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Topic: Mythological Cycle

	IrishAbroad - Mythology
		The legends may be categorised into four main cycles: the Mythological cycle, the Fenian or Ossianic cycle, the Ultonian cycle and the Historical cycle.
		The term "Mythological Cycle" is a collective term applied to the stories in Irish literature which describe the doings of otherworldly characters.
		The central, and structurally the basic, story in the cycle is Táin Bó Cúailnge (The cattle raid of Cooley).
	www.irishabroad.com /yourroots/mythology/mythology.asp (726 words)

	Irish Literature - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		These cycles are the Mythological, the Ulster, the Fenian, and the Historical (or Kings).
		The Historical Cycle, or Cycle of the Kings, consists of narratives—part fact and part fiction—that chronicle the lives of kings of Ireland.
		The stories of the Ulster and Fenian cycles are preserved in manuscripts dating from 1100 to the late 1300s, but their language and their references to earlier events demonstrate that the stories are remnants of a much older oral tradition.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761566508___13/Irish_Literature.html (1463 words)

	MythCycle
		The first Cycle, the Mythological, is based on the Tuatha De Danann, or the Tribe of Dana, or the Children of Dana, from which the Faery tradition is derived, This concerns itself with the 5 waves of invasion, presenting three certain colonization's of Ireland.
		While the Ulster Cycle is of forming the basis of Irish life, the Fenian Cycle is a parallel of the Arthurian legends of Britain and is romantic in nature and celebrates outdoor life in the waste and wilds.
		This cycle is concerned with the Five Waves of Invasion of Ireland.
	www.zodiacbistro.com /irishcycles.htm (1422 words)

	Fenian Cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fenian Cycle also known as the Fionn Cycle, Finn Cycle, Fianna Cycle, Finnian Tales, Fian Tales, Féinne Cycle, Feinné Cycle, Ossianic Cycle and Fianaigecht, is a body of prose and verse centering on the exploits of the mythic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warriors the Fianna Éireann.
		It is one of the four major cycles of Irish mythology along with the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle, and the Historical Cycle.
		The Fenian cycle is often called the Ossianic cycle because Fionn's son, Oisin, was supposed to have written most of the poems in the cycle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fenian_Cycle (646 words)

	EUROPEAN THEME PARK - With respect to our history and legends
		The cycle consists of stories of the births, early lives and training, wooings, battles, feastings and deaths of the heroes and reflects a warrior society in which warfare consists mainly of single combats and wealth is measured mainly in cattle.
		The centrepiece of the Ulster Cycle is the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
		They also differ from the Ulster Cycle in that the stories are told mainly in verse and that in tone they are nearer to the tradition of romance than the tradition of epic.
	www.freewebs.com /eurothemepark/irishmythology.htm (1995 words)

	Ireland Unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the Ulster cycle, sometimes known as the Cycle of the Red Branch Knights, the exploits of the warrior Cu Chulainn are retold in graphic detail.
		The Fenian Cycle is said to be Ireland's equivalent to the mythology of the Greek's and to the sagas of the Norsemen.
		Sometimes the term "Ossianic Cycle" is given to the Fenian Cycle, as Ossian was Finn MacCool's son and is believed to have the bard who told the stories of Finn and the Fianna to Saint Patrick in the 5th century.
	www.irelandunveiled.com /myths-legends.cgi (617 words)

	Irish Mythological Cycle
		The Irish Mythological Cycle are those stories which pretain to the settling of Ireland and the adventures of its gods, the Tuatha De Danann.
		The Mythological cycle, however, was the last to take on shape, and as such betrays a much more "Dark Ages" atmostphere than Bronze age Ireland, the way that the Ulster Cycle does, or an almost Neolithic atmosphere, like the Fionn Cycle.
		It is ironic that the setting of each cycle is inverse with its age, excepting the Cycle of the Kings and the Saints.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/mythological.html (400 words)

	Amazon.ca: Cuchulain of Muirthemne: Books: Lady Gregory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mythological Cycle is the essential root of Irish mythology, and our early introduction to the Gods, Goddesses and Divine Heroes (and Heras), some of whom make guest cameos in Cuchulain of Muirthemne.
		The Fenian Cycle is known throughout Ireland and in the Highlands of Scotland.
		This is a misnomer, because, again, the Ulster Cycle is the lore of one region in Ireland and is largely unknown in oral tradition outside of it.
	www.amazon.ca /Cuchulain-Muirthemne-Lady-Gregory/dp/0486417174 (854 words)

	The Mythological Archetypes of the Zodiac Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She is accompanied by gods of the changing seasons, that maintain the cyclic order of nature which serves as the foundation of the agricultural process.
		As a compromise between the ordinary and the wondrous, one of twins was often considered to be born of his human father and the other of a god, mythologically speaking, one mortal twin, the other immortal, as we see in the case of Castor and Pollux in the constellation of Gemini.
		And so was formed a new mythological image of the ideal commander who borrows forces from nature but uses his mind as the tool of civilization.
	www.astrologer.ru /book/myth_astrology/2.html.en (4102 words)

