Is it probable that, like most myths, it is allegorical? The Fomorians represent the ugly, harsh, cruel forces of nature: wild beasts, blight, cold winters, plagues, etc. The Tuatha De represent the skills needed to overcome the dark forces (hence, they were all craftsmen of some type). The stories teach lessons about how those crafts are used to deflect and/or defeat the darker powers of nature inherent in the island (but viewed as cruel and otherly). That is why the Tuatha De became the aes sidhe, and the Irish invoke their memory to combat their contemporary woes. Interestingly, as the Sidhe became increasingly identified with natural forces, they began developing darker characteristics as well.
@@garygnunewzoorevue5748 Yes, personification is one way of saying it. Or anthropomorphism. But allegory encompasses the reasoning, or rationality, behind how the characters are portrayed, and their relationships with each other.
I always thought it was them projecting those things they considered uncontrollable onto the people that may have inhabited ireland before the indo europeans got there
My understanding of this channel is to relay the stories and mythos from various cultures. The stories alone can inspire people's creativity. Analysis of the stories that shine a light behind the mythology is a great next step. With that said, it is important to foster someone's interest before discussing the deeper context.
It feels like all of these massive, deformed, multi-limbed beings of power and destruction - coupled with their small, stronger, more human-shaped counterparts in legend - seem to represent the human outlook of the universe: first, there was chaos, lack of direction, and raw, untapped energy that simply existed; second, everything calmed down, gained form, stability, and though less powerful than before, its potential had a purpose - a reason for being. Fascinating!
I personally think its doubtful since there are multiple "other races" who used to inhabit Ireland, for instance the firbolg people, there could be a hint of the legend that resulted from the myths though, maybe the taking of Ireland multiple times from and by multiple "monstrous" races Is an exaggerated retelling of either wars between clans or even an extinction of the Neanderthals. I dont think its Neanderthals though, everyone has folk stories.
Fomorians are believed to have travelled from mesopotamia. They first traded and travelled with ancient egyptians. However; as Ireland's the only place that produces two harvests a year this created a power struggle as whoever controlled the harvest had leverage. Following this Egypt tasked Carthage with stopping ships from crossing the Mediterranean sea.
This is awesome! I would like to see myths and legends on Polynesian/Southeast Asian cultures too. Or Hawaiian even. Thanks for these videos. They are in-depth and very informative.
I think people are just taking what the Leabhar Gabhala Éireann says as pure fact and ignore any sort of analysis of Ancient Irish Pantheon. OG Irish Pantheon was close to the original Proto Indo European religion, due to the irish isolating themselves in their island, thus their religion was hardly corrupted. The fomhóraigh cannot be seen as the jotnar or the titans, because in the original Indo European religion, such concept was non existant. In Ireland, the fomhóraigh really means "The ones below the sea", as spirits of waters and rivers, like the Aos Sí, who are spirits of hollow mounds. The Gaulish religion does not speak of the concept of fomhóraigh, since it was probable non existant, same among the ancient welsh. The Gods of Ireland, closely resemble their Indo European counterpart. An Daghdha is what we know as the Sky Father, for his name developed from the proto celtic god Dago Devos*, and he is the equivalent with Taranis in Gaul. Tailtiu is basically the Earth Mother Goddess, because her name developed from Talantio* which means "The Earth" and in reality she was the consort of An Daghdha. Conchobhar, Fearghus and Cú Raoi are all euhemerized gods. This means that christian writers, decided to depict these gods as mere legendary kings and heroes, thus stripping their divinity. Conchobhar basically is Zeus, however, he does not hurl lighting, that's the role of An Daghdha. In this case, Conchobhar behaves just like Ódinn or Varunah does. He is a god of kingship and oaths. His name basically developed from Cuno Coboros* which, according to the meaning given by Garreth Olmsted in his book -Gods of the Celts and the Indo Europeans-, it means "He who is victorious because of a hound", thus an allusion to Cú Chulainn, his true son. The name of Cichol aka Cíochal in modern irish, is another name given to Conchobhar, because in Gaul and Brittain, the equivalent to Conchobhar was known as Ciocollos (The Fierce One) or Vellaunos (The seer). Vellaunos and Varunah developed from the IE name of Werunos*.
My Nan always said that the Fomorions where the descendants of Noah via his son Hamm. This always made me happy because our family, the McGee's were a rowdy and ultimately against the grain of society sort. Heck my great grandma was a bootlegger and forager
There're Irish people who are extremely civilised but there re still plenty mad feckers around the place who just do what they want, though they usually also have kind and generous hearts.
I wish they could have been on the show Supernatural, that would be so cool as part Irish myself from my mom's side of the family. They don't get a lot of media attention because I think that they're interesting as a whole.❤
2:38 Can I just mention that the two dudes in the middle lower part of this picture are the two coolest looking dudes ever. There's the one guy with the wild red hair and a bitchin' mustache, and the guy in a helmet that looks like it was modeled after the Avenged Sevenfold logo.
Fomorians, Titans and Jötunns who have a war against another powerful race. These myths and legends across Europe seem to have very similar lore. I like it.
Where do you get all this great art? Almost all I ever find is third rate anime/comic sketches. This is my new favorite channel- keep up the great work!! Edit: I imagine the Fomorians sort of like Japanese oni, maybe with a touch of Satyr. Of course I've only recently been getting into Irish Mythology :)
I can't speak to everything, but the giant with two different sized eyes, a hunched back and warts is actually from a DnD manual. And the art he goes out on appears to be from Marvel Comics.
Dude the reason I am here is because I'm revisiting this myth I first heard reading the comic series 2000ad as a kid, where the Formorians were depicted as these kind of fish monsters that turned atlanteans into their kind of Hellraiser puppets. The series is called Slaine book of invasions. Worth a Google if you like weird art for sure, definitely a unique style totally traumatized me as a kid though you've been warned
It'll be cool if one day you did some African mythology, like Anasi, or Mami Wata or something. Love your videos, I literally just woke up and started watching
He did say in the last livestream that Hindu and African myths will not be coming soon, as he's not that familiar with them at the moment. Yet, in the rather distant future, they should be on the channel. :)
Warrior Empress Vitani I once ran into a African Legend of a Vampire that flew backwards at people, it's teeth coming out of it it's rear end to bite them. Sounds like a very bad banana beer binge! Japanese have one about ghosts, that's somewhat similar except they come through walls. African and Japanese mythology can get very bizarre Compared to European mythology. Makes it interesting!
European mythology is African mythology, just rehashed for Europeans, Plato, Aristotle, all were taught in Africa, aryis,the one aryans get the name from, is an African who left Rome after the council of nicea, due to his objections to creating the christ is god lie,and settled in what is now called Ireland, do some real history it's just as interesting.
