Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Part 37

CONSTANTINE. Arthur confers his kingdom on, 338

CONTE DEL GRAAL. See Grail

CORANIANS. A demoniac race called, hara.s.s land of Britain, 385

CORCADYNA. Landing of Ith and his ninety warriors at, in Ireland, 131-136

CORMAC. 1. Son of Art, King of Ireland; story of burial of, 69; historical character, 225; Finn and, feasted at Rath Grania, 300.

2. King of Ulster; marries Etain Oig, 166; puts her away owing to her barrenness, 166.

3. Son of Conor mac Nessa; rallies to Maevs foray against Ulster, 205

CORONATION STONE. Now at Westminster Abbey, is the famous Stone of Scone, 105; the _Lia Fail_ and, 105

CORPRE. Poet at court of King Bres, 108

COSMONOGY, 1. The Celtic, 94, 95.

2. The Cymric, 332-335; G.o.d and Cythrawl, standing for life and destruction, in, 333

COTTERILL, H. B. Quotation from his hexameter version of the Odyssey, 80

CRAFTINY. King Scoriaths harper; sings Moriaths love-lay before Maon, 153; discovers Maons secret deformity, 155

CREDN. The artificer of the Danaans, 117

CREUDYLAD (CREIDDYLAD).

Daughter of Lludd; combat for possession of, every May-day, between Gwythur ap Greidawl and Gwyn ap Nudd, 353, 388

CRIMMAL. Rescued by his nephew, Finn, 256

CROM CRUACH (crom crooach).

Gold idol (equivalent, the b.l.o.o.d.y Crescent) referred to in Book of Leinster, 85; worship introduced by King Tiernmas, 149

CROMLECHS. See Dolmens, 53

CRUNDCHU (crunhoo). Son of Agnoman; Macha comes to dwell with, 178

CUALGN. See Quelgny

CUCHULAIN (CUCHULLIN) (coo-hoolin). Ulster hero in Irish saga, 41; duel with Ferdia referred to, 121; Lugh, the father of, by Dectera, 123, 182; loved and befriended by G.o.ddess Morrigan, 126; his strange birth, 182; earliest name Setanta, 183; his inheritance, 183; his name derived from the hound of Cullan, 183, 184; claims arms of manhood from Conor, 185; wooes Emer, 185, 186; Laeg, charioteer of, 185; Skatha instructs, in Land of Shadows, 187-189; overcomes Aifa, 190; father of Connla by Aifa, 190; slays Connla, 191, 192; returns to Erin, 193-194; slays Foill and his brothers, 194; met by women of Emania, 194; leaps the heros salmon leap, 195; the winning of Emer, 195; proclaimed by The Terrible the Champion of Ireland, 195, 196; places Maevs host under _geise_, 207, 208; slays Orlam, 209; the battle-frenzy and _rias-tradh_ of, 209, 210; compact with Fergus, 211; the Morrigan offers love to, 212; threatens to be about his feet in bottom of Ford, 212; attacked by the Morrigan while engaged with Loch, 213; slays Loch, 213; Ferdia consents to go out against, 216; Ferdia reproached by, 216, 217; their struggle, 217-221; slays Ferdia, 220; severely wounded by Ferdia, 220, 221; roused from stupor by sword-play of Fergus, 224; rushes into the battle of Garach, 224; in Fairyland, 225-228; loved by Fand, 226; the vengeance of Maev upon, 228-233; other enemies of Erc, and Lewy son of Curoi, 228; Blanid, Curois wife, sets her love on, 228; his madness, 229-231; Bave personates Niam before, 230; the Morrigan croaks of war before, 230; Dectera and Cathbad urge him wait for Conall of the Victories ere setting forth to battle, 230; the Washer at the Ford seen by, 231; Clan Calatin cause him to break his _geise_, 231; finds his foes at Slieve Fuad, 232; the Grey of Macha being mortally wounded, he takes farewell of, 232; mortally wounded by Lewy, 232; his remaining horse, Black Sainglend, breaks away from, 232; Lewy slays outright, 233; his death avenged by Conall of the Victories, 233; reappears in later legend of Christian origin found in Book of the Dun Cow, 238, 239; St. Patricks summons from h.e.l.l, 238

CULLAN. His feast to King Conor in Quelgny, 183; Cuchulain slays his hound, 183; Cuchulain named the Hound of, 184; his daughter declared responsible for Finns enchantment, 280

c.u.mHAL (cooal). Chief of the Clan Morna, son of Trenmor, husband of Murna of the White Neck, the father of Finn, 255, 257; slain at battle of Knock, 255

CUP-AND-RING MARKINGS. Meaning of, in connexion with Megalithic monuments, no light on, 67; example in Dupaix Monuments of New Spain, 68; reproduction in Lord Kingsboroughs Antiquities of Mexico, 68

