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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l Christian attitude to the godsobtrudes itself — although the conception of their immortalityand invisibility is accepted, they are demons or attended bythese; Ethne had a demon guardian who left her when theangel arrived and as a result of her chastity. Not unlike thisstory is that of Liban, daughter of Eochaid, whose familywere drowned by the bursting of a well. Liban and her lap-dog were preserved for a year in the water, but then she waschanged into a salmon, save her head, and her dog into anotter. After three hundred years she was caught by her ownwish and was baptized by St. Comgall, dying thereafter.^ In the Cuchulainn saga Conchobar was born at the hourof Christs Nativity, and Cathbad sang beforehand a prophecyof the two births, telling also how Conchobar would find hisdeath in avenging the suffering God, though the hero did not PLATE XXVI SUCELLOS The hammer-god, also shown on Plate XIII, herehas five small mallets projecting from his greathammer. Found at Vienne, France.
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PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY 209 pass away until he had beheved in God, before the faith hadyet reached Erin. He is said to have been the first pagan whowent thence to heaven, though not till after his soul had jour-neyed to hell, whence it was carried with other souls by Christ atthe Harrowing of Hades, he having died just after the Cruci-fixion.^ Cuchulainn was a pagan to the last, but coincidentallywith his passing thrice fifty queens who loved him saw hissoul floating in his spirit-chariot over Emain Macha, singing asong of Christs coming, the arrival of Patrick and the shavenmonks, and the Day of Doom.^ Loegaire, King of Erin, refusedto accept the faith unless Patrick called up Cuchulainn inall his dignity, and next day Loegaire told how, after a pierc-ing wind from hell preceding the heros coming, while the airwas full of birds — the sods thrown up by Cuchulainnschariot-horses — he had appeared as of old. He was in bodilyform, more than a phantom, agreeably to the Celtic con-ce

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