Fomorians
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- civilization. Foam Woman’s twenty breasts for the founders of the Raven Clans recall the 10 Atlantean kings Plato describes as the forefathers of subsequent civilizations. Fomorach Also known as the Fomorians, Fomhoraicc, F’omoraig Afaic, Fomoraice, or Fomoragh. Described in Irish folklore as a “sea people,” they were the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, although they established their chief headquarters
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- else than a folk-memory o f the Atlantean tradition. 1 The Iberian race, which has probably always been in the majority in Ireland, is, of course, the Azilian in a modern form. They were, indeed, the Fomorians, the "Under Sea" people, the folk skilled in magic and the dark sciences. "Eternal battle between the gods , Children of Danu, and the giants, children of Domnu ," says Squire, "would reflect, in the
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- es as Scarborough and the Giants' Causeway are eloquent of their form er presence. The Scottish mountains harboured Titans, who were great stone-throwers, like the Titans of C entral America, and the Fomorians of Ireland were of monst rous height. A careful examination of the giant-lore of Europe undoubtedly brings to light the existence of a form er great Titanic pantheon, and it is remarkable that the ma
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- d stole away before the light of day. At first light Fionn appeared at the door of the giants beating on his shield for attention. Seeing that they were not outfitted to beat down their opponent, the Fomorians admitted their general weakness, their connection with the Mhorrigan and their wish for forgiveness. Fionn swore them to the Feinn and they proved faithful to his cause from that time forward. ABHALL
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- Plains of Sligo in western Ireland. Retreating to their western strongholds, the losers were followed by Dagda , the “father of the gods,” along with two of his sons. Using magic, the trio placed the Fomorians in a trance-state, despoiled their countryside and stole samples from the waters of the fountain. At home they were able to reconstitute this "living-water" as the drink which is now called uisge or
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- r . The crime of the land people is forgotten in some of their versions of mythology, thus one tale says that Manann gave the Lia Fail or “Stone of Destiny” to the land-folk, entrusting it to one the Fomorians to transport it to Tara. When his messenger was a long time returning from this errand, Manann supposedly became enraged and withdrew the black stone, instructing mac Caoilte to place it instead “on
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- the observances of a pre-druidic faith.” 17 Following the antediluvian series of Banba, the company of fishermen, and the granddaughter of Noah, there came to the Emerald Isle a grotesque race called Fomorians, some of whom were footless; some had only one side, and all were descendants of the biblical Ham. They were giants, yet were defeated by the next arrivals, the race of Partholan from Spain, who were
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- Morgana, Morgan la Fee. He spied her when she was washing in a river, with one foot at Echumech in the north and the other at Loscuinn in the south. But he, that very day, had been challenged by the Fomorians to drink a certain broth. They had filled the prodigious caldron of their own king, Balor of the Evil Eye, with four times twenty gallons of milk, four times twenty of meal and fat, and had put in go
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- 61, 164, 171, 173, 302: see also mother goddess Finland, 73 Finn MacCumhaill (MacCumhal, McCool), 471-72 Finnen, Saint, 300 Finntain, 299 Firbolgs, 300 Fite, Warner, 60 Flood, 91, 299, 459 Flora, 321 Fomorians, 300, 302 Fortuna, 309, 321 France, 31, 33, 65, 264, 393, 419, 453, 466, 483, 495-500, 503: see also Gaul Francis of Assisi, 501 Franks, 393 Frazer, James G., 46, 313; quoted, 19, 155 free will, 6, 2
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- Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation 3 From the End of Heaven Sons of Zadok, Sons of Seth, the Uranids, Cyclopeans, Promethians, Olympians, the Elect, Asuras, the Illies, Fomorians, the Necromancers, Rayless Ones, Bent Ones, the Dogons, Dagons, the Ana, Amaraka, Nagas, the Rakshasas, Dragon Kings, Naddred, the Brotherhood of the Snake, and the Serpent People. They were also ref
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- nd and its natives for centuries until they were finally overthrown. The Celtic word Fomhoraigh , means “giants,” and also derives from a term that means “from under the seas.” The myths say that the Fomorians lived under the ocean. Interest- ingly, one of the ancient names for the mythical lost isles was Tir fo thuinn , meaning “Land beneath the Wave.” One of these mysterious weapons mentioned in the Iris
