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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Arthur and his men soughtresembles the basin with rows of carbuncles on its edge inwhich, according to another story, a fairy woman washed.^^ The inspiration of wisdom was obtained in the gods land,either by drinking from a well or by eating the salmon in it;but this knowledge was tabu even to some members of thedivine land. Such a well, called Connlas Well, was in theLand under Waves, and thither Sinend, grand-daughter of PLATE XIV DiSPATER AND AeRACURA (?) Dispater was the great Celtic god of the under-world (see p. 9) and is here represented holding ahammer and a cup (for the hammer cf. the deitySucellos, Plates XIII, XXVI, and see Plate IX, B;the cup suggests the magic cauldron of the CelticElysium; cf. pp. 41, 95-96, 100, 109-12, 120, 151,192, 203-04 and see Plates IX, B, XXV). If thegoddess beside him holding a cornucopia (cf. PlateIX, A) is really Aeracura, she probably representsan old earth goddess, later displaced by Dispater.From an altar found at Oberseebach, Switzerland.
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THE DIVINE LAND 121 Ler, went from the Land of Promise to behold it. Above itgrew hazels of wisdom, bearing leaves, blossoms, and nutstogether; and these fell into the water, where they were eatenby salmon — the salmon of knowledge of other tales. Fromthe well sprang seven streams of wisdom, and Sinend, seek-ing understanding, followed one of these, only to be pursuedand overwhelmed by the fount itself. Sometimes these hazelswere thought to grow at the heads of the chief rivers of Erin.^*Such a fountain with five streams, their waters more melo-dious than mortal music, was seen by Cormac beside Manan-nans house; above it were hazels, and in it five salmon. Nutsalso formed part of the food of the gods in the story of Diar-maid and Grainne, and in a tale from the Dindsenchas theyare said to be eaten by the bright folk and fairy hosts ofErin. ^^ Another secret well stood in the green of Sid Nech-tain, and none could approach it without his eyes burstingsave Nechtan and his cup-bearers.

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