Windy
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Religion: irish polytheism
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Aine
Mar 29, 2015 10:46:07 GMT -6
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Post by Windy on Mar 29, 2015 10:46:07 GMT -6
Has anyone worked with the goddess Aine? I've read about her online, and, except for a random connection with onions that was never explained, she is a Goddess of love and fertility, but also known as the Queen of the Faeries. I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with her.
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Aine
Mar 29, 2015 13:33:19 GMT -6
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Post by Allec on Mar 29, 2015 13:33:19 GMT -6
I have not, but I know some other people on the forum have!
I plan to honor her this year at Midsummer, since that's usually when she's honored.
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Aine
Aug 25, 2015 10:55:26 GMT -6
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Post by Radha Ní Dhaimhín on Aug 25, 2015 10:55:26 GMT -6
Hey, there! So I've only heard the name Aíne mentioned in passing a few times in books and things. There are two different Goddesses named Aíne. Aíne Clí, who is a Goddess of Sovreignity of Knockaine (Cnoc Aine) in County Munster in the province of Limerick (who Proinsius MacCana in his Celtic Mythology said was remembered in modern folklore as the Queen of the Faeries) and Aíne, daughter of An Dagda, who actually has pretty close connections to at least one forest. While the second seems more of a "fairy queen" as we'd think of them in our modern/pop culture, the first - Aíne Clí - is the actual Faerie Queen. While I haven't worked with either, that may explain why you're getting such vague and confusing information. Best of luck!
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Aine
Aug 29, 2015 9:29:47 GMT -6
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Post by Radha Ní Dhaimhín on Aug 29, 2015 9:29:47 GMT -6
Hey! Hate to keep making the thread pop up to the top - but I found some interesting info on Aíne in Morgan Daimler's book Where the Hawthorn Grows. She mentions that Midsummer was a day that was sacred to the Goddess; up until the mid-19th century, people carried torches of burning straw in a procession around the hill. She cites Peter Ellis Berresford's A Dictionary of Irish Mythology. I wouldn't recommend her book to many people - it seems to be made up of inaccurate information taken from previous blog posts, so the scholarship varies - but her section on Aíne is well-cited and could be of interest to you. She also apparently works with Aíne, so she might have more UPG. (I'd check lairbhan.blogspot.com first to see if it is an actual blog post, instead of having to pay!)
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calluna
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Post by calluna on Aug 30, 2015 11:42:23 GMT -6
I actually have a friend/cousin who is sworn to Aine. (That's how I know about the Aine barbie doll.) I can bother her for reading material, if you like.
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Aine
Sept 16, 2015 16:14:13 GMT -6
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Post by TheModernSouthernPolytheist on Sept 16, 2015 16:14:13 GMT -6
Yeah, like many deities, there's not a not a ton known. I do know that Áine was honored, as someone else said, at Grianstad an tSamhraidh, though I can't remember the exact source. She's also sometimes said to represent the summer sun and the warm, yellow face of that season. For this reason, I often offer her yellow flowers as a symbol of this. She's also said be the sister of Grainne, who represents the pale, white sun and winter half of the year. I find myself most drawn to her in the winter, oddly enough, due to my seasonal affective disorder and in longing for the warmer time of the year. She's associated with red mares, hence the epithet "Lair Derg" and sovereignty. I'll try and track down some sources here, soon. Side note: This oddly enough came up on tumblr recently, but I do keep a fairly sporadic eShrine for her on tumblr at LairDerg.tumblr.com. I'll try to post some of this information there, too, once I dig it all up.
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