Kurzes Summary - Oonagh - Und Arthur

albanisch-finnisch-irisch
kelt.gäl. abgeleitet von Oonagh
Bedeutung: Einheit, meine Einzige oder auch das Lamm (Gottes)
Oona: w, egl.> Una, ein alter irischer Name, aus Oonagh (ungeklärt)

Oona — "one"; version of Una. Oonagh, Ona.


Irish - Wife of Finn mac Cool in the story of Cucullin and Finn. Sometimes called Oonagh, Onagh, Onagh, Oonagh, Oonagh, Oona, Oona, Oonagh or Oonagh.
Irish - A Danaan goddess. Wife of Fionnbharr. When the Danaans were defeated and went into their sidhe, she became queen of the fairies. Also identified as Oonagh, Onagh, Onagh, Oonagh, Oonagh, Oona, Oona, Oonagh or Oonagh.



In legend Oonagh was “Queen of the Fairies” who had long golden hair which ...






Fairy Queen
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Prince Arthur and the Fairy Queen by Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1788.
The Fairy Queen or Queen of the Fairies was a figure from English folklore who was believed to rule the fairies. Based on Shakespeare's influence, she is often named as Titania or Mab. In Irish folklore, the last High Queen of the Daoine Sidhe - and wife of the High King Finvarra - was named Oona (or Oonagh, or Una, or Uonaidh etc.). In the ballad tradition of Northern England and Lowland Scotland, she was called the Queen of Elphame.
The character is also associated with the name Morgan (as with the Arthurian character of Morgan Le Fey, or Morgan of the Fairies), Meave, and L'annawnshee (literally, Underworld Fairy). In the Child Ballads Tam Lin (Child 39) and Thomas the Rhymer (Child 37), she is represented as both beautiful and seductive, and also as terrible and deadly. The Fairy Queen is said to pay a tithe to Hell every seven years, and her mortal lovers often provide this sacrifice. In Tam Lin, the title character tells his mortal lover:


At the end of seven years
She pays a tithe to Hell
I so fair and full of flesh

I fear it be myself


Both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used folklore concerning the Fairy Queen to create characters and poetry, Spenser in The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare most notably in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the Faerie Queene, Spencer's fairy queen is named Tanaquill, and is revealed to be the descendant of Shakespeare's Titania.
In one of the earliest of the Peter Pan novels, The Little White Bird, author J.M. Barrie also identifies Queen Mab as the name of the fairy queen, although the character is entirely benign and helpful. In Disney's series of films based on Tinker Bell, a fairy character originating in Barrie's novels, the fairies are shown to be ruled by a Queen Clarion (voiced throughout the series by Anjelica Huston).








Oonagh, Oona, Una “ou + na”
From the Irish word uan “a lamb” or may come from the Latin unameaning “one,” hence it is sometimes translated as “Unity.” In legend Oonagh was “Queen of the Fairies” who had long golden hair which reached to the ground and she was also the wife of Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend).



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Ulster Cycle (Red Branch Cycle) Irish mythological texts. The series of tales about the ... Úna (Oona, Oonagh, Nuala) Irish heroine. The beautiful FAIRY QUEEN





Goddess of the Week: Oonagh
http://margaretfinnegan.blogspot.de/2010/08/goddess-of-week-oonagh.html


Three Celtic goddesses, as depicted at Coventi...Image via WikipediaStar needs a goddess of perseverance, or, as she says, a "put your head down to the wind-keep on keepin' on-you can do it-this, too, shall pass-there's light at the end of the tunnel" goddess." I Thought long and hard about this one because -- sister -- I need her too. And I know who we need: we need Oonagh.



Oonagh is an ancient, ancient Irish goddess. She and her tribe were the Tuathas de Danaans -- children of the mother goddess Dana. They arrived in Ireland on dark clouds and lived there all magically immortal for a good long time until the Celts came with the one weapon that could vanquish their magic: the iron sword.



Ain't that just the way things always go? You're hanging out, doing your thing, feeling all good and secure, and -- suddenly, out of nowhere -- come those upstart interlopers with their damn iron swords chopping the legs right out from under you. Ok. Maybe your particular iron sword looks more like a lost job, a sick kid, a new boss, or some trollop in a D cup. But you know what I mean: something comes along and your magic -- your mojo -- is sucked away. You're left panting for breath, fighting against the wind, wondering how long you will have to endure this nightmare.




