Celtic Goddesses Set 1

Description

This is a set of 6 Celtic Goddesses by Jim FitzPatrick.

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Artworks in this set from left to right:

BOANN BRU NA BOINNE: Link to print

Boann was the river-goddess of the river Boyne and a warrior princess of the mystical tribe known as the Tuatha Dé Dannan who came to Ireland in earliest times in a fleet of ships that ‘sailed the high air and the low air’ and conquered the island of Éireann. She also gave her name to the river Bóinn, or Boyne, in Co. Meath, which runs beside the Brú at Newgrange.

ÉRIU: Link to print

Ériu was a goddess of the mystical Tuatha Dé Danann, one of the earliest tribes of invaders to conquer the isle known as ‘The Wooded Isle’, and much later as Éireann (the country of Ireland), named in honour of the great goddess herself. Ériu was also one of the three divine eponyms of what is now Ireland and gave her name to the Island, while ruling as a triple goddess with Banba and Fodhla up to the time of the Milesian invasion in pre-history.

This was the first of my more refined ‘Celtic’ works in colour. Executed in 1976, this series of works show the huge influence of Czech Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha with touches of the later and much stronger influences of Harry Clarke just beginning to appear in my work.

MORRIGAN NA BADB: Link to print

‘High up in my eyrie, I the sea-eagle Tuan, saw a huge raven plummet down onto the tent of Nuada. As it alighted on a tight drawn hawser it spread out it’s wings, silver-blue in the moonlight, and I knew it for what it was. I watched it turn into a woman, it’s pale nakedness shrouded by dark hair. It was Morrigan, the crow of battle, also beautiful war-witch, who had come to answer the anguished call of Nuada. As she entered Nuada’s tent my heart ached, for I remembered a time when I too was king and received pleasure and comfort from the same dark-haired woman who was my queen, but now lost to me forever.’

Excerpt from my book ‘The Silverarm’

EMER, WIFE OF CÚ CHULAINN: Link to print

Emer, daughter of Forgall the Foreigner became wife of Cú Chulainn when, after her father refused her hand in marriage, he attacked his fortress and carried away his daughter Emer, her foster sisters and their weight in gold and silver.

ÉRIU, GODDESS OF IRELAND: link to print

Ériu, who gave her name to the island of Éireann/Érin=Ireland, was a princess of the legendary Tuatha Dé Danann, known also as the Sidhe or Fairy Folk, and is one of the three divine eponyms of Ireland.

Ériu, Banba, and Fodhla were the three warrior-goddess who reigned in Ireland at the time of the coming of the tribe known as the Milesians in ancient times and her name is remembered to this day. Her tribe eventually was defeated by the Milesians and they, in turn, venerated the triple goddesses and made them part of their heavenly pantheon of gods and goddesses.

PALU, THE CAT GODDESS: link to print

Palu was the mother-goddess associated with divination Celtic times and her cult was widespread in Western Europe. She was later worshipped as the Welsh mythological monster cat known as Cath Paluc, or Palu’s Cat, and her cult survived in Angelsey until the coming of the Roman legions of Seutonius Paullinus.