iucharba and Iuchar. These were the three gods of Danu, from whom is named the Mountain of the Three gods. And that Delbaeth had the name Tuirell Bicreo."— MacAlister (1941)[2]
References
[edit]- ^abKondratiev, Alexei (1998) [Bealtaine 1998]."Danu and Bile: The primordial parents?".An Tríbhís Mhór: The IMBAS Journal of Celtic Reconstructionism.1(4): –?–. Archived fromthe originalon 26 March 2013.Retrieved30 April2013– via mythicalireland.
- ^abR.A.S., MacAlister (1941).Lebor Gabála Érenn[Book of the Taking of Ireland] (in Old Irish and English) (4 ed.). Dublin, IE: Irish Texts Society. p. 64. Archived fromthe originalon 15 July 2010.Retrieved30 April2013.