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What I find curious about Conan is that his description as a proto-Celtic barbarian descendant of the Atlanteans matches exactly with the Fomorians from Irish Mythology.
The Fomori were a race of giant man eating monsters who washed up on the shores of Ireland after the great flood. They're aquatic in origin, but not necessarily "merfolk" seeing how they could walk around and cultivate the land. They also had a hierarchical system, with kings and chieftains, etc, so it's not quite the same story as the Titans vs the Olympians when it comes to them fighting the Celts/Children of Danu.
Their leader during the final battle was Balor, a TOWERING monster whose eye was poisoned by the fumes of some magical, alchemical experiment, giving it the ability to simply kill anyone he fixed it on. He had to wear seven layers of material over it to keep it from burning everything he looked at. This sounds a lot like the Tower of Sauron sometimes. He was said to have only one arm and one leg too and that his cycloptic eye needed to be pulled open by his men.
When he heard a prophecy that said his grandchild would kill him, he locked his daughter Ethniu in the tower so she couldn't have children (Where Rapunzel is loosely based). A Celt named Cian managed to sneak in and et her pregnant anyway, and she gave birth to Lugh; a half Celt, half Fomori who sided with the Celts and eventually became the sun god. He led the charge against Balor and (in some versions) smashed his eye right out the back of his own skull using a sling modelled after the stars. The evil eye was unleashed on his own army, creating a crater which became the site of a lake you can visit today.
>>509187324
>>509188638
>>509189140
What I find curious about Conan is that his description as a proto-Celtic barbarian descendant of the Atlanteans matches exactly with the Fomorians from Irish Mythology.
The Fomori were a race of giant man eating monsters who washed up on the shores of Ireland after the great flood. They're aquatic in origin, but not necessarily "merfolk" seeing how they could walk around and cultivate the land. They also had a hierarchical system, with kings and chieftains, etc, so it's not quite the same story as the Titans vs the Olympians when it comes to them fighting the Celts/Children of Danu.
Their leader during the final battle was Balor, a TOWERING monster whose eye was poisoned by the fumes of some magical, alchemical experiment, giving it the ability to simply kill anyone he fixed it on. He had to wear seven layers of material over it to keep it from burning everything he looked at. This sounds a lot like the Tower of Sauron sometimes. He was said to have only one arm and one leg too and that his cycloptic eye needed to be pulled open by his men.
When he heard a prophecy that said his grandchild would kill him, he locked his daughter Ethniu in the tower so she couldn't have children (Where Rapunzel is loosely based). A Celt named Cian managed to sneak in and et her pregnant anyway, and she gave birth to Lugh; a half Celt, half Fomori who sided with the Celts and eventually became the sun god. He led the charge against Balor and (in some versions) smashed his eye right out the back of his own skull using a sling modelled after the stars. The evil eye was unleashed on his own army, creating a crater which became the site of a lake you can visit today.
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