EPITHET Father of the Caucasian
ALTERNATIVE Iáfed / Iathfed / Iathféth / Iapetus / Japhet
GENDER M
CATEGORY Titan
CULTURE pre-Goidel Aryan
COUNTRY Turkey / Iraq / Armenia / Georgia / Azerbaijan /
Dagestan / Ukraine / Russia
LANDMARKS Alma Dagh / Taurus / Caucasus / Plateau of
Phrygia / Black Sea / Crimea / Don / Volga /
Caspian Sea
SITES Mount Armenia (Ararat)
AGE early-Bronze
DATES BC 21st c
RELATIVES Noe (father); Coba (mother); Olivana and Cata
Casta (wives); Gomer, Madai, Iaban, Tubal,
Mosoch, Thiras and Magog (sons) / Ouranos
(father); Gaia (mother); Epimetheus and
Prometheus (sons)
SEE ALSO Gomer / Magog
REMARKS In Celtic mythology Iafeth (Japhet) was the
progenitor of the people of northern Asia Minor from the
Alma Dagh (Mai/Amanus) and Taurus mountains of southeastern
Turkey northward through old Armenia and the Caucasus.
North of the Caucasus, the territory streched east around
the Caspian Sea to the Volga and west around the Black Sea
across the Don river to the Crimean Peninsula. The
northern part of the territory has been referred to as
Scythia at different times, although this was long before
the Scythians of history. When Iafeth died he was buried
on Mount Armenia (Ararat) in Turkey.
The sons of Iafeth were Gomer and Magog (Magoth), both
progenitors of the Goidel and Scythian, Madai (Meda) of the
Median, Iabal (Iaban/Iavan/Javan) "The Eldest" of the
Ionian, Tubal of the Tibarenian (Iberian), Mosoch of the
Moschian (Cappadoce), and Thiras (Tiras) of the Thracian.
Iafeth is also considered the father of the Europeans and
his progeny conquered all the land west to the Atlantic
Ocean, west of Hibernia and Britain and south to Gibraltar.
In Classical mythology, Iafeth was a Titan and a son
of Ouranos and Gaia. His sons were Epimetheus and
Prometheus and their children were the first humans. When
the Titans were defeated by Zeus and his followers, Iafeth
was held at Tartarus, a prison of perpetual darkness within
a brazen wall. Later, Greek writers lowered his status to
a son of Oceanus. Wilkens, Where Troy Once Stood, has also
suggested that Iafeth (Japhet) was associated with Bronze
Age Gaul.
Judaeo-Christian mythology places Iafeth as a son of
Noe, everyone else on the planet having died in the great
flood. Iafeth's wives were Olivana, who was the first
person to make garments after the flood, and Cata Casta.
The phrase " a descendant of Iafeth" has been used to
mean "of the Caucasian race". The terms Aryan and Indo-
European have also been used to indicate Caucasian origin,
but refer more to the language base.
NAME Ialona
EPITHET Of the Glades
ALTERNATIVE Iano (glade)
GENDER F
CATEGORY deity
TYPE goddess of meadows and cultivated fields
CULTURE Hallstatt - Volcae Arcomici and Cenomani tribes
COUNTRY France
REGION Gard
TERRITORY Gaul
LANDMARKS Rhône / Cevennes
SITES Nîmes
AGE Iron
DATES BC 5th c
SEE ALSO Ialonos
REMARKS Nîmes sits on a flat plain between the Rhône
river and the Cevennes mountains. Both the Volcae Arcomici
and their clients the Cenomani settled the area in BC 5th
century. Nîmes was in the territory of the Cenomani tribe
and Iano was venerated as a goddess of meadows and
cultivated fields.
NAME Ialonos
EPITHET Who Dwells Among Us (Ialonus Contreb)
ALTERNATIVE Iano (glade)
GENDER M
CATEGORY deity
TYPE god of clearings and cultivated fields
CULTURE Briton - Setantii tribe
COUNTRY England
REGION Lancashire / Lancaster
SITES Overborough
AGE Iron
DATES BC 6th c
SEE ALSO Ialona
REMARKS Ialonos was a male deity who was venerated at
Overborough in Lancaster. This was the territory of the
Setantii tribe who settled the area in BC 6th century.
His name is the male variation of Ialona, the goddess
of cultivated fields. The name Ialonos may have been a
Roman perversion, as they had a habit of giving the roles
of goddesses over to gods.
NAME Ianuaria
EPITHET Patron of Music
GENDER F
CATEGORY deity / bard
TYPE healer goddess / musician
CULTURE Goidel / Gallic - Sequani, Ædui and Lingones
COUNTRY France
REGION Burgundy
SITES curative spring at Beire-le-Chatel
AGE Bronze / Iron
DATES BC 12th-8th c / BC 9th c / BC 7th c
ACCESSORIES pipes
REMARKS Ianuaria was venerated as a musician who would
heal people with sweet music after they soaked in the
curative spring Beire-le-Chatel near present-day Dijon.
This was a site that was central to three Goidel
tribes: the Sequani (BC 12th-8th c), the Ædui (BC 9th c)
and the Lingones (BC 7th c).
NAME Iarbonel
EPITHET The Soothsayer / The Giant
ALTERNATIVE Artoat / Artur / Iarbanel / Iardaines / Iardan /
Iardanel / Iardanis
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires)
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain / filidh
TYPE soothsayer
CULTURE Nemedian tribe
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Cork / Wexford
TERRITORY Phrygia / Munster / Connacht / Ulster / Leinster
LANDMARKS Plateau of Phrygia / Black Sea / Cork Harbour /
Wexford Harbour / Bannow Bay
SITES Camross
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 19th-18th c
BATTLES Ros Fraechain / Murbolg / Cnamros (died)
RELATIVES Nemhedh (father); Meda (wife); Beothach and
Semul (sons); Starn, Anind and Fergus
(brothers); Magog (ancestor)
ENEMIES Fomorii / Conann
SEE ALSO Anind / Beothach / Conann mac Faeboir / Fergus
Lethderg / Magog / Nemhedh / Semul / Starn
REMARKS Iarbonel son of Nemhedh was one of the 5
chieftains who led his followers from the Plateau of
Phrygia in Turkey to Cork Harbour, Ireland.
