The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and RomanceSquire, Charles
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The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance
Squire, Charles
Celts -- Folklore; Mythology, Celtic
Diodorus Siculus, 41, 42, 325.
Dionysus, rites of, 410.
Dis Pater, 51, 120, 252, 383.
Dissull the Giant, 348-349.
Diwrnach the Gael, the cauldron of, 346, 349.
Dobhar, king of Sicily, 96, 98, 102, 103.
Doctrine of the transmigration of souls, 36, 37.
Domnann, Fir, _i.e._ men of Domnu. See Fir Domnann.
Domnu, a goddess, mother of the Fomors, 48, 70, 112;
meaning of the name, 48;
gods of Domnu, 48, 70;
men of Domnu, 70.
Dôn, the British equivalent of the Gaelic Danu, 44, 252, 260, 268, 269,
273, 295, 308, 310, 316;
euhemerized into a king of Dublin, 372-373.
Donn, son of Milé, 126-131, 246.
“Donn’s House”, 246.
Dormarth, the hound of Gwyn son of Nudd, 257.
Dowth, 137-138.
Dragon, Red, of Britain, 378;
White, of the Saxons, 378.
“Dragon-mouth”, a lake called, 141.
_Dream of Rhonabwy_, the, 260, 312, 337, 338.
Drogheda, 137.
Drowes, river, 110.
Drudwyn, the whelp of Greid the son of Eri, 347.
Druidism, the religion of the Celts, 35, 43;
possibly non-Aryan in origin, 36;
in Gaul, 34;
derived from Britain, 35;
suppressed by the Romans, 399, 400.
Druids, 18, 33-37, 84, 111, 115, 151, 179, 180, 182, 188, 202, 399-401,
411, 412, 417;
origin of the name, 33;
in Gaul, 34;
in Britain, 35;
human sacrifices of the druids, 37, 412;
the druids of Brude, king of the Picts, 401.
Drumcain, an old name for Tara, 126.
Dublin, 66, 372.
Duke of the Britains, the, 313.
Dulachan, 247, 248.
_Dul-dauna_, the, 237.
Dun Cow, Book of the. See Cow.
Dundalk, 177.
Dundealgan, 177, 181, 188, 189.
Dún Scaith, 175-176.
_Dux Britanniarum._ See Duke of the Britains.
Dwynwen, Saint, 388.
Dyfan, Saint, 386.
Dyfed, or Demetia, a province of South Wales, 273, 278, 279, 281, 282,
286, 298-301, 303, 304, 309, 310, 394.
Dylan, a British god, 261, 262, 322, 335, 360, 364, 371.
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