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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time Manannans men, Ildathach and his sons, bothin love with Clidna and following in pursuit of her. A differentaccount of Clidna has already been cited.^ In the story of Bran, the queen-goddess fell in love withhim and visited him (as in the legend of Connla) to inducehim to come to her. While there are hints of other inhabitants,women or goddesses alone exist on this island — an additionalparallel to the story of Connla, though there the island hasa king; to the incident in Maelduin; and to the name Landof Ever-Living Women in the Dindsenchas of Tuag Inbir. PLATE XIII SUCELLOS This divinity, characterized by a hammer (of. p.9), was a ruler of the underworld (cf. the represen-tation of Dispater with a hammer, Plate XIV). Abenevolent god, his hammer is a symbol of creativeforce. The artistic type (for another instance ofwhich see Plate XXVI) was influenced by that ofthe Alexandrian Serapis and the Classical Hades-Pluto. Cf. also Plate IX, B. The figure was foundat Premeaux, France.
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THE DIVINE LAND 117 Another instance occurs in a Fionn story. Fionn and his menwere hunting when there met them a huge and beautifulwoman, whose finger-rings were as thick as three ox-goads.She was Bebhionn from Maidens Land in the west, whereall the inhabitants were women save their father (its king)and his three sons; and for the third time she had escapedfrom her husband, son of the King of the adjacent Isle of Men,and had come to seek Fionns protection. As she sat by himand Goll, however, her huge husband came, and slaying her,eluded the heroes pursuit, vanishing overseas in a boat withtwo rowers.^ The tradition of the Isle of Women still exists in Celtic folk-lore. Such an island was on;y a part of the divine land andmay have originated in myth from actual custom — womenliving upon or going at certain periods to small islands to per-form rites generally tabu to men, a custom to which referenceis made by Strabo and Pomponius Mela.* That the gods could create an Elysium on earth

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