@@carlospaige4589 the Greek and Rome view of Africa is different. They describe the former colonies of Carthage as Africa, as it was also named Africa when it became a province of Rome. The later civilisations used that name for the entirety of the continent that we now know as africa.
@@carlospaige4589 No dude. sorry. this is so wrong I just cant let it sit even 4 months later. Aryans were hundreds of years before Christ. a couple thousand actually, as far removed from present day as we are from Christ. Plato and them went to Africa to learn, in Egypt, which at the time had been so warped from Persian influence that you could argue its all Caucasian Inspiration from southern Scythia and Georgia. And I mean that culturally, not a broad term to describe white people today. You fuckers on youtube get hung up on that shit too much as if the USA is the only country ever to have its population made mostly of a hodge podge of migrants and local people. lol if you 'do some real history' instead of following some hack youtube race bait bull shit full of speculative baseless nonsense, you would understand about 6000+ years of which intermixed and mingled with countless cultures is what created what we view today as Egypt. Not just one mindset and identity from the beginning of time until the present. From the Scorpion King unifying the Nile until the Bastardized age of Ptolemy. And that is its legacy. a Spectrum. not a shade.
I have had a strong suspicion for some time that the formorians may also have referred to the people the Celts forms already living in ireland when they arrived. They must have met the decedent's of those who built the dolmens and newgrange.
@@Ahch_not_op_of_Judah I know .. i remember seeing a genetic reconstruction of "cheddar man" in England. Dark skinned and blue eyed. They must have been amazing looking people.
The original inhabitants were celts, pale skin and blue or green eyed.. See Barry Cunliffe's new assertions about early civilisation in the UK. People with Welsh, Irish or Scottish heritage directly link back to the early post glacial era. The cheddar man was said to be dark skinned but wasn't, it was a media lie. The apology for getting it wrong went under the radar as these things usually do. Basically the genetic studies were misconstrued, an examination of the skeleton by an anthropologist or forensic scientist would easily determine if cheddar man was sub-Saharan or European, so no genetic test needed.
@@Ahch_not_op_of_Judah You are making no sense. He has much knowledge of this subject and supports a new paradigm of the origins of the Celts being the direct descendants of the first British inhabitants, which is widely accepted in academic circles. Aboriginals are from a totally different part of the world so I don't know what you have been smoking to come up with that foolish notion. Do you mean natives? Aborigines refer to the indigenous peoples of Australasia.
I just realized the game kingdoms of amular the reckoning has like all the Celtic mythology monsters and people even if it's just names like the tuatha or the balor
I see the Fomorians as the Mesolithic peoples of Great Britain and Doggerland who were dark skinned and blue eyed fish eaters because they were lactose intolerant. They were there before the flood (which submerged Doggerland) and made use of underground refugia during the ice age.
I see the Fomóire as both historical Mesolithic people and supernatural entities rolled and mixed together also with an influence from the Norse raids from the 8th to tenth centuries. The description of the Fomóire at the arrival of Partlán to Magh nEalta describes them as fish and bird eaters which is a strong description of the Mesolithic people given that deer didnt exist in pre Neolithic Ireland although wild Boar did. did..
If the relationship between the Irish Gods and the Fomorians is similar to the Gods of Asgard and the Jotnar, do you think that one may have at one point influenced the other?
Fomorian in irish faoi sounded fwee= under , mor = big / also could be fear -sounded far =man, Fir = men so fir- mor = big men and faoi mor would mean big beneath I would guess it means big men 👍
Exploring phonetics and phonology it is interesting to explore the root meanings of the names in Irish mythology. Like: Fintan - protector and light yellowish brown. Nemed - sent out on a mission. De Danann - of Impressive excellence. Aos Sidhe - good at secrecy or being hidden. Milesians - small, supple and agile. Fomorians - large ones of the Orion constellation. Partholon - who work together as a unit/whole. (community). Cichol Gricenchos the meaning 'of withered feet' reminds me of Acromegaly. People with this condition often walk with a gait that gives the impression of sore legs or feet.
I always took Tuatha and Fomorians as 2 alien races who were trying to settle in Ireland. The way Balor is shown, makes me think of laser-weapon...I believe the whole coming of Tuatha to Ireland was described almost one to one as a huge spaceship landing in a valley. The advancements they had was also pretty cool, bionics, regeneration, weapons of great power...
I think it's obvious that this is referring to the annunaki, even the name tuatha de danann meaning descended from the god (d)anu, and they were always fighting other giant alien beings, which is reflected in all mythologies around the world.
@@Amphitera The Tuatha De Danann were originally called Tuatha De but the Irish Monks started referring the Israelites Tuatha De. So to avoid confusion, the Tuatha De started to be called as the Tuatha De Danann while the Israelites were still called Tuatha De by the Irish Monks.
There is a MMORPG that revolves around the war and relations between the Tuatha De Danann and the Fomorians, and specifically the introduction of the Milesians. It's called Mabinogi online. In the game the stories based on Welsh/Celtic tales, names and events are skewed with some minor characters given prominent roles or significant characters become names of places or items instead; vice versa.
In Norse they are called Jötunn, the Native Americans call them Otneyarheh. In Mexico they are called Quinametzin and throughout the Middle East they are known as Nephilim/Amorites/Canaanites/Anakites. Geoffrey Keating said the Fomorians were sea faring descendants of Ham. The Caananites/Amorites were the titanic descendants of Ham. All cultures remember history, even when the story gets changed up a lil.
Dude the reason I am here is because I'm revisiting this myth I first heard reading the comic series 2000ad as a kid, where the Formorians were depicted as these kind of fish monsters that turned atlanteans into their kind of Hellraiser puppets. The series is called Slaine book of invasions. Worth a Google if you like weird art for sure, definitely a unique style totally traumatized me as a kid though you've been warned
One year later, and even applicable back then, False King Bres is an Archetype many an Irish politician of nowadays follows the example of. We were warned about someone who would always come around eventually sell us out as a nation and people in our mythology, and yet we have become so spiritually illiterate that we weren't even prepared for that danger. This is why Chrisians cannot be the dominant religion for us anymore. Their lessons didn't account for the survival methods required for a people of an island nation, full of rains, sea, mountains and fresh soil. Their lessons are for living within a sparse desert, and they had no love of either nature or man's awareness of evil, or ability to individual good.
They kinda remind me of Norse Jotnar. If they came from *acrosss* the sea, rather than *beneath* it, (which would make more historical sense - if the stories have any truth to them) then the Fomorians could have been vikings. Vikings are big and strong, they sailed the sea and invaded other lands, they were fearsome and they were basically pirates.