After leading his warriors to victory against the
Fomorii in the battles of Ros Fraechain in Connacht and
Murbolg in Ulster, he fell by the hand of the Fomorian
chieftain, Conann, during the battle of Cnamros in
Leinster. The battle took place at Camross near Taghmon in
Co. Wexford between Wexford Harbour and Bannow Bay.
NAME Ibar mac Riangabair
ALTERNATIVE Riangabra / Riangabur
GENDER M
CATEGORY charioteer
TYPE driver for Conchobar (Ri Ruirech)
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Armagh
TERRITORY Ulster
LANDMARKS Finncarn (White Cairn)
CENTERS Emain Macha (Navan)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid / Gairech & Irgairech
RELATIVES Riangabar (father); Id, Laeg, Sedlang (brothers)
ENEMIES Host of Connacht
SEE ALSO Conchobar / Cu Chulainn / Id macRiangabra / Laeg
/ Necht Scene / Sedlang
REMARKS Ibar son of Riangabar was a charioteer for
Conchobar. Conchobar told him to harness his horses to his
chariot and drive for Cu Chulainn on the day that he took
up arms. Ibar drove Cu Chulainn to Finncarn and from there
he named all the mountains, plains and major raiths between
Temair and Cenannos for him. It was on this trip that Cu
Chulainn killed the 3 sons of Necht Scene.
NAME Ibath
ALTERNATIVE Ebath / Ibad
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Night of the Dead)
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
CULTURE Nemedian tribe
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Donegal
TERRITORY Ulster
LANDMARKS Tory Island (island of towers)
SITES Conann's Tower (Tuir Chonaind)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 19th-18th c
BATTLES Magh Ceitne
RELATIVES Beothach (father); Baath (son); Iarbonel
(grandfather); Nemhedh (great-grandfather);
Magog (ancestor)
ENEMIES Fomorii
SEE ALSO Beothach / Conann mac Faeboir / Iarbonel / Magog
/ Morc mac Deiled / Nemhedh
REMARKS Ibath son of Beothach, son of Iarbonel, son of
Nemhedh, was a survivor of the attack on Conann's Tower,
the Fomorian stronghold on Tory Island, and the battle
against Morc mac Deiled's 3x20 shiploads of warriors.
Before Beothach died, Ibath and his son Baath (Baad)
were the first of the Nemedian to give up on Ireland and
led a group of people to Great Lochlann (Scandinavia) in
the northeast where they studied the arts of druidism.
Their descendants later returned to Ireland as the powerful
druids of the Danann.
NAME Icovellauna
GENDER F
CATEGORY deity
TYPE healer water goddess
CULTURE Hallstatt / Belgae - Mediomatrici tribe
COUNTRY France
REGION Moselle
TERRITORY Gaul / Belgica
LANDMARKS Moselle
SITES thermal spring of Sablon
CENTERS Metz (Divodorum - Citadel of the Gods)
AGE Bronze / Iron
DATES BC 9th c
REMARKS Icovellauna was goddess of healing in the Sablon
thermal spring at Metz. Metz was the capital of the
Mediomatrici tribe who settled the area around BC 9th
century.
NAME Id macRiangabra
ALTERNATIVE Riangabair / Riangabur
GENDER M
CATEGORY charioteer
TYPE driver for Ferdiad / Conall Cernach
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster exile / cause of Connacht
SITES Ath Ferdiad (Ferdiad's Ford)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid
RELATIVES Riangabar (father); Laeg, Ibar and Sedlang
(brothers)
ENEMIES Laeg
SEE ALSO Conall Cernacht / Ferdiad / Ibar mac Riangabra /
Laeg / Sedlang
REMARKS Id son of Riangabar was the charioteer for
Ferdiad and a brother of Laeg, the charioteer for Cu
Chulainn. In preparation for the combat between Ferdiad
and Cu Chulainn, Id should have bolstered the spirit of his
master but instead he praised the virtues of Cu Chulainn
and spoke doom and gloom to Ferdiad. When Cu Chulainn and
Ferdiad were fighting at the ford (Ath Ferdiad), Id lacked
the courage of his brother and when he tried to stop Laeg
from arming Cu Chulainn with the Gae Bolga, he was beaten
by his brother.
After the death of Ferdiad, Id became a charioteer to
Conall Cernacht, which allowed him to change camps from
Connacht to Ulster and raises the question of loyalty to
his previous master.
NAME Idris Gawr
EPITHET Idris the Giant
GENDER M
CATEGORY druid
TYPE astronomer
CULTURE Pictish / Briton
COUNTRY France / England / Wales
REGION Brittany / Cornwall
TERRITORY Gaul / Llydaw / Lloegr
LANDMARKS Loire / Mount Snowdon
SITES Cadeir Idris (seat of Idris)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 6th c / BC 550 ca.
ACCESSORIES observatory
SEE ALSO Gwyddion ap Don / Gwynn ap Nudd
REMARKS Idris Gawr was one of the 3 happy astronomers of
the island of Britain along with Gwyddion and Gwynn. Their
knowledge of the heavenly bodies allowed them to predict
future events such as the stations of the sun, moon,
planets, stars and constellations.
Idris Gawr was part of the Pictish migration that left
from Llydaw (Brittany) and sailed to Cornwall in Lloegr
(England). In Wales he built an observatory at Mount
Snowdon which was called Cadeir Idris (The Seat of Idris).
