Pooka (band) Pooka (band) Pooka was the former songwriting duo of UK guitarists/vocalists Sharon Lewis and Natasha Jones. They took their name from Púca, a mythical Irish goblin with an uneven temper. Pooka were formed early in 1992 at Nottingham Polytechnic. After only a few months of forming the band Lewis and Jones decided to try their luck in London to find a record company to work with. They did this by visiting record companies in person, guitars in hand, and performing their songs live to various talent scouts. This eventually led to their gaining a 5 album recording contract with WEA.
Danu (Irish goddess) "*Danu" is derived from the same root as Latin "bonus" (Old Latin "duenos"), from Proto-Indo-European "*dueno-" "good", via a Proto-Celtic nominative singular n-stem "*Duonū" ("aristocrat"). Danu has no myths or legends associated with her in any surviving medieval Irish texts, but she has possible parallels with the Welsh literary figure Dôn, whom most modern scholars regarded as a mythological mother goddess in the medieval tales of the Mabinogion, despite the fact that Dôn's gender is never specified in the tales and was regarded as a man by some medieval Welsh antiquarians. Danu (Irish goddess) In Irish mythology, Danu (; modern