Who were the Tuatha Dé Danann?

[Cú Chulainn]

The purpose of this post is to disseminate data surrounding the Tuatha Dé Danann, or Tuath Dé, known as the Tribe of the Goddess Danu, in particular, related to them having spoke the Scotic tongue.

On this forum, there were posts highlighting the Tuath Dé’s travels to the four cities, among other connections to Oera Linda etymology and figures.

• See post here on etymology

• See post here and here on four cities

Being historically linked to Ireland’s conquests, with a figure given of 197 years as to their having ruled that specific island, the Tuatha Dé Danann are one of the invading peoples in the Book or Ireland’s Taking.

Part of their tale is they rode upon a mist on the ocean as they landed, potentially from the smoke generated by the burning of their ships upon landing, hence the riding in on a wave of mist as is written down.

Before Ireland, they traveled very far and stopped to acquire knowledge which was highlighted on the forum.

Failias and bright Gorias,
Findias (and) Murias of great prowess,
From which battles were won outside,
(Were) the names of the chief cities.

Also they, as with the number nine, match triple goddesses within their lore (Éire, Banba, Fodla) as pertinent members of their casted society.

Etymology goes a long way, since it is apparent that it is a focal point of establishing OL as its own factual work, and in this respective book, the author did a great job in contemplating both the expanse of the Tuath Dé as well as etymology associations to the tribe.

• See The Round Towers of Ireland or the History of the Tuatha Dé Danann here

It’s clear they spoke the Scotic tongue, as is indicated in Scotic works, and their language itself, is dictated to be the one that created Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

From page xliv of Henry O’Brien’s work on the Tuath Dé:

Developing this last argument, our author shows that, while Iran (or “the sacred land”) was a name applied to both Persia and Ireland, the form Irin (Sacred Island) is exclusively applied to Ireland, and that the Irc, Eri, Ere, and Erin are but modifications of the later.

The Gael claims that Latin, Greek, and Hebrew are all its languages, meaning Gaelic (Irish in the modern sense, and Scotic in the ancient sense) is the language that creates those three, which the Tuath Dé spoke a version similar to the Gael’s.

• See the Auraicept na nÉces, the Scholar’s Primer regarding the Scotic claim as a parent language

So to say, with the purer languages of cultures derived from the higher form of sound formation as described on this forum, a language such as Scotic would be the firmer foundation for the aforementioned trio, prior to their dilution and eventual break down into the modern romance and Germanic languages.

With the latter of the three, in Hebrew being the only one seemingly retaining its original archaic form.

Meaning, since Scotic held its original form, as it mostly does in modern Irish, is it parallel with the language of OL or built from it?

It would be interesting to learn the term Danu cross referenced with the languages, since Anu appears in Sumerian as a sky deity.