Boann

by Dr Anthony E. Smart

 
“She of the white cattle”. Irish goddess goddess of bounty and fertility, whose totem is the sacred white cow.
Also goddess of the River Boyne. She is the wife of the water god Nechtan or of Elcmar, and consort of the Dagda, by whom she was the mother of the god Aengus. To hide their union from Nechtan, Boann and the Dagda caused the sun to stand still for nine months, so that Aengus was conceived and born on the same day.