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	Encyclopedia: Fomorians
		In Goidelic mythology, Prince Elatha (or Elathan) of the Fomorians was the father of Bres by Ériu.
		He was the result of a union between Ãriu of the Tuatha DÃ© Danann and the Fomorian prince Elatha, who had come to her one night by sea on a silver boat.
		In Irish mythology, Corb was one of the Fomorians.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fomorians (2701 words)

	Fomorians
		In Irish-Celtic mythology, the Fomorians are a race of demonic giants, ancient occupants of Ireland (or sometimes mentioned as a mythical, prehistoric people who raided and pillaged Ireland from the sea).
		The Fomorians were given the province of Connacht, and were even allowed to marry some of the Tuatha Dé.
		The king of the Fomorians is the one-eyed Balor.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/f/fomorians.html (199 words)

	Fomorians - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The third invasion was by the Firbolgs, who subdued the Fomorians, and the two races lived peacefully together.
		Attempting to guarantee peace, the Tuatha Dé promised to give the throne to one of the Fomorians, Bres, but he was deposed for his tyranny and replaced by Nuada of the Tuatha Dé.
		The Fomorians were given Connacht and there was some intermarriage with the Tuatha Dé.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Fomorians (223 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Elphame's Choice
		The Fomorians, vampire-like demons attacked the castle, murdered all the men and used the woman as incubators for their children.
		Fomorians had lost the ability to reproduce and had discovered that human woman could be used for children.
		While the original Fomorians have long since died off of a plague, their children have survived.
	www.sfsite.com /03b/ec196.htm (596 words)

	Bres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoping to reconcile relations between the Fomorians and the Tuatha Dé Danann, Bres was named king and Brigid of the Tuatha de Danaan married him.
		Bres made the Tuatha Dé pay tribute to the Fomorians and work as slaves: Ogma was forced to carry firewood, and the Dagda had to dig trenches around forts.
		He neglected his duties of hospitality: the Tuatha Dé complained that after visiting his house their knives were never greased and their breaths did not smell of ale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bres (326 words)

	Celtic Gods and Goddesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fomorians (Fomors) - In Irish-Celtic mythology, the Fomorians are a race of demonic giants, the original occupants of Ireland.
		The Fomorians were given the province of Connacht, and were allowed to marry some of the Tuatha DÈ.
		Boann - Boann is a Goddess of bounty and fertility, whose totem is the sacred white cow.
	www.angelfire.com /fl3/wicca1132/celgods.html (1514 words)

	Fomorians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Celtic mythology, the Fomorians, orFomors were a race of giants who were the occupants of Ireland before the Gaels.
		They conquered the Firbolgs but in the SecondBattle of Magh Tuiredh, the Fomorians were defeated.
		Attempting to guarantee peace, the Tuatha Dé promised to give the throneto one of the Fomorians, Bres, but he was deposed for his tyranny and replaced by Nuada of the Tuatha Dé.
	www.therfcc.org /fomorians-165982.html (210 words)

	Triskelle - Irish History - Fomorians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Fomorians were seemingly not interested in founding permanent settlements in Ireland at that time and apart from some small clashes the two tribes apparently shared the land quite peacefully.
		In the course of time the influence of the Fomorians increased as they managed to defeat the Nemedians and initially their magical powers prevented the Tuatha de Danaan to invade Ireland.
		On the long run the powers of the Tuatha de Danaan exceeded those of the Fomorians and after their defeat in the Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh this nasty tribe of trouble seekers with mystical abilities was forced to leave Ireland.
	www.vincentpeters.nl /triskelle/history/fomorians.php?index=060.015.010.030 (343 words)

	Ireland Now Irish Myths - The Dagda's Harp
		There came a time when the Fomorians and the golden-haired men were at war; and in the midst of a great battle, while the Dagda's hall was not so well guarded as usual, some of the chieftains of the Fomorians stole the great harp from the wall, where it hung, and fled away with it.
		And when they heard that Music of Mirth, the young warriors of the Fomorians began to laugh; they laughed till the cups fell from their grasp, and the spears dropped from their hands, while the wine flowed from the broken bowls; they laughed until their limbs were helpless with excess of glee.
		When they heard that, gently, gently, the Fomorian women bowed their heads in slumber; the little children crept to their mothers' laps; the old men nodded; and the young warriors drooped in their seats and closed their eyes: one after another all the Fomorians sank into sleep.
	www.ireland-now.com /dagda.html (590 words)

