Sublime

The earliest deities we have records of tended to be associated with the essential components of the physical Universe—the sky, the Sun, bodies of water—and the most basic of life’s needs and functions—safety, shelter, success on a hunt. The Sumerian sky god Anu is one of the earliest known examples, though there are doubtless older ones which are

Danu (Anu and Ana) is one of the very oldest earth goddesses and is the matriarch of the Tuatha dé Danann. She is also the mother and daughter of the Dagda and possibly another aspect of the Morrigan.

Danu (Dana, Anna, Anu, Don, Donn)-Descended from Nemed, shape shifter. The Mother Goddess of the Tuatha De Dannan, associated with wisdom and control over all things. Air of air, associated with the staff, abundance, and prosperity. In stellar mythology, the constellation Cassiopeia honours the Goddess in its name, Llys Don, or Danu's House.

Who and what is Ananke? First, she is extremely potent among the powers of the cosmos. Plato cites only two great cosmic forces: Reason (nous or mind) and Necessity (ananke).17 Reason accounts for what we can understand, for what follows reason’s laws and patterns. Necessity operates as a “variable”— sometimes translated as “erratic,” “errant,” or

The Ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda goes into great detail concerning Soma and states that Soma stands above the gods. Soma is the supreme entity. Soma is the moon; Soma is masculine. Here we have a rare phenomenon: a male lunar deity. It is limited to certain North American Indian peoples and to the Indo-Europeans (the German folk conception of the

Danu, who is mother of all things and symbolic of the Earth.