NAME Igerna
ALTERNATIVE Ygerna
GENDER F
CATEGORY rigbean (noble woman)
CULTURE Briton - Dumnonii tribe
COUNTRY England
REGION Cornwall
CENTERS Tintagel {Tin-taj-ell}
AGE Post-Roman
DATES AD 5th c
RELATIVES Gorlois (husband); Uther (husband); Arthur
(son); Anna (daughter)
SEE ALSO Arthur / Gorlois / Myrddin Wyllt / Uther
REMARKS When Igerna and her husband were at the victory
celebration after defeating the invading Celts and Germani,
Uther fell in love with her. Uther's desire for her was so
great that she and her husband had to flee to Cornwall.
Igerna fled to Raith Tintagel which was safe because of its
natural defence of cliffs on the sea, while her husband
defended the raith of Dimilioc to draw away Uther and his
warriors.
Under the cover of darkness her husband appeared and
they made love. She did not realize that the man she was
with was Uther and not her husband because Myrddin had used
his sorcery to make him look like Gorlois. Uther left to
return to battle and the next morning a messenger brought
the news that her husband had been killed during a battle
at Raith Dimilioc and Uther had captured his fortress. She
and Uther were married and she lived with him as an equal,
bearing him two children, Arthur and Anna.
NAME Ilbhreach
ALTERNATIVE Ilbreac / Ilbreach / Ilbrec / Ilbreg
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
CULTURE Danann
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Donegal
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES Ballyshannon
CENTERS Sidhe Eas Aedha Ruaidh
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th-15th c
BATTLES Danann Civil War
RELATIVES Manannan (father); Gormlinde (mother); Orbsen,
Illanach, Cairpre Condualach, Failbi Findbuide,
Gaiar and Goth Gaithy (brothers); Echdonn
(sister); Gaela (half-sister/niece); Elloth
(grandfather); Eladu (great-grandfather); Magog,
Iarbonel and Net (ancestors)
SEE ALSO Bodb Dearg / Daghda / Eladu / Elloth /
Fionnbharr / Iarbonel / Lir / Magog / Midhir
Net / Ochall Ochne / Manannan
REMARKS Ilbhreach was a son of Manannan and sided with
Midhir during the civil war of the Danann after the Goidel
had conquered Ireland from them. The main chieftains
involved in the war were Bodb Dearg, Ilbhreach, Lir,
Midhir, Ochall Ochne and Fionnbharr, who replaced Manannan.
Daghda allotted Ilbhreach Sidhe Eas Aedha Ruaidh, later
called the Mound of Mullachshee, in county Donegal near
Ballyshannon.
NAME Iliach
GENDER M
CATEGORY hero / warrior
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel - Dal nAraide
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster / Immail
SITES The Two Marrow Mounds
CENTERS Raith Imbil
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid / The Clump Fight of Iliach
ACCESSORIES shield / sword / rocks / clumps of earth
RELATIVES Cass (father); Connad Buide (son); Loeghaire
(grandson); Amorgen (brother); Conall (nephew);
Ross the Red (great-grandfather); Ir and
Rudraige (ancestors)
ENEMIES Host of Connacht
SEE ALSO Amorgen Iarngiunnach / Conall Cernacht / Connad
Buide / Doche macMagach / Ir / Loeghaire
Buadhach / Ross the Red / Rudraige
REMARKS Iliach was the son of Cass son of Bacc son of
Ross the Red son of Rudraige. At the time of the Cattle
Raid of Cualnge, Iliach was an ancient man whose days were
numbered. He became maddened when he found out that a Host
of warriors representing Connacht were raiding Ulster and
carrying off the women, children and herds. He had his two
old and decrepit horses fastened to his worn-out old-
fashioned wattle-walled chariot and loaded it with rocks
and clumps of earth.
Iliach went into battle naked (without armor) except
for his iron shield with the silver rim and his gray-hilted
long hacking sword. When the warriors of Connacht saw him
coming, they mocked and jeered him. Doche macMagach, a
great friend of Iliach's grandson Loeghaire Buadach, met
him and bid him welcome. Iliach asked Doche to come to him
when he had spent his wrath and collect his head and sword
for his grandson Loeghaire.
Iliach attacked the Host of Connacht with such
enthusiasm and rage that he killed many before his weapons
gave out and he resorted to the rocks and the clumps of
earth piled in his chariot. When these weapons were
finished he grabbed the nearest warrior and crushed him
with his bare hands and turned him into a mass of marrow.
Iliach, finally worn out, was then approached by
Doche, who collected his head and weapons for Loeghaire.
The battle was called The Clump Fight of Iliach at the site
known as The Two Marrow Mounds.
NAME Illann Ilarchless
EPITHET Of the Many Feats / The Fair (Iollan)
ALTERNATIVE Illan
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel - Dal nAraide / Danann / Pictish
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Armagh
TERRITORY Ulster exile / cause of Connacht
SITES Red Branch hostel / Imorach Smiromrach (Edge of
The Marrow Bath)
CENTERS Emain Macha (Navan) / Raith Cruachan
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Red Branch hostel / Cualnge Cattle Raid /
Gairech & Irgairech
RELATIVES Ferghus mac Roig (father); Ness (mother ?);
Fiacha and Buinne (brothers); Conchobar (half-
brother)
ENEMIES Cualnge / Pictland / Ulster
SEE ALSO Bearuch / Buinne / Cethern / Conall Cernacht /
Conchobar mac Nessa / Deirdre / Ferghus
mac Roig
/ Fiacha / Fiachra / Fingin /
Naoise / Ness /
Usna
REMARKS Illann was a son of Ferghus and descendant of Ir
of the Milesian (Goidel). He and his brothers were left to
guard Deirdre and the sons of Usna when Ferghus was tricked
into attending a feast by Bearuch. Illann helped get the
party to the safety of the Red Branch hostel where they
were made welcome.
Conchobar ignored the sanctity of the hostel and sent
warriors loyal to him against it. Illann engaged
Conchobar's son Fiachra in combat and was beating him when
Fiachra's shield (Ochain), on loan from his father, began
to moan under the fierce attack.
