Etain.

The tale of Etain is one of the longest and strangest tales from Celtic otherworld, hers is a tale of love,that survived a jealous enchantment and rebirth throught out many ages. Etain was one of the sidhe and a Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann, and hers is a tale thats belongs to the most ancient of times, the time of the first Godsm before 'the people of the sidhe' took refuge in their hollows hills, with the bones of the earth to comfort and protect them against the invaders from the south.

Etain is synonymous with beauty and it came to be a proverb " as fair as Etain", bo is woman and find beautiful, the bo does not mean cow, as is more commonly susposed.

This tale begins wth the old Gods, at a time when Aengus mac Og the son of the Dagda, gains possession of the Brugh,(Newgrange), his ancestral home.Midir the proud son of the Dadga, a Danaan Prince who lived on Slieve Callary, fell in love with the beautiful Etain Bo Find and marries her, as to be expected this causes his first wife Fuamnach great rage and jealousy,

Etain becomes the second wife of Midir, and she is becomes the victim of the rage of his scorned f irst wife Fuamach.

The Heliacal dawn rising of Venus during the Winter Solstice at Caistean Aengus or Brugh na Boyne

In the wider the sacred land scape Etain is represent as the Goddess Venus, whose forty year planetry progression, culmanates at the Winter Soltice when the rays of Venus beams straight into the solar temple of Aengus (Newgrange), moments before the sun rays illumanates the inner chamber in a symbolic re-enactment of. Their are also alignments to the Cygnus (the Swan) whicn are echoed in the story as Etain escape as swans.