- In
Irish mythology Tuan mac
Cairill was a
recluse who
retains his
memories from his
previous incarnations,
going back to
Antediluvian age.
Initially a...
-
means "tribe of gods", and the ninth-century Scél
Tuain meic
Cairill (Tale of Tuan mac
Cairill)
speaks of the
Tuath Dé ocus Andé, "tribe of gods and un-gods"...
- Báetán mac
Cairill (died 581) was king of the Dál Fiatach, and high-king of Ulaid, from c. 572
until his death. He was the son of
Cairell mac Muiredaig...
-
means "tribe of gods", and the ninth-century Scél
Tuain meic
Cairill (Tale of Tuan mac
Cairill)
speaks of the
Tuath Dé ocus Andé, "tribe of gods and un-gods"...
- Demmán mac
Cairill (died 572) was a king of the Dál Fiatach, and over-king of
Ulaid in Ireland. He was the son of
Cairell mac
Muiredaig Muinderg (died...
- of a salmon. Most notably, this
includes Fintan mac Bóchra and Tuan mac
Cairill. The
Welsh Hanes Taliesin (16th c.) has a
similar story of how the poet...
- 7th-century poem by Dallán
Forgaill Scél
Tuain meic
Cairill do
Finnen Maige Bile ["The
Story Tuan mac
Cairill told to
Finnian of Moville"], in
which the history...
- works. Finnian, the
Abbott of Moville,
travels to the home of Tuan mac
Cairill and
compels Tuan to
admit him. The
abbott convinces Tuan of the
truth of...
- mythology, the
salmon is also one of the
incarnations of both Tuan mac
Cairill and
Fintan mac Bóchra.
Salmon also
feature in
Welsh mythology. In the prose...
- most
dramatic example of
shapeshifting in
Irish myth is that of Tuan mac
Cairill, the only
survivor of Partholón's
settlement of Ireland. In his centuries-long...
