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Raechard -> RE: I need a new screen name <s> (8/25/2008 3:46:15 PM)
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I posted that before you said you didn’t think of yourself as a Goddess and technically she is a Goddess of Irish origin.
[Wikipedia] Cliodhna (Cleena in English) is the Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann. In Irish literature, Cleena of Carrigcleena, and Aebinn or Aibell (Eevin, Eevil) of Craglea, is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sheoques of South Munster.
It is said the wails of the banshee can be heard echoing the valleys and glens at night, scaring those who hear as the wail of a banshee is potent and instills fear in good people. Of the sheoques that beset the O'Donovans (the senior descendents of Eoghan Mor), Cleena is much less malevolent than Ainé, who inhabited Knockaine, near Loch Gur, and who has tormented the descendents of that illustrious warrior off and on since 200 a.d. [Wikipedia]
I’m a romantic so was taken by this story though…
[Wikipedia] The story of Cliodhna exists in several versions, which do not agree with each other except insofar as she seems to have been a Danaan maiden once living in Mananan's country, the Land of Youth beyond the sea. Escaping thence with a mortal lover, as one of the versions tells, she landed on the southern coast of Ireland, and her lover, Keevan of the Curling Locks, went off to hunt in the woods.
Cliodhna, who remained on the beach, was lulled to sleep by fairy music played by a minstrel of Mananan, when a great wave of the sea swept up and carried her back to Fairyland, leaving her lover desolate. Hence the place was called the Strand of Cleena's Wave. One of the most notable landmarks of Ireland remains the Tonn Cliodhna, or "Wave of Cleena," on the seashore at Glandore Bay, in County Cork. [/Wikipedia]
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