Kings: C

Celta (Hidden) Celtchair ap Uthecar Conganchnes, Celtchar Mac Uthir Conganchnes (Rainement)

The man in the centre had a great lance, with fifty rivets through it, and its shaft would be a load for a team of oxen. He brandished the lance until sparks as big as eggs all but flew from it, and then he struck the butt against his palm three times. Before them was a great food cauldron, large enough for a bullock, with an appalling dark liquid in it, and the man dipped the lance into the liquid. If not the lance was not quenched quickly, it blazed up over its shaft – you would have thought there was a roaring fire in the upper part of the house. – Tóg´il Bruidne Dá Derga: The Construction of The Red God’s Hostel, Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow

Cormac mac Cuilennáin: Raven Divine Son of Holly, he’s the one who brought the alder-tree to Inis Celtra; that is, he planted it in the manner of an apple-tree, and God worked a miracle upon it, so that it grew apples on it, just like every other apple-tree, which many people still behold. – The Yellow Book of Lecan

(pron. KEHLT-uh) God, Fiann: White One and son of Uthecar Hornskin also spelled Uthir Toughskin. Depicted with dark brown hair, long nose, large ears. He wears a striped cloak, dark grey mantle, linen shirt and iron skewer brooch. He carries the Luain: Gleaming spear: Lúin Celtchair that is wielded by himself and by other heroes, such as Dubthach, Mac Cécht and Fedlimid: Nine Times Beautiful. He was ordered by King Conchubar: Dog Lover, the name of a river the King was born in, to rid Ireland of three scourges after he disturbed the king’s boardgame by bloodying it with the tip of a spear. Celtchair was to kill Conganchnes Mac Daire: Hornskin of Oak, brother of Cu Roi: Red Dog, a god impervious to spear or sword, a crop-destroying dog named Luch Donn: Brown Mouse living in an oak log at the Glen of the Sow luring him with an alder-log filled with honey and herbs, and when he got to the final dog he was supposed to kill, Dóelchú: Black Dog of Cairn Conganchnes Mac Daire: Stones of Tough Skin of Oak, he was poisoned by its blood. An old Scottish Gaelic blessing is Cuiridh mi clach air do chárn, I’ll put a stone on your stone. Ráth Celtchair: Hidden Womb by Dún da Lethglas: Fort of the Green Side, Ireland is named after him. Inis Celtra / Kealtra / Iniscealtra / Iniscaltra [a.k.a Inisfallen] a little green island at Loch Derg: Red Lake, Killarney on the Shannon River honors St. Brigid & St. Caimin. Kelt: A salmon after spawning, before returning to the sea (58, 97, 102, 189)

Brothers: Bres Sreng: Moon Embroiderer, Elotha Ecne: Raven Knowledge, Ciarán: Dark, Declan, Coll: Hazel, Felim Mac Dall: Nine Times Beautiful, Conall: Reed, Heulyn: Sunshine, Neb, Ovan, Donal: Dark One (58, 72)

[French Ministry of Education Site: Centre national de documentation pédagogique]