Danu
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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We brought over our DIT guy, Danu, because he’s been amazing to me through every project I’ve worked with.
From The Verge • Oct. 16, 2018
Neopagans are particularly fond of noting the similarities between such goddesses as Egypt's Isis and the Celts' Danu, which they believe show that paganism may have been a "world religion" in pre-Christian days.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Tribes of the goddess Danu can take all shapes, and those that are in the waters take often the shape of fish.
From The Wind Among the Reeds by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
This rule obtained as far distant as Ireland, where the Danann folk and the Danann gods were the children of the goddess Danu.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
As a goddess, Brigit is more prominent than Danu, also a goddess of fertility, even though Danu is mother of the gods.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.
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