Manannan Mac Lir

In the Celtic Mythology Irish, Manannan Mac Lir , literally “Mannois wire of Lir” (Lir being the Ocean), its equivalent Welsh is Manawyddan vab Llyr . It belongs to the Tuatha Dé Danann (People of the Goddess Dana), it is the sovereign god-warrior of the Other Celtic World , it (Sidh). He is the manager and Master, and for this reason, it provides to the other gods the fabulous pigs been used with the Festin as Immortality .

If Sidh is located under ground, one reaches it across water (seas, lakes, rivers); Manannan drives its tank on the floods and in the plains, and its boat is only operated. This is why one makes of it sometimes a protective marine god of the navigators or, on the contrary, naufragor of ships, but its power places it at the row of his/her brothers: the Dagda and Ogme. He is the husband of Fand which will have an adventure in love with the hero Cúchulainn.

For the number of its capacities, it is necessary to insist on the gifts of metamorphosis and ubiquity like on its psychopompe role; it uses of sound Manteau of invisibility , in particular to prevent Cúchulainn from seeing Fand. He is the father many divine or human children.

He would have given his name to the Île of Man.

Speculations on the identities of Manannan Mac Lir and Lugh

Manannan Mac Lir seems to be only one aspect of god-king Lugh. Manannan has as brothers, the Dagda and Ogma. It reigns on water which leads to the Sidh, just like the god Védique Varuna, parking order and justice, reigns on paramount water. Lugh corresponds in its great characteristics to this god vedic representing of sovereignty.

Welsh, Manawyddan vab Llyr, double with Manannan Mac Lir, reinforces this idea that these two divinities do only one of them. In the Mabinogi of Manawyddan, the hero, accompanied by Pryderi wire of Pwyll, voyage from city downtown, driven out of their country by a curse. In each city, Manawyddan develops an artisanal activity. This one goes so that each time, the craftsmen drive out the two heroes who must be established elsewhere. This aspect polytechnician of Manawyddan vab Llyr is taken again in Ireland by the Lugh god, god-king who includes all the functions of the company (see the Indo-European tripartite Fonctions of the Indo-European company).

Lugh would be thus double. He is the luminous god-king under his own name (Lugh/Llew) and he is the lord of Sidh (on the island of Man, Manannan/Manawyddan “the mannois”), generated by paramount water (Mac Lir/fab Llyr).

It is interesting to bring Manannan Mac Lir closer to the gods Scandinaves Heimdallr, creative god of the human society, and Ægir, god of the oceans. Heimdallr is generated besides by nine waves, which are new the girls or wives of the Ægir god.

Does the Irish god Dagda have also his double of Sidh which names Midir (to be brought closer to the Indo-Iranian god Mitra/Mi? ruffle?).

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