Today's issue of The Gods and their Croziers is out: Conall, the (possibly) Summertime Fionn.
This one is very delayed, and perhaps not as well written as it could be: my laptop died. However, I've included an array of Kings, Saints, and a Knight, with names and feast days and mythic details that mark them as being related.
https://buttondown.com/godsandcroziers/archive/may-22-conall-cernach-corc-the-summertime-fionn/
#Celtic #Celt #Myth #Mythology #Pagan #Irish #Welsh
Something I'd have liked to explore in the issue on Conall/Cernach is the possibility that this god-type's name/epithet might have been behind the #Cornish language and people: #Kernow derives from Proto-Celtic "*kornu-" meaning "Horn" - speculated to be referring to the Headland of #Cornwall.
However, I suspect it was more like the origin of the word "Gael", which derives from another mythological Fionn-type character, Gaedil Glas.
Gaedil would have made an interesting addition to the issue, too, as he also has a myth involving a Serpent explaining why he's "glas" (~torquise) that Taliesin's Map has linked to Shiva's snake-myth explaining why he's blue.
In particular, the saint Carannog/Cairnech is associated with Cornwall (as well as Brittany, Wales and to a lesser extent Ireland), his name is attached to many placenames in Cornwall and Brittany, and Irish sources sometimes referred to Britons as being "Caranoc's" people. So I wonder if he has a mythic role in the origin of "Kernow" and the ethnonym and language of the Cornish people, #Kernowek. However, I can't yet substantiate this idea, and I can't find any existing mythic origin for Kernowek or Cymraig.
It would make sense, as at least one other Celtic nation (the Gaels) trace their language and ethnonym to the same type of god: the Fionn type. And "Cernach" fairly clearly could derive from the same proto-celtic root word as Kernow.
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