The Viking raids had an influence on their description but they also describe supernatural beings and the Aboriginal; Aboriginal Mesolithic people who were large swarthy and strong.
You asked. I think all cultures at this time were having issues. Etruscans, Sumarians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Incas,Mayans, Anisazi, etc...... They all wrote it down the same with different symbols. Hidden knowledge now. Templar Stuff.
Although I don't know much about the Thimorians, I think that they'r a mix of both the Sea & Earth dwelling beaing's. Anyway as always an interesting vid & thanks again for the live feed last night, it was the first time that I'd taken part in a live feed & I hope that you had as much fun as we all did 😊😊😊😊
Another account of the war in which Lugh slew his Fomorian Grandfather he knew of his eye and delayed engaging in battle until the exact moment his grandfather opened his eye. It was also told he knew this was a Formarion tactic his Grandfather deployed first followed by a brutal after charge of his army to slay any remaining stunned shocked and wounded; with rarely few worthy warriors left standing. It was by this tactic, precise timing, placing himself across from he by the landscape knew his Grandfather would be, on top of the miraculous feat of the shot led his army he was charged with gathering; by the town he won over by his knowledge and mastership of seemingly all trades and skills alongside his ability to see the full potential of others utilized to there best in a cohesive effort to fight a war in which none under his command died against impossible odds. Truly a God worth delving more into alongside the often mistaken yet separate being Leigh who is another key to this beautiful mystery
The fomorians The people of kesair The children of nemed The iberians The tuatha de danann The children of mil It is important for us to analyze this order and fathom what the monks who archived irelands myths were attempting to obscure. For let us not doubt there has been considerable obscuration from christian sources when it comes to Ireland's prehistory. What has written and codified is not as important as what HAS not been written and admitted. And the omissions, once rediscovered and understood, change everything we know about the history of ireland and the world. The monks busy editing irelands history were not interested in having their readers find out about the advanced prediluvian civilizations that existed long before the time posited for the creation as described in the old Testament, they were bound to present ireland as an unpopulated country frequented by demonic titans who preferred to live on remote islands and high seas
I'm not too familiar with the Fomorians, however, there is a race of giants that was introduced in Dungeons and Dragons called Fomorian Giants, which are depicted as large, deformed, hulking brutes... so it would seem that they used a little bit of all the descriptions to create the race in the RPG.
I see Fomorians in a sort of dark souls sense. Nonetheless, the fact that these figures from mythology have never surfaced in any form of popular media or movie is incredibly disheartening. They also, oddly enough, share a lot of characteristics with the concept of demons and spirits from the east such as Japan and China where they take a myriad of forms yet are all under one 'umbrella'.
They were probably a group of people from parts unknown that sailed there by accident, didn’t know the way back, settled there and since there was a finite gene pool incest probably became a thing leading to birth defects and “monstrous” appearances but there were still normal people as well which is why the two races were able to interbred
by accident maybe. tho he might end up preventing it as well. after all Raganrök is the war that ends the world, according to trailer at least he will get help from Jörmungandr, who is destined to be killed by Thor while Thor dies of its poison. so at least it would have a good reason to help Kratos to overthrow the gods, tho Kratos will probably kill the serpent as well, since its evil. tho I have no idea why Kratos even fights against them but that will remain to be seen. I wonder if hes gonna take on Surt, tho Ragnarök would be pretty damn far on its way for that level of apocalypse. Kratos did kill quite many titans, including Kronos, but those things werent what is destined to bring the end of the whole damn universe.
Kratos killed his wife, his children, and his mother. the very reason why his skin color is ash is because the witch bound the ashes of his family onto his skin.
... and his cousin and his brother and his sister and his uncle and his uncle end his aunt and his brother and his brother and his father 💁♂️ Oh forgot hephaestus and helios. Another brother and his .... uuuh🤔... Helios is kratos' fathers uncles son 🙆♂️ And his grandfather cronos, nephew orkos, brothers kastor and pollux, great grandmother gaia... I could go on for ever
I believe how Formorians are depicted is a caricature. This has been passed down as propaganda for many years by those who were victorious against them. If Tuath de Danaan interbred and married with Formorians it is safe to presume that Formorians were actually human.
Both are shapeshifters I would think like us come from different subcultures therefore chose to take different forms 1 subset decided to keep the human form or mostly human form While others wanted to be more of a trickster and take various forms
irish folklore: 300 appears in above tale children of lir 300 years as swans Oisín and Niamh - 300 years in tír na nÓg (land of the young) 300 is value of letter T in Greek aka Tau 300 It is the microcosmic creature organizing itself to become a source of activity, a cause acting, a free and autonomous agent, according to R. Allendy. Symbolize the victory of the faithful soul on the forces of the evil, the victory of God on Satan, according to Thibaut Of Langres. Always according to him, it would symbolize those who since the beginning of the world were going to believe in Christ crucified, because in Greek, 300 is represented by the letter T which has the form of the cross. The corresponding Hebraic letter is "shin". This letter represents the three knocks of mallet or the three tongues of flame of the Holy Spirit going down on the Apostles. This letter also corresponds to the 21th mystery of the Tarot which is the Madman because, according to R. Allendy, the activity of the creature, left to its own means, can be only blind, disordered, as a caricature of the activity of the Archetype. Bible Mary, sister of Lazarus, anointed the feet of Jesus with a perfume of pure nard costing 300 denarii. (Jn 12,5) Length of the Noah's Ark in cubit. (Gn 6,15) The 300 invincible soldiers of Gideon. (Jg 7,7) Samson captured 300 foxes that he loosened in the harvests of Philistines. (Jg 15,4) General It is the total number of popes and antipopes that would gather, in its history, the Roman Catholic Church before the second arrival of Christ. According to the prophecy of saint Malachi, John-Paul II would be the 262th Pope, that is to say the 110th of the 111 predicted starting from the first pontiff during his lifetime, in year 1143. Adding the 263 popes with the 36 antipopes, we obtain 299. The 112th pope (the 264th) would be, according to saint Malachi, "Peter the Roman" (Petrus Romanus), for a total of 300. According to the book of the secrets of Enoch, 300 entirely brilliant angels keep the the garden of Eden, and a unceasing voice and a beautiful song serve the Lord all days and every hours. In Cabal and in Hinduism, in the subdivisions of a Mahâ Kalpa - the duration of an eternity - 300 mortal days form one mortal year. In the Spartans, the particular guard of the king in times of war was composed of 300 men. The 300 Ombrians who was saved from the universal flood. The ancestors of Romulus had raised 300 towers in central Italy. The old kings of Arcadie lived 300 years, in relation with the 300 days of the most oldest year. According to a legend on the birth of Buddha, his mother carried him during 300 days - the 3 seasons or 9 months multiplied by 100 and reduced in day. Pythagoras had 300 disciples. Xerxes punished the Hellespont of 300 blows of rods. Occurrence The number 300 is used 31 times in the Bible. The number 300 is used only once in the Koran. (Koran XVIII, 24) 300 Spartans Lugh mentioned above had a sword of light, immense powers and skills, had his arm removed in battle, killed his father but never hitched a ride in the millennium falcon! Irish for monday is dé Luain (god lugh) August in Irish is Lunasa I think he represents lunar activity as Balor most likely represents the sun. later Bel was sun deity and this can be linked to phoenician Baal. I'm a firm believer that the etymology of language was written by the Victors. 4 clues: 1pre roman history in Ireland is non existent. 2 this should not be the case in the land of saints and scholars. 3 why did greeks refer to Ireland as the most ancient 4 only gobekli tepe predates irish archaeology history doesn't repeat itself... it deletes itself!
