The Tuatha De Danaan are a race of people traditionally known as the faery folk of Ireland. They are said to reside in burial mounds and long barrows, and deep under the earth; places which are both physical and liminal. The stories tell us that they came from islands north of Ireland and that when they came, they brought their skills and arts with them, including a belief in the Great Mother. They also brought a magical tool from each of the four great cities they had left behind and when they arrived on Ireland’s shores, they burned their boats ensuring there was no possibility of return to their own country. (see info below about Dorset Cursus).

When I first began to receive the Gaia Method Earthways system of healing my first elemental contact, after my tree experience, was with elemental Beings who called themselves the Tuatha De Danann. They appeared as very tall, slim beings who were fairylike but also human with pale skin and long hair. I think the best representation of them is in the art of Brian Froud.

At first, they watched me from a distance, staying behind trees and appearing out of the woods only to pop back in again when I tried to communicate with them. It was as if they were trying to determine whether I could be trusted, or not. Soon, however, I was assigned a guide from these beings, another gatekeeper, who gave me access into the world of the Elemental Beings, or Sidhe (pronounced shee).

The more I interacted with these beings, the more I learned. They live in a world of nature and yet our human history tells us that they were once human. My own understanding is that they were a race of beings who came to Ireland with their beliefs in the Great Mother. But with the coming of other races, namely the Celtic peoples from the Steppes, with their horses, iron weapons and warlike ways, the ways and beliefs of the people of the Goddess went ‘underground’, to preserve the knowledge of the earth and its energy grids.

Today we know them as the Sidhe. The old stories of how the Irish ‘fairy folk’ can not abide the dense vibration of Iron attests to this possibility. It is well known among the Irish that iron can kill a fairy being. The Celtic peoples brought iron-working with them, and a vastly different belief system, so for me, this story makes sense. The knowledge of Iron-working did indeed kill the softer beliefs of the Bronze Age inhabitants of Ireland and of the British Isles.

Yet, as collective energies, they still exist on other dimensional levels, at least their collective wisdom still exists. They, as the Sidhe, now choose to assist humanity, training them to use the land and its magic and to expand into other realms. They became the stuff of legend and myth, but their energies remain in the collective unconscious.

Slowly they gave me information about who they had once been.

One early piece of information was whilst working at the Dorset Cursus, an ancient Neolithic route that stretches for miles across the Dorset landscape. At one end of the cursus, there is a mound and when I stood on this mound, it felt like I was standing on an upturned boat. Then I began to receive images of people coming to Britain to escape a flood that had destroyed their homelands, thousands of years ago.

Travelling in boats, these people took their belief in the Great Mother with them, establishing an entire network of Mother-focussed settlements. I hear the ancestors clairaudiently and this is what they said:  “We built them to stabilise the imbalance which had resulted from the catastrophe that caused the flooding.” As soon as I got home, I tried to find information about this flooding. It felt like it had happened somewhere in the Mediterranean. Seven thousand years ago, the Mediterranean did indeed flood. Before it was a sea it was a river delta but the melting of the ice, at the end of the ice age, broke through the land barrier between Spain and Africa creating the sea.

It had taken them time to come to England’s shores. It too was recovering after the retreating of the ice, and only hunter-gatherers, Mesolithic people, lived here, close to the sea’s edge. But these newcomers established their colonies, and their beliefs, using their knowledge to re-establish planetary balance. It took many years for the land to become workable and, thanks to their energetic assistance, England became fertile enough for the farmers to grow crops and keep animals, rather than existing off the produce of the sea, as the Mesolithic people had done.

They built Megalithic structures, just as they had around the Mediterranean; energetic complexes like giant Motherboards created on and in the landscape; a Motherboard that still exists and which we are now rediscovering.

When I was researching this event and the megalithic culture, I discovered that the people who built these structures carried the I2 haplogroup in their DNA and that they had displaced the earlier inhabitants who had a different genetic inheritance. This came as a surprise to me because the I2 haplogroup is also mine. But then I thought, perhaps that is why I can tap into this knowledge. Because they really are my ancestors. They could also be yours.

Later, that I2 haplogroup was displaced by another people of a different haplogroup: the Beaker People. Although genetic history has come to the conclusion that the beaker people ousted the megalithic builders, in my experience they also worked with the energetic network in the landscape, albeit in a slightly different way. Their beliefs were still Mother-focussed. For instance, they built burial mounds in many shapes and sizes; the person buried there becoming the guardian of that energy point. In Ireland, these places are still thought of today as places of the Sidhe (Shee). The portals, however, are in the older megalithic structures like Newgrange, Knowth and Stonehenge and the many henges around the British Isles. These remain portals into the Mother’s world, places where the forces of solar fertility meet the seed of the Mother’s creations.

In every culture, there are the Ancient Ones, the memories and knowledge held by the people who first worked with it. In Ireland, and the United Kingdom, the Tuatha De Danaan are the Wisdom Keepers, and you can access their knowledge by working with their ‘layer’ of history. It is a form of energetic archaeology.

The awareness of the earth as Mother existed for many years but with the coming of the more war-like ‘Celtic’ peoples from the Steppes, the beliefs were eroded and went underground, back into the mounds and sacred places The ‘knowledge’ of the Goddess people had to become secret, or at least less visible, to protect it. It was encoded in the myths, and stories they told each other preserving, in art and writing, the knowledge of how to keep the earth in balance.

Over time, the knowledge contained in the stories was lost, but now it is returning. All the stories and myths have a truth hidden in them, if you look hard enough. New stories are also being written; stories that hold the codes and keys to the knowledge of the ancestors and the Tuatha de Danann, the People of The Goddess. Many are remembering.

The world needs rebalancing once again which is why this knowledge is returning. Many people with ancestry in the British Isles and Ireland have this memory in their cells. It only needs reactivating to access it. Your guides are only too willing for you to ask them, and you will receive the knowledge if you really want it. It is the sincere desire to know something that opens the door to receiving.

Film of the round barrow in Micheldever Woods by Chris Bishop.