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I’m always asked to respond to these posts of people trying to speak “authoritatively” on Celtic myth, who clearly have never read a single one of the primary texts. In all honesty, I get second hand embarrassment. But I’m not here to bully. Celtic myth is confusing. For those who want to say Lugh is = to Odin: Name a single narrative myth that they share. Not a vague family relation or association. I’ll show you what I mean. Who is the lord of the Gaelic “mannerbund” (the Fiana) who receives knowledge from a magic well? Finn. Who is the leader of the Wild Hunt? Gwyn, Welsh linguistic cognate of Finn. Who loses an eye and transforms into a fish, as Odin also does? Fintan, divine ancestor of the sovereign god Nuada. Who fasts under a magical tree to gain the power of prophecy, next to waters that turn all things white, after drinking from a magical cup? Finn. Who is considered the storehouse of all knowledge? Fintan. Who divides Sky from Earth along with his two brothers, as Odin does with Ymir’s body? Eber Finn. Who steals back the wondrous liquid from the giant the tower and sleeps with his daughter while there? Finn Mac Kinealy. Finn. None of these myths belong to Lugh. Lugh does not lose an eye, or turn into a fish, or gain wisdom from a well, or lead the wild hunt or lead the Fiana. IN FACT LUGAID MAC CON’S FIANA LEADER IS FIONN MAC CUMHAILL. Almost all of Odin’s myths are reflected in the myths of Finn/Fintan, none in Lugh. Name me a single narrative, full mythic story, that Odin shares with Lugh/Lugaid. As long as you remain silent in response to this question your claim stands refuted. Come back to the subject when you’ve studied more. Until then, stop spreading misinformation to those who won’t know better. - O’Gravy, The Sun Riders @solarcult

We have discussed above that Weden [Óðinn] is the supreme God of the Germanic people in the Eddic sources, and that all the Gods are Gods by virtue of sharing His divine essence. What many people do not know, however, is that this idea is attested in our earliest literary sources, namely Tacitus' Germania. In c. 9: "Among the gods Mercury is the one they principally worship. They regard it as a religious duty to offer to him, on fixed days, human as well as other sacrificial victims." There's little doubt about the identity of Mercury being in reality the same God as Weden. This identification of foreign Gods using the lens of Roman religion is called Interpretatio Romana, and we have discussed the Interpretatio methods at length in our previous posts. Nevertheless, we can be sure that Tacitus here uses this method because he tells us about it elsewhere, in c. 43: "Among the Naharvali [...] they say that their deities, according to the Roman interpretation, are Castor and Pollux: that is the character of their godhead, of which the name is ‘the Alci’." We get more interesting information about the ancient Germanic understanding of Weden, however, when Tacitus discusses the Suebi, and in particular the Suebian Semnones, who are said to be the most ancient and the noblest of the Suebian tribes. He says, that they performed human sacrifices to a God, who can be identified with Weden based on the fact that earlier Tacitus confirms that it is to Him that the Germanic people give human sacrifices. And he gives the following description: "This whole superstition is based on the belief that from this wood the people derives its origin and that the god who reigns over all dwells there, the rest of the world being his obedient subjects." The Latin expression that is used is 'regnator omnium deus', the God who Rules All, and thus, Tacitus couldn't be more clear in confirming that the ancient Germanic view of Weden was that of a Most High God.

Setting the record straight: Lugh = Tyr Be more inquisitive. https://x.com/StructuralMyth1/status/1808201862723797368 Most people speaking on this subject don’t know what is even coming out of their mouths. I’ll tell you the actual Tyr equivalent hand-losing. Cuchulainn (“the Hound”), cornered and wounded, binds himself to a stone. Lugaid (form of Lugh) kills him. As Cuchulainn drops his sword it cuts Lugaid’s hand off, an immediate reaction to being neutralized as when Fenrir bites Tyr’s hand off. Fenrir is indeed bound to a stone in Snorri’s version. Cuchulainn reincarnates into a boar (the Boar of Formael) that is later killed just like Fenrir, among other parallels. So we have this other hand-severing myth, that has much more aligning it with the Fenrir scene. And it is Lugaid who has his hand severed by the bound “hound”. Lugh is Tyr. There is no counter-argument based on actual myths. Stone-bound figure with canine characteristics causes the loss of a hand in a God. That god is Lugaid. People look at Nuada and see “hand severed” and that’s all they think matters. It’s really lazy in retrospect but even Dumezil posited the connection. He then later retracted it when he realized it was wrong! Another confusion put to bed. - O’Gravy, The Sun Riders @solrcult

"These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye: The weak lay hand on what the strong has done, Till that be tumbled that was lifted high- And discord follow upon unison, And all things at one common level lie. And therefore, friend, if your great race were run- And these things came, so much the more thereby- Have you made greatness your companion, Although it be for children that you sigh: These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye."

