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The Birth of Cuchulainn

By Bard Mythologies

Nessa had been a gentle woman in her youth, but when raiders attacked her home and killed her family, she became a vengeful warrior, and set out on a quest for revenge against them. In time, she came to the court of Ulster, where Fergus Mac Roich met her, and fell in love with her. […]

Filed Under: Irish Stories Tagged With: Ulster Cycle

Fintan Mac Bochra and the Hawk of Achill

By Bard Mythologies

Fintan Mac Bochra, the first man to set foot on Ireland, following his wife, Ceasair, lived a long life; over five thousand years. He changed into all the different animals of Ireland, and witnessed all the changes, all the new peoples who came to Ireland down through the centuries. He saw the defeat of the […]

Filed Under: Irish Stories Tagged With: lebor, Mythological Cycle

Book of Invasions – 1: Ceasair (Pagan version)

By Bard Mythologies

Long ago in Northern Africa, a woman named Ceasair had a prophetic dream. She dreamed that a great flood would come and wipe out all her people. She consulted with her grandfather, a priest of Egypt, and he advised her to build an ark and sail west, till she came to a land that had […]

Filed Under: Irish Stories Tagged With: lebor, Mythological Cycle

Book of Invasions – 1: Ceasair (Christian version)

By Bard Mythologies

Long ago in Egypt, the wise man Noah had a prophetic dream. The god Yahweh showed him that the world was full of wickedness, and instructed Noah, the only righteous man left, to build an ark and save all the animals. Yahweh would send a great flood to wash the earth clean, and Noah was […]

Filed Under: Irish Stories Tagged With: lebor, Mythological Cycle

Caoilte’s Rabble

By Bard Mythologies

Caoilte Mac Ronan was a thin, grey man, and he was the best runner in all of the Fianna. Once, a king in Ireland asked all the fastest men he could find which of them would be able to fetch him sands from all the beaches in Ireland the quickest. They each gave him an […]

Filed Under: Irish Stories Tagged With: Fenian Cycle

The Book of Invasions – Part 1: Ceasair – The World’s Mythologies

By Bard Mythologies

The first person to come to Ireland was called Ceasair. Her story begins back in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, where her grandfather, Noah, was building an ark, convinced that his god, Yaweh, had ordered him to do so because the world was soon to end in a flood. Though Noah’s people worshipped […]

Filed Under: Irish Stories Tagged With: lebor, Mythological Cycle

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