Oonagh had a better idea. Instead of waiting for the end to come, she and her people wrote themselves a new narrative. Instead of becoming the gods defeated by the iron sword, they became the gods who re-invented real estate. That's right! They moved underground and made little magical tree and bush entrances into their new homes so that they could come and go into our world as they pleased. These days, they are known as Leprechauns.



It is really hard to be in that place where everything stinks and you're just trying to get by everyday. Believe me, I know. But Oonagh teaches us that sometimes the way to survive is to re-write the story, or at least re-define the story, or a least re-define how you participate in the story. Only then, will you defeat the iron sword.











Oonagh celtic mythology goddess




“Oonagh’s themes are fairies, nature, devotion and relationships. Her symbols are all fairy plants, silver and dew. This ancient Irish Queen of the Fairies is also a potent Goddess of magic. In Irish legends, Oonagh is a faithful wife and the most beautiful of all Goddesses, having long silky hair and a robe of silver and dew. Today She brings the fey into our lives to remind us of the unseen worlds and to awaken the child within each of us that dares to dream and wish.
Sometime in November, the people of ancient Ireland celebrated a day for the ‘wee folk’ known as the Lunantishees. This was a time to revel in fairy folklore and superstition. We can honor Oonagh and Her children by following suit. Today wear green, which is a favorite fairy color. Don some pleasant-sounding bells that tinkle lightly when you walk. Fairies love this sound. Or, carry a staurolite stone, also known as the fairy cross. This stone not only brings luck but also helps in controlling elemental beings such as the fey.
To see fairies today, find a four-leafed clover and lay seven kernels of grain beneath it. Or go to an area where oak, ash and thorn trees grow together. This is said to be sacred ground for both the fey and Oonagh.
If you’re concerned about fairy mischief, wear red for protection. Or, carry some flint as the Irish did to keep fairies at arm’s length.”
(Patricia Telesco, “365 Goddess: a daily guide to the magic and inspiration of the goddess”.)




Patricia Monaghan tells us that Oona (pronounced OO-nuh) was “the most beautiful of Ireland’s fairy queens. She was said to have golden hair so long it swept the ground; She flew through the earth robed in gossamer silver bejeweled with dew. Oona lived with the fairy king Finnvara [High King of the Daoine Sidhe] who was constanly unfaithful to Her with mortal women; She retained, nonetheless, an even, benevolent termperament” (p. 239 – 240).
Judika Illes adds that “Oonagh is a Goddess of love and protectress of young animals. Oonagh may also have influence over the realm of death. She is Mistress of Illusion and Glamour: Her silver gossamer dress appears to shimmer with diamonds, but it’s really sparkling dew. Oonagh’s blessings are invoked to find true love and to experience romantic happines.
Manifestation: Oonagh is described as so beautiful that no one (at least no mortal) can look at Her without being awed and amazed.
Consort: Fionnbharr
Metal: Silver




Oonagh - Fairy Queen

Pronounced (OO-nuh)
also known as Oona, Onaugh

Oonagh is an ancient Irish Goddess. She is known as the queen of the fairies and the Goddess of nature, love and relationships. Irish legend depicts her as having long silky golden hair that goes all the way to the ground. She wears a long sparkling silver grown that shimmers with dew that look like little diamonds all over it. It is said that she was so beautiful that no man could look at her without being rendered speechless with her beauty. She was the faithful wife of Fionnbharr, who is the leader of the Tuatha De Danaans. The Tuatha De Danaans are the children of the Irish Mother Goddess Danu, and are recognized as being some of the original settlers in Ireland.
The Tuatha De Danaans lived in Ireland happily until the Gaelics came. Instead of fighting or being defeated by the Celts, they decided to move underground and made magickal trees and bushes as entrances to their homes. Today they are known as leprechauns.
You can call on her to assist you with beauty, dance, divine magick, exercise and motivation, fairies, and relationships of love. Oonagh loves to dance. She especially loves dancing outside. So an example of a wonderful way to invoke her is to dance outside among nature. Why not add a little glitter or sparklies to your dance as well! :))))) She will lift the pain from your heart and show you love.




