Diana
Eponymous
Grate Mother of the Danes and many other peoples, such as the Danaans, the
Danaids, the Biblical Danites and the Irish Tuatha De Danann, “ people of the
Golden Dana.” The Russians called her Dennitsa, "Greatest of all
Goddesses." A medieval Russian exorcism said: "In the morning let us
rise and pray to God and Dennitsa.”
As
Danu Ana, or Anu, she led the Irish trinity of Fates, collectively the
Morrigan. Mountains in Kerry are still named after her breasts, the Paps
of Anu. Under the name of Don she
was masculinized as a “king" of Dublin in late Irish legend; but the same
"king" was also Mother of
the Gods. Sometimes the Irish called her Domnu, a mother Goddess personifying
the Deep. Classical Greek mythology
humanized the Goddess Danae, in much the same way as the Bible humanized Earth
Mother Eve; the two were the same deity, fructified by the Heaven‑father's
seminal rain. Hellenic Danae was a virgin princess impregnated by Zeus's shower
of golden rain‑that is, urine, to which primitives sometimes attributed
the same reproductive power as semen. As result of this beneficial moistening,
Danae bore the hero Perseus, who annoyed fathers of the Christian church by
being as verifiably god‑begotten virgin‑born and their own savior.
But Danae, like Eve, was really another name for the universal Triple Goddess,
also called Dam‑kina by the Sumerians, Dinah by the Hebrews, and Danu or
Dunnu in Babylon. The Greeks knew of three Danaids, known as Telchines or
“Enchanters," who founded the three chief cities of Rhodes. Writers of
the Old Testament disliked the Danites, whom they called serpents (Genesis 49:17). Nevertheless, they adopted Dan‑El or Daniel, a Phoenician god of divination, and transformed
him into a Hewbrew prophet. His magic powers like those of the Danites emanated
from the Goddess Dana and her sacred serpents. He served as court
astrologer and dream‑interpreter for both the Persian king Cyrus,
and the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 1:21, 2: 1), indicating
Daniel" was not a personal name but a title, like the Celtic one: “ a
person of the Goddess Dana."
Prer-Hellenic
Aegean tribes called her Danuna Universal Mother. The rivers of the Amazon
country were named after her – Danube, Don, Dnieper – because she
represented “ Waters.” To the Hindus she was “ Waters of Heaven”, mother
of the Verdic Gods.
In
Saxon myth, Danu-Ana became Black Annis or the Blue Hag, or Angurboda, mother of
Hell. An ancient cave shrine at Dane’s Hill in Leicestershire was her dwelling
place, known as Black Annis’s Bower.
DIANA 
