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danu
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The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.
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A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.
This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.
The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.
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A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.
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noun — Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann
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This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.
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The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.
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1987, Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Ireland's Fairies, C. Smythe, page 52, She may be the same as Danu, or she may be the same as the Morrigu.
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