Banba
In
Dagda.[1]
She was part of an important triumvirate of matron goddesses, with her sisters,
flood, in a variation of the legend of Cessair
.
In the Tochomlad mac Miledh a hEspain i nErind: no Cath Tailten,faery magic hosts" on Senna Mountain, the stony mountain of Mes. A footnote identifies this site as Slieve Mish in Chorca Dhuibne, County Kerry. The soil of this region is a non-leptic podzol [1]. If the character of Banba originated in an earth-goddess, non-leptic podzol may have been the particular earth-type of which she was the deification.
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The
LÉ Banba (CM11), a ship in the Irish Naval Service
, was named after her.
Initially, she could have been a goddess of war as well as a fertility goddess.
References
- ISBN 9780486265070.
- ^ The Progress of the Sons of Mil from Spain to Ireland TCD H.4.22 Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, Celtic Literature Collective