(Wikipedia)"In
Irish mythology,
Danu or
Dana, also called
Anu or
Ana, was the mother
goddess of the
Tuatha D Danann (peoples of the goddess Danu), although little is recorded about her as a character. Her
Welsh equivalent is
Dn. Based on the evidence of place-names, such as the river
Danube (
Latin: Danuvius),
Dniestr,
Dniepr and
Don, she may have been worshipped throughout the
Celtic world. Indeed, the presence of a goddess named
Danu in
Hindu mythology, associated with water and mother of a race of
Asuras called the Danavas, may indicate a very ancient
Proto-Indo-European origin for this figure. The name *dhanu seems to have originally meant "swift".The reconstructed
lexis of the
Proto-Celtic language as collated by the University of Wales
[1] suggests that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic *Danoā. This Proto-Celtic word connotes the
semantics of Giving, Bountiful and Flow. This apparent semantic connotation has led Dr. John Koch at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies to propose that the original nature of this deity may well have been a personification of overflowing abundance If this theory is correct, it would account for the deitys associations with the a motherly ideal, the fertility of the earth and with rivers whose overflowing water surpluses may have been seen as a materialization of her presence."
The same point by P Ellis was published in Hindu Times:
duism Today | Feb 2000
Our Druid Cousins. Meet the brahmins of ancient Europe, the high caste of Celtic society. By Peter Berresford Ellis. The Celtic people spread from their ... www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2000/2/2000-2-16.shtml - 20k - Cached - Similar pages |
The Druids were strongly class-divided. It's not that they were Brahmins, but it seems they used "bram" and the Shiva linga stone for European religions which also had Danu as a god.
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