IronBloodWood
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Post by IronBloodWood on Mar 25, 2015 13:00:26 GMT -6
I keep seeing him mentioned as this, yet never explained, simply that he carries a hammer and sometimes a barrel. I was wondering where this association springed from when I can't find much on him at all.
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Post by Allec on Mar 25, 2015 14:45:14 GMT -6
I went to Mary Jones Encyclopedia and found that he's not a Gaelic deity, but a Gaulish-Briton one! That link might help, though I'm not aware of much about him beyond what I just learned from Mary Jones.
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Ciar Lionheart
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And I love you like a mountain.
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Post by Ciar Lionheart on Mar 25, 2015 20:34:40 GMT -6
Yeah, I was gonna say that he's Gaulish and not Gaelic at all. You might get better results if you move this thread into the other board.
Also, I think James MacKillop discusses him a bit in his book Myths and Legends of the Celts so if you can get your hands on a copy of that it may be useful—it's not a Gaulish focused book, though, it's more general.
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Yellow
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Post by Yellow on Mar 27, 2015 12:51:00 GMT -6
Tell me if I'm wrong, but isn't he the god of feasting & beer?
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Post by saintfelicity on Apr 5, 2015 20:50:49 GMT -6
sorry, I'm just going to share this very productive contribution, I have a love affair with Sucellos because of Eluveitie
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Post by Allec on Apr 5, 2015 23:22:43 GMT -6
I recently got The Element Encyclopedia of the Celts by Rodney Castleden that passed my quick test--I look at the book's section on Lugh and if it says He's a sun god, I toss it. This book did NOT do that, though it did do some conflating of Lugh with other continental gods...which a lot of sources do, so I bought the book anyway. Anyway, there's a section on page 285 about Sucellos/Sucellus that doesn't mention at all any associations with love or time. It's short, so I'll just type it out:
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IronBloodWood
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Post by IronBloodWood on Apr 11, 2015 15:50:13 GMT -6
Thanks for the feed back (and the swap to the appropriate thread) guys! It seems everyone's equally baffled by where this love/time thing came from. He appears more of a cheery god dude with a mallet and a keg of beer. i like him but the mystery remains why he is only briefly annotated as a love/time guy. In my searches I only saw it in two places, once on wikipedia and another on a site where in both accounts it's his name followed by "god of" and that's it. Perhaps it's an accident and in such case he probably deserves updating on the Celtic deities listing on wikipedia. |
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