Here's my thoughts. Formorians were (possibly) the Neolithic Irish, the Tuatha were the Bell Beaker Pre Celtic Indo Europeans (hence the similarities of their gods with other Indo Europeans), and the Milesians were the Celts. It could also be complete myth but I like the idea that the Irish had a small inkling of knowledge of who all lived on that small island. Just think of Newgrange, imagine looking at that as a migratory Celt and wonder what the heck or who the heck built that.
I see Fomorians like u like perhaps like how theres blacks,whites,browns,reds,green,purples,yellows All colors of the rainbow they were just wiped out xD
Tuatha de danann the Danube River and all those Dan derivatives come from the Semitic tribe of Dan migrating North from Assyria they're not mythological they're there deified progenitors. The Formorians are just another name for the northern remnants of Refaim tribes like the Jotun. After Jotun died inbthe days of Og, his descendants were named after him just like Israelites. And while whether the Formorians had a progenitor like Tyr, Wotan or other kings and Chieftains deified after death, their stature, nature, and etymological roots are generally accurate.
I would see Fomorians as a race that can look like any creature real and mythical with unique powers that have as much variation as fingerprints or snowflakes.
For the victor, the spoils. If the fomorians were so evil, why mention them at all? Would it be just easier to Erase them from history all together. There's probably it to than that. A little bit of research ... Fo can also mean sufficient
i think of the fomorians as the origional inhabitants of ireland. who have won and lost against several invasions, ultimately loosing their dominance but interbreeding and intergrating into prehistorical ireland cultures. their culture that of the loosing side and therefore demonised. through the myths we can know of them knowing fishing, farming and taxation, the later of which (most probably overtaxation) stirred up enough resistence as to cause a civil war.
He said in the last livestream that he's going to remake the Baba Yaga video as he did not really like the initial one. But he also said more Slavic myths are on the horizon. :)
What if the Fomorians began as a race and became a "people", so the term denotes less a genetic line and more a tribe or culture? This explains the diversity of descriptions and gives more credence to the idea that they were not unaccustomed to inter-marrying with other races, even their enemies. Perhaps in contrast, the Tuatha de Danann seemed to be more standardized in appearance, playing into their archetype of order and civilization. Bad things sometimes happened what the two mixed, letting a little chaos into your order can bring about great beauty and great destruction, even both at the same time.
Is it probable that, like most myths, it is allegorical? The Fomorians represent the ugly, harsh, cruel forces of nature: wild beasts, blight, cold winters, plagues, etc. The Tuatha De represent the skills needed to overcome the dark forces (hence, they were all craftsmen of some type). The stories teach lessons about how those crafts are used to deflect and/or defeat the darker powers of nature inherent in the island (but viewed as cruel and otherly). That is why the Tuatha De became the aes sidhe, and the Irish invoke their memory to combat their contemporary woes. Interestingly, as the Sidhe became increasingly identified with natural forces, they began developing darker characteristics as well.
Personification is what you mean
@@garygnunewzoorevue5748 Yes, personification is one way of saying it. Or anthropomorphism. But allegory encompasses the reasoning, or rationality, behind how the characters are portrayed, and their relationships with each other.
I always thought it was them projecting those things they considered uncontrollable onto the people that may have inhabited ireland before the indo europeans got there
My understanding of this channel is to relay the stories and mythos from various cultures.
The stories alone can inspire people's creativity.
Analysis of the stories that shine a light behind the mythology is a great next step. With that said, it is important to foster someone's interest before discussing the deeper context.
I am, unfortunately, not particularly educated in this matter, but I find this interpretation quite compelling!
Oooh yeah Adrien von Ziegler, excellent choice in music man
It feels like all of these massive, deformed, multi-limbed beings of power and destruction - coupled with their small, stronger, more human-shaped counterparts in legend - seem to represent the human outlook of the universe: first, there was chaos, lack of direction, and raw, untapped energy that simply existed; second, everything calmed down, gained form, stability, and though less powerful than before, its potential had a purpose - a reason for being. Fascinating!
Or possibly humans and cavemen. Since we know that both races existed at the same time.
@@swearimnotarobot3746You mean neanderthals? Because humans were cavemen
"they were all slain...." Nice touch, saying this while 2000AD's Slaine artwork was on screen.
I came to the comments to say that. You beat me to it 😁 Bisley's art is amazing isn't it?👍🏽
Michael Moorcock used these guys as the villains of the Corum Chronicles. Well, a version of them called the Fhoi Myore.
Could formorians be Neanderthal? Or maybe a society of coastal, sailor cave Men?
I personally think its doubtful since there are multiple "other races" who used to inhabit Ireland, for instance the firbolg people, there could be a hint of the legend that resulted from the myths though, maybe the taking of Ireland multiple times from and by multiple "monstrous" races Is an exaggerated retelling of either wars between clans or even an extinction of the Neanderthals. I dont think its Neanderthals though, everyone has folk stories.
Tuatha De are the irish gods who come from the Indo-European pantheon.
Fomorians are god-like beings to, forces of nature, and that's it.
Could have been the Neolithic Irish?
Nope. They would be more associated with Giants from Norse mythology or Titans from Greek mythology
Fomorians are believed to have travelled from mesopotamia. They first traded and travelled with ancient egyptians. However; as Ireland's the only place that produces two harvests a year this created a power struggle as whoever controlled the harvest had leverage. Following this Egypt tasked Carthage with stopping ships from crossing the Mediterranean sea.
And I thought Fomorian was just a nonsense word DE made up for Vay Hek's super weapons in Warframe.
Yeah, there’s a ton of Irish mythology references in warframe
This is so interesting, know I know were the Fomoris in the World or Darkness games, came from. Thanks!
This is awesome! I would like to see myths and legends on Polynesian/Southeast Asian cultures too. Or Hawaiian even.
Thanks for these videos. They are in-depth and very informative.
