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Dagda

American  
[dahg-duh] / ˈdɑg də /
Or Daghda

noun

Irish Mythology.
  1. a god, the chief of the Tuatha De Danann, the father of Angus Og and Brigit, and the leader of the battle against the Fomorians.


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Cormac in his Glossary tells us she was a daughter of the Dagda and a goddess whom all poets adored, and whose sisters were Brigit the physician and Brigit the smith.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

In Irish accounts of the síd, Dagda has the supremacy, wrested later from him by Oengus, but generally each owner of a síd is its lord.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch

She was daughter of the Dagda, and, like him, associated with ideas of fertility and blessing.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

The Dagda The Dagda Mōr was the father and chief of the People of Dana.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

From Finias came a magic spear, and from Murias the Cauldron of the Dagda, a vessel which had the property that it could feed a host of men without ever being emptied.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

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