Paps of Anu
| Paps of Anu An Dá Chích |
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 Paps of Anu south of Killarney near Rathmore |
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| height | 670 m | |
| location | County Kerry , Ireland | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 0 ′ 56 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 8" W | |
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The Paps of Anu (also Paps of Dana , Hill of the Rushes , or just The Paps , Irish : An Dá Chích , "the two breasts", also Dá Chích Anann or Dá Chích Dhanann , "the two breasts anus " or " Danus ”) are south of Killarney on the border between County Kerry and County Cork in Ireland .
The gently rounded 670 m high hills with the cairns on the peaks (one of them over four meters high) that look like nipples from below are the highest peaks in the group called Slieve Luachra .
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In Irish mythology they are the breasts of the mother god Anu or Danu , as Íath nAnann was also used as a poet name for Ireland. Irish cíoch (dual chích ) is derived from the reconstructed Celtic word * kik- , which also means "breast", the new Cymrian cig has the transferred meaning "meat".
There are several hills of this shape and corresponding name in the British Isles :
- the Paps of Jura on the island of Jura
- two hills on the Isle of Scilly Samson
- Maidens Paps on Cochno Loch in the Kilpatrick Hills, and Maiden Paps from Hawick both Scotland
- the Slievenamon , Irish : Sliabh na mBan ("mountain of women"), near Clonmel in County Tipperary is also a manifestation of the goddess with the cairn "Síd ar Femin" lying on its top.
Nearby is Cathair Crobh Dearg, associated with the pagan tradition surrounding the Paps .
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 21 (keyword Anu ).
- Sylvia Botheroyd : Ireland - Mythology in the landscape: a travel and reading book . Häusser-Verlag, Darmstadt 1997. ISBN 3-89552-034-9 .
Web links
- Anne Lucey: Paps of Anu likely to be among world's 'sacred mountains' The Irish Times, April 11, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Maier: Small lexicon of names and words of Celtic origin. CH Beck OHG, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49470-6 , p. 41 f.