That would be cool!
I like that you used the balor from kingdoms of Amalur: reckoning
Thanks for that, I knew it was a boss from that fantastic game, just couldn't fuckin remember what the hell it's name was lol.
Probably because the game draws heavily from celtic mythology
This game deserves more recognition
@@ГлебКаменский-я7й yes it does
I think people are just taking what the Leabhar Gabhala Éireann says as pure fact and ignore any sort of analysis of Ancient Irish Pantheon.
OG Irish Pantheon was close to the original Proto Indo European religion, due to the irish isolating themselves in their island, thus their religion was hardly corrupted.
The fomhóraigh cannot be seen as the jotnar or the titans, because in the original Indo European religion, such concept was non existant. In Ireland, the fomhóraigh really means "The ones below the sea", as spirits of waters and rivers, like the Aos Sí, who are spirits of hollow mounds.
The Gaulish religion does not speak of the concept of fomhóraigh, since it was probable non existant, same among the ancient welsh.
The Gods of Ireland, closely resemble their Indo European counterpart.
An Daghdha is what we know as the Sky Father, for his name developed from the proto celtic god Dago Devos*, and he is the equivalent with Taranis in Gaul.
Tailtiu is basically the Earth Mother Goddess, because her name developed from Talantio* which means "The Earth" and in reality she was the consort of An Daghdha.
Conchobhar, Fearghus and Cú Raoi are all euhemerized gods. This means that christian writers, decided to depict these gods as mere legendary kings and heroes, thus stripping their divinity.
Conchobhar basically is Zeus, however, he does not hurl lighting, that's the role of An Daghdha. In this case, Conchobhar behaves just like Ódinn or Varunah does. He is a god of kingship and oaths. His name basically developed from Cuno Coboros* which, according to the meaning given by Garreth Olmsted in his book -Gods of the Celts and the Indo Europeans-, it means "He who is victorious because of a hound", thus an allusion to Cú Chulainn, his true son. The name of Cichol aka Cíochal in modern irish, is another name given to Conchobhar, because in Gaul and Brittain, the equivalent to Conchobhar was known as Ciocollos (The Fierce One) or Vellaunos (The seer). Vellaunos and Varunah developed from the IE name of Werunos*.
Where do you get your material? Super interesting. Would love to read up on some
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The Gods of the Celts and the Indo Europeans, a book writen by Garret Olmsted, i think you can find the book and is free.
@@elgranlugus7267 thanks mate
I would love to see a video on the Celtic hero Cú Chulainn
There is a song bout him by miracle of sound
@@mugenokami2201 AND THE NAAAAAME CU CHULAINN! WAS SUNG OUT LOUD THAT NIGHT
My Nan always said that the Fomorions where the descendants of Noah via his son Hamm. This always made me happy because our family, the McGee's were a rowdy and ultimately against the grain of society sort. Heck my great grandma was a bootlegger and forager
There're Irish people who are extremely civilised but there re still plenty mad feckers around the place who just do what they want, though they usually also have kind and generous hearts.
Vey Hek: "FIRE THE FORMORIAN CANNON!"
*why are these fools still breathing my air*
I wish they could have been on the show Supernatural, that would be so cool as part Irish myself from my mom's side of the family. They don't get a lot of media attention because I think that they're interesting as a whole.❤
2:38 Can I just mention that the two dudes in the middle lower part of this picture are the two coolest looking dudes ever. There's the one guy with the wild red hair and a bitchin' mustache, and the guy in a helmet that looks like it was modeled after the Avenged Sevenfold logo.
I like how the thumpnail is a boss from the game kingdoms of amalur reckoning
Fomorians, Titans and Jötunns who have a war against another powerful race. These myths and legends across Europe seem to have very similar lore. I like it.
Where do you get all this great art? Almost all I ever find is third rate anime/comic sketches.
This is my new favorite channel- keep up the great work!!
Edit: I imagine the Fomorians sort of like Japanese oni, maybe with a touch of Satyr. Of course I've only recently been getting into Irish Mythology :)
I can't speak to everything, but the giant with two different sized eyes, a hunched back and warts is actually from a DnD manual. And the art he goes out on appears to be from Marvel Comics.
Dude the reason I am here is because I'm revisiting this myth I first heard reading the comic series 2000ad as a kid, where the Formorians were depicted as these kind of fish monsters that turned atlanteans into their kind of Hellraiser puppets. The series is called Slaine book of invasions. Worth a Google if you like weird art for sure, definitely a unique style totally traumatized me as a kid though you've been warned
Please do more on Irish mythology! I love my heritage and would love to hear more of my ancestral brethren’s lore.
It'll be cool if one day you did some African mythology, like Anasi, or Mami Wata or something.
Love your videos, I literally just woke up and started watching
He did say in the last livestream that Hindu and African myths will not be coming soon, as he's not that familiar with them at the moment. Yet, in the rather distant future, they should be on the channel. :)
Warrior Empress Vitani I once ran into a African Legend of a Vampire that flew backwards at people, it's teeth coming out of it it's rear end to bite them. Sounds like a very bad banana beer binge! Japanese have one about ghosts, that's somewhat similar except they come through walls. African and Japanese mythology can get very bizarre Compared to European mythology. Makes it interesting!
European mythology is African mythology, just rehashed for Europeans, Plato, Aristotle, all were taught in Africa, aryis,the one aryans get the name from, is an African who left Rome after the council of nicea, due to his objections to creating the christ is god lie,and settled in what is now called Ireland, do some real history it's just as interesting.
@@carlospaige4589 the Greek and Rome view of Africa is different. They describe the former colonies of Carthage as Africa, as it was also named Africa when it became a province of Rome. The later civilisations used that name for the entirety of the continent that we now know as africa.
@@carlospaige4589 No dude. sorry. this is so wrong I just cant let it sit even 4 months later. Aryans were hundreds of years before Christ. a couple thousand actually, as far removed from present day as we are from Christ.
Plato and them went to Africa to learn, in Egypt, which at the time had been so warped from Persian influence that you could argue its all Caucasian Inspiration from southern Scythia and Georgia. And I mean that culturally, not a broad term to describe white people today. You fuckers on youtube get hung up on that shit too much as if the USA is the only country ever to have its population made mostly of a hodge podge of migrants and local people. lol
if you 'do some real history' instead of following some hack youtube race bait bull shit full of speculative baseless nonsense, you would understand about 6000+ years of which intermixed and mingled with countless cultures is what created what we view today as Egypt. Not just one mindset and identity from the beginning of time until the present. From the Scorpion King unifying the Nile until the Bastardized age of Ptolemy.
And that is its legacy. a Spectrum. not a shade.
