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
TOR MŌR. Precipitous headland in Tory Island;
Ethlinn imprisoned by Balor in tower built on, 110
TORY ISLAND. Stronghold of Fomorian power, 101;
invaded by Nemedians, 101
TRADABAN´, THE WELL OF. Keelta’s praises of, 282, 283
TRANSMIGRATION. The doctrine of, allegation that Celtic idea of
immortality embodied Oriental conception of, 80;
doctrine of, not held by Celts in same way as by Pythagoras and the
Orientals, 81;
Welsh Taliessin who became an eagle, 100.
See Tuan mac Carell
TRENDORN. Conor’s servant, 199;
spies on Deirdre, 200;
is blinded in one eye by Naisi, 200;
declares Deirdre’s beauty to Conor, 200
TREON (tray’on). Father of Vivionn, 287
TRISTAN AND ISEULT. Tale of Dermot and Grania paralleled in story as told
by Heinrich von Freiberg, 299
TROYES. See Chrestien de Troyes
TUAN MAC CARELL. The legend of, recorded in MS. “Book of the Dun Cow,” 97;
king of all deer in Ireland, 99;
name of “gods” given to the People of Dana by, 104
TUATHA DE DANANN (thoo’a-haw day danawn’). Literal meaning, “the folk of
the god whose mother is Dana,” 103
TUMULI. See Dolmens, 53
TURENN. The quest of the Sons of, 113-116;
reference to Lugh in the quest of the Sons of, 123
TWRCH TRWYTH (toorch troo’-with). A king in shape of a monstrous boar, 391
TYLER. Reference of, in his “Primitive Culture,” to festival of Sun-god,
Tezcatlipoca, 77
TYLWYTH TEG. Welsh fairies;
Gwyn ap Nudd, King of the, 353
TYREN. Sister to Murna, 266;
Ullan, husband of, 266;
changed by a woman of the Fairy Folk into a hound, 266
U
UGAINY THE GREAT (oo’gany). Ruler of Ireland, &c., husband of Kesair,
father of Laery and Covac, 152
ULSTER. Kingdom of, founded in reign of Kimbay, 150;
Dithorba’s five sons expelled from, 151;
Dectera’s gift of Cuchulain to, 182;
Conor, King of, 180, 190, 191;
Felim, son of Dall, a lord of, 196;
Maev’s war against province of, to secure Brown Bull of Quelgny,
202-251;
under the Debility curse, 205;
passes of, guarded by Cuchulain of Murthemney, 206;
aroused by Sualtam, 221, 222;
Macha’s curse lifted from men of, 222;
Ailell and Maev make a seven years’ peace with, 225;
curse of Macha again on the men of, 229;
Wee Folk swarm into 248, 249
ULTONIAN-S. Great fair of, visited by Crundchu, 178;
his boast of Macha’s swiftness, 179;
the debility of, caused by Macha’s curse, 179, 180;
the debility of, descends on Ulster, 205;
Cycle, events of, supposed to have happened about time of Christ, 252
UNDERWORLD. The cult of, found existing by Celts when they got to Western
Europe, 82;
Dis, or Pluto, god of, 88;
Māth, god of, 349;
identical with Land of the Dead, 130
USNA. Father of Naisi, 198;
sons of, inquired for by Conor, 199
UTHER PENDRAGON. Father of Arthur, 337
V
VALLEY OF THE THRUSHES. Oisīn’s spell broken in, 274
VEIL OF ILLUSION, THE. Thrown over Caradawc by Caswallan, 372
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