	Ireland Now The Earliest History of Ireland
		The Irish mythological cycle, which seems to be a history of this period, can be divided into four major divisions.
		The main theme in the historical-mythological cycle concerns the peopling of Ireland and the fortunes of the Tuatha De Danann (People of the Goddess Danann), who were the mythological ancestors of the Irish.
		In the historical-mythological cycle the story of the predecessors of the Irish settlement is told.
	www.ireland-now.com /earliest.html (1413 words)

	'Indo-European mythologies structure in social-historical aspect'.
		To open a role of a mythological heritage in the literature, music and the fine arts of the past.
		First of them is devoted to the brief characteristic of an early history of appropriate people, its culture and mythology, the contribution to a universal heritage.
		Special value is given to a role of North-European mythological images in the literature, music and the fine arts of New Time.
	ccc.domaindlx.com /myths/program.htm (1601 words)

	Jim Fitzpatrick - Mythology - Branches of the Tradition
		The cycles reflect the heroic view of life of the aristocratic warrior ruling caste; from the formal, ceremonial way in which words and deeds are recorded in them we gain a privileged insight into the way those people chose to perceive and then to shape their history.
		In the Mythological Cycle the chief characters belong to the Tuatha De Danann or Áes Side, a supposedly divine race which inhabited and ruled Ireland before the arrival of the Celtic Gaels.
		This cycle is also known as the Ossianic Cycle because most of the poems which belong to it are attributed to Finn's son Oisín.
	www.jimfitzpatrick.ie /mythology/tradition.html (432 words)

	Ireland's OWN Myths & Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The squirrel and the bird perched on her shoulder may be indicative of earlier shape-shifting powers.
		This continued into the Fionn Cycle — Finn, for example, was reared by a Druid woman.
		The Ulster Cycle tales also offer some insight into Geis — an unusual form of taboo that placed heavy restrictions on actions of which violations resulted in curses, ostracism and sometimes even death.
	www.irelandsown.net /ulstercycle.html (213 words)

	Myths, Legends, Fantasy... - Irish Myths and Legends
		The Ulster Cycle is mostly concerned with tales of the Red Branch Knights who existed in the first century of the Christian era.
		The Fenian Cycle is set in the 3rd century of the Christian calendar.
		The Cycle of Kings is a mixture of genuine history with symbolic fiction.
	elt.britcoun.org.pl /elt/m_irish.htm (1163 words)

	ubiquit.us blog: ~O so old! / Thousands of years, thousands of years, / If all were told.~
		The Mythological Cycle is the cycle of Irish mythology that's soooooo chock-full of mythology that they had to include it in the name.
		The Mythological Cycle is one of the four major cycles of Irish mythology, and is so called because it represents the remains of the pagan mythology of pre-Christian Ireland, although the gods and supernatural beings have been euhemerised by their Christian redactors into historical kings and heroes.
		The Fir Bolg were displaced by the Tuatha Dé Danann or "Peoples of the goddess Danu", descendants of Nemed, who either came to Ireland from the north on dark clouds or burnt their ships on the shore to ensure they wouldn't retreat.
	www.ubiquit.us /blog/archives/2006/06/o_so_old_thousands_o.html (1374 words)

	Project: Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They are the Mythological cycle, the Ulster cycle, and the Fenian cycle.
		The Mythological Cycle was the oldest cycle which describes the invasions of Ireland by supernatural races which preceded the beginning of Irish history.
		The last cycle is the Fenian Cycle which has the stories of Fianna, a band of mythical Irish warriors.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Countries/Ireland/lit.html (743 words)

	The Sacred Fire - Celtic Mythology
		The Cattle-Raid of Cooley is the central epic of the Ulster cycle.
		The Kings Cycle, also known as the Historical Cycle, is a book of tales chronicling historical or semi-historical kings of Ireland, generally from early AD to the middle ages.
		Around the 12th century, the tales and sagas of of Ireland were organized and classified according to the first words in their titles.
	www.sacredfire.net /mythology.html (886 words)

	The Mabinogion and the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
		According to Welsh, this mythological figure of archetypal bad kingship and misrule was subversively re-cast as a kind of anti-hero: celebrating the wisdom of restraint and humility, against the more traditional masculine virtues of bravery and impulsive, dominant behaviour.
		Likewise, the comparison highlighted by O’Coileen between Pwyll’s ‘chastity’ episode, and his succeeding union with the goddess-like figure of Rhiannon, carries a further suggestion that, in complete opposition to the traditional Celtic philosophy, the author of the Mabinogi was attempting to construct a mythological case for the virtues of patience, humility and sexual responsibility.
		As recent scholarship is beginning to reveal, this Medieval Celtic novella can be seen as a rich and multifaceted work of art, a veritable panorama of the Native British mythological universe, containing within it the deeply personal vision of a man (or woman) wise beyond the cultural age of their time and place in history.
	www.mabinogi.net /bibliog_essay.htm (6113 words)

	magoo.com: Pre-Milesian Irish Kings by Hugh McGough
		The author comments that the Celts' "mythological tales were inextricably bound up with the retelling of national or cultural history and these were only later recognised to represent.
		The cycle begins with the arrival of the Partholanians into Ireland—whose original home may have been the Land of the Dead.
		Mythologically, Tailtiu is thought by some to be a much older earth goddess historically retained until the era of the Firbolgs.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/pre-milesian.html (2156 words)

