The Tuatha de Danaan & the Legacy of Danu's 'Magickal' DNA

Tuatha de Danann of old Ireland (or Eire). They were described in the “Book of Invasions” as gods and not gods, as if they were somehow greater than human, but close to being human. They were a tribe that conquered Ireland in prehistory before the arrival of the Celts. They eventually became the pantheon of gods in Irish myth. I believe they were possibly another race, somewhat like Tolkien’s Elven.

Irish legend says that the Picts arrived in Ireland and requested Heremon, the king of the Milesians, to assign them a part of the newly-conquered country to settle in, but he refused. Since the Picts had not brought wives with them, the King gave them as wives the widows of the Tuatha de Danaans, whose husbands had been slain in battle by the Milesians and he sent them with a large party of his own forces to conquer the country to the East then called “Alba,” (present day Scotland) with the condition that they and their posterity should be liege to the Kings of Ireland and that all bloodlines should pass through the wives.

The Picts of Scotland were known to be a matriarchy, passing the kingship through the mother. My theory is this is because the gift of sight, the faerie ability to see the future, was only contained in the mitochondrial DNA. A king born of a faerie woman was a hard king to defeat if he had the power of the 'Blood'....