Tigernmas

Tigernmas [' t ʴ iɣ ʴ ernvas ] (" the Lord Moderate " ) is in Celtic mythology of Ireland a complex deity. He was the legendary king a mining ( " chthonic deity " ) in Ireland and therefore applies, inter alia as a god of death and of wealth, comparable to the Greek Hades or the Roman Pluto.

Mythology

Tigernmas is according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn ( "The Book of acquisitions of land in Ireland " ), a descendant of King Eremon and thus the Milesians, according to another tradition, a member of the Fomorians. Like all chthonic gods he is the ruler of the underworld in both fertility and father deity. This range is due to the migration of souls faith of the Druids who saw death as the beginning of a new life.

As the founder of the ( gold ) mining is conducted in accordance to the " Annals of the Four Masters" at the same time the technique of gilding and silvering of containers, but also the stained garment dyeing substances a. The colors of the clothes he allocates according to the social status of the wearer. Birkhan calls this the time of saturnalen prosperity.

His death is the samuin, the eve of the 1st of November. He died in Mag Slecht ( the " field of worship " in Ballymagorry, County Cavan ). Before you set out therein cult statue of Cromm Cruach his followers were dashed in a kind of collective mass suicide the skull of stones. One possible explanation for this is that to samuin the Gangland and fertility deities, two-thirds of all the firstborn, all wheat and all dairy was to sacrifice.