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  INDICE - Mitologia Irlandese
Alda mac Tait - Progenitore dei Túatha Dé Dánann
Allui mac Tait - Antenato dei Túatha Dé Dánann
Bodb mac Ibáith - Antenato dei popoli d'Europa
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 St Maughold
Demsey gives a vivid account of the Manx legend that Mac Cuill, feigning sickness to deceive St Patrick was actually found to be dead by his companions and had life breathed back into him by St Patrick.
On Mac Cuill's instant conversion Patrick required that he depart alone in a small boat, with no provisions and upon reaching land was to fetter his feet and throw away the key.
He was eventually raised to holy orders and after the miraculous discovery, in the belly of a fish, of the key to his fetters was ordained and appointed bishop on the death of his benefactors.
www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/parishes/md/stmaugh.htm   (363 words)

  
 High Kings
The Danann woman, named Bé Chuma was banished for committing adultery with Gaidiar the son of Manannán Mac Lir and she had to live among the mortals.
Cormac ruled during the time when Finn Mac Cumhaill was captain of the Fianna, the high king's personal bodyguards and the elite force of warriors during the time of war.
Lugaid Mac Con was the foster son of Ailill Aulomm.
www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/highkings.html   (6716 words)

  
 Dates in Irish Myth and Legend
Slainghe mac Partholon buried in Carn Slebhe Slangha (the Carn of the Hill of Slane)
Cobhthach killed by Labhraidh Loingseach Mae mac Oiliolla Aine with 30 kings at Dinn Rig ("at Tuamna Tenbath precisely" -- Annals of Tigernach).
At the age of 17, Fionn mac Cumhail ended the Burning of Tara and became captain of the Fianna during Conn's rule.
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 Mac Cuill - Wiki Ireland
In Irish mythology, Mac Cuill of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a son of Cermait, son of the Dagda.
He and his brothers Mac Cecht and Mac Gréine killed Lug in revenge for their father.
He was named Mac Cuill after his god, Coll, the hazel.
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 The Lebor Gabala Erren
Uillend with pride fell at the hands of Mac Greine with pure victory: the wife of the brown Dagda perished of plague of the slope in Liathdruim.
Eriu and Fotla with pride, Mac Greine and Banba with victory, Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht with purity in the battle of Temair of clear wave.
Mac Cecht at the hands of noble Eremon: Mac Cuill, of perfect Eber: Eriu yonder, at the hands of Suirge thereafter: Mac Greine of Amorgen.
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Ecne "The Brown or Dark One" Tethla [Tethra, Tethre; Indech Mac Donn; Indech mac De Dommann] One of the three Kings of the Formorians, War, and is associated with Battle Crows, and the Death you fear.
Oghma Mac Ethlenn Oghma [Ogmios; Grian-aineach ("Sun faced" or "Shining faced")] God of Poetry and Eloquence, Martial Arts and Prowess, Wisdom, Speech, Knowledge and the written word; Champion of the Gods; The Perfect Knight; Nuadhu's Champion; He is a Guide of the Dead, and is the Grail Seeker.
Seamstress of Oengus Mac Oc Mathgen [Math?; Manawythyn] Wizard, Sorceror Medol Formorach Charioter Medon Formorach Charioter Miach Son of Dianchecht; Made a flesh arm for Nuadhu after his father failed - In a fit of jealousy, the father slew the son, and it was from his corpse that all healing herbs grew.
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 Amazon.com: "Mac Cuill": Key Phrase page
Y Cliadee, in a variant form, was first recorded by W. Ralf Hall Caine's Annals of the...
Another such "outlandish" recruit for new Christian signification featured in early Patrician hagiography is the brigand-king Mac Cuill, an extrasocial tvrannus, as opposed to the social tvrannus Corictic.114 In Muirchú's Life, Mac Cuill's encounter with Patrick comes after...
The hazel tree was also important, as evidenced by the Druid's name Mac Cuill (`son of hazel')...
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 Encyclopedia of the Celts : Ibar Mac Riangabra - Iweret
His chief adversary, Goll mac Morna, on the other hand, is represented as the leader of the Connacht Fiana.
The visiting high-king who instructs their rulers is not a king of Tara, but Manannan mac Lir, the god of the sea.
Consequently such works have been largely ignored by those on magical or spiritual quests, and it is very difficult to obtain any form of instruction or interpretation concerning these legends, either in written or oral form.
www.celticgrounds.com /chapters/encyclopedia/i.html   (8320 words)

  
 The Gaelic Gods: Chapter X. The Conquest of the Gods by Mortals
Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, and Mac Greiné met them, with all the host of the Gaelic gods.
In the end, Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, and Mac Greiné offered to submit the matter to the arbitration of Amergin, the Milesians' own lawgiver, with the express stipulation that, if he gave an obviously partial judgment, he was to suffer death at their hands.
Their three kings were killed by the three surviving sons of Milé--Mac Cuill by Eber, Mac Cecht by Eremon, and Mac Greiné by the druid Amergin.
bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/cml/cml14.htm   (2536 words)