Conall Cernacht heard the moaning of Conchobar's
shield and quickly rushed to the side of Fiachra and
attacked Illann. Illann yelled to Conall of the treachery
that was taking place at the Hostel and Conall turned on
Fiachra and killed him.
Illann became an exile from Ulster and fought on the
side of Connacht during the Cualnge Cattle Raid. When
Cethern attacked the Host of Connacht with an iron spit,
Illann was the first to exchange blows with him. Illann
gave Cethern the superficial wound of a friend and it was
the first wound examined by Fingin the leech.
NAME Imanuentios
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Brenin
TYPE chariot warrior / head chieftain
CULTURE Briton - Trinovantes tribe
COUNTRY England
REGION Essex / Suffolk
TERRITORY Lloegr
CENTERS Braughing
AGE Iron
DATES BC 1st c
RELATIVES Avarwy (son); Dumnuvelaunus (grandson)
ENEMIES Cassubellaunos
SEE ALSO Avarwy Mandubrad / Casseto / Cassubellaunos /
Dumnuvelaunus
REMARKS Imanuentios was killed by Cassubellaunos during
a skirmish with the Catuvellauni tribe. Casseto, an anti-
Roman, was elected head chieftain of the tribes.
NAME Imrinn
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / druid
CULTURE Goidel - Dal nAraide / Danann / Pictish
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster
SITES Mound of Slane in Mide
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid / Gairech & Irgairech
ACCESSORIES hooked shield / sword
RELATIVES Cathbad (father); Maga (mother); Genonn
(brother); Dechtire, Elbha and Findchaem
(sisters); Conchobar (half-brother); Ir and
Anghus (ancestors)
ENEMIES Host of Connacht
SEE ALSO Anghus mac Og / Cathbad / Conchobar mac Nessa /
Dechtire / Elbha / Findchaem / Genonn Gruadsolus
/ Ir / Maga
REMARKS During the preparation for the battle of
Gairech, Imrinn was with his father and brother in the
vanguard of the troop of druids. He was described by
MacRoth as a curly-haired youth wearing a blue tunic, green
cloak and purple boots. He carried a sword with a white
hilt decorated in silvered bronze and a shield with hooks
around its edge.
NAME Inciona
GENDER F
CATEGORY deity
TYPE earth goddess
CULTURE Belgae - Treveri tribe / Mediomatrici
tribe
COUNTRY Luxembourg
TERRITORY Gaul / Belgica
SITES Widdenberg
AGE Iron
DATES BC 9th c / BC 1st c
RELATIVES Veraudinos (consort)
SEE ALSO Veraudinos
REMARKS The goddess Inciona was venerated at Widdenberg
in present-day Luxembourg. The Treveri and Mediomatrici
tribes settled in the Luxembourg territory during BC 9th
century and were still there during the Roman invasion in
BC 1st century.
NAME Indech
EPITHET The Great (Mor) / Son of the Domnu (mac De
Domnann)
ALTERNATIVE Indeach / Indeouch / Indig / Indich / Inneach
mac De Domhnann / Ninnech
GENDER M
FESTIVAL summer solstice
CATEGORY warrior / druid / chieftain
TYPE poet / craft
CULTURE Fomorii / Fir Domnann tribe
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Sligo
TERRITORY Connacht
LANDMARKS Plain of Towers (Magh Tuireadh)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th-15th c
BATTLES second battle of Magh Tuireadh (north Moytura)
RELATIVES Domnu (mother); Tuire Tortbuillech (father);
Bagna (half-sister/consort); Omna, Goll, Irgol
and Octriallach (sons); Breg, Meng and Mebal
(daughters); Beelzebub (ancestor)
ENEMIES Danann / Oghma / Lugh
SEE ALSO Balor / Bress / Breg / Daghda / Domnu / Indech /
Lugh / Morrighan / Octriallach / Oghma
REMARKS Indech was the son of Tuire Tortbuillech and the
goddess Domnu. He and his warriors fought alongside the
Fomorians during the second battle of Magh Tuireadh.
During the time when Bress was head chieftain of the
Danann of Ireland, Indech, Balor and Tethra imposed a tax
on them. When Bress was deposed, Indech and Balor had to
protect him from the Danann. The Morrighan used her
sorcery to take the valor out of his kidneys and the blood
out of his heart. She gave the Daghda two handfuls of his
blood, which condemned Indech to death before the battle
even started.
Indech's daughter Breg went against him when she had
sexual intercourse with the Daghda and promised to help him
with her talents. Indech killed Oghma during the battle
north Moytura but was killed himself by Lugh.
Indech claimed descent through his Fomorii bloodline
back to Beelzebub (Baalzebur). Beelzebub was known to the
Hebrews as the Philistine god of Ekron, a small town in
Palestine. The Philistines were an ancient people who came
from the Carion region of Anatolia (Turkey) around BC 12th
century and settled the 5 centers of Gaza, Ascalon, Ashod
(Esdud), Gath and Akiron (Ekron) in ancient Palestine. They
were tall Caucasians, Aryans or Indo-European speaking
people, whose society was governed by a confederacy of
chieftains. They introduced the use of iron weapons, grape
vines and the olive tree to ancient Palestine.
NAME Indui
EPITHET The Great (Mor)
ALTERNATIVE Indai / Innui
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
CULTURE Danann
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Sligo / Donegal
TERRITORY Ulster / Ailech / Connacht
LANDMARKS Plain of Towers (Magh Tuireadh) / Inishowen
Peninsula
SITES Grianan Aileach (burial tumulus)
CENTERS Raith Ailig (died)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th-15th c
BATTLES second battle of Magh Tuireadh (north Moytura)
RELATIVES Delbaeth (father); Ernmas (mother/consort); Neto
(son); Olloman and Fiachu (brothers); Macha,
Danu, Badbh and Elcmar (sisters); Eire, Fodhla
and Banbha (half-sisters/nieces); Brénos,
Iuchar, Iucharba and Corpre Crom (half-brother/
nephew); Glonn, Gnim and Coscar (half-brothers);
Fea and Nemhain (granddaughters); Ai (nephew);
Oghma and Etarlam (grandfathers); Magog,
Iarbonel, Net and Ordan (ancestors)
ENEMIES Fomorii / Gann
SEE ALSO Ai mac Ollamain / Badbh / Banbha / Brénos / Danu
/ Delbaeth / Elcmar / Eire / Ernmas / Fea
/
Fiachu / Fodhla / Iarbonel /
Macha / Magog /
Nemhain / Net / Neto / Oghma / Olloman / Ordan
REMARKS Indui, chieftain of Ailech on the Inishowen
Peninsula in county Donegal, was the son of Delbaeth and
Ernmas.
