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(2) The sire contained, in pre-Celtic times — 



Sacred wells ; 

 A sacred dairy : 



A - 



— and it became the site of an important cemetery. Ungust and his 

 successors were, however, not buried there, hut at Brug. It may be that 

 their wives were buried at Taillthi. 1 



(3) The worship- ed in the pre-Celtic period took the 

 form ft what we may fairly call coi-roborees, at which the bull-roarer 



4» I'll. -re was a the north end of the ridge, which was 



very likely I nctuary in which these rites were performed. Hut 



doubtless the whole ami there were special rites peculiar 



to the different holy places upon it. 



tic invaders entered at the Bouth-east corner of the country, 



and thei Jtablished their special religious observances. In time they 



the whole conntry, and when the) reached the sanctuary of 



Temair they i"'k it over wit _ - and added their own rites i<> the 



ancient 



imported the following deities: — Fal, and perhaps 



in , : and Glide, the Btorin-god, euphe- 



misticall Bros Xuadu. Lug, and the other deities 



••■ Dauauu. llieir ttnion with the gods of 



• ii. expressed by genealogical 



or i eities, or by the fusing of two or more 



with two or more nan 



nimal of the thai of the 



I 



divine kingship in which the 

 kin. with the Iso au incantation of the 



god s tion and of richnes 'le. 



1 Th( males and females in burial even yet persists at Inisniurray and 



elsew I 



• If Fal -ii.-vuld represent tlie deity called Pales in Italy, it is conceivable that 

 »iu may be comparable with M lte( M unta. who in Italy is associated with Pales, 

 lines, apparently, fused with him. 

 e syncretism of an incoming god (like Geidej with an aboriginal hero such as 



where we find correspondences established 

 ■u and ti t- htht- us, or between Dionysus and Cadmus. 



