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The Origins of the Fae, Part 1: Danu and the Tuatha de’Danaan

The Origins of the Fae, Part 1: Danu and the Tuatha de’Danaan

by RdeHywll

Wed, Sep 30, 2009

The farther back in time that we seek knowledge, at present, the less we actually have that says what was 'real' and what was the imaginative fancies of a storyteller. History becomes Legend, Legend becomes Myth, and all that we claim to 'know' is based on murky and incomplete reconstructions derived from scraps of parchment, papyrus, and chiseled stone markings that may or may not have been correctly translated.