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- ld of future events. He says that in the process of time they became perverted, begat sons who made God their enemy, were despisers of all that was good and were destroyed. (p. 26) Odysseus Meets the Fomorians The Laestrygones were also a giant people, kinsmen of the Cyclops, we are told, addicted to cannibal- ism...and were worshippers of Poseidon like the Cyclops and Cretans. Can there be any serious dou
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- over 5,000 years BC (but known to be considerably earlier), was of a tribe called Partholon, after its chief. This race engaged in a death struggle with an evil pre-diluvian hybrid race known as the Fomorians. The nemesis of all later invaders, the Fomorians lived under the ocean. They patrolled the coasts and kept watch over the entire land of Ireland by means of a strange seeing crystal housed in a towe
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- se trying to make sense of ancient Irish history, both contingents - the Partholans and Nemedians - on completely separate occasions, are stricken with disease after their successful wars against the Fomorians. A short time after their arrival each group i s entirely decimated by plague. Not one man, woman, or child survived. And so their people exist only in story form. They came, they conquered, and then
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- to be reapprais ed. The chroniclers speak of this cyclopean race but state that the Fomorian kings (Elathan and his son Breas) w e re the most beautiful of men. According to the various legends, the Fomorians (who were also known as the Men of Lochlann) lived on or under th e sea. As regards Ireland, they behaved like zealous and ruthless security guards. They belligerently attacked anyone who attempted t
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- Ancient Celts ) In our reappraisal, we conclude that the F omorians were Atlanteans. W e con c lude that the British Isles and Scandinavia were part of the Hyperborean or Atlantean civilization. The Fomorians were also known as the Men of Loc h lann. This is a reference to Norway, the land of lakes. Clearly, the Fomori ans had taken to the seas in order to survive the after - effects of the deluge but did
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- were obliged to she lter themselves for three days and three nights - Charles Squire ( Celtic Myth and Legend ) According to the legends, the De Danann were obliged to fight wars against the resident Fomorians and Iberian Fir Bolg in order to gain control over the land. The con flict with the Fir Bolg commenced in W estern island in what is now Country Sligo. The De Danann and Fir Bolg were of the same rac
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- the ancient god Bel, are Belfast , Beltaine, Baltic , and Palestine (from Pelishtim , meaning Philistines) According to texts dating from the eleventh century, the Tuatha De Danann's battle with the Fomorians (known in Gaelic as Mag Tuireadh na b - Fomorach because it was fought on the Northern plain of Moytura in County Sligo), pr o ved to be a different kettle of fish to that which occurred between them
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- nder") muir ("sea"). However, the name probably derives from fo morio , meaning "great ones." The name of their king, Elathan, has been connected to words that mean "knowledge." W e conclude that the Fomorians were not from under the sea but from ci vilizations that had sunk beneath the sea. The legends state that two Fomorian kings, Marc and Conan, had built what is clearly described as "a glass tower" up
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- ronghold of Danu's People. Ith presented himself before the three De D a nann kings (Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, and Mac Greiné) who ha d succeeded the high king Nuada after his death in battle against the Fomorians. (His tomb, known as Grianan Aileach , the "Place of the Sun," lies at Inishowen Peninsula, between Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle, not far from Derry city). The legends say that Ith was greeted by men
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- is period are also attributed some of the less ta ngible assets of civilisation, law-giving and ritual practices. As did their successors, so did the pe ople of Partholon fight against and defeat the Fomorians. These latter were a race of demons, generally monstrous and hideous, who fought against Partholon with supernatural powers. After an interval of thirty years the people of Ne med came into Ireland a
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- kingship having been satirised so successfully by Cairbre, the principal bard of the Tuatha, that boils appeared on his face. His enforced abdication resulted in formal war between the Tuatha and the Fomorians, a war fought after seven years of preparation with the help of magical weapons. The Fomorians were defeated at the second ba ttle of Mag Tuireadh, or Moytura the Northern, used to distinguish it fro
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- igan by the River Unius in Connacht on the first of November and with the Boann, the goddess of the River Boyne, also on the first of November. During the time of th e domination of the Tualha by the Fomorians the Dagda was able to display his skill as a builder in constructing fortresses. It was at this time, too, that he appears to have undergone a ritual ordeal on the first of November when he was oblig
