Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin Reference) (74 page)

Spain,
xii
,
xvii
,
35
,
74
,
145
;
Ireland, links to,
145–6
,
302–3
;
see also
Galicia

Spanish language,
47
,
302–4

spear, spears,
136
,
154–5
,
192
,
198
,
199
,
201
,
209
,
224
,
247
,
249
,
252
,
268
,
269
,
282

spirals, symbolism,
6

spirituality,
xiv
,
27

Sri-Lakshmi,
60

Srúb Brain,
112

stag,
see
deer

standing stones,
6

Starn,
132–3

Stephens, James,
222

Stone Age,
6

Stone of Destiny,
53

Stonehenge,
xiii
,
25
,
30
,
94–5

‘Story of mac Da Thó’s Pig, The’,
see
Scéla mucce Meic Dathó

Strabo,
xx–xxi
,
28
,
67
,
127

Strathglass,
291

Strettweg,
68

Stroove Point,
112

structuralism, xxix

Stukeley, William,
30

Styx, Stygian,
120

Sualtam mac Róich,
194
,
204
,
205
,
210

suan sídhe
,
118

Sucellus,
41
,
72
,
137

Suetonius Paulinus,
26

Suibne, Suibhne,
243
,
246–50
,
263

Sulevia, Suleviae,
39

Sulis, Sul,
12–13
,
31
,
39
,
73
;
healing deity,
73

Sullivan, Arthur, Sir,
107
,
294

Sul-Minerva,
12–13
,
31
,
39

Sumer, Sumerians,
46
,
60

sun,
93–5
;
imagery, symbolism and worship,
6–8
,
9
,
13
,
15
,
19
,
21
,
34
,
38
,
62

sun deity,
7
,
135

sunwise turn,
147
,
160

Sutherland, Elizabeth,
289

swan, imagery and symbolism,
17
,
99
,
113
,
138
,
152
,
159
,
163–5
,
165–7
;
swan as maiden,
167

swastika,
6

Swift, Jonathan,
258

Swim Two Birds,
247

Switzerland, the Swiss,
xv
,
xviii
,
4

sword, swords,
122
,
136
,
138
,
164
,
170
,
189
,
199
,
209
,
226

syncretism,
33

Synge, John Millington,
66

Syria,
xxi
,
41

taboo,
14
,
16
;
see also
geis

Tacitus,
5
,
26
,
31

taghairm
,
22–3

taibhsear
,
288
,
289

Tailtiu,
105
,
133
,
147
,
163

Táin
(classification of narrative),
151
,
202
;
pun on,
211

Táin Bó Cuailnge
,
xx
,
xxiii
,
21
,
23
,
56
,
81
,
84
,
85
,
87
,
90
,
151
,
152
,
168
,
169
,
170
,
171
,
177
,
191
,
195
,
200
,
215
,
224
,
245
,
284
,
303
;
boy troops,
208
;
bulls’ duel to the death,
211–12
;
critique of,
201–2
;
dating of,
201–2
;
remscéla
to,
202–3
;
summarized,
201–12
;
title interpreted,
202

Táin Bó Flidais
,
202

Táin Bó Fraích
,
58–9
,
202

‘Tales of the Traditional Kings’,
243

Tales Until Dawn
,
292

Taliesin,
24
,
76
,
262–3
,
264
,
265–7
;
historicity of,
265
;
name explained,
267
;
narrative of,
265–7
;
poems ascribed to,
265

Taliesin West,
265

Tallaght,
131

Tammuz,
96

Tánaise, tánaiste, tánaiste
,
51–2
;
tánaise rig
,
52

tanist,
51–2
;
rival definitions,
51

Tara,
xxiii
,
13
,
19
,
22
,
52–7
,
62
,
63
,
86
,
98
,
99
,
139
,
142
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
170
,
177
,
218
,
226–7
,
239
,
244
,
245
,
253
,
255
;
Christian legends of,
57
;
described,
53
;
etymology of,
57

Tara Brooch,
53

Taran,
38

Taranis,
8
,
37
,
38
,
40
,
46
,
97

tarbh uisge
,
23

tarbfheis
,
22–3
,
56

Taredd Wledig,
270

taroo ushtey
,
23

Tarvos Trigaranus,
22

taxes,
xxi
,
26
,
143

Téa,
57

Tech Duinn,
41
,
117
,
139

Tech Moling,
249

Tegid Foel,
266

teinm laida
,
29
,
226

Telamon,
4

Teltown,
105
,
116
,
147

Temair,
57

Temuir Luchra,
187–9

Tennyson, Alfred Lord,
xxiv

territorial goddesses,
9–10
,
86

Terryglass,
xxiii

Tertullian,
69

testing cup of truth, motif of,
253
,
254–5

Tethra,
124

teutā
,
32
,
37

Teutates,
xx
,
32
,
33
,
37
,
46
,
97

Teyrnon Twrf Liet,
274

Thames, River,
10
,
12
,
66–7

Themis,
33
,
70

Theogony
,
127

Theseus,
245

Thomas the Rhymer,
290

Thomond,
161

Thompson, Stith,
xxv
;
see also
Aarne-Thompson catalogue

Thor,
137

Three Exalted Prisoners,
46
,
270

Three Finns of Emain Macha,
46

Three Generous Men,
46

three shouts on the hill of Miodhchaoin,
154–5

‘Three Sorrows of Storytelling, The’,
83
,
155
,
163

thumb of knowledge,
24
,
225

thunder,
8
,
37–8

Thurneysen, Rudolf,
42
,
79
,
139

Tiber,
34

Tígh Mhóire,
61

Tigris,
60

timpán
,
226

tinkard (defined),
297

Tintagel,
xviii

Tipperary, County,
xxiii
,
10
,
11
,
61
,
64
,
118
,
225

tipra sláine
,
138

Tir Chonaill,
247

Tír fo Thuinn,
122

Tír na mBan, 111,
122

Tír na mBéo,
122

Tír na nÓg,
11
,
78
,
113
,
123
,
149
,
241–2

Tir Tairngire,
114
,
121–2
,
235
,
253

Titans,
70

Tlachtga,
46
,
98

Tochmarc
(classification of narrative),
151

Tochmarc Etaíne
,
xxiii
,
17
,
77–8
,
152
;
summarized,
155–9

Togail Bruidne Da Derga
,
56
,
74–5
,
150
,
171
,
228
;
summarized,
160–62

tóin
(pun),
211

Tom (Cornish giant and hero),
296–7

Tophet,
98

Topographia Hibernia
,
21
,
57–8

Tor Conaind,
132
,
134

Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne
,
151
;
summarized,
234–7
;
differences from Deirdre story,
234
;
origins,
234

Torc Triath,
18

Tory Island,
132
,
134