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Cliodhna - Beauty Goddess

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Cliodhna is the Irish Goddess of Beauty and a member of the Tuatha De Danaan. She possessed three brightly coloured birds that were said to sing so sweetly, they could soothe the sick to sleep. She fell in love with a handsome mortal, Caoimhín, despite knowing he had been thrown out of The Fianna for immorality. Following this development, her kin conspired against the lovers and sent Manannan-Maclir (Irish Sea God) to retrieve her. He lulled her to sleep upon the seashore, then swept away to the Land of Promise. She is also known as the Fairy Queen of Munster and has strong associations with the Blarney Stone. Legend says that Ii the 15th century, Cormac Mac Carthy - the builder of Blarney Castle - summoned her for help in a lawsuit. Cliodhna told him to kiss the first stone he saw in the morning - Cormac did so and argued his case with such dazzling rhetoric that he won the suit. Concerned that the powers of the stone would turn Ireland into a nation of glib liars, Cormac hid it away in a wall of his castle where it is regularly kissed to this day.

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