Danu's Sorrow

[Leanne]

Cheers lads. Mark, it should all be google-able -- these are the Tuatha de Danann, the semi-mythical, semi-historical original kings of Ireland. Until the coming of Christianity, poetry and the arts in general were revered and bards were almost godlike. The telling difference is, I suppose, in the goddesses and heroines -- Danu herself, Brigit, Epona the Horse Goddess, the Morrigan -- none of them nice, shy, retiring, milky-mild subservient women as would suit the Church