  
 Part 87 of The Metrical Dindshenchas   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A great meeting was held at Caendruim (which is called Usnech) between the three sons of Cermait, the Dagda's son, and Lug son of Ethne, to make peace with him in regard to their father Cermait, whom he had slain through jealousy about his wife.
Now the sons of Cermait, namely, Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, and Mac Greine, had laid a plot to kill Lug.
For that territory was the place that Delbaeth mac Táil took possession of, when he came northwards out of Munster with his five sons, after being warned by his own daughter to give up his land to her and her husband, Trad mac Tassaig.
www.ucc.ie /celt/published/T106500D/text087.html   (280 words)

  
 Book of Invasions extracts
Ilach ar omhun gabala, aurfaire (sic) ar ambaile & imarbus, eigem ar dogailsí techta a piandai.
Nuada Argetlam mac Echtuig meic Etarlaim meic Ordain meic Alldai meic Thait mic Thabuirn meic Ena meic meic Iarbaneoil Fatha meic Nemid meic Agnomuin meic Paim meic Tait meic Sera
Mac Cuill, the hazel his god, Ethur his name, Banba his wife : Mac Cecht thereafter, the ploughshare his god, Tethur his name, Fotla his wife : Mac Greine further, the sun his god, Cethur his name, Eriu his wife.
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 Book of Invasions extracts
Eochaic mac Eirc, king of the Firbolg was overcome with thirst and slain while drinking.
Ilach ar omhun gabala, aurfaire (sic) ar ambaile & imarbus, eigem ar dogailsí techta a piandai.
Mac Cuill, the hazel his god, Ethur his name, Banba his wife : Mac Cecht thereafter, the ploughshare his god, Tethur his name, Fotla his wife : Mac Greine further, the sun his god, Cethur his name, Eriu his wife.
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 Manx Note Book No 7 pp114/9 - Manx Surnames chII ptII - 1886
MAC CAISIN, 'CAISIN'S SON.' (CAISIN IS A DIMINUTIVE OF CAS 'CROOKED.'THE NAME CAISIN MUST ORIGINALLY have meant a crooked eyed,crooked legged, or metaphorically stupid, person.
Ceallach MAC CURTIN, historian of Thomond,' A.D. It is almost confined to the parish of Maughold, and is a purely Manx name.
, contracted from Mac Gilroy, a corrupted form of Mac Giolla-ruaidh, Glolla-ruadh's son,' or the red-haired youth's son.', When an adjective, signifying a colour or quality of the mind or body, is postfixed to Giolla, then it has its ancient signification-namely, a youth, a boy, or a man in his bloom ; Giolla-ruadh, i.e.
www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/manxnb/v07p114.htm   (890 words)

  
 Celtic Dictionary - Article: Hazel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The number of spots on a salmon's back were thought to indicate the number of nuts it had consumed.
The name of the Irish hero "Mac Cuill" means 'son of the hazel'.
Yeats thought the hazel was the common Irish form of the tree of life.
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 Clan History
Before writing was widespread in Ireland, a class of men were trained to memorize the hereditary history of their clan and all the descendants from the founder or progenitor without error or ommission.
King Cormac Mac Art, in the third century of the Christian era, ordered the history of the Irish nation to be compiled.
The Royal Mac Mahons / Irish - Mac Mathghamhna - and are of separate descent from the MacMahons of Monaghan of the Clan Colla.
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 Annals of County Louth
After this the sons of Milidh fought a battle at Tailtinn, against the three kinge of the Tuatha De Dananns, Mac Cuill, Mac Ceacht, and Mac Greine.
For the genealogy of Cinaedh mac Croinghille (died 976 A.D.), a direct descendant of Conall Anghlonnach, from whom the Conaille Muirtheimhne descended, click HERE.
1096 - Sithfruich, son of Mac Sealbhaigh, lord of Feara-Rois, was slain by the Mughdhorna Maighen.
www.jbhall.freeservers.com /annals_of_county_louth.htm   (4487 words)

  
 Tuatha de Danann - WiccanWeb.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Milesians encountered three goddesses of the Tuatha Dé, Ériu, Banba and Fodla, who asked that the island be named after them; Ériu is the origin of the modern name Éire, and Banba and Fodla are still sometimes used as poetic names for Ireland.
Their three husbands, Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht and Mac Gréine, who were kings of the Tuatha Dé at that time, asked for a truce of three days, during which the Milesians would lie at anchor nine waves' distance from the shore.
Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht and Mac Gréine AFM 1730-1700 BC; FFE 1317-1287 BC
www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php?title=Tuatha_de_Danann&printable=yes   (947 words)