Number names’ seem to be a bit of an in thing at the moment, what with the recent celebrity arrivals, Harper Seven Beckham and Aleph Portman-Millepied. So this weeks Nook of Names Pick of the Week is a variation on the theme… or is it?
There is no denying that una is the feminine form of the Latin unus ‘one’ — both unus and one derive from the same Proto-Indo-European source, along with the German ein(e), Greek enas, Old Irish óen and Welsh un.
Unus also means ‘a single’ and ‘alone’.
As a name, this Una (traditionally pronounced ‘YOO-nuh’) first appears in Edmund Spenser’s epic allegorical masterpiece The Faerie Queene — written in the late 16th Century in praise of Queen Elizabeth I.

Una — essentially ‘the One and Only’ — stands for the Protestant Church of Queen Elizabeth I. This is, of course — as far as Spenser is concerned — Good and True (in stark contrast with Elizabeth’s predecessor Queen Mary, and her Catholic Church, represented by the character of Duessa).
The Faerie Queene, even though it was never finished, was extremely influential, and bona fide examples of Una as a genuine given name in England date from the early 17th Century.
But this Latin Una is not the only Una of the British Isles. There is another, with an even older pedigree, over the Celtic Sea — Irish Úna.
This Una — pronounced ‘OO-nuh’, and sometimes Anglicized as Oona or Oonagh — is a name from Irish mythology. One Una was, ironically enough, a fairy queen — the wife of Finnbarr.
The best known, however, was a wife of Finn McCool. It was she who saved the day with her cunning when the Scottish giant Bennandonner crossed the Giant’s Causeway (which Finn had built) to fight Finn.

Una concocted a plan to trick Bennandonner into thinking Finn was far bigger, stronger and ‘more giant’ than Bennandonner. She dressed Finn up to look like a baby — and told Bennandonner that this enormous baby was Finn’s child.
This spooked Bennandonner enough, but while he waited for Finn to come home, Una gave him and the ‘baby’ an enormous steak to eat. The scary baby managed fine — but Bennandonner couldn’t eat a mouthful — the reason? The ‘baby’ had a real steak, but Una gave Bennandonner a rock painted to look like one.
This was all too much for Bennandonner, and he hot-footed it back to Scotland, tearing up the Causeway as he went.
In Modern Irish, úna actually means ‘famine’, but Úna is generally thought to have derived from the Old Irish uan ‘lamb’, and as well as appearing in myth, Úna was used as a genuine given name in medieval Ireland.
After the 17th Century, Irish names were usually ‘translated’ into English names — chosen sometimes by meaning, and sometimes by resemblance.

Thus Úna was turned into the English Agnes, due to the shared ‘lamb’ theme — for although Agnes does not derive from the Latin agnus ‘lamb’, its similarity meant that it was strongly associated with the fluffy creatures.
Others used were Winnie and Juno, because of their similarity in appearance and sound.
Although it is difficult to tell whether the Latin or Irish Una is being used, Una, Oona and Oonagh are all found in the 19th Century — and not just in Ireland.
None is seeing much use at the moment. In the UK, Una was nowhere near the top 1000 in 2010, while Oona and Oonagh languished below the 2000s.
Una is similarly scarce in the US, where in 2010, the Latin Una was found more frequently spelled phonetically as Yuna. There were also a few examples of Yoona.




Oona is extremely rare, and Oonagh doesn’t feature at all.
Una also has some interesting meanings in other languages. In Italian and Spanish, una is the feminine indefinite pronoun – i.e. ‘a’ – as well as ‘one’, just like in Latin.
In the South American language Tupi, una means ‘black’, and features in the name of the mythical South American snake the boyuna ‘black snake’, while in Old Norse, una means ‘to dwell contentedly’, ‘to enjoy’, ‘to rejoice’ and ‘to be content with (one’s lot)’.




There are various rivers and towns around the world called Una too, such as the Una River in Croatia, and Una in Gujurat, India. There’s even a genus of butterfly called Una.