CUP OF THE LAST SUPPER Identical with the Grail, 406; equivalent, the Magic Cauldron, 411

CUROI (cooroi). Father of Lewy, husband of Blanid, 228; slain by Cuchulain, 229

CUSCRID. Son of Conor mac Nessa; under Debility curse, 205; mac Dathos boar and, 243

CUSTENNIN. Brother of Yspaddaden; a.s.sists Kilhwch in his quest for Olwen, 389

CYCLE-S. The, of Irish legend, 95; the Mythological, 95-145; the Ultonian, 178-251; Ossianic, 241-245; certain stories of Ultonian, not centred on Cuchulain, 246; the Ultonian, time of events of the, 252; the Ossianic and Ultonian contrasted, 253-255

CYMRIC. 1. Peoples; effect of legends of, on Continental poets, 50; 2. Myths; Druidic thought enshrined in Llewellyn Sions Barddas, edited by by J.

A. Williams ap Ithel for the Welsh MS. Society, 332; cosmogony, the, 333-335; G.o.d and Cythrawl in, 333; why so little of Arthurian saga heard in, 344; comparison between Gaelic and, 344-368

CYTHRAWL. G.o.d and, two primary existences standing for principles of destruction and life, in Cymric cosmogony, 333; realised in Annwn (the Abyss, or Chaos), 333

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DA DERGA. A Leinster lord at whose hostel Conary seeks hospitality, 170; Conarys retinue at, 173; Ingcel and his own sons attack the hostel, 174

DAGDA. The Good, or possibly = _Doctus_, The Wise G.o.d, and supreme head of the People of Dana, father of Brigit (Dana), 103; the Cauldron of the, one of the treasures of the Danaans, 106; the magical harp of, 118-119; father and chief of the People of Dana, 120, 121; Kings MacCuill, MacCecht, and MacGren grandsons of, 132; portions out spiritual Ireland between the Danaans, 136

DALAN. A Druid who discovers to Eochy that Etain has been carried to mound of Bri-Leith, 163

DALNY. Queen of Partholan, 96

DAMAN. The Firbolg, father of Ferdia, 187

DAMAYANTI AND NALA. Hindu legend, compared with story of Etain, 163

DANA. The People of, Nemedian survivors who return to Ireland, 102; literal meaning of _Tuatha De Danann_, 103; equivalent Brigit, 103, 126; name of G.o.ds given to the People of, by Tuan mac Carell, 104; Milesians conquer the People of, 104; origin of People of, according to Tuan mac Carell, 105; cities of Falias, Gorias, Finias, and Murias, 105; treasures of the People of, 105, 106; the Firbolgs and the People of, 106-119; gift of Fary (_i.e._, skill in music) the prerogative of, 119; daughter of the Dagda and the greatest of Danaan G.o.ddesses, 126; Brian (ancient form Brenos), Iuchar, and Iucharba, her sons, 126; Firbolgs and the People of, 137; equivalent Don, Cymric mother-G.o.ddess, 348, 349

DANAAN-S. Send to Balor refusing tribute, 113; their encounter with the Fomorians, 117; power of, exercised by spell of music, 118; account of princ.i.p.al G.o.ds and attributes of, 119-145; reference to their displacement in Ireland by Milesians, 130; kings, Ireland ruled by three, MacCuill, MacCecht, and MacGren, 132; the three kings welcome Ith to Ireland, 133; dwell in spiritual Ireland, 136; myth, the meaning of, 137; the, after the Milesian conquest, 146, 147; Donn son of Midir at war with, 285; relations of the Church with, very cordial, 286

DANES. Irish monuments plundered by Danes, 69

DANUBE. Sources of, place of origin of Celts, 19, 56

DARA. Son of Fachtna, owner of Brown Bull of Quelgny, 202; Maevs request for loan of Brown Bull, 204

DARK, THE. Druid; changes Saba into a fawn, 267; his further ill-treatment of, 268, 269

DEAD, LAND OF. The Irish Fairyland, 96; equivalent, Spain, 102

DEATH. The Celtic conception of, 89; names of Balor and Bil occur as G.o.d of, 130

DEBILITY OF THE ULTONIANS, THE. Caused by Machas curse, 179, 180; manifested on occasion of Maevs famous cattle-raid of Quelgny (_Tain Bo Cuailgn_), 180

DECIES. Son of King of the, wooes Light of Beauty (_Sgeimh Solais_), 304

DECTERA. Mother of Cuchulain by Lugh, 123; daughter of Druid Cathbad, 182; her appearance to Conor mac Nessa after three years absence, 182; her gift of a son to Ulster, Cuchulain, by Lugh, 182

DEE, THE RIVER. Now the Ford of Ferdia, 211