| |
| | [No title] |
 | | The Tuatha de Danaan literally means "people of the goddess Danu," Danu being a Celtic land or mother goddess, perhaps derived from the Sanskrit river goddess, Danu. |
 | | Their association with the wind came from a belief in Danaan presence in a whirlwind, "sidhe gaoithe," literally, a "thrust of wind." The more common, widely-known name of "fairy" came from the unwillingness of the people to call the Sidhe or Danaan folk by their name, for that was considered bad luck. |
 | | The Danaan race was always portrayed as beautiful, and Yeats certainly seemed to have had "fairy stroke" when he dealt with the subject of Maud Gonne. |
| www.csun.edu /~hceng029/yeats/funaro.html (2454 words) |
|