The Irish Tuatha D Dannan were the Western Descendants of the Phoenician/Greek "Danaans" who were also known as the "Tribe of Dan (Dana).". Four Masters, p. 293. The tribe of Dan still had not settled down and occupied their "inheritance" in Canaan (Judges 18-2), so they sent five warriors forth to explore the land. Judah is the major tribe amongst the Jews. practiced a mixed religion, but contrary to the conventional wisdom among biblical scholars, their main deity was Yahweh after all, . The mood of the tribe in response to this oppression and flight will as Spina describes not be a passive one but is captured in another word mar nepes [Modern Hebrew: "Mar Nefesh" meaning "bitter of spirit"]. <