Indui died fighting in the trenches at Rath Ailig
(Grianan Aileach) during the battle of north Moytura by the
hand of youthful Gann.
NAME Indutiomaros
GENDER M
CATEGORY hero / warrior / chieftain
TYPE horse warrior / war leader
CULTURE Belgae - Treveri tribe
COUNTRY Germany / Luxembourg / France
REGION Rhineland
TERRITORY Gaul / Belgica
LANDMARKS Ardenne highlands / Moselle
CENTERS Trier
AGE Iron
DATES BC 54 (died)
RELATIVES Cingetorix (son-in-law)
ENEMIES Cingetorix / Caesar
SEE ALSO Ambiorix / Catuvolcus / Cingetorix
REMARKS Indutiomaros wanted to clear Gaul of the Roman
invaders. He accused Cingetorix, the vergobret of the
tribe, of being a traitor to his people. Indutiomaros also
encouraged Ambiorix and Catuvolcus to rebel against the
Roman opressors.
During the winter of BC 54, Indutiomaros kept up a
campaign against the Romans and was attracting Celtic
warriors from all tribes of Gaul. He and his warriors
attacked a Roman camp in the territory of the Remi, and
unknown to him, the Roman mercenary horse warriors had been
told to go after him only. When the gates opened, the
Celts scattered and Indutiomaros was chased and killed at a
river ford. His head was cut off and brought back to their
camp. Cingetorix, the traitor, was given supreme power
over his people.
NAME Ingcel
EPITHET The One-Eyed
ALTERNATIVE Incel / Ingcel Caech
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Samhain (Night of the Dead)
CATEGORY warrior / raider
TYPE ungentle / huge / fearful / uncouth
CULTURE Briton
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Dublin
TERRITORY Albion (Isle of Britain) / Mide
LANDMARKS Strand of Fuirbthe / Magh mBreg / Magh Liffey
SITES Hill of Howth / Cairn Lecca at Hui
Cellaig / Da Derga's Hostel
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Ath Cliath
ACCESSORIES one black eye with 7 pupils
RELATIVES Eiccel and Tulchinne (brothers)
ENEMIES Host of Eirinn
SEE ALSO Conaire / Da Derga / Donn Desa / Fer Gar / Fer
Lee / Fer Rogain / Lomna Druth / Lugh / Mac
Cecht / Mane Andoe / Mane Milscothach
REMARKS Ingcel was a raider from Albion (Isle of
Britain) and when he met up with the sons of Donn Desa at
sea they decided to join forces for the purpose of raiding.
The leaders drew lots to see where they would raid
first. Ingcel won and led his force of 1300 plus the
larger force of warriors of Connacht and attacked his home,
killing his mother, father and 7 brothers. The hoard of
raiders then sailed to Ireland and made landfall off the
coast of Magh mBreg. Ingcel sent 9 warriors to the Hill of
Howth to study the ley of the land. Two of the nine were
Mane Milscothach, who had the gift of hearing, and Mane
Andoe, who had the gift of far sight and judgment.
From the Hill of Howth they could hear and see Conaire
with his troop of warriors on the road and Mac Cecht just
striking the chieftain fire (Samhain) at the Hostel of Da
Derga. The 3x50 raider ships carrying 5000 warriors were
just about to land on the Strand of Fuirbthe when the
horrific sound of Mac Cecht's boar-fire hurled them onto
the shoulders of the sea. Fer Rogain, who had the gift of
excellent hearing given to him by Conaire, explained to
Ingcel that the sound he had heard was the Torc Caille
(chieftain fire) of the high chieftain of Ireland.
When the raiders did land, the sound was so thunderous
when their ships hit the beach that it shook the hostel and
all the spears and shields fell from their racks and
uttered a cry as they hit the floor. The raiders made
their way to Hui Cellaig, where each placed a stone into a
heap and built Cairn Lecca. Warriors built a cairn for a
destruction and raised a pillar stone for a rout. When the
battle was over, the surviving warriors removed their
stones from the cairn.
Ingcel went in close to the hostel to do a
reconnaissance with his one black eye which was the size of
an oxhide and had 7 pupils. After he saw all, he returned
to his camp and gathered his warriors in circles around
him. The inside circle held the six chieftains Fer Gar,
Fer Lee, Fer Rogel, Fer Rogain, Lomna and himself. Fer
Rogain began to question Ingcel as to what he saw, so he
gave descriptions of the different rooms in the hostel and
the warriors in them. Ingcel made the second best
reckoning in Ireland when he reckoned the host at the
hostel of Da Derga. (The first was made by Lugh when he
reckoned the number of Fomorians the Danann would have to
fight.)
When the raiders attacked the Hostel of Da Derga, many
thousands died on each side. Of the raiders, only Ingcel,
his two brothers Echell and Tulchinne and the two reds of
Roiriu were able to retrieve their stones from Cairn Lecca.
Ingcel sailed home to Albion where he became the head
chieftain of his people.
