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high ground. At St Michel-en-Grêve, in Brittany, the church
is a half hour walk from civilization, standing next to a
lichen-encrusted menhir. Mont St. Michel, a huge monolith
in the Atlantic is almost matched by the precipitous St,.
Michael’s Mount, at Land’s End in the west of England. The
Priory of St. Michael is built on a pagan circle of stones.
These are only a few of the places that Lugh
surrendered to the new God. In order to explain the siting of
churches in places that were ultimately strange and
inconvenient, medieval parsons suggested that the stones
had been placed by angels, or some other approved power. In
earlier Christian mythology, Saint Michael was second to
God in power, a warrior-prince who carried a flaming sunsword.
Lugh’s clash with the Fomors is nicely paralleled in
Biblical lore. In the book of Revelations, Michael is pictured
as the head of a host of angels warring with the forces of
darkness: “And the great dragon was cast down, the
deceiver of the whole world, he that is called the great
serpent, Devil and Satan.” Notice that Saint George, patron
of England, is also pictured as the dragon-killer.
LUGHAID MAC DAIRE. When it was foretold that one of his
sons named Lughaid would be high king of Ireland, he gave
the name to all five of his offspring. While the sons were
hunting an old crone begged a kiss from each in turn but only
the youngest was sympathetic. At the kiss the Winter Hag
was converted into Summer, the sovereign bride, and he was
proclaimed the chosen one. A similar story is told of Niall
of the Nine Hostages.
LUGH LAMFADA, Lugh of the Long-arm. The parentage of
King Nuada, now sometimes sometimes entitled Nuada of
the Silver Hand, is not mentioned but it is probable that he
was the "befind" or home-shadow of Lugh of the Long Arm.
These sometimes disembodied spirits were provided to all
creatures of human kind as help-mates, assisting at the
birth of great personalities and latter serving as protectors
of these individuals. If Lugh is conceived as a sun god
Nuada, his doppelganger, or double, is a god of the moon.