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Celtic Goddesses Collection

Áine

– is a Celtic goddess of summer, wealth and
sovereignty. So too as a goddess of love
and fertility, she rules crops and animals and is also associated
with agriculture. In Ireland, she is strongly associated with County Limerick.
The hill of Knockainey (Irish: Cnoc Áine) is named after her, and midsummer rites in her honour, involving fire and the blessing of the land, recorded as
recently as 1879, were held there. Another mysterious goddess, Grian (translation: sun) appears
to be her sister, possibly sharing a dual-goddess, seasonal function (in parallel to Cailleach and Bridhid) with the two sisters
representing the “two suns” of the year: Áine is the light
half of the year and the bright summer sun (an ghrian mhór), and Grian the dark
half of the year and the pale winter sun (an ghrian bheag).

cnoc-na-siog:

Lugh leaving Tír na nÓg on Manannán Mac Lir’s white horse, Énbarr, and with Manannán’s magical sword, Fragarach, in order to join the court of king Nuada and free, once and for all, Ireland and the Tuatha dé Danann from the Fomorians (the most hideous, deformed, and wicked creatures of all giantkind,

led by Lugh’s own grandfather, the tyrant Balor of the Evil Eye)