S2 E4: The Invasion Cycle: Tales of the Tuatha De Danann and the Early Milesians
10/19/21 • 43 min
Misery! Never-ending misery! Join us as we look at impossible tasks, thousand-year punishments, bloody battles, and more fun stuff in Celtic mythology. We look at three major stories of the Invasion Cycle: The Quest of the Children of Tuirenn, The Tragedy of the Children of Lir, and the Wooing of Etain. We discuss the impossible tasks that Lugh of the Long Arm gives to Brian, Iucharba, and Iuchar to atone for killing his father Cian, the evil stepmother Aoife and how she turns her stepchildren into swans for nearly one thousand years, and how the beautiful Etain jumped from husband to husband after being transformed into a butterfly. Naturally, we also look at how Celtic myths relate to J.R.R. Tolkien and his invented mythology.
Misery! Never-ending misery! Join us as we look at impossible tasks, thousand-year punishments, bloody battles, and more fun stuff in Celtic mythology. We look at three major stories of the Invasion Cycle: The Quest of the Children of Tuirenn, The Tragedy of the Children of Lir, and the Wooing of Etain. We discuss the impossible tasks that Lugh of the Long Arm gives to Brian, Iucharba, and Iuchar to atone for killing his father Cian, the evil stepmother Aoife and how she turns her stepchildren into swans for nearly one thousand years, and how the beautiful Etain jumped from husband to husband after being transformed into a butterfly. Naturally, we also look at how Celtic myths relate to J.R.R. Tolkien and his invented mythology.
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