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- was armed with spear and sling, weapons more highly specialised and which were capable of accu rate aim beyond the immediate reach of a man's arm. With his sling Lug killed Balor, the champion of the Fomorians at the battle of Mag Tuireadh (Moytura the Northern) by hurling a slingstone into his one enormous eye. This was the final defeat of the Fomorians and Lug was cast as the hero of the Tuatha. It has b
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- dren of Don who were sky deities. This is disputable, hut the two groups appear to have represented successive groups of gods worshipped in Britain. As in the case of the 7'H«//i« Dt' D«»»;i« and the Fomorians in Ireland there was intermarriage suggesting some form of rapprochement 232 — CELTIC MYTHOLOGY between contending groups. British archaeological evidence shows that in the highland /one where most o
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- se agricultural economy was still liable to failure. The origins of the feast may remount in time to the pre-Celtic period. In the Mythological Cycle the people of Nemed were forced to render to th e Fomorians on this day two-thirds of their milk, their corn and children. Allowing for exaggeration this seems to refer to a distant memory of a considerable offering of agricultural produce and perhaps of huma
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- jourd hui (Bertrand, "Rel. des G.," p. 356] The name of this deity is not given. D'Arbois de Jubainville considers that, together with Aesus, Teutates, Taranus, and, in Irish mythology, Balor and the Fomorians, he represents the powers of darkness, death, and evil, and Celtic mythology is thus interpreted as a variant of the universal solar myth, embodying~ the conception of the eternal conflict between Da
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- rivers, and only one plain. Others were added gradually [96] during the reign of the Partholanians. One, Lake Rury, was said to have burst out as a grave was being dug for Rury, son of Partholan. The Fomorians The Partholanians, it is said, had to do battle with a strange race , called the Fomorians, of whom we shall hear much in later sections of this book. They were a huge, misshapen, violent and cruel p
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- this mythical matter with Christianity, invented for them a descent from Scriptural patriarchs and an origin in earthly lands such as Spain or Scythia. Both of them had to do constant battle with the Fomorians, whom the later legends make out to be pirates from oversea, but who are doubtless divinities representing the powers of darkness and evil. There is no legend of the Fomorians coming into Ireland, no
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- Fomorians were then enabled to establish their tyranny over Ireland. They had at this period two kings, Morc and Conann. The stronghold of the Formorian power was on Tory Island, which uplifts its wild cliffs
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- ad treated with the Firbolgs and who was slain in the battle of Moytura. Now Bres, although strong and beautiful to look on, had no gift of kingship, for he not only allowed the enemy of Ireland, the Fomorians, to renew their oppression and taxation in the land, but he himself taxed his subjects heavily too; and was so niggardly that he gave no hospitality to chiefs and nobles and harpers. Lack of generosi
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- en with ropes and pulleys when the time came to turn it on his foes. Nuada could make no more head against him than Bres had done when king ; and the country still groaned under the oppression of the Fomorians and longed for a champion and redeemer. The Coming of Lugh A new figure now comes into the myth, no other than Lugh son of Kian, the Sun−god par excellance of all Celtica, whose name we can still ide
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- ressors; and when the Danaans saw him, they felt, it is said, as if they beheld the rising of the sun on a dry summer's day. Instead of paying the tribute, they, under Lugh's leadership, attacked the Fomorians, all of whom were slain but nine men, and these were sent back to tell Balor that the Danaans defied him and would pay no tribute henceforward. Balor then made him ready for battle; and bade his capt
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- y magical arts, causes forgetfulness to fall upon them, and they return to Ireland with their treasures. These, especially the spear and the pig−skin, are just what Lugh needs to help him against the Fomorians; but his vengeance is not complete, and after receiving the treasures he reminds the brothers of what is yet to be won. They, in deep dejection, now begin to understand how they are played with, and
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- ed close to Balor, and as it began to lift once more he hurled into the eye a great stone which sank into the brain, and Balor lay dead, as the prophecy had foretold, at the hand of his grandson. The Fomorians were then totally routed, and it is not recorded that they ever again gained any authority or committed any extensive depredations in Ireland. Lugh, the Ild‡nach, was then enthroned in place of Nuada
