Talk:Aos Sí

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Aids to pronunciation would help the reader in the English Wikipedia. --Wetman 00:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

There is an aid to pronunciation for this article, using the International Phonetic Alphabet for English, which is the standard used on Wikipedia. If you're not familar with the IPA it's linked in the article. --Nicknack009 01:03, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

The definition of this article is wrong, I'm pretty sure. The sídhe themselves are mounds – the enchanted mounds under which the Tuatha Dé fled after the conquest of the sons of Míl. The people of the sídhe are exactly that – in Irish, áes sídhe (or bean sídhe in the case of the women, fear sídhe in the case of the men). Bean, fear, aos simply mean "woman, man, people" in Irish. QuartierLatin1968 03:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Later, due to a corruption of the meaning, both the mounds and the supernatural entities (i.e. sprites) became known as the síd, modern Irish sídhe --SheeEttin 18:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that, but I still think it would be better to define sídhe with ‘fairy mound’ as the primary meaning and then explain that it's been extended to the inhabitants of those mounds by metonomy. It seems backwards the current way. QuartierLatin1968 13:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I addressed the hill/people issue somewhat while adding the "siodhe" information I found in a dusty scottish gaelic dictionary at the University of Texas at Austin, although I don't have the book information handy anymore. "siodhe" appears to specifically be the mound reference, and "sidhe" was listed as "peace", supporting the perception that the latter was a euphemism. I also added the references to the Fir Bolg and Milesians, based on research in an Irish Faerie Faith class from ages back. If anyone can provide a hard reference for the "siodhe" spelling, that would be appreciated, although I'll look for that book eventually when I'm on campus again. C. Alex. North-Keys 18:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of the sídh

The history of the Sí got muddled slightly in the middle ages, and it became part of the lore that they were among the angels exciled from heaven for siding with the devil himself and/or not picking a side. I'm reluctant to add this information as although I have a source for it, I have been unable to locate the full text and I'd much prefere a read through before editing the article, its TUATHA DE AS FALLEN ANGELS published way back in 1932, its also explains why the Sí have white blood, I really want to help spruce up theses Irish folklore articles a bit. --Meirleach 00:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the associate professor of folklore at Dublin's university college, notes the same in his The Lord Of Ireland: An Encylopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance. I believe the article "TUATHA DE AS FALLEN ANGELS" was by someone named Ó Raithbheartaigh, but I'm not clear on that. Anyhow, I would added the info. SeanAisteach 02:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

the purpose of my edit was to merge teh two articles fairy mound and sidhet pge gether Smith Jones 01:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)