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>Another poem illustrates the more beneficent aspects of Crom Cruaich, as an earth fertility deity:
>Mise a chothaíonn an gas, an phréamh
>A bheathaíonn a bhfásann ar talamh
>Ormsa ní thagann aon mheath
>Is méan an dias throm, an ghéag aibidh
>(It is I who nourish the shoot, the root
>Who feed all that grows from the earth
>I suffer no decay
>I am the heavy ear of corn, the ripe branch)
>Another verse points to further links with the earth, somewhat similar to the Dagda or Dis Pater, an ancestral god that dwells deep within the earth:
>Nílim guagach, táim seasmhach
>Chomh leanúnach le deilbh na ré
>Is mé bithbhíogadh na talún
>Atá lonnaithe go doimhin sa chré.
>(I do not vacillate, I am steadfast
>As faithful as the shape of the moon
>I am the eternal trembling of the earth
>Deeply lodged in the clay).
>A Fomorian Deity
>All this points to Crom Cruaich being a Fomorian deity, connected with the earth and worshipped at the mounds of the ancestors. He was also a god of agriculture and fertility, to whom tributes were paid. I find it hard to imagine that this idol would have the following of the people if they had to sacrifice their first born children. It is more probable that this involved some sacrifice or ritual killing of livestock, for the purposes of a public feast in which everyone would partake
>If Crom Cruaich was, in fact, a Fomorian deity in origin, why was he worshipped by the Milesian nobles? My own theory on this is that he was such a popular deity, with such a hold over the pre-Milesian peoples of Ireland, that his worship could not possibly be stamped out. Instead, the Milesians simply absorbed him into their own pantheon, and at the same time usurped his site as their own, with their own druids taking power and control over the ceremonial proceedings
>Another poem illustrates the more beneficent aspects of Crom Cruaich, as an earth fertility deity:
>Mise a chothaíonn an gas, an phréamh
>A bheathaíonn a bhfásann ar talamh
>Ormsa ní thagann aon mheath
>Is méan an dias throm, an ghéag aibidh
>(It is I who nourish the shoot, the root
>Who feed all that grows from the earth
>I suffer no decay
>I am the heavy ear of corn, the ripe branch)
>Another verse points to further links with the earth, somewhat similar to the Dagda or Dis Pater, an ancestral god that dwells deep within the earth:
>Nílim guagach, táim seasmhach
>Chomh leanúnach le deilbh na ré
>Is mé bithbhíogadh na talún
>Atá lonnaithe go doimhin sa chré.
>(I do not vacillate, I am steadfast
>As faithful as the shape of the moon
>I am the eternal trembling of the earth
>Deeply lodged in the clay).
>A Fomorian Deity
>All this points to Crom Cruaich being a Fomorian deity, connected with the earth and worshipped at the mounds of the ancestors. He was also a god of agriculture and fertility, to whom tributes were paid. I find it hard to imagine that this idol would have the following of the people if they had to sacrifice their first born children. It is more probable that this involved some sacrifice or ritual killing of livestock, for the purposes of a public feast in which everyone would partake
>If Crom Cruaich was, in fact, a Fomorian deity in origin, why was he worshipped by the Milesian nobles? My own theory on this is that he was such a popular deity, with such a hold over the pre-Milesian peoples of Ireland, that his worship could not possibly be stamped out. Instead, the Milesians simply absorbed him into their own pantheon, and at the same time usurped his site as their own, with their own druids taking power and control over the ceremonial proceedings
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