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>Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology. They were giants who built dolmens or harrespil. Like the dolmens, they are only found in mountains. They are often associated with lamia, though these are known in all the Basque Country
>Mairu could mean "moor" in Basque. This term is used with the sense of 'non-Christian' to refer to former civilizations or megalithic monuments
>The origin of the Mairu is thought to be as old as the "mouros encantados" in Portuguese (Spanish: moros encantados), who are thought to be the remnant of old pre-Roman deities
>Moura is a homonym word with two distinct roots and meanings; one from Celtic *MRVOS, the other from Latin maurus. The word "moura" (alternatively, "moira", "maura"; medieval: "mora"), feminine of "mouro", is thought to originate from the Celtic *MRVOS and the Indo-European *mr-tuos that originated in Latin the word mortuus and in Portuguese/Galician the word "morto" ('dead'). Some authors think that the mouras are the deceased
>In Highland Gaelic the mythic race or aboriginal people who inhabited Ireland and Scotland, the fomhair or famhair, were giants associated with underground places; like the mythic mouros of the Galician folklore, they were also master builders of megaliths
>Theese three notes in common between fomorians and mouros is highlighted in the folklore and in the place names of archaeological sites: ring forts, barrows and dolmens are considered in Galicia, and in general in the North and West of Iberia, as mouro's buildings or their dwelling places. Indeed, the Irish name of the Giant's Causeway, Clochán na bh-Fomhorach, proves the identity between Fomorians and giants as master builders of megaliths or cyclopean monuments (Carmichel, in Carmina Gadelica, thinks they were Titans or Cyclops, and it fits whith the one-eyed Fomorians)
>Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology. They were giants who built dolmens or harrespil. Like the dolmens, they are only found in mountains. They are often associated with lamia, though these are known in all the Basque Country
>Mairu could mean "moor" in Basque. This term is used with the sense of 'non-Christian' to refer to former civilizations or megalithic monuments
>The origin of the Mairu is thought to be as old as the "mouros encantados" in Portuguese (Spanish: moros encantados), who are thought to be the remnant of old pre-Roman deities
>Moura is a homonym word with two distinct roots and meanings; one from Celtic *MRVOS, the other from Latin maurus. The word "moura" (alternatively, "moira", "maura"; medieval: "mora"), feminine of "mouro", is thought to originate from the Celtic *MRVOS and the Indo-European *mr-tuos that originated in Latin the word mortuus and in Portuguese/Galician the word "morto" ('dead'). Some authors think that the mouras are the deceased
>In Highland Gaelic the mythic race or aboriginal people who inhabited Ireland and Scotland, the fomhair or famhair, were giants associated with underground places; like the mythic mouros of the Galician folklore, they were also master builders of megaliths
>Theese three notes in common between fomorians and mouros is highlighted in the folklore and in the place names of archaeological sites: ring forts, barrows and dolmens are considered in Galicia, and in general in the North and West of Iberia, as mouro's buildings or their dwelling places. Indeed, the Irish name of the Giant's Causeway, Clochán na bh-Fomhorach, proves the identity between Fomorians and giants as master builders of megaliths or cyclopean monuments (Carmichel, in Carmina Gadelica, thinks they were Titans or Cyclops, and it fits whith the one-eyed Fomorians)
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