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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.
Sarah Owen • Celtic Spirituality: A Beginners Guide To Celtic Spirituality
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.
Hourly History • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs (Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology)
Ananke derives from a root that spreads through Old Egyptian, Akkadian, Chaldean, and Hebrew terms for “narrow,” “throat,” “strangle,” “constrict,” and the yokes and rings laid on the necks of captives.18 Ananke takes you by the throat, holds you prisoner, and drives you like a slave.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
Myth System
Creation Agents
Cosmic Medium
Humanity’s Origin
Transmission of Order
Edfu (Egyptian)
Primeval gods / Builders
Waters of Nun, Speech
Symbolic rise from mound
Ma’at via priesthood
Sumerian
Anu, Enki, Ninhursag
Clay, divine blood
Humans created to serve gods
Kingship, ritual
Vedic (Hindu)
Brahma, Prajapati
Purusha sacrifice
Humans part of cosmic body
Dh
... See moreDanu is the mother monad of all Goddesses and Gods. Bel or Belenus is the first monad to stem from Danu. The Dagda is the second monad, Bridget the third monad, and Llyr the fourth monad to arise. Local deities often embodied solar, lunar, stellar, elemental (earth, air, fire, water), and Otherworldly energies, e.g., the solar Goddess Bridget, the
... See moreSarah Owen • Celtic Spirituality: A Beginners Guide To Celtic Spirituality

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
... See moreTerence McKenna • Food of the Gods

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