themodernsouthernpolytheist:

nicstoirm:

lordognar:

Lugh Ildanach vs Lugus

I recently got into a heated debate with a pan-Celtist/ Romano polytheist who insisted that Lugh is just the Irish/Scottish equivalent of Lugus who is just a Celtic version of the Roman Mercury. I’ll admit I got a little more heated than necessary because it was just so patronizing but I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts on this matter. Gonna tag @themodernsouthernpolytheist @lugh-ildanach @nicstoirm specifically but anyone is welcome to chime in

It is my personal opinion that Lugus probably came over as an idea/concept/maybe even spiritual being to the Gaelic Cultures and transformed into Lugh while there…. but since has developed and changed and is no longer the same as Lugus. Lugh is inherently Gaelic in my opinion, and not Lugus who is inherently Gaulish. 

So it’s like, Lugus was the tree that produced the seed that would become Lugh, but Lugh has no grown and developed separately from Lugus in such a way that they are not the same. 

I definitely can understand viewpoint that Lugh and Lugus (and by extension Llew) are all the same being with similar names in different cultures…. but it doesn’t match up with my experience and it really doesn’t match up with the lore either. 

I’ll preface with the statement that my theology is amorphous and constantly evolving and fluctuating. Years ago, I thought they were probably all the same. At one point, I figured they were “cognates.” Now, I feel like the answer lies somewhere in between. So, we know the various Celtic cultures shared linguistic roots. And given that many names are also epithets, it seems logical that deities with similar functions or attributes would develop similar names. So for me, it seems more likely that these gods are somewhat distinct from one another, but that the names they came to be known by are similar for the above linguistic reasons. 

So, all that said, I don’t see Lugus and Lugh as the same. I do, however, suspect that Lugh and Lleu Llaw Gyffes as likely the same figure, but with people simply having had different experiences of him. Add the geographic separation and linguistic shifts, you get different names. But the connection to Lugus seems much more superficial imo. And even if all of these figures are the same being, which I doubt but leave open the possibility I’m wrong, I very firmly believe that they are 1000% distinct from Mercury. While there is certainly connection between the beliefs of various cultures within relatively close proximity (thinking of Perun and Thor, though that’s simplistic and Perun and Odin also have a lot of similarities), I think it’s more likely that descriptions and attributes blended on the human end rather than splitting from a single source. 

But all that is just my 2¢. 

iamaslitherin:

neobedouins:

zerrie:

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