Crom Dubh
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Crom Dubh (Irish pronunciation: [krˠoumˠ d̪ˠuβˠ], Scottish Gaelic: [kʰɾɔum t̪uh]), meaning "dark crooked [one]" (also or Crum Dubh, Dark Crom) is a mythological and folkloric figure of Ireland, based on the god Crom Cruach, or "king idol of Ireland", mentioned in the 12th-century dinnseanchas of Magh Slécht.[1]
The festival for Crom Cruach is called Dé Domhnaigh Crum-Dubh – "Crom Dubh Sunday" –.,[2] in Ireland the first Sunday in August, but in Lochaber a term for Easter[3]
Crom Cruach is called the chief Celtic idol of Ireland by Michael J. O'Kelly, and was located on Magh Slécht (The Plain of Prostrations) in County Cavan, surrounded by twelve other idols.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Nutt, The Celtic Doctrine of Re-Birth (1897), p. 149.
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- ↑ as in the Scottish Gaelic saying DiDòmhnaich Crum Dubh, plaoisgidh mi an t-ugh. "Crooked black Sunday, I’ll shell the egg."[citation needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
This article incorporates text from "Dwelly's [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary" (1911).