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- trails it on the march, draws a furrow in the ground like the fosse which marks the mearing of a province. An element of grotesque humour is present in some of the records about this deity. 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 i
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- ar attributes than any other Celtic deity; and, as we know, his worship was spread widely over Continental Celtica. In the tale of the Quest of the Sons of Turenn we are told that Lugh approached the Fomorians from the west. Then Bres, son of Balor, arose and said: "I wonder that the sun is rising in the west today, and in the east every other day." "Would were so," said his Druids. "Why, what else but the
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- Ith, on landing, finds that the Danaan king, Neit, has just been slain in a battle with the Fomorians, and the three sons, MacCuill and the others, are at the fortress of Aileach, in Co. Donegal, arranging for a division of the land among themselves. At first they. [132] welcome Ith, and ask him to s
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- the Firbolgs with the light and penetrating spears of the People of Dana is an indication which it is impossible to mistake. Again, in their struggle with a far more powerful and dangerous enemy, the Fomorians, we are evidently to see the combat of the powers of Light with evil of a more positive kind than that represented by the Firbolgs. The Fomorians stand not for mere dullness or [137] stupidity, but f
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- s Beli, the Irish Bil god of Death, and whose descendants are the Children of Light; and the House of Llyr, the Gaelic Lir, who here represents, not a Danaan deity, but something more like the Irish Fomorians. As in the case of the Irish myth, the [348] two families are allied by intermarriage ö Penardun, a daughter of Don, is wedded to Llyr. Don herself has a brother, Math, whose name signifies wealth or
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- us kinds and becomes active under their influence. Sources: Powell, A. E. The Etheric Double. 1926. Reprint, Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1969. Ethlinn Daughter of Balor, king of the Fomorians of ancient Irish magic legend. She was Balor’s only child, and because he had been informed by a Druid that he would be killed by his grand- son, Balor had Ethlinn imprisoned in a tower and guarded b
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- n In Irish mythology the father of Lugh (who was the father of the Ulster warrior-hero Cuchulain). Kian had a magic cow with a wonderful supply of milk. After the cow was stolen by Balor (king of the Fomorians), Kian took revenge by making Balor’s daughter, Ethlinn, the mother of three sons. Two were drowned by Balor, and the third, Lugh, escaped by falling into a bay and being wafted back to his father, K
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- s the Irish sun god; his final conquest of the Fo- morians and their leader symbolizes the victory of light and in- tellect over darkness. Balor was god of darkness and brute force as embodied in the Fomorians. By his title of Ildanach, or ‘‘All Craftsman,’’ Lugh is comparable to the Greek Apollo. He was widely worshiped by Continental Celts. Luk, Charles (Lu K’uan Yü) (1898– ?) Chinese-born teacher and wr
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- else than a folk-memory o f the Atlantean tradition. 1 The Iberian race, which has probably always been in the majority in Ireland, is, of course, the Azilian in a modern form. They were, indeed, the Fomorians, the "Under Sea" people, the folk skilled in magic and the dark sciences. "Eternal battle between the gods , Children of Danu, and the giants, children of Domnu ," says Squire, "would reflect, in the
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- es as Scarborough and the Giants' Causeway are eloquent of their form er presence. The Scottish mountains harboured Titans, who were great stone-throwers, like the Titans of C entral America, and the Fomorians of Ireland were of monst rous height. A careful examination of the giant-lore of Europe undoubtedly brings to light the existence of a form er great Titanic pantheon, and it is remarkable that the ma
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- gical evidence relevant to Celtic sacrifice." 12 Indeed, there is little reference to this practice in Celtic literature. The only surviving story echoes the tale of the Minotaur in Greek legend: the Fomorians, a race of evil giants said to inhabit portions of Ireland before the coming of the Tuatha Dé Danann (or "people of the Goddess Danu"), demanded the sacrifice of 2/3 of the corn, milk and first-born
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- ook at "non-political" druidry. Some useful information but mostly either bad or dangerous advice, like a ritual that includes giving honey to a newborn (potentially deadly). MacFirbis, Duald, On the Fomorians and the Norsemen (Det Norske Historiske Kildeskriftfond, Bogrykkeri 1905) P, trans by Alexander Bugge. Text compiled approx. 1650. Irish and English. Equates the vikings with the mythical Formoi. Mac
