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The descriptive place-name Brú na Bóinne continues to be a mystery and an argument among the Etics. Some say that the term is from Celtic Literature and referred to an ancient Celtic royal cemetery and since that "bend of the Boyne" is fat with larger than normal tombs that explanation has some currency. Crossing to myth we find the story of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the primal Irish gods who descended from the sky and lived in the land before the arrival of the Celts. The Irish Zeus-god figure was Dagda, the King of the Gods. Dagda gained possession of the mound of Newgrange by fucking Boand - a white cow goddess who committed suicide in the river Boyne at its Source/Spring so that she could Fructify the waters with her divinity. Dagda tricked Elcmar, the husband of Boand, by sending him on a Fool's Errand which would take him 9 months. When he got back he found the newborn Oengus [Angus] which means: "The Youthful Son." In the old stories Newgrange is called "Brugh Mac ind Oc," or the "Brugh of Oengus." It is Oengus who appears in the Fenian Cycle as the helper of Diarmuid and Gráinne when he carries the dying Diarmuid to Newgrange for his resurrection. Many stories say that Newgrange is the burial tomb of the Kings of Tara.
Etymology weighs in with other directions. The Prefix Brú is common in Gaelic and is used in 100s of words spread out over 4 pages in Dinneen's Irish-English Dictionary. The field of Archetypal Linguistics finds root meanings in words by looking at the Complex of words which share similar morphemes. Sister Samuel always warned us that "birds of a feather flock together," and in languages that tends to be true. The first and most common meanings of the morpheme/prefix Brú are these: womb, belly, breast, and bosom. The Archetypal Etics grin and note the complex revolves around the female body and especially those parts which are life-giving, nourishing, and private. The inflected forms of the morpheme Brú then form words in Gaelic which have these meanings: great bellied, brink, edge, bank of a river, border, boundary, shore, coast - here we see the semantics of the "liminal" - things on the threshold. It is interesting to note that no mythology on earth makes more use of the Threshold/Doorway nexus than the Irish. Other inflected forms of the prefix Brú give us terms which mean: being on the point of, about to, on the verge. More liminal semantics. Then also, words that mean: dream, rushes, narrow limits, of the mouth, morsel, sustaining element, sustenance, a sheepskin pouch, and untidy girl. Brú is also present in words which mean: labial, thick lipped, Mermaid, sea nymph. And: fluttering - as of birds going to roost, and in other verbal forms meaning: belch, blast, burst, ejaculation, froth, heavy snowfall. And: bursting forth, springing as water, rushing out, discharge, to froth, to foam. And: a belly, full, a brute, a large house, palace, fort, mansion, a Fairy Mansion, a hillock. Brú is present in the terms for: farmer, yeoman, husbandman. And in verbs which mean all kinds of mashing, crushing, bruising, pushing. Brú distinguishes "live ashes as contrasted with live embers," a distinction which makes Skippy tumescent. Then there are: bubbling up, "bright twinkling of stars in frosty weather," boiling, or a smarting pain. A wide shallow vessel. When Brú is used in Genitive forms it yields terms which mean: pregnant, a mother, a nurse, a girl, a "fair and beautiful lady or maiden," and "relating to the breast or womb." It is also present in Alchemical terms with the semantics of: fine, refined, smelted. It is used in many terms for cooking and boiling and baking, and finally, in terms which mean: spirit, spunk, and courage.

When you take all these meanings and point them at Newgrange and the Brú na Bóinne you get an image-complex of something female and connected with pregnancy, birth, and nourishing breasts. You get the threshold madness of Fairy Castles and the world of the Liminal. You find Sea-Girls and Mermaids. And you get an active-verbal image of bursting and blasting and foaming. You get a female vessel which is womblike and alive and life-sustaining with labia, lips, and a pouch. And ejaculation, foam, froth, and it's more than interesting that "spunk" is the euphemism in the British Isles for Jism, Sperm, Cum. So you get a complex of meanings which is both female and male and highly sexed. It is also interesting to Skippy that many of the Etics simply want the word to mean: Bend. As in the Bend of the Boyne. But nowhere in the dictionary is there mention of a Brú which means Bend.

