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DONN - In Irish mythology, Donn ("the dark one", from Proto-Celtic: *Dhuosnos) is a god of the dead and ancestor of the Gaels.Donn is said to dwell in Tech ...
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Jun 3 2017 The Washington Post |
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In Irish mythology, Donn ("the dark one", from Proto-Celtic: *Dhuosnos) is a god of the dead and ancestor of the Gaels.Donn is said to dwell in Tech Duinn (the "house of Donn" or "house of the dark one"). A 9th-century poem says that Donn's dying wish was that all his descendants would gather at Tech Duinn after death: "To me, to my house, you shall all come after your deaths". The 10th-century tale Airne Fíngein ("Fíngen's Vigil") says that Tech Duinn is where the souls of all the dead gather. In their translation of Acallam na Senórach, Ann Dooley and Harry Roe commented that "to go to the House of Donn in Irish tradition means to die". This suggests that the pagan Gaels saw Donn as their ancestor and believed they would go to his abode when they died. Tech Duinn may have been thought of as a place where the souls of the dead gathered before travelling to their final destination in the otherworld, or before being reincarnated. According to Julius Caesar, the Gauls also claimed descen |