They were a race of divine beings said to have inhabited Ireland before the occupation of the Gaels or Celts.
The Tuatha were skilled in many things, magic and in Druid Lore.
Once the coming of the Gaels occured the Tuatha were driven underground to establish an otherworld kingdom beneath the hills of Tir Na Nog, the land of the forever young.
It is said that the Dagda assigned one mounds or Sidhe (Fairy Hills)to each of the Tuatha to maintain and preside.
In the Sidhe there were immortality and ageless beauty, continual feasting, huntin g. Such mounds are sometimes natural hills, but many are the megalithic burial mounds of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, believed in strong folk traditions to be the dwelling-places of the Irish gods.
The Fairy realm is the magical inverse of the human world. Time passes at diffrent rates in the otherworld, a very small visit could be hundreds of years in the real world.
In Tir Na Nog, the Tuatha did continue to practice their powers of magic and contol over the supernatural.
The people of Danu are woven into an ancient cross type symbol, which is the cross quartered circle, also known as the Celtic Cross. It represents the unity of male and female energies, it represents the four elements, four corners of earth being the male energy. The Circle represents the Whole, the Earth Womb being the female energy.
