Myths & Legends of the Celtic RaceRolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Religion
Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race
Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Celts -- Religion; Mythology, Celtic
HIGH KINGS OF IRELAND.
Stone of Destiny used for crowning of, 105
HILL OF AINÉ.
Name of goddess Ainé clings to, 128;
Ainé appears, on a St. John’s Night, among girls on, 128
HILL OF ALLEN.
Finn’s hounds, while returning to, recognise Saba, 266;
Oisīn returns to, 273;
Finn returns to, 278;
return of the Fianna to, to celebrate the wedding feast of Finn and
Tasha, 295;
Finn bears Grania as his bride to, 304
HILL OF KESHCORRAN. Finn bewitched by hags on, 277
HILL OF MACHA. Significance, 251
“HISTORIA BRITONUM.” See Nennius
HISTORIA REGUM BRITANIÆ. See Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Furnished subject for “Gorborduc” and “King Lear,” 338;
wonderful success of, translated by Wace into French, by Layamon into
Anglo-Saxon, 338, 339
HOMER. His gloomy picture of the departed souls of men conducted to the
underworld, 79, 80;
reference to, 147
HORSES OF MANANAN. White-crested waves called, 125
HOUND OF ULSTER. See Cuchulain, 217, 233;
element in Gaelic names, 184
HUGH. One of the Children of Lir, 142
HULL, Miss, referred to, 133, _note_; 203, _note_
HUNGARY. Miled’s name as a god in a Celtic inscription from, 130
HYDE, DR. DOUGLAS. Reference to his folk tale about Dermot of the Love
Spot. 291
HYPERBOR´EANS. Equivalent to Celts, 17
I
IBERIANS Aquitani and, resemblance between, 58, 59
ILDA´NACH (“The All-Craftsman”). Surname conferred upon Lugh, the Sun-god,
113
ILLYRIANS Celts conquer, 22
IMMORTALITY. Origin of so-called “Celtic” doctrine of, 75, 76;
Egyptian and “Celtic” ideas of, 78-89
INDIA. Dolmens found in, 53;
symbol of the feet found in, 77;
practice in, of allotting musical modes to seasons of the year, 118
INDRA. Hindu sky-deity corresponding to Brown Bull of Quelgny, 203
INGCEL. One-eyed chief, son of King of Great Britain, an exile, 169
INVASION MYTHS, THE, OF IRELAND. See Myths
INVERSKEN´A Ancient name of Kenmore River, so called after Skena, 133
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