	Bres
		He is the son of Elatha, a prince of the Fomorians, and the goddess Eriu.
		When king Nuada lost his hand in the first battle of Mag Tuireadh, he was deemed unfit to rule the Tuatha Dé Danann.
		Although the Fomorians were their enemies, as an act of reconciliation the Tuatha Dé decided to name Bres as their king.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/bres.html (151 words)

	Book of Invasions
		Though the Nemedians managed to kill one of the Fomorian kings and captured one of the towers, the Nemedians was almost totally annihilated, when the Fomorians received reinforcement.
		At first, the Fomorians were the Danann's ally before their arrival in Ireland, but later became their deadly enemy.
		The Fomorians put Bres on the throne and the Dananns suffered from the oppressive rule of the Fomorians, who became the overlord of Ireland.
	www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/invasions.html (6595 words)

	Irish Mythological Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Ireland of this time was already inhabited by a race of cruel, misshapen beings known as the Fomorians, thought to represent the ancient, evil gods of Ireland.
		The Fomorians were temporarily driven from Ireland to the northern seas, from whence they repeatedly returned to plague the successive invaders.
		The Fomorian King, Balor, was killed in this battle by his grandson Lugh and the Fomorians were utterly defeated and driven from Ireland for the last time.
	members.aol.com /guenhumara/mythcycle.html (1382 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fomorians
		Fomorians, in Irish Celtic mythology, a race of monstrous giants supposedly descended from the second of Noah’s three sons, Ham.
		The gods of early Irish mythology appear in the legendary account of the history of Ireland since the Flood, the Lebor Gabála Erenn (The...
		According to early legends, Ireland was first inhabited by successive waves of invaders, the most important of which were the Nemedians, Fomorians,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Fomorians.html (91 words)

	Celtic History
		A race of such Demons, the fomorians, were hardly known to the rest of the Old World because they spent most of their time harrassing Eriu and trying to enslave its population.
		In the battle, Nemed was killed by the fomorian leader, Connan and Nemed's son Fergus demanded vengeance.
		The Fomorians fled and decided to attack Norsca instead, but the Dark Elves had found a new island to try and conquer and over the next few hundred years, Dark elf raids on the west coast were common.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Labyrinth/3341/celtic_history.htm (10721 words)

	Story_4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The dark, wicked, vengeful Fomorians were upon the one side; the Fairy-folk of the gods of Dana upon the other.
		Dark ravens and the spectres of the air screamed overhead, exulting in the flow of crimson blood from the fair white flesh of the warrior and heroes.
		The beam of battle then inclined against the Fomorians and they fled away into glens and coverts and dark places, and their countenances were pale with fear, and their knees tottered and knocked together.
	www.btinternet.com /~pdevlinz/Story_4.htm (2558 words)

	Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race: Chapter III: The Irish Invasion Myths
		Eri then declared to him that his father was Elatha, a king of the Fomorians, who had come to her secretly from over sea, and when he departed had given her a ring, bidding her never bestow it on any man save him whose finger it would fit.
		When the Fomorians give him food on his visit to their camp, the porridge and milk are poured into a great pit in the ground, and he eats it with a spoon big enough, it was said, for a man and a woman to lie together in it.
		In the tale of the Quest of the Sons of Turenn we are told that Lugh approached the Fomorians from the west.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/mlcr/mlcr03.htm (12590 words)

	The Second Battle of Mag Tured
		Now when Bres had assumed the kingship, the Fomorians, --Indech son of Dea Domnann, and Elotha son of Delbaeth, and Tethra, three Fomorian kings, laid tribute upon Ireland so that there was not a smoke from a roof in Ireland that was not under tribute to them.
		Then he related to the Fomorians the work of the smith and the wright and the brazier and the four leeches who were around the well.
		And the sling-stone fell on the host of the Fomorians, and thrice nine of them died beside it, so that the crowns of their heads came against the breast of Indech son of Dea Domnann, and a gush of blood sprang over his lips.
	www.ancienttexts.org /library/celtic/irish/2nd_moytura.html (7174 words)

	Fomorians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Nemed's death Conand and Morc enslaved his people and demanded a heavy tribute: two thirds of their children, grain and cattle.
		In White Wolf Game Studio's Changeling: The Dreaming (a part of the World of Darkness) Fomorians are described as "great cthonic entities whose evil was beyond human ken."
		In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI, Fomors are undead or "shadow" versions of the five playable races.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fomorians (1010 words)

