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Not sure if that dates to before or after the arrival in Ireland of the Tuatha de Danaan, claimed by some to be the Tribe of Dan.


7 posted on 02/28/2025 12:07:05 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith; decal

They weren’t the Tribe of Dan.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tuatha-De-Danann

Tuatha Dé Danann, (Gaelic: “People of the Goddess Danu”), in Celtic mythology, a race inhabiting Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians (the ancestors of the modern Irish). They were said to have been skilled in magic, and the earliest reference to them relates that, after they were banished from heaven because of their knowledge, they descended on Ireland in a cloud of mist. They were thought to have disappeared into the hills when overcome by the Milesians. The Leabhar Gabhála (Book of Invasions), a fictitious history of Ireland from the earliest times, treats them as actual people, and they were so regarded by native historians up to the 17th century. In popular legend they have become associated with the numerous fairies still supposed to inhabit the Irish landscape.


8 posted on 02/28/2025 12:12:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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