	WICCA 101: The Irish Mythological Cycles<P> Class Facilitator: Boudica<P>
		The first cycle, the Mythological, is based on the Tuatha De Danann, or the Tribe of Dana, or the Children of Dana, from which the Faery Tradition is derived.
		The major god/esses from this cycle which you may (or may not) recognize are Dana, mother of the god/esses, Nuada, Lugh, Dagda, Breo-saighit (Brigid), Erie (after whom Ireland is named [Erin]), The Morrigu/Morrigan (Triple aspects are Macha, Badhbh and Neamhain), Angus macOg, Ogma, Bodb the Red, and many more.
		Due to time limitations, exploring these god/esses and their roles in the Mythological cycle and how they influence today's Wicca traditions is a topic to be explored more fully in another lesson.
	www.unc.edu /home/reddeer/classlog/boucls01.html (2190 words)

	Myth@Bungie.org -> Legends and Lore -> Relics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Connacht has the cycle revealed to him (apparently in Myth 3) and that his destiny is to be reborn as the Leveller.
		This is the second cycle which corresponds to the inhabitants and events of Myth during the four ages.
		Alric's breaking of the cycle could be likened to the Celtic cycle of rebirth and regeneration being forgotten after Christianity.
	myth.bungie.org /legends/relics/celtic.html (4509 words)

	The Rowan Grove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I'm not sure which cycle this goes with, but I've put it in the mythological cycle.
		The Fenian Cycle - The Fenian cycle deals with the adventures of Finn MacCumhail, his son Oisin, and the Fenians, or Finnians.
		The Historical Cycle is the cycle dealing with the kings and warriors late in Irish legend and often accepted to be of a more real and historical quality.
	www.rowangrove.org /druid/d-links.htm (739 words)

	Ireland's OWN Myths & Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many of the stories, however, alternate between the land of the mortals and the domain of the gods.
		And, although they are set in prehistoric times, these mythological tales reflect many aspects of later Irish society.
		There are frequent references to the power of three — which later became the Celtic Triad, and later the Christian Trinity.
	irelandsown.net /mythologicalcycle.html (283 words)

	Cerridwen's Cauldron
		he term "Mythological Cycle" is a collective term applied to the stories in Irish literature which describe the doings of otherworldly characters.
		Among the names in the stories of the Mythological cycle are Bodb Derg, Dagdha, Lir, Aonghus, Partholan, Erannan, Lugh and Balor.
		The central, and structurally the basic, story in the cycle is Táin Bó Cúailnge (The cattle raid of Cooley).
	groups.msn.com /cerridwenscauldron/mythsamplegends.msnw (848 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Green, Celtic Myths
		The Ulster Cycle, as its name suggests, is a mythological tradition which belongs only to Ulster; there is nothing comparable for any other region of Ireland.
		This archaism is especially apparent in the Ulster Cycle, which describes a situation prior to the fifth century AD when Ulster's political position within Ireland fundamentally changed.
		Because of the chronological and spatial divergences already outlined, it is not possible to perceive the two as part of the same continuum of evidence.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exgrecep.html (3240 words)

	Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"In the so-called Mythological Cycle the chief characters belong to the Tuatha de Danaan, 'The Peoples of the Goddess Danann', who are said to have occupied Ireland before the coming of the Sons of Mil, the ancestors of the present inhabitants.
		The main criticism that is levelled against the mythological sources is the fact that they were written down by the priests of the new religion, Christianity.
		First of all apart from the historical cycle which deals with the arrival of Christianity the mythology is handled with a certain amount of sensitivity.
	www.clannada.org /culture_taraclan.php (2749 words)

	DeDanaan » The Cycles of Irish Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The cycle consists of numerous prose tales and poems found in medieval manuscripts, as well as pseudo-historical chronicles such as Lebor GabÃ¡la Ã‰renn and the early parts of the Annals of the Four Masters and SeathrÃºn CÃ©itinn’s History of Ireland.
		Lebor GabÃ¡la Ã‰renn tells of a series of invasions or “takings” of Ireland by a succession of peoples, one of whom was the people known as the Tuatha DÃ© Danaan, who were believed to have inhabited the island before the arrival of the Gaels, or Milesians.
		It includes a lot of important information on Mythological Cycle figures and stories, including the Battle of Tailltiu, in which the Tuatha DÃ© Danaan were defeated by the Milesians.
	dedanaan.com /the-cycles-of-irish-myth/2 (610 words)

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