R, ruis, the dwarf elder in Ogham. The rochat, or ... - Rodney Mackay

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The warrior Cas Corach played music to enchant them and convinced them that they should assume human form to have a better grasp of the melodies. When they shape-changed, the hero threw his spear at them, impaled all three at once, and beheaded them. With this reputation it is not surprising that men had to be bribed to enter the Hill of Cruach. Ailill of Connaught regularly offered a prize of a gold-hilted sword to any man who would go to the gallows just outside the rath and encircle the foot of a dead captive on the gallows with a withe or band of willow twigs. This device then became as effective as a silver bough in gaining admission to the Otherworld. Several warriors went out on the Samhain to try this stunt but none but Nera followed through to the end of the adventure. As Nera was placing the withe, the corpse spoke asking that he be taken down and given a drink. Nera obeyed carrying the dead man half slung over a shoulder. The pair found the first house they approached surrounded by flames, and a second encircled by a broad moat filled with water, so they moved on. At a third house the dead man was offered three cups of water. The dead man spat out the third cup at the people who had offered him hospitality and its poison killed them on the spot. Nera then carried the corpse back to the gallows as instructed. Returning to Ráth Cruachan, this gillie saw Mebd’s palace aflame and saw beheaded corpses scattered on the ground. It appeared that Fomorian invaders had used the opening of the “eye” that was the Cave of Cruachan to do what damage they could in the world of men. Nera followed this crew through the veil before it closed at dawn and on the other side became the “guest” in a sidh of the Otherworld. Here he was ordered to carry firewood and lodged with a female of the species. They became lovers and the sigh-woman informed him that what he had seen of the destruction of the rath was a possible future rather than an event, and that it could be forestalled by escaping to the east and destroying the entrance. Nera therefore took his wife and child back through Cruachan and told king Ailill
what the future might hold for him and his kingdom. Ailill reacted by sending Ferghas mac Roth out to destroy the sidh , and the warriors did more, taking great plunder from its treasure house. These valuables included the crown of king Brion, one of the three wonders of ancient Ireland. The Echtra Nerai is obviously pagan but the tale from which it derives is no later than the eighth century. RATH DORCHA, the moon in wane; a bad time for most transactions. RATHAD SIBH, beauty spot, rathad, road; sibh, of the wee folk. An invisible mark of favour placed on humans who were related to the sigh or who happened to be in their favour. This mark, which was only perceived by the opposite sex, made the individual irresistibly attractive. Thus Grianne was draw to Diarmuid to the disadvantage of both. RÉ. the moon, the Moon personified, luna, life, existence, duration, a space of time, same as righ and ri, denoting Royalty; presumed from the Celtic root revi, Skr. ravi, the sun. A form of the Gaelic ra, space, time, raon, a field, a plain, a road, EIr. roen, Lat. rus, Eng. room, Norse rein, a strip of land. Note the Egyptian sun-god Ra or Re. From this we have the Scottish province of Moray. See Mourie. REABH, a wile or trick, reabhair, a subtle individual, reabhradh, besporting, as a pack of boys from the Ir. reabhach, a mountebank, a devil, the Devil, EIr. rebrad, boys at play, sport. Similar to the English rabble. REABHACH, The Devil, mountebank, trickster, a devil, a wicked fellow; reabhair, a crafty fellow. REILIG, crypt, burying-ground, relic. From Lat. religuiæ, relics. RÉIM, dominion, power, course, order. See Ré, the moon-
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