Wkstropp — The Earthworks, §'c, of S. E. Co. Limerick. 145 



"synchronized" and "rationalized," compelled the same god to be 

 "distributed" as different personages ages apart. 1 



Indeed, divergence of name and epithet is no evidence for the non-identity 

 of a god, or Zeus Dodonaeus, Olympius, Lykaeus, or Dictaeus ; A bhene, Pallas, 

 or Tritogeneia ; Thor, Ygg, Bolverk, Kialar, Sidgrani, or Hlorridi, should be 

 so disintegrated. On this account, I think the theory that the various 

 " Nuadas" are reincarnations of the god is refuted by the evidence for identity, 

 as I shall tabulate. 



Table on Identity ok Nuada. 



(1) Nodens, Nudens, Ludens, Nudd, or Llud. 2 An early British god of 

 war, light, and rivers. He was worshipped on the Severn at Lydney, and on 

 the Thames at Ludgate. In Irish literature Loden, son of the sea god, was a 

 great cattle-owner ; so is Nudd in Welsh literature. The ancient name was 

 Nudens lam argentios, according to Rhys, " Ludens " being alliterative to 

 Lam Ercint or " silver hand." 3 



(2) Nuada Argetlamh, " silver hand," 4 king, and war god of the Tuatha 

 De, a light, god, son of Echtach, or Eochu. He is ancestor of the Eoganachta 

 and Dal Cais princes. 5 Dwelt at Almhu, father of the god Tadg, G succeeded 

 by Bress. (B.C. 1741-1721.) 



(3) Nuada Fail, or Finnfail (" white light," says Ehys), son of Giollchaid 7 

 (cf. " Eochaid "). Ancestor of the Dergthene. Slew Art Imlech of Oliu, 8 

 and was slain by Bress, who succeeded him. 9 



(4) Nuada Derg, son of Achi (Echtach), or of Sedna Sithbaicc, 10 by 

 Dairfhine, the ancestress of the Corca Laegde, Fosterer of Eogan, who was 



1 It is necessary to repeat these facts for emphasis. 



-'Hib. Lect., iv, p. 119; Ir. Myth. Cyc, pp. 86, 88, 118; Holder, ii, 754, Encyc. 

 Relig., ii, p. 284. " Ludd Lamereint " appears in the story of Kilhwoh and Olhven. 

 Nuada, Abbot of Armagh, a.d. 810, was also called Noda (Trip. Life, vol. i, p. 82). 



3 Hib. Lect., p. 125 ; Encyc. Relig., p. 284 ; Hib. Lect., pp. 128, 290. "The cattle 

 of Nudd the bounteous were 20,002," Folk-Lore, xvii. 



4 Poem of St. Columba (Ossianic Soc, v, p. 255) ; the epithet recalls a Pict, 

 " Argentocoxus," or "Silver Thigh " (Dion Cassius, Book I, xxvi). 



5 Book of Lecan, f. 64b; "Magh Leana," pp. 170, 171; Keating, "History," iv, 

 p. 17. 



6 Sanas Chormaic, p. 55; Leab. Gabh., p. 149; Atlantis, v, p. 259; Rev. Celt., i, 

 p. 52. 



7 " Magh Leana," 170 ; see also us. R. I. Acad., 23, K 32, p. 108. 

 s Book of Leinster, Todd Lect. Ser., iii, p. 171. 



9 "Bress a wolfman " (Jour. R. Soc. Antt. Ir., xlv, p. 38; Giolla Coemhain and 

 Leab Gabhala, pp. 165, 159 ; supra, xxxiii, p. 47 ; " Art " means a god (Sanas Chormaic, 

 p. 3). 



10 Silva Gad., ii, p. 5, 9 ; also 3, 8, 139. Setna was king of Claire (Cenn Febrat) B.C. 

 909 ; see also " Magh Leana," p. xxi. "Second Battle >>f Magh Tured " (Rev. Celt., 

 xii, p. 246). 



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