Re: Celtic Origins

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:23:38 -0000, "JMB" <johnmbyrne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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>"Inger E.Johansson" <inger e.johansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "JMB" <johnmbyrne(remove)@mysmart.ie> skrev i meddelandet
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>--SNIP--
>
>>>
>>> That's what is known as mythology. Fir Bolg has never been interpreted
>>> as
>>> "Fat Men" before as far as I'm aware. It is usually interpreted as "Men
>> of
>>> bags", or "Men of Spears", or sometimes "Men of Bolg", where "Bolg" is
>>> thought to have been a name of a god. The whole of the Tuatha De Danann
>>> were pretty much gods. Danu was the name of the main goddess. The
>>> invasions were designed to make us biblical.
>>
>> Here you have one problem. The Tuatha De Danann, might very well have been
>> a
>> real historic group. The time when they are mentioned in the Irish tales
>> correspond well with the present knowledge of direct contacts between
>> Tanum's parish in todays Bohuslän Sweden and Ireland/Scotland during
>> Bronze
>> Age according to what L.Bengtsson Rock Carving Museum Vitlycke, Tanum,
>> told
>> Prof Lee Pennington during an interview the other year. I was present
>> during
>> the interview and managed to get a short discussion with LB after the
>> interview. What he said correspond very well with the Irish tales.
>
>Don't be daft Inger. We all know you have a superiority complex about
>Swedes, but they were not, and are not, gods. The Tuatha De Danann were
>gods.

Ridiculous!

There is no such thing as 'gods' except in myths.

If the Tuatha De Danaan existed at all they were real people. I too
have seen them linked with the Baltic region and possibly as far south
as the Black Sea. The problem is that they date from a period when
there was little, if any, writing to establish hard facts. What little
we know has come down by word of mouth to the scribes of later eras.



Eric Stevens

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