Tuan mac Cairill

Tuan mac Cairill [ tuan mak ' kar ʴ iL ʴ ] is in Celtic mythology of Ireland, the oldest inhabitants of the island. He is in the Lebor Gabála Érenn called ( "Book of the Conquest of Ireland " ), as brother Partholons together he comes to the island with the. Like this is his pedigree back to Noah. The narrative SCEL Tuain meic Chairill ( " The metamorphoses of Tuan mac Cairill " ) is from the Historical Cycle in Lebor na hUidre ( " The Book of the dark-skinned [ Cow ]") from the 11th century as well as in three other manuscripts from the 14th -16. Century survived.

Tuan mac Cairill the only survivor of the epidemic, which kills all companion Partholons and this itself. Through constant " souls " of an animal body to another, he experienced all the events that come from Ireland, and is thus a contemporary of the settlement until the time of the saints.

SCEL Tuain meic Chairill

In the story SCEL Tuain meic Chairill ( "The history Tuan, the son Cairills " ) tries Finnian, the abbot of the Irish monastery Mag Bile to convert in Ulster around 500 AD an ancient pagans. This tells him the story of his 2000 year life time: He had landed with his brother Partholon shortly after the Flood in Ireland. His name would then have been Tuan Mac Starn Mac Sera and he had helped to defeat the Fomorians and to make the island arable. Except for him, but all were to have gone to a plague. As an old man he had witnessed the arrival Nemeds, then he had fallen asleep and wakes up as a deer again. Next, he would have become the boar and had lived to the time of the Firbolg. In his next incarnation as an eagle he saw the Tuatha Dé Danann go ashore. Became a salmon, he witnessed the landing of the Milesians and the Tuatha De Danann in expulsion of the Elf Hill ( sidhe ). A fisherman had caught the salmon and the King of Ulster brought, whose wife ate it and in her body Tuan again became man and came as the son of King Cairills for the sixth time in the world. The Abbot Finnian now provides him the baptism dar. as a seventh rebirth

This transformation in different animal but also human figures and the most associated hike through the ages is also shown in the legend of Fintan mac Bochra and similar in De chophur in da muccida ( "From the transformation [? ] Of the two swineherd " ). The by some scholars of thought derived from a Celtic reincarnation or transmigration doctrine is, however, not gone unchallenged in others.