- Yeats

Celtic Parallels to Odin’s Myths Celtic myth has parallels for essentially all of the famous events of the Odin mythos. If there is any central Odin myth that I am missing here, please comment it below. The primary Celtic Odin is the Gaelic Fionn (aka Eber Finn) whose Welsh linguistic and mythic cognate is Gwyn/Gwion. No other god in Celtic myth has anywhere close to the enormous set of precise parallels to Odin that we see circling Fionn/Gwyn. In the Gaelic case Fionn, leader of the Fianna “mannerbund” is juxtaposed to a rival/friend Fianna leader named Goll, “the one-eyed”. Based on mythic parallels we can see that the two rival-friend Fianna leaders, Fionn and Goll, are two sides of one and the same deity: the one-eyed mannerbund god. Fionn further has a primordial double, named Fintan, who continues the same Fionn/Odin type mythos and who is also esoterically identified with the one-eyed Salmon of Knowledge, Goll Essa Ruaid. Once again we see “Finn” vs “Goll” names as two epithets of the same being. Note: this is not the Rudra vs Siva duality, but closer to the Rudra-Siva vs Mahakala Bhairava duality. Instead, the seer and peace-weaving brother of Eber Finn, named Amergin, is the Siva parallel. Lastly, based on clear parallels to Odin and to Eber Finn, we can deduce that the welsh Efnysien, the hostile one who is juxtaposed to his peace making brother Nisien, is the Welsh Rudra. If we then take this grouping mannerbund gods, centering around the name Fionn/Gwyn and one-eyedness, we can see that parallels to essentially the entire Odin mythos are preserved in Celtic myth, and more beyond what we have of Odin as well. Please read for yourself in each of these tales to find the Celtic versions of these Odin-type myths: 1 Odin loses an eye (see: Fintan loses an eye in “The Hawk of Achill”, also see the one eyed Goll/Goll Essa Ruaid) 2 Odin gaining wisdom at Mimir’s well (see: Fionn in “The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn”) 3 Odin on the Windy Tree acquiring the runes (see: Fionn in “The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn”) 4 Odin’s death being tied to the rampaging beast Fenrir (see: Fionn in “The Chase of Síd na mBan Finn and the Death of Finn”) 5 Odin’s parentage from Borr, son of Buri (See: Eber Finn, son of Galam son of Bile, in “The Milesians,” from Lebor Gabala Erenn) 6 Odin dividing Earth and Sky (see Eber Finn in “The Milesians,” Lebor Gabala Erenn) 7 Odin stealing the mead (See: Fin Mac Kinealy in “Balor on Tory Island”) 8 Odin finding Askr and Embla (See: Efnysien greeting Gwern in “Branwen daughter of Llyr”) 9 Odin leading the mannerbund (see: Fionn leading the Fianna in misc. tales) 10 Odin and the wild hunt (see: misc. Gwyn folklore) 11 Odin shamanically turning into a fish (See: Fintan in “Cessairians” from LGE, see also Goll Essa Ruaid and Gwion-Taliesin in “Hanes Taliesin”) 12 Odin killing the servant who sleeps with Frigg in Gesta Danorum (See: Fionn in “Fionn and the Man in the Tree”) 13 Odin fathering Vidarr, killer of Fenrir (see: Fionn as father and grandfather of Oscar, killer of the Boar of Formael in “The Chase of Síd na mBan Finn and the Death of Finn”) 14 Odin being “Jalk”, gelded (see: Efnysien bursting his own heart in “Math son of Mathonwy”) 15 Odin fathering Valli, avenger of the death of Baldr (see: Amergin fathering Conall Cernach, avenger of the death of Fergus, who was killed like Baldr) Parallels to Rudra that Norse myth doesn’t necessarily have 1 The Vratya (Rudra-Agni) of the Atharvaveda gives rise to Mahadeva by catalyzing the feminine gold within Prajapati (see: Cumhaill (Vratya/Rudra-Agni) fathering Fionn (Mahadeva) via the daughter of Tadhgh (=Prajapati) in “The Cause of the Battle of Cnucha”) 2 Rudra shoots Prajapati while he is uniting with his “daughter” (see: Goll killing Cumhaill in “The Cause of the Battle of Cnucha”) 3 Siva drinks poison and turns blue (see Fionn in “The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn”/Gaedhil Glas in LGE “The Gaedhil”) 4 Mahakala overcomes Kali (see: Goll in “The Cave of Ceis Corann”)

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*Manu and *Yemo DEBUNKED: Response to Crecganford (Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth) [Go to the 33 minute mark for the linguistic debunking of the claim that Ymir = Yama = PIE *Yemo.] - Bruce Lincoln's endlessly regurgitated Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth reconstruction, known as the "*Manu and *Yemus" twin sacrifice myth, is a linguistic and mythological deception. As a myth, it never existed, and it is not the Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth in any way. Those who continue to spread it across the internet, such as the Youtuber Crecganford and other scholars and amateurs in the field, must confront the flaws in this reconstruction and move past Lincoln's theory entirely. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuZe7GngXsU

⚡️The Celtic THUNDERER⚡️ Who is the Celtic Thunderer god, the equivalent of Thor and Indra? Do the Celts even have a Thunderer mythos that has survived, or was it lost forever? We search across the Celtic lands to answer this question once and for all. WATCH: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWMgExBaltI&feature=youtu.be

Begettress of Æneas’ lineage, delight of men and Gods, nourishing Venus, Thou fillest, under Heaven’s gliding signs, ship-bearing sea and fruitful lands, because each kind of living thing is born through Thee and, come to life, goes on to look at Sunlight.

Even Lucretius Carus, a lovesick madman and critic of traditional religion, could not deny the power of the Goddess Venus, and honored her with these and other lines of his poem On the Nature of Things. King Romulus consecrated the month of April to this Goddess, who was worshipped by Roman noblewomen after the first sliver of the April moon was seen. Just as Romans dedicate the month of April to the Goddess Venus, some Germanic peoples dedicate Eastermonth, roughly corresponding to April, to the Goddess Easter (Ēostre, Ōstara), who is clearly the Germanic homologue of Venus. The corresponding Vedic Goddess is known as Uṣas (“Dawn”, cognate of Easter) and Vanas (“Loveliness”, cognate of Venus). - Jōsēphus Græcus, The Sun Riders