Tuan Mac Cairill
In the Celtic Mythology Irish, Tuan Mac Cairill (Tuan wire of Cairill, its name has the direction of “silencer”) is the only survivor of the cataclysm which decimated the mythical people of the Partholon iens . He is the nephew of Partholon.
According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn ( Book of the Conquests of Ireland ), Partholoniens (of the name of their chief Partholon ) arrived in Ireland, 312 years after the Déluge, the feastday of Beltaine (May 1st). Their reign will last 5000 years, one allots to them the invention of the Druidisme, agriculture, the breeding, the metallurgy. In parallel, they must fight against the Fomoires.
Tuan is at the same time the Man and the paramount Druid. It owes its survival only with successive animal metamorphoses, for finally returning in a human state, in order to transmit its science. Under Partholon, it is a man during hundred years; then at the time of Nemed, it is a stag during three hundred years; it is a wild boar (or a goat) under Senion during two hundred years; it is a raptor under Beothach during three hundred years; and still hundred years under the reign of Mile, it with the shape of a salmon. In this form it is caught by a fisherman who offers it to the Cairill queen, woman of Muiredach Muinderg. She eats it and it becomes again human with the name of Tuan Mac Cairill.
Tuan Mac Cairill represents the safeguarding of the knowledge by transmission of generations in generations.
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