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The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle.
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By this time, the pre-Christian religious beliefs and mythology were already fading, and the Tongva language was on the brink of extinction by 1900, so that only fragmentary records of the indigenous language and culture of the Tongva have been preserved.
The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions.
The wealth of folk poetry collected in the 19th century often deals with pre-Christian pagan themes, and has allowed scholars to study Finnish mythology in more detail.
The linden was also a highly symbolic and hallowed tree to the Germanic peoples in their native pre-Christian Germanic mythology.
Stories from these other cultures survive from earlier dates than the Eddas and it is difficult to conclusively construct a clear pre-Christian mythology without conjecture.
In pre-Christian Polish mythology, Tawals is a blessing-bringing god of the meadows and fields.
Most Komis belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, but their religion often contains traces of pre-Christian beliefs ( see Komi mythology ).
* Isle of the Dead ( mythology ), a theme associated with pre-Christian Celtic mythology
Historian Ronald Hutton remarked that " It is quite possible that pre-Christian mythology lies behind this tradition " of a belief in familiar spirits.
Very little evidence of pre-Christian Albanian culture survives, although Albanian mythology and folklore are of Paleo-Balkanic origin and almost all of their elements are pagan, in particular showing Greek influence.
Some of this contains remnants of the mythology of pre-Christian Britain, surviving in much altered form in medieval Welsh manuscripts such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin, and the Book of Taliesin.
It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those of Norse mythology ; magical characters ( sometimes recognisably pre-Christian ) associated with Christian festivals, and various regional ' character ' stories.
Information about the pre-Christian and medieval Estonian mythology is scattered in historical chronicles, travellers ' accounts and in ecclesiastical registers.
In Basque mythology, Sugaar ( also Sugar, Sugoi, Suarra, Maju ) is the male half of a pre-Christian Basque deity associated with storms and thunder.
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The mythology dates back at least to the pre-Christian era ( 7th century ) and was known in the present-day regions of the Netherlands and Belgium and parts of France.
Wrote Marko Zivkovic in the Anthropology of East Europe Review, " Cajkanovic was one who brought the latest philosophical, historical, ethnographic and comparative methodologies of inter war Europe to bear on his life project of reconstructing from the pre-Christian, pagan Serbian mythology and religions.
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mythology and Ireland
In Irish mythology, the Lughnasadh festival is said to have been begun by the god Lugh ( modern spelling: Lú ) as a funeral feast and sporting competition in commemoration of his foster-mother, Tailtiu, who died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture.
Boann or Boand ( modern spelling: Bóinn ) is the Irish mythology goddess of the River Boyne, a river in Leinster, Ireland.
In Irish mythology, Banba ( modern spelling: Banbha ; pronounced daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, is the patron goddess of Ireland.
In Irish mythology, Ériu (; modern Irish Éire ), daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland.
In Irish mythology, Fódla or Fótla ( modern spelling: Fódhla or Fóla ), daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was one of the tutelary goddesses of Ireland.
In Irish mythology, Fiacha (, sometimes Fiachu, Fiachra or Fiachna ), son of Delbáeth, of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a legendary High King of Ireland.
In Irish mythology, Carman or Carmun was a warrior-woman and sorceress from Athens who tried to invade Ireland in the days of the Tuatha Dé Danann, along with her three sons, Dub (" black "), Dother (" evil ") and Dian (" violence ").
In Irish mythology, Cessair ( also spelt Cesair and Ceasair ; anglicized Kesair ) was, according to the Book of Invasions, leader of the first inhabitants of Ireland before the Biblical Flood.
In Irish mythology, the Fomoire ( or Fomorians ) are a semi-divine race said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.
In Irish mythology the Fir Bolg ( Fir Bholg, Firbolg ) were one of the races that inhabited the island of Ireland prior to the arrival of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
In Irish mythology, Corb was one of the Fomorians, a semi-divine race who inhabited Ireland in ancient times.
* Ériu, in Irish mythology, one of the patron goddesses of Ireland
" The book draws from the mythology and poetry of Wales and Ireland especially, as well as that of most of Western Europe and the ancient Middle East.
* Saint Patrick's Stream — in popular mythology, the Mourne Mountains was the site where Saint Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland.
Another similar water horse appearing in the mythology of Scotland and Ireland is the each uisge ," a sea-dwelling creature that often takes the form of a handsome man.
Works of Irish mythology, including the Lebor Gabála Érenn ( the Book of Invasions ), expand on the Genesis account of Magog as the son of Japheth and make him the ancestor to the Irish through Partholón, leader of the first group to colonize Ireland after the Deluge, and a descendant of Magog, as also were the Milesians, the people of the 5th invasion of Ireland.
In 1989, his former professor Marija Gimbutas asked him to read a paper on Basque mythology at an Indo-Europeanist Conference held in Ireland ; shortly thereafter he moved to Dublin, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar in the Faculty of Celtic Studies, University College Dublin ( 1991 ).
An important record of the folkloric history of Ireland, it was compiled and edited by an anonymous scholar in the 11th century, and might be described as a mélange of mythology, legend, history, folklore and Christian historiography.
This " dwindling " of the Tuatha Dé Danann ( thought to be the gods of Irish mythology ) to the fairies of folklore represents an adaptation of earlier pagan traditions to the later Christianized Ireland.
* In Irish mythology, the Milesians were the descendants of Míl Espáine, the final invaders of Ireland who defeated and displaced the semi-divine Tuatha Dé Danann
This category concerns the mythology of Ireland.
In Irish mythology Fintan mac Bóchra ( modern spelling: Fionntán ), known as " the Wise ", was a seer who accompanied Noah's granddaughter Cessair to Ireland before the deluge.
There are several different, and conflicting, legends in Celtic mythology describing how the Lia Fáil is said to have been brought to Ireland.
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