Celtic goddess Shannon Qualities, attributes, characteristics and symbols associated with her?

Answer 1

The Irish goddess of the river Shannon. The myth of Sinend and the Well of Knowledge accounts for the name of the Shannon river.
Sinend and the Well of Knowledge

There is a singular myth which, while intended to account for the name of the river Shannon, expresses the Celtic veneration for poetry and science, combined with the warning that they may not be approached without danger. The goddess Sinend, it was said, daughter of Lodan son of Lir, went to a certain well named Connla's Well, which is under the sea - i.e., in the Land of Youth in Fairyland. "That is a well," says the bardic narrative, "at which are the hazels wisdom and inspirations, that is, the hazels of the science of poetry, and in the same hour their fruit and their blossom and their foliage break forth, and then fall upon the well in the same shower, which raises upon the water a royal surge of purple." When Sinend came to the well we are not told what rites or preparation she had omitted, but the angry waters broke and overwhelmed her, and washed her up on the Shannon shore, where she died, giving to the river its name. [In Irish, Sionnain.] This myth of the hazels of inspiration and

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knowledge and their association with springing water runs through all Irish legend, and has been finely treated by a living Irish poet, Mr. G. W. Russell, in the following verses:

"A cabin on the mountain-side hid in a grassy nook,
With door and window open wide, where friendly stars may look;
The rabbit shy may patter in, the winds may enter free
Who roam around the mountain throne in living ecstasy.

"And when the sun sets dimmed in eve, and purple fills the air,
I think the sacred hazel-tree is dropping berries there,
From starry fruitage, waved aloft where Connla's Well o'erflows
For sure, the immortal waters run through every wind that blows.

"I think when Night towers up aloft and shakes the trembling dew,
How every high and lonely thought that thrills my spirit through
Is but a shining berry dropped down through the purple air,
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere."

Two great rivers of Ireland, the Boyne and the Shannon, are so named after two Celtic Goddesses, Boann and Sinend. BOANN is a Goddess of bounty and fertility, whose totem is the sacred white cow. She was the wife of Nechtan, a water deity, however the father of her son Angus was no other than the Dagda. To hide their union from Nechtan, Boann and the Dagda caused the sun to stand still for nine months, so that Angus was conceived and born on the same day.

The goddess SINEND teaches us an important lesson regarding the seeking of knowledge. Sinend herself, in her curiosity, approached the well of knowledge too closely and suffered the consequences. The waters of the well rose up and drowned her, and the river Shannon was born. What we are shown here is that it is unwise to seek knowledge to satisfy an idle curiosity, or to feed the ego, for such knowledge will totally overwhelm the unprepared. Looking at it in a different way, however, Sinend was accepted by the guardian of the well, but only if she sacrificed her own personal ego and identity for the good of a greater whole.

Answer 2

Shannon

(Siannon)

Irish goddess of the river Shannon.

Answer 3

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