No

Neit [ Nʴeːdʴ ] (also Nét , Ned or Neith ) is called in the Irish glossary Sanas Cormaic [ 'sanas' xormik' ] ("Cormac's whisper") of the Bishop and King of Munster , Cormac mac Cuillenáin, as the Irish god of war in Celtic mythology .

In Lebor Gabala Eirenn , Neit is the son of Induí and king of the formors . His wife is Nemain , in other versions also Badb , his children are Easar , Buareinech and Delbaeth . He fought on the side of the formors in the second battle of Mag Tuired .

The name can be connected with the proto-Indo-European root * nei-t- ("fight"), possibly with the Anglo-Saxon niď ("envy"). A connection with the Celtic deity Neto would therefore also be possible.

In the first version of Lebor Gabala Eirenn, Neit's father Induí is named as the father of Midir . It is unclear whether it is the same person in each case.

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Myths and legends from Ireland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 638.
2. ↑ Julius Pokorny : Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2 vol., Francke, Bern / Munich 1947-66 (1st edition), 2005 (5th edition), ISBN 3772009476 , p. 760.