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Patricia Morrison is an Artist and School Teacher, living and practicing in Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A. In addition to the Hand Painted Silk featured on this site, she also creates gift cards and other gifts / collectibles. In her Spare Time, Patricia enjoys Gardening and other outdoor activities. Patricia's unique combination of Celtic motif and contemporary style compliment eachother well, and add another colorful piece to the mosaic that is the Taos Art Scene. Use the links above to visit the online art gallery "anuartstudio".com and to learn more about the artist.

Anu was known, in the Celtic World, by several similar names: Danu or Don being the most popular alternatives. She was a Mother-Goddess, the wife of the Sun God, Belenos, and considered to be the ancestor of all the Gods, the Tuatha dé Danann, who found themselves obliged to reside in the Otherworld when Miled brought the Celts to the British Isles. She still looks down on us from the night's sky where she appears as Llys Don, better known as the constellation of Casseopeia. Anu was especially popular in Munster, though her most lasting memorial is a mountain in County Kerry called the Dá Chích Anann or "Breast of Anu". The Dane Hills in Leicestershire are also named after her and this area, perhaps a major centre for her cult, is where her memory lives on as Black Annis. This hideous old crone's habit of eating young children was, no doubt, invented by incoming Christians to blacken the name of the Celtic Goddess. In Christendom, the lady usually took on the guise of St. Anne, however, in order to smooth the path of conversion. This saint's popularity in Brittany probably stems from the previous worship of the Celtic Goddess there. Anu was also the patroness of springs and fountains, hence the numerous St. Anne's Wells throughout Britain today. Early medieval historians confused Anu with Anna, the daughter of St. Joseph of Arimathea. In Arthurian legend she probably appears as Annowre, a sorceress who imprisoned Arthur in the Perilous Forest.

Many Thanks to britannia.com for the above learning article.


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