  
 BookofInvasions3
The three sons of Cermait, moreover, ut diximus; Mac Cuill - Sethor, the hazel his god; Mac Cecht - Tethor, the ploughshare his god; Mac Greine - Cethor, the sun his god.
Fotla was wife of Mac Cecht, Banba of Mac Cuill, Eriu of Mac Greine.
Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht with purity in the battle of
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 Lug - Wiki Ireland
Lug or Lugh (pronounced "loo") is a former Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past.
He is known by the epithets Lámfhada ("long hand"), for his skill with a spear or sling, Samildánach ("multi-talented", "skilled in many arts"), Lonnbeimnech ("fierce striker") and Macnia ("boy hero"), and by the matronymic mac Ethlenn or mac Ethnenn ("son of Ethliu or Ethniu").
The canine imagery continues with another Lugaid, Lugaid mac Con, and of course Lug's son Cúchulainn.
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 The Laud Synchronisms
Ptolomeus mac Lairg & Ptolomeus Philodelpus & Ptolomeus Euergites &.xiiii.
Iochonia mac Iosies genuit Solathel hautem genuit Zorobobel.
Cathal mac Áeda, qui fuit rex Hiberniae quamuis non nuncupatur inter reges,.xx.
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 Celtic Dictionary - Article: Hazel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The number of spots on a salmon's back were thought to indicate the number of nuts it had consumed.
The name of the Irish hero "Mac Cuill" means 'son of the hazel'.
Yeats thought the hazel was the common Irish form of the tree of life.
www.lyberty.com /encyc/articles/hazel.html   (363 words)

  
 Irish Deities
Brian [Brenos, Bran] One of the Tri de Dana "three Gods of Dana" (Knowledge?); He is the son of "Tuirenn mac Ogma" (aka Delbaeth Mac Ogma and Tuirill Bicreo) and either Brighid or the Morrigan.
Son of Coirpre Colc, the son of a servant of Indech mac De Domnann.
Mac Cecht "Plough" Husband of Banba "Pig" (Erin incarnate).
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 Sidhe of the Tuatha
The great frieze over the Throne of Nuada was carved on a single fine grained plank taken from a ancient tree in the vast forest a short way north of Eádargoil, The throne itself was also carved from the same tree.
Téthur (also known as Mac Cecht) is currently enthroned, with Éthur (also known as Mac Cuill) on deck, to be followed by Céthur (also known as Mac Gréine) a few centuries later.
At The Table, Mac Cuill/Éthur sits opposite the Throne of Nuada, giving him an excellent view of the bountiful serving wenches as they bring the mutton and mead to the table.
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 Muirhead235
The battle lasted for a long time, until Mac Ceacht fell by Eiremhon, Mac Cuill by Eimhear, and Mac Greine by Amhergin.
Their three queens were also slain; Eire by Suirghe, Fodhla by Edan, and Banba by Caicher.
And it was from Heremon would descend the kings of Clan-na-boy, Connaught, Leinster, Meath, Orgiall, Ossory, Tirconnell and Tirowen; the kings of Dal Riada; the kings and queens of Scotland from Fergus Mor Mac Eirc to the Stuarts; and the kings and queens of England from Henry II to the present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
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 Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of Invasions
Inis Elga, said they; Mac Cuill, Mac Cécht, and Mac Gréine are its three kings.
They answered; (a) Mae Cuill, Mac Cécht, and Mac Gréine are the names of the three kings that are over it.
The three kings of Ireland, Mac Cuill, Mac Cécht, and Mac Gréine, were there.
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 Celtic Myths
Mac Cécht was reluctant to leave his king, but managed to break free from Ingcel's bandits.
Mac Cécht attacked the two men beheading his enemies with his sword.
The whole race of the Partholonians were mysteriously wiped out by a plague, except for Tuan mac Carell who underwent many different incarnations and thus lived to preserve the history of his people.
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 Celtic Gods M
MAC GRËINE:  An Irish god who is invested with the kingly function, and who forms a triad with Mac Cuill, the warrior and Mac Cécht, the “son of the ploughshare.”  The name Mac Gréine means “son of the sun.”  He was husband to Eriu.
MANNAN:  The Manx (Isle of Man) counterpart of the Irish sea-god Manannan mac Lir.  On Midsummer Eve the people used to carry green meadow grass to the top of Barule in payment of rent to Mannan-beg-mac-y-Leir.
People also used to pray to him for a blessing on their boats and a good catch.
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 Mythic chronologies
After the completion of the last year of the eighty years which Eochaidh Ollathar passed..., he died at Brugh, of the venom of the wound which Cethlenn inflicted upon him in the first battle of Magh Tuireadh.
These were Mac Cuill, Mac Ceacht, and Mac Greine.
Mac Ceacht fell by Eiremhon, Mac Cuill by Eimhear, and Mac Greine by Amhergin.
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The sons of Mil, called the Milesians or Gaels, are said to have landed in the south west of Ireland at the feast of Beltaine.
At Sliabh Mis in Kerry they met Banba, a queen of the Tuatha Dd Danann and wife of Mac Cuill, Son of the Hazel, with her Druids.
Some time later, they met a second queen and she was Fodhla, wife of Mac Cecht, Son of the Plough.
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