L, luis, the mountain ash in the Ogham. Confers ... - Rodney Mackay

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It is a tenant of magical practise that those who escape their fate are afterwards ignored by the pagan gods, who don't like being reminded of their oversights. Finntann thus became an immortal by ommision. He reappeared some thousands of years later during the reign of Diarmuid MacCarroll to give testimonyconcerning the boundaries of the Royal Demesne. He came to Tara heralded by nine companies of descendants, and was followed by another nine families. LEAMHAN-SITH, LEANAN-SITH, leamhan, The Elm, belonging to trees, one of the folk, “fairy sweetheart,” a female sith, the protectress of individual elm trees. MIr. lem, the English elm. A bainsith. See Cathair aoine, Aoine, Mhorrigan. From this the family name Leaman. “The power of bringing the spirit of a dead person into one’s presence, or witchcraft.” LEAR, the sea (poetical), after Ler, god of the sea. Li, flow; lighe. flood. Lear longa, an oceangoing craft resembling the Norse longship. Leirist, a foolish senseless person, a slut. Leirg, a plain, as “the Great Plain of the Sea,” the Ocean. The Gaelic House of Don had two branches, the oldest derived from Lear, the god of the sea, who is sometimes represented as immortal and the equivalent of the Allfather. His people are remembered as the Learys, O’Learys and Macclures and his name is retained in the Gaelic lear, a poetic name for the sea. The root here may be li, to flow, as in lighe, flood. He was said to have pursued and impregnated Aoibh, the “Pleasant-Faced,” a metaphor for the sun. By Aoibh he had three sons and a daughter, all changed into swans and banished by her sister who became Ler’s second wife. By this woman, who was named Aoife (literally, “One Deemed to Die”), Ler begat Mannan mac Ler a mortal seadeity. Notwithstanding his mortality, Mannan
was the most prominent god of the past, ruling the seaworld on the arm of Fand, the Pearl of the Ocean. His home was in the western Atlantic, a place known as Tir Tairnigri, the Land of the Daughter of Thunder. The continental Celtic god of thunder was Tar, who is the equivalent of Thor, thus we see that Norse and Celtic myth are not mutually exclusive. Manann’s keep in the west was Emain Albach, The Rocky Bound Residence, and from here he drove the waves in a chariot behind the sea “horse” named Anobarr (his shapechanged wife Fand) or took sea-serpent or fish form to travel to the shores of men. While most of his followers in the undersea kingdom were bestial, Manan had the looks of a handsome land-hero, which explains how he was able to sire many illegitimate children among the “gods” of Britain. Mannan mac Ler’s chief land-holdings in the eastern realm were found upon the Isle of Man, although he also possessed Castle Manan in northeastern Ireland. In Welsh myth Llyr is said to have mated with Penardun, the daughter of Doon, the Gaelic Domnu. Her father was Beli, the Gaelic Bil, the god of death, whose holiday is still Beultuinn, or “Beltane,” the first day of May. In the Cymric tales their son Manawyddan is said to have allied himself with Rhiannon, who is Mhorrigan in the Irish tales. This makes sense when one considers that Fand is a version of the Gaelic word feannag, a pileated or hooded crow. There is a further association with the word feann, to flay. Mhorrigan, sometimes Mhorrigu, has a name which translates as, “born of the sea,” but she ultimately mated with the Dagda and defected to the land where she became, a triune deity known as the Bas-finnd, or Befind, the deathmaidens, who also appear in Norse myth as the nornr or valkyra. Elsewhere these three ladies are referred to as the Fates. LEICE, an oval charm crystal, leigh, a physician, leigheas, a cure, leac, side-hill; hence the Clan Lathagan and MacLagan. As illustrated. A healing stone.
Page 1 and 2: L, luis, the mountain ash in the Og
Page 3 and 4: swore himself to strict secrecy. Th
Page 5 and 6: handled bowls were placed in line;
Page 7 and 8: LAMHRAG, a slut, an awkward person,
Page 9 and 10: Invariably found guilty and sentenc
Page 11 and 12: Maidenhead, pointing out fertility
Page 13 and 14: another to the death. The boy who o
Page 15 and 16: morning, coming back to the home wi
Page 17 and 18: one. The Manx mummers, dressed in a
Page 19: volumes survived at the time of Joh
Page 23 and 24: LIA FAIL, lia, great stone; vali, c
Page 25 and 26: possibility although the two groupi
Page 27 and 28: LIUSDAIR. a chemist. "Lius is the w
Page 29 and 30: LOCH DEARG, the Red Lake, Ireland;
Page 31 and 32: Abbot of Iona in his Life of Saint
Page 33 and 34: Eng. fly. The festival known as the
Page 35 and 36: Outer Isles, eventually they follow
Page 37 and 38: LUAIREAGAN, a grovelling person, on
Page 39 and 40: hearth-spirit known as the hob or h
Page 41 and 42: as lobarcain and luch, a mouse, Cy.
Page 43 and 44: He was nicknamed Lugh Lamfada, “L
Page 45 and 46: France; Leiden in Holland; Liegnitz
Page 47 and 48: Lugh's creative spear is not descri
Page 49 and 50: H.A. Guerber says that, "In the beg
Page 51 and 52: This former god of the sun was not
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