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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_Limbus infantium_, 172, 238;
_Limbus patrum_, 172.
Lindus, temple of, initiation at, 56 _n._
Loeg, 128-9, 147.
Loingseach mac Oengusa, Árd-Rí, 18.
Lothair, King of Lombards and Dungal, 6 _n._
Lucan cited, 49, 229 _n._
Lucian cited, 108, 109, 151.
Lucifer, in _Fis Adamnáin_, 38;
in Vision of Fursa, 167;
in Vision of Tundale, 220.
Lucretius on Tartarus doctrine, 109.
Lug, Irish god, 121.
Lugh mac Cethlenn, dún of, 135, 183 _n._
Lying excluded from Otherworld, 141-2, 143.
Macbeth, parallel in Conn legend, 135.
Machutus, St., and whale, 208 _n._
Mac Conglinne, Vision of, 123.
Maelduin’s Curach, Voyage of, 120, 150 _sqq._
Magh Breg, 8;
M. Mell, 152, 183, 187, 189;
M. Mon, 125;
M. Mór, 122, 148 _n._;
M. Réin, 124.
Malachi, St., 25.
Malignant powers in Irish myth, 129, 130.
Malo, St., see ‘Machutus.’
Manannán mac Lír, 121, 123, 128, 143, 146, 147, 156;
converted into the Devil, 208.
Mangan, J. C, quoted, 148 _n._
Marcus, author of _Vision of Tundale_, 212, 225.
Marianus Scotus, 6 _n._
Martyrs, precedence of, in Paradise, 39, 188.
Mary, B. V., Vision at death of, 9, 107, 181;
in Paradise, 31, 185.
Median conquests, effects of, 70.
Megasthenes, possible borrowings from, 151.
Mercy, leaning of Irish divines towards, 201-2.
Meru, Mount, 81.
Metempsychosis, see ‘Rebirth.’
Meyer, Prof. Kuno, ed. of the _Cáin Adamnáin_, 18;
of the _Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal_, 49 _n._, 122 _n._, 123 _n._;
of the _Tochmarc Emere_, 130 _n._;
of the _Echtra Nerai_, 132 _n._;
of the _Baile Mongáin_, 140 _n._;
of the _Vision of Laisrén_, 169;
of _La Vision de Tondale_, 212 _n._;
of the _Vision of Mac Conglinne_, 123 _n._
Michael, Archangel, 35, 95, 182, 195, 230.
Mider, Irish god, 121, 122, 123, 128, 148 _n._
Miller, Demon, 152-3, 162.
Milton cited, 173 _n._, 201, 203, 204.
Mithra cult in Roman Empire, 75 _n._
Moling, St., and Boruma tribute, 14, 15.
Mongán, 140 _n._, 147 _n._, 153.
Moore, Thomas, quoted, 159 _n._
Moran, Dr., _Ada Sancti Brendani_, 207 _n._
Mórdáil of Ireland, 18;
Adamnán at, _ib._
Morgan, 136, 138.
Moses, contest between Michael and Satan for, 71.
Muirgheas mac Páidin ui Maoilchanaire, translator of _Visio Tundali_,
213 _n._
Mundus of Latin towns, 161 _n._
Murias, 122.
Music, Irish susceptibility to, 124, 139, 141, 159, 181, 189, 191, 247.
Musical cords to St. Peter’s vessel, 29.
Musical stones, 31, 125, 181, 187.
Mysteries, Greek, 51 _sqq._;
origin, 52-3;
Eleusinian, 51-2, 54-6;
Orphic Pythagorean, 52-4;
orgiastic, 55;
connected with Demeter, 52;
Dionysos, 59;
Pythagoras, 52-3;
benefits of initiation, 52, 58-60;
moral teaching, 51-2, 54-6;
doctrine of future life, 52 _sqq._;
of rebirth, 54;
survival of, 108.
Nature, Irish love of, 158-9, 247.
Neid, 126 _n._