Partholon

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Partholon [ 'parθoloːn ] was in the Celtic mythology of Ireland the leader of the second wave of immigration in Ireland. He was the son of Sera, the son of Sru, a descendant of Magog , the son of Japhet , the son of Noah . He came to Ireland via Sicily , Greece , Cappadocia , the land of the Goths and finally Spain . The day of arrival is said to have been three hundred or three hundred and twelve years after the Flood , when Abraham was sixty years old. Inber Scéne ( Kenmare in County Kerry ) is specified as the landing site .

mythology

In Lebor Gabála Érenn ("Book of the Landing of Ireland") the settlement of Ireland in several waves is described. After the first group, led by Cessair , come the Partholon people. Your country of origin should be Spain. According to Birkhan , this is due to the fact that the name of several mythical ancestors of the Irish is given as boar , which inspired 9th century recording monks to speculate with Iberians (Spaniards) and the Ebro River in Spain . The landing takes place on Beltaine (May 1st), as does later that of Túatha Dé Danann . The newcomers are initially driven away by the Fomori , cynocephalic creatures with one arm and one leg, but can defeat them.

Partholon's immigrants make the land arable, because before there was only one large plain ( Mag mór ). They light the first fire, clear the land, establish agriculture and plant fields. The activity of Partholon creates new lakes and more "levels" and Magmór has increasingly become the "level of the Otherworld ". With the exception of Túan mac Cairill , Partholon's brother, all new settlers ultimately succumb to an epidemic, the punishment for Partholon's parricide.

In memory of Partholon's first fireplace, the festival was celebrated in pagan times at Beltaine (is interpreted as "Bel-Feuer", "Fire of the god Belenus ") (especially on the Hill of Uisnech ). First all hearth fires were extinguished and then re-lit with the flint.

Dealgnait is named as the wife of Partholon .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingeborg Clarus: Celtic myths. Man and his otherworld. P. 69.
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Pp. 496 f, 534, 735.
  3. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 792 f.
  4. ↑ Carmina Gaedelica, Hymns and Incantations, collected by A. Carmichael, 6 Vols., Edinburgh / London 1928-1971, Vol. I, p. 182 f, Vol. II p. 227 f, 369 f.
  5. ↑ Christopher Somerville: Ireland , National Geographic De, 2003, ISBN 9783936559125 , p. 220. (accessed November 21, 2012)
  6. ^ Thomas Wright: The history of Ireland , 1849 , p. 8. (accessed November 21, 2012)