Midir
Midir , in the Irish Celtic Mythology, is the sovereign god of the Other World (see article Sidh) Tuatha Dé Danann (“people of the tribe of Dana). It is the equivalent of the god Gallic Medos (Mediris). After the defeat of Tuatha Die Danann by the Milesiens, it resides in the sidh of Breg Leith . Important personality, it is very present in the accounts of the “Tin cycle”. Brother of the Dagda, it is sometimes regarded as his double. He is in charge of the education of Oengus (also called Mac Oc), the child-god whom his brother had with Eithne.
Jealousy of Fuamnach
At the time of a feast given by its Oengus nephew, it is wounded in an eye and is looked after by Diancecht, the god-doctor of Tuatha Dé Danann. In compensation of the undergone damage, he asks that one give him a coat, a tank and the most beautiful girl of Ireland, which is being the goddess Étain. At the moment of their meeting, it falls immediately in love from there and decides to make its mistress of it. But it has already a legitimate wife, the magician Fuamnach, which is of an extreme jealousy. It will continue the intruder making use of the most powerful magic spells of its magic, but she does not have the capacity to kill her. She transforms it into water pond in concerning with a branch of sorb, then in fly which a wind druidic carries in the airs during seven years. She becomes a tiny ground worm and fall into a cut. In this form, it is swallowed then “been confined” by the wife of the king of Ulster, Etar. Thus it can reappear. Fuamnach cannot reconquer Midir which, wearied these adventures, makes it assassinate.
The part of failures
Tin marries Eochaid Airem, the laughed Ard Érenn (king supreme of Ireland), but Midir which wants to recover it, proposes to the king part of failures, whose stake is his own wife. Eochaid loses, but does not hold word and definitively banishes the god of his capital Tara. However, Midir manages to enter the city and the palate, and joined Étain. Both are transformed into swans and fly away. The king continues them in all the sidh, but the god will use of his magic: he transforms fifty young girls into Tin doubles and request with Eochaid to choose one of them, only one. The king is carried out and sure of its choice sleep with the girl, who proves to be her own daughter. From this incestueuse relation, will be born a girl, at the origin of a dynasty of kings.
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