I have had a strong suspicion for some time that the formorians may also have referred to the people the Celts forms already living in ireland when they arrived. They must have met the decedent's of those who built the dolmens and newgrange.
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I know .. i remember seeing a genetic reconstruction of "cheddar man" in England. Dark skinned and blue eyed. They must have been amazing looking people.
The original inhabitants were celts, pale skin and blue or green eyed.. See Barry Cunliffe's new assertions about early civilisation in the UK. People with Welsh, Irish or Scottish heritage directly link back to the early post glacial era. The cheddar man was said to be dark skinned but wasn't, it was a media lie. The apology for getting it wrong went under the radar as these things usually do. Basically the genetic studies were misconstrued, an examination of the skeleton by an anthropologist or forensic scientist would easily determine if cheddar man was sub-Saharan or European, so no genetic test needed.
@@Ahch_not_op_of_Judah You are making no sense. He has much knowledge of this subject and supports a new paradigm of the origins of the Celts being the direct descendants of the first British inhabitants, which is widely accepted in academic circles. Aboriginals are from a totally different part of the world so I don't know what you have been smoking to come up with that foolish notion. Do you mean natives? Aborigines refer to the indigenous peoples of Australasia.
I love that you used Adrian's music.
I just realized the game kingdoms of amular the reckoning has like all the Celtic mythology monsters and people even if it's just names like the tuatha or the balor
I love this channel!
Came from Warframe, stayed for mythology.
*LOOK BROTHERS*
*tits*
*HAHA*
I see the Fomorians as the Mesolithic peoples of Great Britain and Doggerland who were dark skinned and blue eyed fish eaters because they were lactose intolerant. They were there before the flood (which submerged Doggerland) and made use of underground refugia during the ice age.
I see the Fomóire as both historical Mesolithic people and supernatural entities rolled and mixed together also with an influence from the Norse raids from the 8th to tenth centuries. The description of the Fomóire at the arrival of Partlán to Magh nEalta describes them as fish and bird eaters which is a strong description of the Mesolithic people given that deer didnt exist in pre Neolithic Ireland although wild Boar did.
did..
If the relationship between the Irish Gods and the Fomorians is similar to the Gods of Asgard and the Jotnar, do you think that one may have at one point influenced the other?
Could you PLEASE do a videon on the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, thanks. 😄🐉😘
And I thought Japanese words were hard to pronounce lol
@@goofybutserious4807 ketz-ull-ko-ah-tull
half a year late if you haven't mastered it by now
Fomorian in irish faoi sounded fwee= under , mor = big / also could be fear -sounded far =man,
Fir = men so fir- mor = big men and faoi mor would mean big beneath I would guess it means big men 👍
It meant "the undersea ones" or "the giant under(world)/ neither ones" see wiki entry on Fomorians, it's quite good.
Fomorians vs Titans who would win a full scale war?. Let them fight. Shut up and take my money^^
Sounds like a fun video If I ever had the animator to help me make it.
Mythology & Fiction Explained Yup, that would be great episode
Who says they aren't really the same thing? ;)
I gotta give it to the Titans
Lol....we're about to find out.
Do a Fijian myth on either Dakuwaqa or some similar God please! :) ours are unheard of, but they're indeed very interesting!
Exploring phonetics and phonology it is interesting to explore the root meanings of the names in Irish mythology. Like: Fintan - protector and light yellowish brown.
Nemed - sent out on a mission. De Danann - of Impressive excellence.
Aos Sidhe - good at secrecy or being hidden. Milesians - small, supple and agile.
Fomorians - large ones of the Orion constellation.
Partholon - who work together as a unit/whole. (community).
Cichol Gricenchos the meaning 'of withered feet' reminds me of Acromegaly. People with this condition often walk with a gait that gives the impression of sore legs or feet.
Do a mayan myth please
Yeah, that would be a nice idea!
Yeah that'd be cool! :D
That would be cool!
I always took Tuatha and Fomorians as 2 alien races who were trying to settle in Ireland. The way Balor is shown, makes me think of laser-weapon...I believe the whole coming of Tuatha to Ireland was described almost one to one as a huge spaceship landing in a valley. The advancements they had was also pretty cool, bionics, regeneration, weapons of great power...
I think it's obvious that this is referring to the annunaki, even the name tuatha de danann meaning descended from the god (d)anu, and they were always fighting other giant alien beings, which is reflected in all mythologies around the world.
@@Amphitera The Tuatha De Danann were originally called Tuatha De but the Irish Monks started referring the Israelites Tuatha De. So to avoid confusion, the Tuatha De started to be called as the Tuatha De Danann while the Israelites were still called Tuatha De by the Irish Monks.
...Scandinavian viking invaders, then?
There is a MMORPG that revolves around the war and relations between the Tuatha De Danann and the Fomorians, and specifically the introduction of the Milesians. It's called Mabinogi online.
In the game the stories based on Welsh/Celtic tales, names and events are skewed with some minor characters given prominent roles or significant characters become names of places or items instead; vice versa.
In Norse they are called Jötunn, the Native Americans call them Otneyarheh. In Mexico they are called Quinametzin and throughout the Middle East they are known as Nephilim/Amorites/Canaanites/Anakites.
Geoffrey Keating said the Fomorians were sea faring descendants of Ham. The Caananites/Amorites were the titanic descendants of Ham.
All cultures remember history, even when the story gets changed up a lil.
Dude the reason I am here is because I'm revisiting this myth I first heard reading the comic series 2000ad as a kid, where the Formorians were depicted as these kind of fish monsters that turned atlanteans into their kind of Hellraiser puppets. The series is called Slaine book of invasions. Worth a Google if you like weird art for sure, definitely a unique style totally traumatized me as a kid though you've been warned
Please do a video on the top hero's of Irish mythology Cu Chulainn and Fionn Mac Cumhaill.
One year later, and even applicable back then, False King Bres is an Archetype many an Irish politician of nowadays follows the example of.
We were warned about someone who would always come around eventually sell us out as a nation and people in our mythology, and yet we have become so spiritually illiterate that we weren't even prepared for that danger.
This is why Chrisians cannot be the dominant religion for us anymore. Their lessons didn't account for the survival methods required for a people of an island nation, full of rains, sea, mountains and fresh soil. Their lessons are for living within a sparse desert, and they had no love of either nature or man's awareness of evil, or ability to individual good.
Would you be so kind as to make a video on Lugh? I was born on Lughnasagh, so he has intrigued me for a long time
Ah the Formidable Fomorians. Great video nice way to end the night.
The World of Darkness / White Wolf rpg games have fomorians
So my ancestors could have been monster killers. I am Irish after all
Can you please do a vedio on tir na nog.
They kinda remind me of Norse Jotnar.
