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Aengus   Listen
noun
Aengus  n.  
1.
The Irish god of love and beauty; patron deity of young men and women.
Synonyms: Angus Og, Oengus, Angus





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"Aengus" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pigs of Mac Lir, A ram and ewe both round and red, I brought with me from Aengus. I brought with me a stallion and a mare From the beautiful stud of Manannan, A bull and a white cow from ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... surviving in any ecclesiastical connection with the Decies, if we except Patrick's Well, near Clonmel, and this Well is within a mile or so of the territorial frontier. Moreover the southern portion of the present Tipperary County had been ceded by Aengus to the Deisi, only just previous to Patrick's advent, and had hardly yet had sufficient time to become absorbed. The whole story of Declan's alleged relations with Patrick undoubtedly suggests some irregularity in Declan's mission—an irregularity which was capable of rectification ...
— The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore • Anonymous
... swept over me a sense of weakness, of dependence on a great personal Being somewhere far off yet near at hand. No thought of mine had prepared me for this emotion, for I had been pre-occupied with Aengus and Edain, and with Mannanan, son of the sea. That night I awoke lying upon my back and hearing a voice speaking above me and saying, "No human soul is like any other human soul, and therefore the love of God for any human soul ...
— The Celtic Twilight • W. B. Yeats


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