Identifier: mythologyofallra03gray (find matches)
Title: The Mythology of all races ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Louis H. (Louis Herbert), 1875-1955 Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931 MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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to Cuchulainn, but in the Fled Bricrend, orFeast of Bricriu, one of the tasks imposed on him, Conall, andLoegaire was to fight the Geniti Glinne, Cuchulainn alonesucceeding and slaughtering many of them.*^ What kind ofbeings they were is uncertain, but if Geniti Glinne means Dam-sels of the Glen, perhaps they were a kind of nature-spirits,this being also suggested by the demons of the air which wereexpelled by St. Patrick.^^ As nature-spirits they might beclassed with the Tuatha De Danann, as indeed they seem tobe in the passage cited above.^^ In one sentence of the TdinBo Cualnge, they are associated with Nemain or Badb, whobrought confusion upon Medbs host; yet on the other handthey dared not appear in the same district as the bull ofCualnge.^^ PLATE XVII Incised Stones from Scotland 1. Incised stone with elephant symbol andcrescent symbol with V-rod symbol. From Crichie,Aberdeenshire. 2. Incised stone with elephant and doubledisc (or spectacles) with Z-rod symbol. See alsoPlate X.
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CHAPTER XIMYTHS OF ORIGINS SAVAGE and barbaric peoples possess many grotesquemyths of the origin of various parts of nature. In recentlyexisting Celtic folk-lore and in stories preserved mainly in theDindsenchas conceptions not unlike these are found and doubt-less were handed down from the pre-Christian period, whetherCeltic or pre-Celtic, while in certain instances a saint takesthe place of an older pagan personage. In Brittany and else-where in France natural features — rivers, lakes, hills, rocks —are associated in their origin with giants, fairies, witches, orthe devil, just as in other Celtic regions and, indeed, in allparts of the world. Many traditions, however, connect themwith the giant Gargantua, who was not a creation of Rabe-lais brain, but was borrowed from popular belief. He mayhave been an old Celtic god or hero, popular and, therefore,easily surviving in folk-memory, and may also be the Gurgun-tius, son of Belinus, King of Britain, mentioned by GiraldusCambrensis.

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