If they came from *acrosss* the sea, rather than *beneath* it, (which would make more historical sense - if the stories have any truth to them) then the Fomorians could have been vikings. Vikings are big and strong, they sailed the sea and invaded other lands, they were fearsome and they were basically pirates.
The Viking raids had an influence on their description but they also describe supernatural beings and the Aboriginal;
Aboriginal Mesolithic people who were large swarthy and strong.
anyone remember kings of amalur there was this huge one that you had to slay called the balor and the tuatha were like the bad guys
If anyone in ireland wants to go well into depth on this subject and irish mythology id suggest doing a cultural heritage course
Taking bets on whether formorians are the orcs from Lord of the Rings.
You asked. I think all cultures at this time were having issues. Etruscans, Sumarians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Incas,Mayans, Anisazi, etc...... They all wrote it down the same with different symbols. Hidden knowledge now. Templar Stuff.
Which the Knights templar was to infiltrated
Although I don't know much about the Thimorians, I think that they'r a mix of both the Sea & Earth dwelling beaing's. Anyway as always an interesting vid & thanks again for the live feed last night, it was the first time that I'd taken part in a live feed & I hope that you had as much fun as we all did 😊😊😊😊
I'm loving the Irish mythology!
I'm glad Sherisha
Mythology & Fiction Explained may I please have your discord tag ?
*TENNO, THERE WILL BE NOWHERE TO HIDE FROM MY FOMORIANS*
I am proud to be born in Ireland. We have the best stories
Another account of the war in which Lugh slew his Fomorian Grandfather he knew of his eye and delayed engaging in battle until the exact moment his grandfather opened his eye. It was also told he knew this was a Formarion tactic his Grandfather deployed first followed by a brutal after charge of his army to slay any remaining stunned shocked and wounded; with rarely few worthy warriors left standing. It was by this tactic, precise timing, placing himself across from he by the landscape knew his Grandfather would be, on top of the miraculous feat of the shot led his army he was charged with gathering; by the town he won over by his knowledge and mastership of seemingly all trades and skills alongside his ability to see the full potential of others utilized to there best in a cohesive effort to fight a war in which none under his command died against impossible odds. Truly a God worth delving more into alongside the often mistaken yet separate being Leigh who is another key to this beautiful mystery
The fomorians
The people of kesair
The children of nemed
The iberians
The tuatha de danann
The children of mil
It is important for us to analyze this order and fathom what the monks who archived irelands myths were attempting to obscure. For let us not doubt there has been considerable obscuration from christian sources when it comes to Ireland's prehistory. What has written and codified is not as important as what HAS not been written and admitted. And the omissions, once rediscovered and understood, change everything we know about the history of ireland and the world.
The monks busy editing irelands history were not interested in having their readers find out about the advanced prediluvian civilizations that existed long before the time posited for the creation as described in the old Testament, they were bound to present ireland as an unpopulated country frequented by demonic titans who preferred to live on remote islands and high seas
I'm not too familiar with the Fomorians, however, there is a race of giants that was introduced in Dungeons and Dragons called Fomorian Giants, which are depicted as large, deformed, hulking brutes... so it would seem that they used a little bit of all the descriptions to create the race in the RPG.
Monster from Irish folklore fomorians I kind of seeing if the Giants from Norse mythology
Too me it sounds more like the famorians were merely trying to protect their homeland then again never heard of a proper with a famorian
Im here from the Dresden Files.
I would love to see a video on Tir Na Nog
They sound kind of like mutants in marvel comics. Most of them could look normal but every once in a while you get some like the morlocks
The thumbnail is the balor from kingdoms of amalur. It is a species called niskaru. Its a great game
I see Fomorians in a sort of dark souls sense. Nonetheless, the fact that these figures from mythology have never surfaced in any form of popular media or movie is incredibly disheartening. They also, oddly enough, share a lot of characteristics with the concept of demons and spirits from the east such as Japan and China where they take a myriad of forms yet are all under one 'umbrella'.
I thought Nuada was the first King Tuatha De Dannan.
fucking right! Lugh the bright one of skillful hand. 🍻🖒awsome video fella
Do leprechaun!
lets we hunt for pot full of gold over the rainbow, my dude.
razor edge lol
yeah.......
we gonna be filthy rich after that!!!!
(insert evil villain laugh)
razor edge yeah
Some interesting pronunciations there
I'd love to see a video on Blodeuwedd or Arianrhod !
Fomorians=Vikings?
They were probably a group of people from parts unknown that sailed there by accident, didn’t know the way back, settled there and since there was a finite gene pool incest probably became a thing leading to birth defects and “monstrous” appearances but there were still normal people as well which is why the two races were able to interbred
Do u think kratos would bring Ragnarok to Norse mythology
by accident maybe. tho he might end up preventing it as well.
after all Raganrök is the war that ends the world, according to trailer at least he will get help from Jörmungandr, who is destined to be killed by Thor while Thor dies of its poison. so at least it would have a good reason to help Kratos to overthrow the gods, tho Kratos will probably kill the serpent as well, since its evil. tho I have no idea why Kratos even fights against them but that will remain to be seen. I wonder if hes gonna take on Surt, tho Ragnarök would be pretty damn far on its way for that level of apocalypse. Kratos did kill quite many titans, including Kronos, but those things werent what is destined to bring the end of the whole damn universe.
MrAnimepredator The serpent is his grandson in gow, I doubt hell kill him.
Name Name because he never killed a family member... 😏
But i think he will not kill the serpent. Its not evil in the game.
Kratos killed his wife, his children, and his mother. the very reason why his skin color is ash is because the witch bound the ashes of his family onto his skin.
... and his cousin and his brother and his sister and his uncle and his uncle end his aunt and his brother and his brother and his father 💁♂️
Oh forgot hephaestus and helios. Another brother and his .... uuuh🤔... Helios is kratos' fathers uncles son 🙆♂️
And his grandfather cronos, nephew orkos, brothers kastor and pollux, great grandmother gaia...
I could go on for ever
I believe how Formorians are depicted is a caricature. This has been passed down as propaganda for many years by those who were victorious against them. If Tuath de Danaan interbred and married with Formorians it is safe to presume that Formorians were actually human.
Good to know. Knock the eye out the head, then we can all pop on down to McAnally's for a nice bottle of stout.
Bro. I love you covering celtic/irish mythology. You should do more videos!
Both are shapeshifters I would think like us come from different subcultures therefore chose to take different forms 1 subset decided to keep the human form or mostly human form While others wanted to be more of a trickster and take various forms
A Three-Fingered Salute to Sláine MacRoth!
I have been bin watching your videos since march, including same videos over and over because they ARE AWESOME!!! And your voice is hypnotic!!!!