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- hat of Neimhedh (Nemed). He came from Scythia. Neimhedh had 4 chiefs with him. Nemhed fought and won three battles over the Fomhoire. Fo-mhor (over the sea, or something like that). Despite this, the Fomorians seemed to be quite good at opressing the Nemedians, by demanding 2/3 of their agricultural output at Samhain, delivered to Magh Cetne. The Nemedians went to Greece and collected an army, some drui an
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- ck do in reanimated corpses. <Occult Factiod #912 collect em all.) The TdD arrive in Ireland on a Monday, in the Calends of May, where they burn their ships on the shore so they cannot return, or the Fomorians use the ships. The TdD fought with the Fir Bolg (it is, after all Ireland we are talking about...), won, lost, won again, lost again, were healed, hurt, etc. Nuada gets his silver arm and loses kings
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- d the mating of the Dagdha with the Morrigan, the Queen of Death and Darkness, the Washer at the Ford. She gives the Dagdha the advice to assemble the Aes Dana or skilled ones and to advance upon the Fomorians at Maige Turedh. The Goddess of War then goes to kill the King of the Fomorians (Indech mac De Domnann) in his tent at Scetne. The Second Battle of Maige Turedh (Moytura) is won by the De Danaans on
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- igit, the daughter of the Druid Dougal the Brown. Brigid is very like the Greek Goddess Athena. Lugh Sam ildanach (many skilled). This is the Celtic Mercury. The grandson of Balor (leader of the Fomorians and the son of 3186 Cian and Ethniu, a Sidhe princess. His feast is Lughnasadh, a celebration of the death of his "foster mother", Tailtiu. He is the combination of the Tuatha de Dannans and the
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- opposedto those of earth and sea. In Scandinavian tradition the two opposing sides werethose of the Æsir and the Vanir, while in Irish tradition the Tuatha De firstdefeated the Fir Bolg and then the Fomorians, the latter led by a former king ofthe gods deposed for his meanness and tyranny. The first battle was a victory forthe gods and ended in a truce, with Ireland divided between them. The secondbattle,
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- n common with Thor is the Dagda,the ‘Good God’. Like Thor he is enormously strong, and renowned for his hugeappetite. This is shown in the tale of the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, when hisenemies the Fomorians prepared a meal of porridge for him containing 80 gallonsof milk and equal amounts of meal and fat, together with carcases of goats, sheepand swine. This they poured into a hole in the ground, and ch
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- 134Flag Fen 36Flateyjarbók, Freyr’s cult in 103, 104, 106;Hakon Jarl in 110; help from dead in124; tale of Volsi in 105; Thor’s cultin 101flax 108, 116, 117Flóamanna Saga 124Folklore Society 148, 151Fomorians 71, 72, 83France 6, 125; see alsoAulay-aux-Planches, Entremont, VixFranks 5, 90Franks Casket 157Frazer, Sir James 75, 149, 151, 155, 160Freyfaxi 104Freyja 64, 65, 71, 86, 105, 108ff.; sacrificeto 99;
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- s. Most of these concern matters other than cursing, however. For example, the dáil n-asdadha or ‘decree of binding’ referred to in the poem chanted by Lugh after the Tuatha Dé Danann’s defeat of the Fomorians in the Second Battle of Moytura seems to be a reference to the establishment of law and order rather than some sort of agonistic magic. The sithcura or ‘peace-binding’ of a poem recorded in the First
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- lary. Indeed, the fasdar or ‘holding’ similarly represents another contractual term, and even though it is related to the expression asdadha, which is used to describe Lugh’s decree of binding on the Fomorians in the Second Battle of Moytura, the term is also the regular Irish word for ‘employment’ – for giving someone a job. Even the rhetorical ‘request’ seems rather different from those which appear in t
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- inte in gai, cáinte gaithe?Who smooths the stones of a mountain?Who knows the age of the moon?Who sees where the setting sun rests?Who takes the cattle from the house of Tethra (i.e. the chief of the Fomorians)?At whom do the cattle of Tethra smile?Who is a stag, who is a god that sharpens a spike of sore?Enchantments in a spear? Enchantments of a wind?Yet the claim to antiquity for the Amairgin poems is b
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- that Cuchulainn undergoes during his battle rage in the Cattle Raid of Cooley – and, indeed, one of Lugh’s feats in the Second Battle of Moytura is his besting of Balor, the one-eyed champion of the Fomorians. Yet, rather than martial matters, Lugh’s name is more often linked with words indicating contracts or oaths, much as if he was originally conceptualised as some sort of old Celtic god of contracts o
