Tethra

In Irish mythology, Tethra of the Fomorians ruled Mag Mell after dying in the Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh.

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Tethra may be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *tet(e)ro- meaning 'quacking sound' (q.v. Julius Pokorny: 1079; http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/PCl-MoE.pdf http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/MoE-PCl.pdf http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cceltic).

Irish mythology: The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. Although many o...

Fomorians: In Irish mythology, the Fomorians, Fomors, or Fomori (Irish Fom?iri, Fom?raig) were a semi-divine race who inhabited Ireland in ancient times. They may have once been the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek Titans. It has been suggested that they represent the gods of chaos and wild n...

Mag Mell: In Irish mythology, Mag Mell ("plain of joy"), also called T?r na n?g ("land of the young"), Land of the Living, the Many-colored Land and the Promised Land, was a mythical realm achievable through death and/or glory. Unlike the underworld in some mythologies, Mag Mell was a pleasurable paradise, i...