Are all Elfae Descended from the Tuatha de Danann?
“. . . while we love the Tuatha de Danann and their legends, they are not the only source of elvish/faerie culture. . . . Our own elvish point of view holds that the source of our elfae peoples came from the stars, descended into manifestation here on Earth and first arose in the time when there was just one continent Pangaea. We were not in humanoid form exactly at that time. We were still in our etheric forms and had as yet not descended fully into material manifestation but we were here awaiting our moment.”
The Tuatha de Danann were said to have come to ancient Ireland from the direction of the North out of a mist or clouds. Some people interpret that to mean that they came from outer space and thus associate them with the Anunnaki, who were gods of Middle Eastern peoples. Some say they were related to the Scythians that came from the steppes of Northern Iran and that vicinity and traveled across Europe and sailed out from Norway and came down upon Ireland from the North, perhaps from the Faroe islands or Hebrides. We could consider that therefore they were related to the Picts or Pict Sidhe, pixies of Albann/Alba/Caledonia/Scotland and came over from that land. Since these were pre-historic peoples for the most part, and the Tuatha are seen as a mythological race, we have no way of knowing for certain.
However, as attractive as the idea of all fae and elfin folk being related or descended from the elfae folk of Ireland, the British Isles, Breton and Europe overall, it should be clear that while the names for various elfae differ in different lands and that sometimes their description varies, there are beliefs concerning the existence of we elfae folk over most of the world. And these existed prior to the migration of European folk around the world.
So, clearly, while we love the Tuatha de Danann and their legends, they are not the only source of elvish/faerie culture. Some say that we all came from Lemurian before it disappeared beneath the rising seas (see Realms of the Ring Lords by Laurence Gardner) but then Lemuria is as much of a myth, in the eyes of most modern folk, perhaps even more so, than we elfae folk and the Tuatha.
According to modern scientists, as best as they can determine, modern humans all came out of Africa ages ago, although that is sometimes debated. And we modern ‘great apes’ of Homosapien variety are various combinations of Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals and Denisovans and possibly other ‘extinct’ races as well. Our own elvish point of view holds that the source of our elfae peoples came from the stars, descended into manifestation here on Earth and first arose in the time when there was just one continent Pangaea. We were not in humanoid form exactly at that time. We were still in our etheric forms and had as yet not descended fully into material manifestation but we were here awaiting our moment.
But the truth is, of course, we have no facts to support this. We just know that our culture in various forms can be found in different places among various ethnic peoples around the world and if there is a single source for elfae peoples and the legends and lore about us, it came before we diversified and migrated around the globe. We are basically an artistic scientific people and we may amuse ours’elves with various ideas and the visions of our philosophers and sages (such as Tolkien) but we will await further evidence from the discoveries that our scientific kin may make in the future before we settle upon definite scientific theories about us.
As wonderful as the Tuatha de Danann are, we doubt that we all, everyone of us, originated from them or from the Scythians or any other group of which we are currently aware. It seems logical that we had a central source, however that is not necessarily so. Still, if we had to claim to have descended from one group, we’d Silver Elves would be delighted to claim the Tuatha as our ancestors. And since they came from the North in mystical, magical Mists, well, that is rather perfect, isn’t it? After all, the passage to and from Faerie is nearly always associated with mists.
Although, the fact that they migrated to Ireland, in itself, would tend to indicate that they are not the source for all elfae folk but may have come from the source. Other elfae surely migrated from the Source (shall we call it Faerie?), wherever that is, and ventured and settled elsewhere. We might surmise therefore that other elfae folk migrated from the source/Faerie or, in some cases stayed there, and thus the Tuatha would not be the ancestors of all of us, but surely some of us. Others of us are descended from those other elfae people, which as we’ve indicated, are a vastly varied lot.
— The Silver Elves
Fardas Lovur Tae Lan (Dancing toward the dawn)
https://silverelves.angelfire.com
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Why we Silver Elves Have Come to Reject the Idea that our Faerie Peoples are Exclusively Descended from the Scythians and Annunki
https://silverelves.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/why-we-silver-elves-have-come-to-reject-the-idea-that-our-faerie-peoples-are-exclusively-descended-from-the-scythians-and-annunaki
Why Do We Elves Call Ours’elves the People of the Ancient Future?
https://thesilverelves.blogspot.com/2018/11/why-do-we-elves-call-ourselves-people.html
How Far Back in History do Elves and the Original “Elven Faith” Go?
https://thesilverelves.blogspot.com/2017/12/how-far-back-in-history-do-elves-and.html
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“In a forest not far ‘way,
we elves begin another day
and as we move with simple grace,
we call to mind your lovely face.”
— The Silver Elves
We hope you enjoy reading this excerpt which is part of an oracle reading we did for the Elfae community (yes that is you dear Kindred and Friends), from: The Faerie Song Oracle: The Elven Way of Singing Down Magic of the Fae and here is the message it gives for us all:
“2.1. FLOWERS OF FAERIE, RAE DO.”
“The Flowers of Faerie are like Faerie Food. If you inhale the flowers of Faerie you will be transformed and, more than likely, you will have Faerie in your soul forever. In Hope Mirrlees’ novel Lud-in-the Mist, consuming the Flowers of Faerie made one wish to dance and sing and shout with joy and run off into the wilds of Faerie. Such happiness is quite understandable and acceptable among we elfae folk but to the normal people it seems as though one has gone insane for being so joyous. They will look askance at you and wonder whether you are all there or if you are, indeed, ‘off with the faeries’.”
“If you receive the Flowers of Faerie in response to a question posed to the oracle, then know that something will come into your life that will give you a bit of ecstatic joy. More than that, this oracle says you should experience your delight fully. You don’t need to hide it and you don’t need to be concerned about what other people may think. You are not one of them, and if you ever were, you are not of that world anymore. You are now a part of Faerie and shall ever after be. You are developing a new and greater understanding of your life, the world and your place in it. Once you really see and understand, you cannot go back. Isn’t that wonderful? Knowledge and experience master ignorance. You can’t unknow your new found understanding.”
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The Elves of Lyndarys is an often humorous novel about a young man’s struggle to mature and develop himself, his magic and his identity as he encounters and explores the modern pagan and otherkin communities and happens to encounter real elves, slowly coming to realize as he does so that he may not be a man at all but one of the elven. He is confronted through his journey not only by his own incredulity about his encounters and his inner conflict with what he has been taught to believe is reality and his actual experience but also by his personal prejudices and false assumptions. He comes to discover not only that the magic of Faerie is real but further that the Elven Way, as presented by his mentors, offers him a means of traveling the misty paths to magical and mystical enlightenment.
(end of excerpt)
“Tae mêllun glislu ilu enåver le.”
(Arvyndase, the magical language of The Silver Elves for
“The starlight shines bright within you”.)
