Geography/Culture: Celtic: Irish. She arrived in Britain from Greece circa 1472 BC.
Linguistic Note: The genitive is Danaan, or Donaan, as in Tuatha d&eacytel Danaan `Tribes of the Goddess Danu'. Perhaps related to English: don teacher. As a matter of interest consider: Sanskrit dana, `gift'; Latin donum, donare, are French donner - related English words: donate, Denmark, Danes, Danube.
Description: Mysterious and aweful ancient Goddess of the earth, its fertility and fruitfulness, and rivers; Donater of abundant harvests and prosperity; Teacher (Don) of magic; Beneficent Power of Nature; Universal Mother; Mother of Deities (the Tuatha d‚ Danaan); "Well She used to cherish the Gods"; Queen of the `Otherworld', death, and rebirth; Lover of feasting, music and dance.
To Whom Sacred: raven; caverns; hills; tumuli; "The four jewels" (ie. Cauldron of regeneration, Stone of Fal, Spear of Lugh, Sword of Nuadha); offerings of food; libations of milk; the River Danube (of which She is the eponym).
Festival: Midsummer Eve (the holiest of Her days); the Summer solstice; November Eve, Samhain `The feast of the dead'.
Male Associates: consort, perhaps Bile. Son, Bran, `Alder{?}' God of the underworld, to whom the raven is sacred. Masculinized as D“n, or Donnus, Shehe is said to be Roman, father of Cottius.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Known in folklore as: Aine, , below.
• Also called: Ana, , below.
• As Ana, She also had a malignant form, qv Annis, .
• She became known as, some say confused with, Bridgit, qv, in Middle Irish times.
• Boann, is said to be Queen of the Tuatha d‚ Danaan, and so is perhaps an aspect of Danu, She-of-Knowledge.
• Perhaps also called Buana, qv Boann.
• Perhaps She originated as Dam-Kina, qv.
• Perhaps a variant: Dana, D1N1 .
• Perhaps it was She Who was known to the Romans as Danubius, , below.
• Also called Dea, qv Habondia.
• Welsh variant Dôn, , below.
• Gaulish or German variant Donau.
• Variant Dunav.
• Perhaps known in Greece as: Danae, She-Who-Judges, qv.
• Perhaps originally Hindustani Danu, below.
• Mother of Macha, qv.

Geography/Culture: Celtic: Irish, especially Munster.
Linguistic Note: {the `a' should be ` ', but the extended character set doesn't have it in upper case.}
Description: Magic weilding Goddess of plenty, the moon, crops and cattle; some say also Goddess of the sun; Eponym of Knockainy (Cnoc Aine `the Hill of Aine'); Queen of the fairies; She Who is associated with love, desire, and fertility.
To Whom Sacred: meadowsweet (She gave it its scent); peas (She planted a whole hill with peas in one night); chestnut mare (whom none can out-run); mid-summer night; the colour red.
Festival: a mid-summer fire-festival is associated with Her, when straw torches were carried in procession and waved over cattle and fields for protection and fruitfulness.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• It seems very likely She was also called, or had the variant name: Ana, , below.
• Also called Anna, qv Anne .
• Folklore name for Celtic Irish Danu, She-of-Knowledge, above.
• See also Bean-Sidhe.

Geography/Culture: Celtic: especially Irish (possibly France). Her moon-temple {meaning a stone circle?} used to stand at Cnoc Aine in Limerick.
Linguistic Note: it is said She suckled and nursed Her sons so well that Her name came to mean `Plenty' with associations of wealth and treasure.
Description: The Beneficent; Mother of Gods; Goddess of {the moon}, plenty, childbirth, suckling and nursing; Ruler of Celtic tribes.
In southern France She was known as `The Shining One', Matron of fertility, fire, poetry and medicine {sounds like Brigit!}.
To Whom Sacred: Cauldron of Regeneration; The Paps of Anu, (two mountains in Kerry, {or perhaps any breast-like pair of hills such as Twin Peaks in San Francisco}.
Male Associates: sons, Brian, Iuchurba and Iuchar.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Her connection with Cnoc Aine and other qualities suggest that Her name is a variant of Aine.
• See also Anna, qv Anne .
• Variant Anan.
• A shrine to Saint-Anne, qv Anne, was built on the site of Her moon-temple, Cnoc Aine; Her name, qualities and probable derivation from grandmother Goddess Danu must have made an easy Christianization of Ana into Saint-Anne.
• Variant Anu.
• Equivalent to Buana, qv Boann.
• Apparently Celtic Irish Danu, above, was also called Ana.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Mother of `demons'.
Male Associates: sons, the Danavas, celestial powers opposed to the Devas, by consort, Kasyapa.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps the percursor of Celtic Irish Danu.
• Daughter of: Diti, below
• A Putrika, qv 0thers-p.

Geography/Culture: Roman.
Geographical personification {presumably of the River Danube}.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• If She is the personification of the River, this may be the Roman name for Celtic Irish Danu .

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: Her name is as opposed to Aditi `Boundless-space'.
Description: Goddess of earthly phenomenon; Ruler of the mortality of the individual.
Male Associates: sons, Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa, progenitors of the Daityas, by consort, Kasyapa.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• As opposed to Aditi, qv Danu.
• Mother of Hindustani Danu.

Geography/Culture: Welsh.
To Whom Sacred: the constellation cassopeia called Llys D“n `Don's Court'.
Male Associates: sons, Gwydion, bard and magician, master of illusion and phantasy, (he was enrolled as Her son in the 4th c. BC); Gofannon, (or Govannan), God of smithcraft; Amaethon, God of agriculture. Consort, Beli, God of light

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Mother of Arianrhod, qv Arianrhod.
• Variant: Deon. See Graves WG
• As Welsh Dôn She is the Mother of Penarddun, qv Branwen.