Tuatha de Danaan or Sidhe people

[Aromagician]

I have been reading about the Tuatha de Danaan, the race of people that descended from the clouds, had magical abilities, and lived in Ireland, until they were conquered and made to descend into the earth. They then became known in later years as Faery people, or the Sidhe.

Some say that they were from Egypt - as from the TUAT.
Massey has the following philological argument for the Tuatha, saying:

"The Tuaut (Egy.), founded on the underworld, denotes the gate of worship, adoration; the worshippers, Tuaut ta tauan, would signify the place of worship within the mound of earth, the underground sanctuary. The Babylonian temple of Bit-Saggdhu was in the gate of the deep. The Tuaut or portal of Ptah's temple faced the north wind, and the Irish Tievetory is the hill-side north.

The Tuaut entrance is also glossed by the English Twat. The Egyptian Tuantii are the people of the lower hemisphere, the north, which was the type of the earth-temple. The Tuatha are still known in Ireland by the name of the Divine Folk; an equivalent to Tuantii for the worshippers."


The Rev. R. Smiddy fancies the people, as Denan or Dene-ion, were descendants of Dene, the fire-god. An old MS. calls them the people of the god Dana. Clive, therefore, asks, if they were simply the old gods of the country.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... ourt02.htm

Have anyone had an experience with the sidhe? It was only as little as 200 years ago ( on the doco Gods and Monsters
) when people were accused of being Fairies and subject to torture to prove or disprove it.


The Anglo-Saxon charm against elves shows how they were once dreaded for the diseases they inflicted; there are scattered indications that the fear persisted, to some extent, into Tudor and Stuart times. There are records of village healers seeking to cure children ‘haunted with a fairy’ by prayer and by magic measurements (Thomas, 1971: 184). On the other hand, people claiming unusual powers might say they had been granted them by fairies; there are instances of 16th- and 17th-century healers using ointments and powders alleged to be fairy gifts, or saying fairies enabled them to identify witches (Thomas, 1971: 186, 248, 266, 608-9). More sophisticated magicians used rituals to conjure up fairies, hoping to obtain great wealth, or occult secrets (Thomas, 1971: 236-7, 608-9, 613).



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