NAME Innell
ALTERNATIVE Indell
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / scout
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel / Danann
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Connacht
SITES Ard Cuillen (the Height of Cuillen) / Ath Gabla
(Ford of the Fork)
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid (died)
ACCESSORIES Fochnam was his charioteer
RELATIVES Nera (father); Err (brother)
ENEMIES Cualnge / Pictland / Ulster
SEE ALSO Cu Chulainn / Err / Nera
REMARKS Innell and his brother were scouts for the Host
of Connacht and would ride ahead of the troops looking for
the best paths, river crossings and camping sites. Inell
and his brother Err found the ogham wreath on the pillar
stone that Cu Chulainn made as a challenge to the warriors
of Connacht.
Innell and his brother came upon Cu Chulainn while he
was constructing his four-pronged fork in the creek of the
wood, and Innell's head was the second to adorn the fork
after his brother. The heads of the two charioteers Foich
and Fochlam soon followed.
GENDER M
FESTIVAL Beltainn (Brilliant Fires)
CATEGORY warrior
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel (Milesian) / Egyptian - Artabri tribe
COUNTRY Spain / Ireland
REGION Galicia
TERRITORY Thrace / Munster
LANDMARKS Thracian Sea
SITES Irena / Skellig of the Spectres
CENTERS Brigantia (A Corunna)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 15th c
RELATIVES Golamh (father); Scota (mother); Eber (son);
Amhairghin, Eremon, Eber, Colptha and Arannan
(brothers); Dil and Odba (half-sisters); Donn
and Airioch (half-brothers); Bile
(grandfather/cousin); Bregon (great-
grandfather); Brego, Bladh, Fuad, Murthemne,
Cualgne, Cuala, Eibleo, Nar and Ith (cousins);
Rifath Scot (ancestor)
SEE ALSO Amhairghin / Arannan / Bile / Bladh / Bregon /
Colptha / Donn / Eber / Eremon / Fuad / Golamh /
Ith / Odba / Rifath Scot / Scota
REMARKS Ir, son of Golamh, son of Bile, son of Bregon,
was born on the island of Irena in the Thracian Sea. He
died during the invasion of Ireland when the warriors were
racing to make first landfall. Ir's boat was a murchrech
ahead of Donn's when his oar broke and he fell backward
into the boat and died. He was buried off the west coast
of Munster in Sceilic (Skellig of the Spectres).
His son, Eber, survived the invasion of Ireland and
many of the people of Ulster are his descendants.
NAME Irgalach
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE chariot warrior / retired
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Ulster
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid / Gairech & Irgairech
RELATIVES Lach (father)
ENEMIES Host of Connacht
REMARKS Irgalach led a troop of experienced retired
warriors against Connacht during the battles of Gairech so
that they could act as advisors to the younger warriors of
Ulster.
ALTERNATIVE Irial Faid
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Ard Righ Eirinn
TYPE chariot warrior / high chieftain
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
REGION Meath
TERRITORY Connacht / Leinster / Mide / Munster / Ulster
LANDMARKS Magh mBreg / Magh Muaide (died)
CENTERS Raith Rig - Tara
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 15th c / BC 1494-1484 (Ard Righ - Kings List)
RELATIVES Eremon (father); Tea (mother); Ethriel (son);
Eidenn, Alan, Aine, Caithiar and Caicher Cernda
and Palap (brothers); Muimne, Luigne, Laigne
(half-brothers); Rifath Scot (ancestor)
ENEMIES Er / Orba / Feron / Fergna / Suirge / Lug Roith
/ Eochaid Echcenn
SEE ALSO Conmael / Eremon / Lug Roith / Rifath Scot / Tea
REMARKS Iriel Faid, son of Eremon and Tea, revenged his
family by killing his cousins Er, Orba, Feron and Fergna
and becoming the second high chieftain and the first to
rule who was born in Ireland.
During his rule Iriel Faid cleared the 12 plains of
Magh Rechet, Magh Eile, Magh Commair, Magh Sleibe, Magh
Sanais, Magh nDairbrech, Magh Techet, Magh Lugna, Magh
Faithne, Magh nInis and Magh Cuile Feda. He also
constructed the 7 forts of Raith Cimbaith, Raith Croichne,
Raith Bachaill, Raith Cuincheda, Raith Mothaich, Raith
Buirech and Raith Lochaid.
Iriel Faid won the battles of Ard Inmaith in Tethba
against Suirge son of Dub, the battle of Lochmag against
Lug Roith son of Mofemis and the battle of Tenmag against
the Fomorian Eochaid Echcenn.
Iriel Faid was the high chieftain of Ireland for 10
year until he died at Magh Muaide and was succeded by his
son Ethriel who ruled for 20 years until he was killed by
his cousin Conmael.
