An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text
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Conn Ced-cathach in Otherworld, 133 _sqq._, 143.
Connla mac Cuinn in Otherworld, 126, 133, 143.
Constantine, Donation of, 45.
Cormac, King of Cashel, 221-2.
Cormac mac Áirt in Otherworld, 120, 133, 139 _sqq._, 146 _n._
Corpre Cundail, 149.
Cuchulainn, in Otherworld, 120, 127 _sqq._, 130;
and children of Doel Dermait, 146, 149, 150.
Curina, Vision of, 110.
_Dá Brón Flatha Nime_, 174.
Dagda, Elysium of the, 121-3, 144, 183, 190.
Daire Degamra, 137.
Dante, antiquity of his theme, 1-3;
his true originality, 3, 241;
his design, 67-8, 181;
Dante and Virgil, 67;
non-classical sources, 68;
how far indebted to the Irish legends, 243-6;
Dante and Immanuel ben Salamone, 241 _n._;
parallels to the _Fis Adamnáin_, 181, 185, 187, 188 _n._, 189,
193 _n._, 194-5, 200-4;
to the Vision of St. Paul, 230;
to the Vision of Tundale, 225-9;
to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, 235, 238;
representation of the Trinity, 186, 188 _n._;
mystical bird, 189;
cited, 32 _n._, 101 _n._, 103 _n._, 169 _n._, 172, 181 _n._,
193 _n._, 194-6, 209 _n._, 231.
Darmesteter, trans. of _Vendîdâd_, 71 _n._;
on Neo-Platonic ideas in the Avesta, 76 _sqq._
Dead cast no shadows, 61, 79;
nor move eyelids, 61.
Dé Danann, see ‘Tuatha Dé Danann.’
Delbchaem, 136, 138.
Demeter, 49;
and see ‘Mysteries.’
Demonax and the Mysteries, 108.
Demons, malice of, 43, 204;
opposition to the seer’s progress, 167-8, 170, 213, 233, 234, 239.
Derg, Loch, 234.
Derry, Mórdáil at, 18.
Dicuil, 6 _n._, 114, 115.
Dietrich, Prof., on the Greek mysteries, 54 _n._
Dill, Prof., _Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius_, 75 _n._,
88 _n._
Dionysos, in the mysteries, 59;
in the _Frogs_ of Aristophanes, 59.
Divinity, the, representation of, in Paradise, 32, 33;
as a mystical face, 33.
Doel Dermait, children of, and Cuchulainn, 146, 149, 150.
Döllinger on the Donation of Constantine, 45 _n._
Donatus, St., Irish bishop of Fiesole, 6 _n._
Drihthelm, Vision of, 233.
Druimceatt, Mórdáil of, 18.
Drumhome, 7.
Dumas _père_, quoted, 1.
Dungal, 6 _n._
Easter, time of celebrating, 9;
and see ‘Paschal Controversy.’
‘Eater of the Dead,’ Egyptian, 89, 196 _n._
Ecbatana, walls of, 33 _n._, 185.
Ecgfrid, King of Northumbria, 8.
Echtra, class of Irish romance, 118;
E. Nerai, 132;
E. Áirt, 136.
Edward I. and Lia Fáil, 134.
Egypt and the Greek mysteries, 52-3;
early intercourse with Greece, 88-9;
eschatology, 89, 93;
relations to Alexandrian culture, 87-9;
cults in the Hellenic world, 88-9;
intercourse with Irish Church, 113-15.
Elborz, Mount, 71, 81.
Eleusis, see ‘Mysteries.’
Elias in Paradise, 46, 85, 98, 157, 163, 174, 179, 205.