Danu

Danu—sometimes called Dana—drifts through the mists of Celtic folklore as an ancient presence. She is the primordial mother, the architect behind gods and landscapes alike. Though her name is spoken with reverence, little is truly known. The myths that cling to her are tangled and contradictory, as if time itself sought to obscure her origins. Some claim she is the earth itself. Others, the breath between worlds. She is the first, the oldest—the mother of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the mysterious Celtic tribe whose name means “Children of Danu.” Every one of their bloodline traces back to her. Danu is said to reside in fairy hills, where the veil thins, and the dolmens—stone portal tombs, said to hum with otherworldly energy. She walks among them still, unseen but ever-present. Across Europe, stories of her persist. She is sometimes thought to be Anu or the Morrígan, giving way to similarities of a triple goddess. Perhaps they are simply reflections of her—faces worn across time by a goddes