Tuatha De Danaan the Shining Ones in Celtic Legend
"It was a time of primal chaos: a time when earth was new and undefined. Arid deserts and black bubbling volcanoes, covered by swirling clouds of gasses, scarred the grim visage of the new born world. It was, as yet, the time of the great void.
Then into that oblivion, from the dull, dark heavens, there came a trickle of water. First one drop, then another and another, until finally there gushed a mighty torrent down upon the earth. The divine waters from heaven flooded downwards and soaked into the arid dirt, cooled the volcanoes which turned into grey, granite mountains, and life began to spring forth across the Earth. The dark, reddened skies turned blue.
From the darkened soil there grew a tree, tall and strong. Danu, the divine waters from heaven, nurtured and cherished this great tree which became the sacred oak Bile. Of this conjugation of Danu and Bile, there dropped two giant acorns. The first was male. From it sprang The Dagda “the Good One”. The second was female. From it there emerged Brigid, “The Exalted One”. And The Dagda and Brigid gazed upon one another in wonder, for it was their task to wrest order from the primal chaos and to people the Earth with the Children of Danu, the Mother Goddess whose divine waters had given them life.”
“For man eons the Children of Danu grew and prospered in their beautiful cities. Then one day The Dagda, The Father of the Gods, and Brigit the Exalted One, called their children to them. “You have tarried here long enough. The Earth needs to be peopled and needs your wisdom to advise and direct them, so that they may live lives of virtue and merit.”8 The going forth of the Children of the Light in the Celtic myths speaks of them going to the west, and then the myths of the Celtic peoples of the British Isles were born. They went to clear the land of an evil race called the Fomorrii and when that was accomplished “the Children of Danu live in peace on the Island of Destiny and rule over it as gods and goddesses of goodness and light”.
All life is transitory. Even your children are not immortal. The time will come when they are defeated. The time will come when no one will want gods and goddesses to nurture them, they will be driven into the darkness.” The prophesy then goes on ; “The time approaches when the summers of Innisfail will be flowerless, when the cows shall be without milk, and the men will be weak and the women shall be shameless; and the seas will be without fish, the trees without fruit and old men will give false judgments; the judges will make unjust laws and honor will count for little and warriors will betray each other and resort to thievery. There will be a time when there will be no more virtue left in this world.”
The legends say that “the children of Danu ot the Tuatha De Danaan were driven underground into the hills which were called sidhe, which is pronounced shee, and in those mounds they dwelt, the once mighty gods and goddesses deserted by the very people who they sought to nourish.” The decedents of men who live in the land now “called the Children of Danu the aes sidhe, the people of the hills" ( or Fairies).Peter Beresford Ellis from Mammoth Book of Celtic Myth and Legends.
That books also recounts legends of the shining ones walking the earth as men and women. When the ancient ways were forgotten and Christianity came to the land the Children of Danu or Tuatha De Danaan , the sidhe became remembered as fairies, the veils of Avalon or gateways between the worlds were closed.
Some of the Tuatha De Danaan did not enter the fairy realm but walken incarnated as men upon the Earth. There are legends in the book also about this occurring. Some of the Shining Ones fell so far that they became theives, forgetting who they were and simply struggling to survive, angered at the struggle forced upon them by human kind whom they had come to help.
"It was a time of primal chaos: a time when earth was new and undefined. Arid deserts and black bubbling volcanoes, covered by swirling clouds of gasses, scarred the grim visage of the new born world. It was, as yet, the time of the great void.
Then into that oblivion, from the dull, dark heavens, there came a trickle of water. First one drop, then another and another, until finally there gushed a mighty torrent down upon the earth. The divine waters from heaven flooded downwards and soaked into the arid dirt, cooled the volcanoes which turned into grey, granite mountains, and life began to spring forth across the Earth. The dark, reddened skies turned blue.
From the darkened soil there grew a tree, tall and strong. Danu, the divine waters from heaven, nurtured and cherished this great tree which became the sacred oak Bile. Of this conjugation of Danu and Bile, there dropped two giant acorns. The first was male. From it sprang The Dagda “the Good One”. The second was female. From it there emerged Brigid, “The Exalted One”. And The Dagda and Brigid gazed upon one another in wonder, for it was their task to wrest order from the primal chaos and to people the Earth with the Children of Danu, the Mother Goddess whose divine waters had given them life.”
“For man eons the Children of Danu grew and prospered in their beautiful cities. Then one day The Dagda, The Father of the Gods, and Brigit the Exalted One, called their children to them. “You have tarried here long enough. The Earth needs to be peopled and needs your wisdom to advise and direct them, so that they may live lives of virtue and merit.”8 The going forth of the Children of the Light in the Celtic myths speaks of them going to the west, and then the myths of the Celtic peoples of the British Isles were born. They went to clear the land of an evil race called the Fomorrii and when that was accomplished “the Children of Danu live in peace on the Island of Destiny and rule over it as gods and goddesses of goodness and light”.
All life is transitory. Even your children are not immortal. The time will come when they are defeated. The time will come when no one will want gods and goddesses to nurture them, they will be driven into the darkness.” The prophesy then goes on ; “The time approaches when the summers of Innisfail will be flowerless, when the cows shall be without milk, and the men will be weak and the women shall be shameless; and the seas will be without fish, the trees without fruit and old men will give false judgments; the judges will make unjust laws and honor will count for little and warriors will betray each other and resort to thievery. There will be a time when there will be no more virtue left in this world.”
The legends say that “the children of Danu ot the Tuatha De Danaan were driven underground into the hills which were called sidhe, which is pronounced shee, and in those mounds they dwelt, the once mighty gods and goddesses deserted by the very people who they sought to nourish.” The decedents of men who live in the land now “called the Children of Danu the aes sidhe, the people of the hills" ( or Fairies).Peter Beresford Ellis from Mammoth Book of Celtic Myth and Legends.
That books also recounts legends of the shining ones walking the earth as men and women. When the ancient ways were forgotten and Christianity came to the land the Children of Danu or Tuatha De Danaan , the sidhe became remembered as fairies, the veils of Avalon or gateways between the worlds were closed.
Some of the Tuatha De Danaan did not enter the fairy realm but walken incarnated as men upon the Earth. There are legends in the book also about this occurring. Some of the Shining Ones fell so far that they became theives, forgetting who they were and simply struggling to survive, angered at the struggle forced upon them by human kind whom they had come to help.