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- ach’s healing charm, it instead has rather more of a narrative feeling to it, much as might be expected of a poem which was included in order to highlight the tension of the coming battle between the Fomorians and the euhemerised Irish gods. Its apparent archaism may well merely be a sign that the version of the Second Battle of Moytura that has survived is merely based on a much earlier tale of which pass
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- 178–9, 183, 187–8, 190–1, 194–5, 197–8, 202 see also ueletsFillan, St 176Finn mac Cumhail 8, 157, 160–1, 194fír see truthFirst Battle of Moytura (Cath Maige Tuired I) 138Fisher King 106fith-fath 194–5Fomorians 115, 138, 141, 184, 191–2Fontana 165–6formula 9, 19, 25–6, 39, 64 n.19, 73, 89, 104 n.25, 112, 168, 172, 174, 183, 185–6formulary 111, 131–2 see also curses, books offosterage 60–3Foyi 13Frankfurt 10
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- e were driven between the two fires," so that they would be free from disease throughout the coming year. Diancecht, the physician of the Tuatha D' Danann, obtained victory for his people against the Fomorians at the second battle of Moytura by placing " one of every herb that grew in Erin " in a well called Slane near the battlefield and singing spells over the well; into it all the mortally-wounded Tuath
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- various kindsand becomes active under their influence.Sources:Powell, A. E. The Etheric Double. 1926. Reprint, Wheaton, Ill.:Theosophical Publishing House, 1969.EthlinnDaughter of Balor, king of the Fomorians of ancient Irishmagic legend. She was Balor’s only child, and because he hadbeen informed by a Druid that he would be killed by his grand-son, Balor had Ethlinn imprisoned in a tower and guarded by12
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- .KianIn Irish mythology the father of Lugh (who was the fatherof the Ulster warrior-hero Cuchulain). Kian had a magic cowwith a wonderful supply of milk. After the cow was stolen byBalor (king of the Fomorians), Kian took revenge by makingBalor’s daughter, Ethlinn, the mother of three sons. Two weredrowned by Balor, and the third, Lugh, escaped by falling intoa bay and being wafted back to his father, Kian
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- was the Irish sun god; his final conquest of the Fo-morians and their leader symbolizes the victory of light and in-tellect over darkness. Balor was god of darkness and brute forceas embodied in the Fomorians. By his title of Ildanach, or ‘‘AllCraftsman,’’ Lugh is comparable to the Greek Apollo. He waswidely worshiped by Continental Celts.Luk, Charles (Lu K’uan Yü) (1898–?)Chinese-born teacher and writer
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- gical evidence relevant to Celtic sacrifice." 12 Indeed, there is little reference to this practice in Celtic literature. The only surviving story echoes the tale of the Minotaur in Greek legend: the Fomorians, a race of evil giants said to inhabit portions of Ireland before the coming of the Tuatha Dé Danann (or "people of the Goddess Danu"), demanded the sacrifice of 2/3 of the corn, milk and first-born
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- ook at "non-political" druidry. Some useful information but mostly either bad or dangerous advice, like a ritual that includes giving honey to a newborn (potentially deadly). MacFirbis, Duald, On the Fomorians and the Norsemen (Det Norske Historiske Kildeskriftfond, Bogrykkeri 1905) P, trans by Alexander Bugge. Text compiled approx. 1650. Irish and English. Equates the vikings with the mythical Formoi. Mac
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- hat of Neimhedh (Nemed). He came from Scythia. Neimhedh had 4 chiefs with him. Nemhed fought and won three battles over the Fomhoire. Fo-mhor (over the sea, or something like that). Despite this, the Fomorians seemed to be quite good at opressing the Nemedians, by demanding 2/3 of their agricultural output at Samhain, delivered to Magh Cetne. The Nemedians went to Greece and collected an army, some drui an
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- ck do in reanimated corpses. <Occult Factiod #912 collect em all.) The TdD arrive in Ireland on a Monday, in the Calends of May, where they burn their ships on the shore so they cannot return, or the Fomorians use the ships. The TdD fought with the Fir Bolg (it is, after all Ireland we are talking about...), won, lost, won again, lost again, were healed, hurt, etc. Nuada gets his silver arm and loses kings
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- d the mating of the Dagdha with the Morrigan, the Queen of Death and Darkness, the Washer at the Ford. She gives the Dagdha the advice to assemble the Aes Dana or skilled ones and to advance upon the Fomorians at Maige Turedh. The Goddess of War then goes to kill the King of the Fomorians (Indech mac De Domnann) in his tent at Scetne. The Second Battle of Maige Turedh (Moytura) is won by the De Danaans on
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- igit, the daughter of the Druid Dougal the Brown. Brigid is very like the Greek Goddess Athena. Lugh Sam ildanach (many skilled). This is the Celtic Mercury. The grandson of Balor (leader of the Fomorians and the son of 3186 Cian and Ethniu, a Sidhe princess. His feast is Lughnasadh, a celebration of the death of his "foster mother", Tailtiu. He is the combination of the Tuatha de Dannans and the