The Fomor in Dresden Files come from the sea, and, is anyone's read peace talks and battle ground, I think the connection is clear at this point
Anyone else click on this video because of the fomor from the Dresdens series by jim butcher?
irish folklore:
300 appears in above tale
children of lir 300 years as swans
Oisín and Niamh - 300 years in tír na nÓg (land of the young)
300 is value of letter T in Greek
aka Tau
300
It is the microcosmic creature organizing itself to become a source of activity, a cause acting, a free and autonomous agent, according to R. Allendy.
Symbolize the victory of the faithful soul on the forces of the evil, the victory of God on Satan, according to Thibaut Of Langres. Always according to him, it would symbolize those who since the beginning of the world were going to believe in Christ crucified, because in Greek, 300 is represented by the letter T which has the form of the cross.
The corresponding Hebraic letter is "shin". This letter represents the three knocks of mallet or the three tongues of flame of the Holy Spirit going down on the Apostles. This letter also corresponds to the 21th mystery of the Tarot which is the Madman because, according to R. Allendy, the activity of the creature, left to its own means, can be only blind, disordered, as a caricature of the activity of the Archetype.
Bible
Mary, sister of Lazarus, anointed the feet of Jesus with a perfume of pure nard costing 300 denarii. (Jn 12,5)
Length of the Noah's Ark in cubit. (Gn 6,15)
The 300 invincible soldiers of Gideon. (Jg 7,7)
Samson captured 300 foxes that he loosened in the harvests of Philistines. (Jg 15,4)
General
It is the total number of popes and antipopes that would gather, in its history, the Roman Catholic Church before the second arrival of Christ. According to the prophecy of saint Malachi, John-Paul II would be the 262th Pope, that is to say the 110th of the 111 predicted starting from the first pontiff during his lifetime, in year 1143. Adding the 263 popes with the 36 antipopes, we obtain 299. The 112th pope (the 264th) would be, according to saint Malachi, "Peter the Roman" (Petrus Romanus), for a total of 300.
According to the book of the secrets of Enoch, 300 entirely brilliant angels keep the the garden of Eden, and a unceasing voice and a beautiful song serve the Lord all days and every hours.
In Cabal and in Hinduism, in the subdivisions of a Mahâ Kalpa - the duration of an eternity - 300 mortal days form one mortal year.
In the Spartans, the particular guard of the king in times of war was composed of 300 men.
The 300 Ombrians who was saved from the universal flood.
The ancestors of Romulus had raised 300 towers in central Italy.
The old kings of Arcadie lived 300 years, in relation with the 300 days of the most oldest year.
According to a legend on the birth of Buddha, his mother carried him during 300 days - the 3 seasons or 9 months multiplied by 100 and reduced in day.
Pythagoras had 300 disciples.
Xerxes punished the Hellespont of 300 blows of rods.
Occurrence
The number 300 is used 31 times in the Bible.
The number 300 is used only once in the Koran. (Koran XVIII, 24)
300 Spartans
Lugh mentioned above had a sword of light, immense powers and skills, had his arm removed in battle, killed his father but never hitched a ride in the millennium falcon!
Irish for monday is dé Luain (god lugh)
August in Irish is Lunasa
I think he represents lunar activity as Balor most likely represents the sun.
later Bel was sun deity and this can be linked to phoenician Baal.
I'm a firm believer that the etymology of language was written by the Victors.
4 clues:
1pre roman history in Ireland is non existent.
2 this should not be the case in the land of saints and scholars.
3 why did greeks refer to Ireland as the most ancient
4 only gobekli tepe predates irish archaeology
history doesn't repeat itself... it deletes itself!
Do one for dionysus he is my favorite Olympian please let him go next
Here's my thoughts. Formorians were (possibly) the Neolithic Irish, the Tuatha were the Bell Beaker Pre Celtic Indo Europeans (hence the similarities of their gods with other Indo Europeans), and the Milesians were the Celts. It could also be complete myth but I like the idea that the Irish had a small inkling of knowledge of who all lived on that small island. Just think of Newgrange, imagine looking at that as a migratory Celt and wonder what the heck or who the heck built that.
I see Fomorians like u like perhaps like how theres blacks,whites,browns,reds,green,purples,yellows All colors of the rainbow they were just wiped out xD
Tuatha de danann the Danube River and all those Dan derivatives come from the Semitic tribe of Dan migrating North from Assyria they're not mythological they're there deified progenitors. The Formorians are just another name for the northern remnants of Refaim tribes like the Jotun. After Jotun died inbthe days of Og, his descendants were named after him just like Israelites. And while whether the Formorians had a progenitor like Tyr, Wotan or other kings and Chieftains deified after death, their stature, nature, and etymological roots are generally accurate.
The Porters?
Do the banshee
I love that u used Adrian von Ziegler's music! Its so...celtic! 🥰🍀
I would see Fomorians as a race that can look like any creature real and mythical with unique powers that have as much variation as fingerprints or snowflakes.
For the victor, the spoils. If the fomorians were so evil, why mention them at all? Would it be just easier to Erase them from history all together. There's probably it to than that. A little bit of research ... Fo can also mean sufficient
i think of the fomorians as the origional inhabitants of ireland. who have won and lost against several invasions, ultimately loosing their dominance but interbreeding and intergrating into prehistorical ireland cultures. their culture that of the loosing side and therefore demonised. through the myths we can know of them knowing fishing, farming and taxation, the later of which (most probably overtaxation) stirred up enough resistence as to cause a civil war.
They also try and destroy relays every so often
WHY ARE THESE FOOLS STILL BREATHING MY AIR??!!
@@regex2660 THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE
In my opinion the Formorians are a mix of giant beings, beings of the ocean, as well as representations of deadly or chaotic parts of nature
Can you talk about a slavic myth? The Baba Yaga could be an interesting feature.
He said in the last livestream that he's going to remake the Baba Yaga video as he did not really like the initial one. But he also said more Slavic myths are on the horizon. :)
aint that the granny witch who lives on a house that stands on chicken legs and flies around in a mortar?
Yes it is... and she also eats children and stuff... :P XD
What if the Fomorians began as a race and became a "people", so the term denotes less a genetic line and more a tribe or culture? This explains the diversity of descriptions and gives more credence to the idea that they were not unaccustomed to inter-marrying with other races, even their enemies. Perhaps in contrast, the Tuatha de Danann seemed to be more standardized in appearance, playing into their archetype of order and civilization. Bad things sometimes happened what the two mixed, letting a little chaos into your order can bring about great beauty and great destruction, even both at the same time.
Riddick
Could Christian stories actually have been influenced by the stories of other cultures?
So, we have no idea regarding the real appearance of the Fomorians
is that adrian von ziegler playing in the backround?