![]() ![]() In the Irish language, aos sí means "people of the mounds", as the " sídhe" in Irish are hills or burial mounds (consistent with Geoffrey Keating's suggestion that the aos sí came from the Land of the Dead). They are variously said to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or goddesses and gods. In modern Irish the people of the mounds are also called daoine sí in Scottish Gaelic they are called daoine sìth (in both cases, it means "people of the fairy mound"). This world is described in the Lebor Gabála Érenn as a parallel universe in which the aos sí walk among the living. The aos sí are said to live underground in fairy forts, across the Western sea, or in an invisible world that co-exists with the world of humans. They are said to descend from the Tuatha Dé Danann, meaning the "People of Danu", depending on the Abrahamic or pagan tradition. Riders of the Sidhe (1911), painting by John DuncanĪos sí ( pronounced older form: aes sídhe ) is the Irish name for a supernatural race in Celtic mythology – spelled sìth by the Scots, but pronounced the same – comparable to fairies or elves. ![]()
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