NAME Isbaddaden
EPITHET Hawthorn Chieftain of the Giants (Ysbaddaden
Penkawr)
ALTERNATIVE Ysbaddaden {Uss-path-ad-an} Benkawr
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE giant
CULTURE Briton
COUNTRY Wales
TERRITORY The Otherworld - Land of Giants (Tir na Fathach)
AGE Post-Roman
DATES AD 6th c
ACCESSORIES 3 spears with stone heads
RELATIVES Olwen (daughter); Custenhin (brother)
ENEMIES Goreu
SEE ALSO Aedh mac Ainmireach / Amaethon / Arthur / Cadw /
Cilydd / Culhwch / Custenhin / Cyledyr Wyllt /
Eidoel / Garseldid / Glythfyr Llydaweg /
Govannon / Gwynn ap Nudd / Mabon / Modron / Nudd
/ Odgar / Olwen / Rhiannon
REMARKS Isbaddaden was the chieftain of the Giants in
The Otherworld. When Culhwch claimed the hand of his
daughter in marriage, Isbaddaden demanded that the suitor
must complete a number of tasks as prerequisites, because
if she did marry, Isbaddaden himself must die. The tasks
were:
1 To pledge honesty to Isbaddaden;
2 To clear a field, burn the cuttings, plow, sow and harvest
the crop by the next morning's dew-drops;
3 To ensure that Amaethon son of Don be the husbandman for
the task;
4 To ensure that Govannon son of Don be the one to sharpen
the plowshares;
5 To ensure that the plow be pulled by the 2 oxen of
Gwlwlydd Wineu;
6 To ensure that Melyn Gwanwyn and the speckled-yoked be
yoked together;
7 To ensure that Ninniaw and Peibiaw of Bannog be turned
into oxen and yoked to the same plow;
8 To ensure that Culhwch sow 9 lots of linseed to produce
the linen for Olwen's wedding veil;
9 To ensure that the mead for the wedding feast be 9 times
sweeter than the honey from the first swarm;
10 To ensure that the wedding cup for the mead be that of
Llwyr son of Llwyrion;
11 To acquire the hamper of Gwyddneu Garanhir and ensure that
it have enough food to feed the world 3x9 at a time;
12 To ensure that Culhwch acquire the horn of Gwlgawd of
Gododdin to pour the mead on the wedding night;
13 To acquire the harp of Teirtu for entertainment on the
night of the feast;
14 To ensure that the birds of Rhiannon sing to him on the
wedding night;
15 To acquire the cauldron of Diwrnach to cook the food for
the wedding feast, and to ensure that the food be cooked
by the chief steward of Odgar son of Aedh, high chieftain
of Ireland;
16 To acquire the tusk (razor) from the chief boar Ysgithwyn
so Isbaddaden could use it to shave his beard off on the
wedding night;
17 To find Odgar son of Aedh, high chieftain of Ireland, who
was the only person who could take a tusk (razor) from
Ysgithwyn while the boar was still alive;
18 To ensure that Cadw of Britain look after the tusk;
19 To acquire the blood of the black witch, daughter of the
white witch, from the valley of grief in Hell's back
country, so that Isbaddaden could stretch out his hairs
in preparation for shaving them;
20 To ensure that the blood of the black witch be kept warm
in the containers of Gwyddolwyn the dwarf;
21 To use the vessels of Rhiannon to keep the milk from
going sour;
22 To acquire the comb (bristle) and shears (jaw) from
between the ears of the boar Twrch Trwyth so that
Isbaddaden could style his hair;
23 To obtain the use of Drudwyn the pup of Greid, son of Eri,
to hunt Twrch Trwyth;
24 To obtain the leash of Cors Cant Ewin (Hundred Claws)
which was the only leash that would hold the pup Drudwyn;
25 To obtain the collar from Canastyr Canllaw (Hundred Hands)
which was the only collar for the leash for the pup
Drudwyn;
26 To obtain the chain of Cilydd Canastyr (Hundred-Grips)
which was the only chain to hold the leash and the collar
for the pup Drudwyn;
27 To find Mabon son of Modron who was the only huntsman in
the world who could control the hound;
28 To obtain Gweddw's horse White Brown-Mane which Mabon
would need to hunt Twrch Trwyth because it was swift as a
wave;
29 To find Eidoel, son of Aer and first cousin to Mabon, who
was the only person who could find Mabon, who had been
missing since the 3rd day of his birth;
30 To secure the help of Garselid the Irishman, who was
essential to the hunt of Twrch Trwyth;
31 To ensure that the beard of Dillus (The Bearded) be
plucked with wooden tweezers while he was alive, then be
woven into a leash to hold the whelps of the bitch Rhymhi;
32 To secure the help of Cyledyr Wyllt, the wild great-
grandson of Hetwn Clafyryawg the Scab, who was needed to
control the whelps of Rhymhi;
33 To secure the help of Gwynn son of Nudd, who was needed
for the hunt because he had the ferocity of the fiends of
Annwn;
34 To obtain Dubh, the black horse of Moro Oerfeddawg,
which Gwynn needed to ride in the hunt;
35 To ensure that Gwilenhin of Gaul attend the hunt for Twrch
Trwyth;
36 To ensure that Alun Dyfed, master of the hounds, attend
the hunt;
37 To obtain Glythfyr Llydaweg's hounds Aned and Aethlem, who
were essential for the hunt as they were as swift as the
wind and had never been unleashed against an animal they
did
not kill;
38 To ensure that Arthur and his huntsman help in the search
for Twrch Trwyth and his boars, as Arthur owed homage to
Isbaddaden;
39 To ensure that Bwlch, Cyfwlch and Sefwlch, sons of Cilydd
Cyfwlch and grandsons of Cleddy Difwlch, join the hunt;
40 To take the sword from Wrnach the Giant, as he could be
killed only by his own sword.
Culhwch completed all the tasks and the wedding feast
was prepared. At the end of the feast, Isbaddaden was
beheaded by his nephew Goreu son of Custenhin, and his head
was mounted on top of the post in the courtyard.
EPITHET Of The Steeds
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain / druid / explorer
TYPE chariot warrior / astronomer
CULTURE Goidel - Artabri tribe
COUNTRY Spain / Ireland / Scotland
REGION Galicia / Kerry / Donegal / Hebrides
TERRITORY Munster / Ulster
LANDMARKS Atlantic Ocean
SITES Tor Breogain (Tower of Breogan) / Corkaguiny
(Corca Duibhne) / Raith Ailig / Tiree (land of
Ith)
CENTERS Brigantia (A Corunna)
AGE Bronze
DATES BC 16th
RELATIVES Bregon (father); Lugaid mac Itha (son); Tea
(granddaughter); Daire Doimthech (grandson);
Bile, Brego, Bladh, Fuad, Murthemne, Cualgne,
Cuala, Eibleo, Nar and Ith (brothers); Golamh
(nephew); Brath (grandfather); Rifath Scot
(ancestor)
ENEMIES MacCecht
SEE ALSO Bile / Bladh / Brath / Bregon / Cermat / Fuad /
Golamh / Ith / MacCecht / MacCuill / MacGeine /
Neto / Tea
REMARKS Ith, son of Bregon, was at his father's tower
one winter evening at A Corunna in Spain when he saw an
island in the Atlantic. He decided to explore the island
and gathered together 3x50 warriors, including his brothers
Cualnge and Fuad, and sailed to Ireland where they landed
at Corca Duibhne (Corkaquiny) in county Kerry not long
after the end of the second battle of Magh Tuireadh. He
and his warriors then travelled overland through much of
Ireland until they reached Raith Ailig in county Donegal.