	The Laughter of Peterkin 05
		The men were of the greatest and fiercest of the fl Fomorians, so called because they were fl-haired and fl-bearded, with fells as coarse and thick as those of wild boars.
		The Fomorians fought with fury, being wrought to madness by the thought that they were as chaff before these newcomers, in the face of the whole Dedannan nation---for so great was their scorn of the people they held in bondage that death at their hands seemed doubly accursed.
		None dared await the dreaded Fomorians, and everywhere were flying hordes of men and women and children, chariots, horses, and cattle.
	www.sundown.pair.com /SundownShores/Peterkin/SonsofTureen01.htm (2800 words)

	About the Morrigan
		After the Tuathan victory over the Fomorians, it is the Morrigan who declares the triumph and the renewal of peace to the Tuatha de Danaan, as well as to the hosts of Faery and the nature spirits of Ireland.
		Then, however, she falls into a darker prophesy interpreted by most as a vision of the end of the world, which is heralded by the collapse of virtue.
		But the Fomorian girl takes this in good humor, and in the end they have sex, and she helps him against her people.
	home.earthlink.net /~estara2/Morrigan.html (1843 words)

	...:::Darken Dreams: The Irish Book of Invasions: The Conquest of Nemed:::... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two-thirds of their corn, their milk, and their children, with other intolerable burdens, the Fomorians used to demand, this is what was given to them; and the men of Ireland had to deliver every item to them always on Samhain eve {Hallowe'en} at Mag Cetne.
		A druidess was she, and she went in the form of the concubine of Conann to the tower, so that she was with him in lover's wise for a while, through the confusion of his mind.
		The Fomorians had two valiant knightly warrors beside that, Gilcas son of Faebar, and Orcifanat; and the Fomorians closed round them after losing their leader.
	www.darkendreams.com /nemedconquest.html (1926 words)

	Eyru RPG: The High King
		She was the fomorian king’s most beautiful daughter.
		Since the Fomorians had disappeared, the new King claimed several of their key cities and towns along the northeastern coast.
		When the battle with the Fomorian Witches was over, the High King convened the first meeting of the Council of Stone.
	www.eyrurpg.com /h_leg_hk.html (1184 words)

	Fomorians - Demons, Demonology, and Evil in Europe
		The fomorians, whose name means 'dark of the sea,' were a race of Gaelic demons said to be the offspring of Noah's son, Ham.
		They are said to have the body of a man & the head of a goat, according to an 11th century text called The Book of the Dun Cow.
		Most sources list the Fomorians as one of the 4 races of Ireland who were defeated by the Tuatha De Danaan.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/mythology/fomors.asp (112 words)

	The Religion of the Ancient Celts: Chapter IV. The Irish Mythological Cycle
		If the Fomorians are gods of darkness, or, preferably, aboriginal deities, the tribute must be explained as a dim memory of sacrifice offered at the beginning of winter when the powers of darkness and blight are in the ascendant.
		The Fomorians are called their gods, and this, with the contemptuous epithets bestowed on them, may point to the fact that the Firbolgs were the pre-Celtic folk of Ireland and the Fomorians their divinities, hostile to the gods of the Celts or regarded as dark deities.
		In the genealogies, Fomorians and Tuatha Dé Danann are inextricably mingled.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/rac/rac07.htm (4302 words)

	An Garrán Sítheach ::: Knowledge ::: Ireland Before the Arrival of the Tuatha de Danaan... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the Fomorians had occupied Ireland for sometime, the first invaders of sat foot upon its shore.
		The Fir Bolg had little choice but to ally themselves with the Fomorians, as they were even worse in battle then the Nemedians.
		They were so pathetic that some Fomorians didn't care to even attempt battle with the new settlers.
	www.sitheach.org /knowledge/tdd1.html (687 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ireland
		In addition, there were the Fomorians, a people of uncertain origin, whose chief occupation was piracy and war, and whose attacks on the various settlers were incessant.
		The name Scot which they bore was derived from Scota, daughter of Pharaoh of Egypt, the wife of one of their chiefs; from their chief Miledh they got the name Milesians, and from another chief Goidel they were sometimes called Gadelians, or Gaels.
		The wars and battles of these colonists are largely fabulous, and the Partholanians, Nemedians, and Fomorians belong rather to mythology than to history.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08098b.htm (18270 words)

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