FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
In Irish mythologyNemain (or Nemhain) was a goddess of war, and possibly an aspect of the Mórrígan. Her name means 'panic' or 'frenzy', and causing it among warriors was her specialty: in the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) between Ulster and Connacht many warriors died because of this. She and her sister Fea were the wives of the god Neit. She sometimes appeared as weeping washer by a river, washing the clothes or entrails of a doomed warrior. The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. ... Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. ... The MórrÃgan (great queen) or MorrÃgan (terror or phantom queen) (aka MorrÃgu, MórrÃghan, Mór-RÃogain) is a figure from Irish mythology widely considered to be a goddess or former goddess. ... The Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. ... Statistics Area: 24,481 km² Population (2006 estimate) 1,993,918 Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: ) forms one of the four traditional provinces of Ireland. ... Connaught redirects here. ... In Irish mythology Neit was a god of war, and husband of Nemain. ...
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