There is yet another name that Lugh's spear goes by: " A tree, the finest of the wood " ( Early Mod.

And " the famous yew of the wood " ( ibar alai fhidbaidha ) is also the name that Lugh's spear is called by in a tract which alleges that it, the Lúin of Celtchar and the spear Crimall that blinded Cormac Mac Airt were the one and the same weapon ( tract in TCD MS 1336 ( olim H 3.

Lugh's spear ( sleg ), according to the text of The Four Jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was an insuperable spear, taken to Ireland from Gorias ( or Findias ).

Lugh's projectile weapon whether a dart or missile was envisioned by symbolic of lightning-weapon T. F. O ' Rahilly.

Lugh ’ s sling rod was the rainbow and the Milky Way which was called " Lugh's Chain ".

Consequently Lugh was unable to refuse their request to use Lugh's currach ( coracle ) or boat, the Wave-Sweeper ( Sguaba Tuinne ( Ir.

The poet claimed that Ogma was having an affair with one of Lugh's wives.

Millar's illustration of " Lugh's Magic Spear ", 1905.

Lugh's father is Cian of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and his mother is Ethniu, daughter of Balor, of the Fomorians.

However, Lughnasadh itself is a celebration of Lugh's triumph over the spirits of the Other World who had tried to keep the harvest for themselves.

By comparison with texts like Cath Maige Tuired and the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the unnamed boy is evidently Lugh, and his father, Mac Cinnfhaelaidh, is a stand-in for Lugh's father Cian.

Her union with Lugh's father, Cian of the Tuatha Dé Danann, is presented in early texts as a simple dynastic marriage, but later folkore preserves a more involved tale, similar to the birth of Perseus in Greek mythology.

Lugh's Magic Spear ; illustration by H. R. Millar

1905 illustration of Lugh's bloodthirsty magical spear by H. R. Millar

His other sons, by his daughter Danand, included Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba, who killed Lugh's father Cian.

The canine imagery continues with Cian's brother Cú (" hound "), another Lugaid, Lugaid Mac Con ( son of a hound ), and Lugh's son Cúchulainn (" Culann's Hound ").

( e. g., Lugh's appearance as the divine father and Morrígan as nemesis to the Ulster hero Cuchulainn ; encounters of Finnian characters with dwellers of the sidhe ; Cormac mac Airt's, or his grandfather's visits to the otherworldly realms.

That girl last night, what was her name??

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Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

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An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

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Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

The fact that the name occurs on these gems in connection with representations of figures with the head of a cock, a lion, or an ass, and the tail of a serpent was formerly taken in the light of what Irenaeus says about the followers of Basilides:

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