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(Created page with "Lugh is a major figure in Irish and broader Celtic mythology, known as a sun god, a skilled craftsman, and a powerful warrior. He is also associated with light, justice, and craftsmanship. Lugh is often depicted with epithets like "Lugh Lámfada" (long-armed) and "Lugh Samildánach" (skilled in all arts). Lugh possesses a magical spear and a sling stone, and he is also known to have invented fidchell (a form of dice game), ball games, and horse racing. The Roman go...") |
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Lugh possesses a magical spear and a sling stone, and he is also known to have invented fidchell (a form of dice game), ball games, and horse racing. The Roman god Mercury was identified with Lugh, reflecting his role as a messenger and a god of commerce and skill. | Lugh possesses a magical spear and a sling stone, and he is also known to have invented fidchell (a form of dice game), ball games, and horse racing. The Roman god Mercury was identified with Lugh, reflecting his role as a messenger and a god of commerce and skill. | ||
Lugh is typically described as a youthful warrior. In the brief narrative Baile in Scáil, Lugh is described as being very large and very beautiful and a spear-wielding horseman. When he appears before the wounded Cú Chulainn in the Táin Bó Cúalnge he is described as follows: | Lugh is typically described as a youthful warrior. In the brief narrative Baile in Scáil, Lugh is described as being very large and very beautiful and a spear-wielding horseman. | ||
When he appears before the wounded Cú Chulainn in the Táin Bó Cúalnge he is described as follows: | |||
''A man fair and tall, with a great head of curly yellow hair. He has a green mantle wrapped about him and a brooch of white silver in the mantle over his breast. Next to his white skin, he wears a tunic of royal satin with red-gold insertion reaching to his knees. He carries a black shield with a hard boss of white-bronze. In his hand a five-pointed spear and next to it a forked javelin. Wonderful is the play and sport and diversion that he makes (with these weapons). But none accosts him and he accosts none as if no one could see him'' | ''A man fair and tall, with a great head of curly yellow hair. He has a green mantle wrapped about him and a brooch of white silver in the mantle over his breast. Next to his white skin, he wears a tunic of royal satin with red-gold insertion reaching to his knees. He carries a black shield with a hard boss of white-bronze. In his hand a five-pointed spear and next to it a forked javelin. Wonderful is the play and sport and diversion that he makes (with these weapons). But none accosts him and he accosts none as if no one could see him'' | ||