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son of Bel or Belus, who is the Baal, Bel, or Belial of the Old<br />

Testament. 631<br />

Nemed laid claim to Irish soil but he also died from plague at a<br />

mountain called Ard Nemeid, at Queenstown in Cork Harbour.<br />

About two hundred and seventeen years after Nemed, the<br />

Phoenician Formorians invaded Ireland. 632 Just as Nemed’s people<br />

started to repel these Formorians, another leader called Morc arrived from<br />

Africa with sixty ships and occupied the country.<br />

Only one ship with thirty survivors escaped to Grecian Thrace.<br />

Among them were three of Nemed’s descendants.<br />

<strong>The</strong> next wave migrants were the Firbolgs, who are through to be<br />

British. <strong>The</strong>ir five chiefs landed at different sites, subdued the whole<br />

country and ruled it from Leinster.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n in 1456BCE, about thirty-six years after the Firbolgs, the<br />

tribe of Dan arrived in ships, drove out other inhabitants and settled the<br />

land. This was the lost tribe of Dan. <strong>The</strong> Irish call them the Tuatha-De-<br />

Danaan or children of the Goddess Danu. <strong>The</strong>y symbolized her with the<br />

moon.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Tuatha-De-Danaan defeated the Firbolg’s king Eochaid Mac<br />

Erca and drove his people from the country. Thirty years later, they also<br />

defeated the Formorians in a great battle.<br />

Nemedian legend says the Tuatha-De-Danaan were Nemed’s<br />

descendents triumphantly returning from Greece led by Ibath, grandson of<br />

the prophet Iarbonel, and great grandson of Nemed.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Irish legends consider the Tuatha-De-Danaan demi-gods and<br />

teachers of wisdom. <strong>The</strong>y possessed a grail-like vessel and founded the<br />

Druidic priesthood. 633 Sometimes the Tuatha-De-Danaan appears as<br />

Tuatha De, meaning the people of God.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Psalter of Cashel records that: 634<br />

<strong>The</strong> Tuatha-De-Danaan ruled in Ireland for about two centuries,<br />

and were highly skilled in architecture and other arts from their<br />

long residence in Greece.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se Tuatha-De-Danaan were Danite-Phoenician seamen from<br />

the coast at Joppa who struck out in their ships and sailed west through<br />

the Mediterranean to Ireland.<br />

From 1100BCE to 800BCE, the Phoenicians monopolized the sea<br />

trade routes in the Mediterranean area and beyond. <strong>The</strong>y settled the<br />

coasts of North Africa, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Spain and Britain. One<br />

can still visit the gleaming marble, limestone and porphyry columns in the<br />

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