This was in the dark half of the year and the sons of
Cermat (MacCecht, MacCuill and MacGreine) were arguing over
the division of the cattle and treasure belonging to the
dead champion Neto, chieftain of Ailech.
Because Ith was an outsider, they asked his opinion
and the advice he gave was superior to that of the judges
of the Danann. Ith then made the mistake of praising Inis
Elga (Ireland) for the quality and quantity of its honey,
fruit, wheat, fish and the moderate temperature of its
weather. The sons of Cermat became suspicious that Ith
wanted Ireland for his own people.
When Ith and his warriors left for their ships, they
were ambushed by the Danann while passing over Magh Itha.
Ith was mortally wounded by MacCecht but made it to his
ship, where he died.
Ith's body was taken to Tir Iath (land of Ith),
present-day Tiree, an island of the inner Hebrides. Others
say his body was taken back to Spain to be buried. Ith's
death was the cause of the Goidel invasion of Ireland and
his son Lugaid mac Itha was part of the invasion force.
Ith's bloodline continued through his grandchildren
and ruled Ireland for the next 1000 years. Mael-Sechlainn
mac Domnaill, the last high chieftain (Ard Righ Eirinn),
was a descendant of his.
NAME Ith macEtgaith
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / chieftain
TYPE chariot warrior
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Connacht
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid / Gairech & Irgairech
ENEMIES Cualnge / Pictland / Ulster
SEE ALSO Ailill macMata
REMARKS During the Cualnge Cattle Raid, Ith pitched his
tent in the third position to the right of Ailill macMata.
NAME Ithall
GENDER M
CATEGORY hero / druid
TYPE physician (leech) of the Ri Ruirech
CULTURE Goidel
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY Connacht
SITES Imorach Smiromrach (Edge of the Marrow-Bath)
CENTERS Raith Cruachain
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
BATTLES Cualnge Cattle Raid
ENEMIES Cethern
SEE ALSO Ailill macMata / Cethern / Medbh
REMARKS Ithall was the personal physician for Medbh and
Ailill. When Cethern was lying wounded in Cu Chulainn's
camp, Ithall was the 15th leech to be brought in to inspect
his wounds.
He pronounced the wounds uncurable, and for his reward
was hit on the head by Cethern and knocked senseless. He
was lucky because the blow that had hit each of the
previous 14 leeches had killed them.
NAME Iubdan
ALTERNATIVE Iubdan {Youb'-dan}
GENDER M
CATEGORY warrior / Ri Ruirech
TYPE head chieftain
CULTURE Elfin (Fay Folk)
COUNTRY Ireland
TERRITORY The Otherworld - Pond of the Fay (Faylinn)
SITES Dun Rury in Ulster
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
ACCESSORIES cauldron / harp / water shoes
RELATIVES Bebo (wife)
ENEMIES Fergus mac Leti
SEE ALSO Aeda / Bebo / Eisirt / Fergus mac Leti
REMARKS During a feast, Iubdan the head chieftain of the
Fay Folk was boasting about the bravery of his warriors,
the powers of his strongman and his own greatness. His
poet Eisirt interrupted him with a story of a people across
the sea who were so huge that a single warrior could
destroy a whole battalion of the Fay Folk.
Iubdan threw Eisirt into prison and only freed him
when he agreed to travel to the land of giants and bring
back proof of his story. His poet did bring home a giant
named Aed and put a geis on Iubdan to go to the land of the
giants and to be the first to taste the porridge of the
chieftain of Ulster in the morning.
Iubdan and his wife rode across the sea on their
supernatural horse to the shores of Ulster and on to Dun
Rury, the fortress of Fergus. Iubdan intended to taste the
head chieftain's porridge and get away again as soon as
possible. Iubdan and Bebo, his wife, rode into the kitchen
and Iubdan could just reach the rim of the porridge
cauldron while standing on the saddle of his horse. As
Iubdan climbed onto the rim, he slipped and fell into the
porridge and that was where he was when Fergus arrived for
his breakfast.
Iubdan and his wife were allowed the privilege of the
raith but were forbidden to leave. His people tried to
obtain his release by offering grain as a ransom. When
this was refused they resorted to the use of sorcery and
made the the calves drain the milk from their mothers. They
then cut off the hair from the people while they slept,
polluted wells and rivers, and generally caused havoc.
Fergus threatened to kill Iubdan if his people did not stop
harrassing his territory and people.
After Iubdan and Bebo were kept hostage for a year and
a day, Fergus said he would release them in exchange for
Iubdan's most precious treasure. Iubdan offered Fergus his
harp that would play by itself, a cauldron than would never
empty or his water shoes that would allow a person to go
over or under water as easily as walking on land. Fergus
chose the water shoes which would adjust to the feet of the
person wearing them. The exchange was made and Iubdan and
Bebo were allowed to return home.
EPITHET Atlantic
ALTERNATIVE Fairge / Gwerydd / Iweriadd / Iweridd / Iwerydd
/ Iwerith / Ywerit
GENDER F
CATEGORY deity
TYPE goddess of the ocean
CULTURE Danann
COUNTRY Ireland / Wales
REGION Gwynedd {Gwin-eth} / Clwyd {clud}
TERRITORY Gwynedd / The Otherworld - The Underworld
AGE Iron
DATES BC 2nd-1st c
RELATIVES Llyr (husband); Bran (son); Branwen (daughter)
SEE ALSO Bran / Branwen / Llyr
REMARKS Iwerydd (Atlantic) was a goddess from the
Atlantic Ocean, from the western land of Hades, which could
have been Ireland (Iwerddon). Iwerydd married Llyr and
bore him two children named Bran (Raven) and Branwen (White
Raven).