Boann by Jim Fitzpatrick
1,000 piece. Finished size: 50 x 66.5cm or 19 3/4" x 26 1/4"
Bóann was the wife of Elcmar, a Chieftain of the
Tuatha Dé Danaan. One day Elcmar was dispatched
on a long obscure errand by the All-Father,the
Great God Dagda. Making nine months seem like
one day, Dagda prolonged his absence while he
seduced Bóann who then bore him Oengus. He was
called the Mac Óg, the Young Son, for his mother
said “young is the son who was begotten at break
of day and born between it and evening”.
Bóann, the Goddess of the White Cow, became a cult
figure of some importance among those late arrivals,
the Celts, and was worshipped as a cow-goddess by
them (the cow was a symbol of abundance). Her cult
centre was at Brú-na-Bóann,the great neolithic cemetery
of tombs and tumuli in the Boyne Valley. Water from the
Well of the White Cow, which is now known as St. Patrick’s
Well on the Hill of Tara, eventually leads into the River
Boyne which is named after Bóann.
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Bóann was the wife of Elcmar, a Chieftain of the
Tuatha Dé Danaan. One day Elcmar was dispatched
on a long obscure errand by the All-Father,the
Great God Dagda. Making nine months seem like
one day, Dagda prolonged his absence while he
seduced Bóann who then bore him Oengus. He was
called the Mac Óg, the Young Son, for his mother
said “young is the son who was begotten at break
of day and born between it and evening”.
Bóann, the Goddess of the White Cow, became a cult
figure of some importance among those late arrivals,
the Celts, and was worshipped as a cow-goddess by
them (the cow was a symbol of abundance). Her cult
centre was at Brú-na-Bóann,the great neolithic cemetery
of tombs and tumuli in the Boyne Valley. Water from the
Well of the White Cow, which is now known as St. Patrick’s
Well on the Hill of Tara, eventually leads into the River
Boyne which is named after Bóann.
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