Faeries, Sidhe and the Tuatha de Danaan

The concept of fairies (the fair folk) was born directly from Dragon & Ring Lord cultures, being a derivative of 'fey' (faerie) and relating particularly to 'fate'. In the Gaelic World, certain royal families (especially those of the Pendragons) were said to carry Fairy Blood - that is to say, the fate or destiny of the Grail bloodline and of humankind at large - while the Elf-maidens of the Albi-gens were the designated guardians of the earth, starlight and forest. It is for these reasons that fairies, elves, and leprechauns have so ofted been portrayed as shoemakers and lamplighters, for the fairy cobblers made the shoes which measured the steps of life, while the Shining Ones of the elven race were there to light the way.

From The Real World Into Mythology
The ancient people of the Tuatha De Danaan epitomise the widespread image of Fairies. This formidable king tribe was mythologized by the Christian Monks, who rewrote the majority of Irish history to suit their own churches vested interests in Eire. From a base of monastic texts, it is generally stated that these people were the supernatural tribe of the pre-Archaen agricultural goddess Danae of Argos or perhaps of the mother goddess Danu. But their true name, rendered in its older form, was Tuadhe d'Anu; as such they were the people of Anu, the great sky god of the Anunnaki.

That the Christian Church was responsible for dubbing them as 'faeries' is not strictly true, as the Tuadhe d'Anu were always Faerie in the Ring Lord tradition. What the Church did was to redefine the meaning of the word 'fairy'. When faced with a seemingly unsurmountable problem, which the Tuadhe d'Anu represented to the Church, there were two alternatives which the Church could take. Submit to the stress and pressure of the problem one; or mentally diminish the problem. The latter option does not mean the problem goes away, but it can appear less harassing and more controllable. This is exactly what the Church did with the Tuadhe d'Anu; they reduced the problem by diminishing the nominal significance of this ancient King tribe, and in doing so, portrayed them as minute little figures who were moved into the realm of mythology.

Because of this, the history and the proud legacy of the Tuadhe d'Anu was lost from the stage of Western education. Furthermore, from the year 751, the Church sought all possible measures to diminish the status of any royal strain emanating from the original Ring Lords, so that the fraudulent Donation of Constantine could be brought into play. From this point, only the subjugative Church could determine who was and who was not a king, while the elves and fairies of the Albi-gens were manoeuvred from the forefront of history into a realm of apparent fantasy and legend.

The Tuadhe d'Anu
Settling in Ireland from about 800 BC, the noble Tuadhe d'Anu hailed from the central lands of Europe known as Scythia - the Black Sea kingdoms which stretched from the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvanian Alps, across to the the River Don in Russia. They were known strictly as the Royal Scyths and their classification as fates or fairies occurred because they were masters of a transcendant intellect known as the Sidhe ('shee') which was known to The Druids as the Web of the Wise. The Druids, themselves, were also said to yield to the consummate Sidhe, a word which eventually became a colloquial term for fairy.

Interestingly, the Scythian warlords of the Sidhe were also known as Sumaire, which in the language of old Ireland - where many of their caste migrated - the world sumaire was related to a coiled serpent.

In the Sanskrit holy language of India, wisdom derived from attaining the highest state of transcendant consciousness was called Siddhi; while the powers said to manifest themselves as a result of that achievement have been dubbed Siddhis - a term which once again through the intervention of the Church has become associated with sinister magic and witchcraft. Thus it can be seen that Sidhe and Siddhi are one and the same, while the Scythian Tuadhe d'Anu were the original faeries of history.

They were considered to be the world's most noble race alongside the early dynastic pharoahs of Egypt, and it was virtue of two particular Scythian-Egyptian royal marriages that the Scots & Gaels of Ireland emerged. The first occurred around 1360 BC, when Niul, Prince of Scythia, married the daughter of Pharoah Smenkhkare. By virtue of this, the daughter Merytaten-tasherit, became a Princess of Scythia. The second Princess Sco-ta (or Scota as she became more familiar) was the daughter of Pharoah Nekau. She married Prince Galamh of Scythia (a descendant of the earlier first Scota marriage) and their Son, Eireahmon, was the ancestral frebear of the Scots Kings of Ireland, a branch of which eventually founded Scotland in the North of Britain.

Source: 'Realm Of The Ring Lords' by Laurence Gardner.