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The descriptive place-name Brú na Bóinne continues to be a mystery and an argument among the Etics. Some say that the term is from Celtic Literature and referred to an ancient Celtic royal cemetery and since that "bend of the Boyne" is fat with larger than normal tombs that explanation has some currency. Crossing to myth we find the story of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the primal Irish gods who descended from the sky and lived in the land before the arrival of the Celts. The Irish Zeus-god figure was Dagda, the King of the Gods. Dagda gained possession of the mound of Newgrange by fucking Boand - a white cow goddess who committed suicide in the river Boyne at its Source/Spring so that she could Fructify the waters with her divinity. Dagda tricked Elcmar, the husband of Boand, by sending him on a Fool's Errand which would take him 9 months. When he got back he found the newborn Oengus [Angus] which means: "The Youthful Son." In the old stories Newgrange is called "Brugh Mac ind Oc," or the "Brugh of Oengus." It is Oengus who appears in the Fenian Cycle as the helper of Diarmuid and Gráinne when he carries the dying Diarmuid to Newgrange for his resurrection. Many stories say that Newgrange is the burial tomb of the Kings of Tara.

Etymology weighs in with other directions. The Prefix Brú is common in Gaelic and is used in 100s of words spread out over 4 pages in Dinneen's Irish-English Dictionary. The field of Archetypal Linguistics finds root meanings in words by looking at the Complex of words which share similar morphemes. Sister Samuel always warned us that "birds of a feather flock together," and in languages that tends to be true. The first and most common meanings of the morpheme/prefix Brú are these: womb, belly, breast, and bosom. The Archetypal Etics grin and note the complex revolves around the female body and especially those parts which are life-giving, nourishing, and private. The inflected forms of the morpheme Brú then form words in Gaelic which have these meanings: great bellied, brink, edge, bank of a river, border, boundary, shore, coast - here we see the semantics of the "liminal" - things on the threshold. It is interesting to note that no mythology on earth makes more use of the Threshold/Doorway nexus than the Irish. Other inflected forms of the prefix Brú give us terms which mean: being on the point of, about to, on the verge. More liminal semantics. Then also, words that mean: dream, rushes, narrow limits, of the mouth, morsel, sustaining element, sustenance, a sheepskin pouch, and untidy girl. Brú is also present in words which mean: labial, thick lipped, Mermaid, sea nymph. And: fluttering - as of birds going to roost, and in other verbal forms meaning: belch, blast, burst, ejaculation, froth, heavy snowfall. And: bursting forth, springing as water, rushing out, discharge, to froth, to foam. And: a belly, full, a brute, a large house, palace, fort, mansion, a Fairy Mansion, a hillock. Brú is present in the terms for: farmer, yeoman, husbandman. And in verbs which mean all kinds of mashing, crushing, bruising, pushing. Brú distinguishes "live ashes as contrasted with live embers," a distinction which makes Skippy tumescent. Then there are: bubbling up, "bright twinkling of stars in frosty weather," boiling, or a smarting pain. A wide shallow vessel. When Brú is used in Genitive forms it yields terms which mean: pregnant, a mother, a nurse, a girl, a "fair and beautiful lady or maiden," and "relating to the breast or womb." It is also present in Alchemical terms with the semantics of: fine, refined, smelted. It is used in many terms for cooking and boiling and baking, and finally, in terms which mean: spirit, spunk, and courage.

When you take all these meanings and point them at Newgrange and the Brú na Bóinne you get an image-complex of something female and connected with pregnancy, birth, and nourishing breasts. You get the threshold madness of Fairy Castles and the world of the Liminal. You find Sea-Girls and Mermaids. And you get an active-verbal image of bursting and blasting and foaming. You get a female vessel which is womblike and alive and life-sustaining with labia, lips, and a pouch. And ejaculation, foam, froth, and it's more than interesting that "spunk" is the euphemism in the British Isles for Jism, Sperm, Cum. So you get a complex of meanings which is both female and male and highly sexed. It is also interesting to Skippy that many of the Etics simply want the word to mean: Bend. As in the Bend of the Boyne. But nowhere in the dictionary is there mention of a Brú which means Bend.