A hymn to the Great God, Finn.
Adapted from Thomas Taylor’s Orphic Hymns.

Hymn to Finn
(Adapted from the Rig Veda, tr. Griffith)

1. To Finn bring these songs, whose bow is firm and strong, the self-dependent God with swiftly-flying shafts,
The Wise, the Conqueror whom none may overcome, armed with sharp-pointed weapons: may he hear our call.
2 He through his lordship thinks on beings of the earth, on heavenly beings through his high imperial sway.
Come willingly to our doors that gladly welcome thee, and heal all sickness, Finn, in our families.
3 May thy bright arrow which, shot down by thee from heaven, flieth upon the earth, pass us uninjured by.
Thou, very gracious God, hast thousand medicines: inflict no evil on our sons or progeny.
4 Slay us not, nor abandon us, O Finn let not thy noose, when thou art angry, seize us.
Give us trimmed grass and fame among the living. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.

In general, people are at an utter loss in trying to recognize Vishnu in European mythologies.

The answer is Cú Chulainn.

Not only is Cú Chulainn Vishnu, but he is the most well-preserved Vishnu parallel in any branch. He may even rival the Hindu version of Vishnu in how much of his extensive mythos remains intact, due to the occasional sectarian airbrushing of Vishnu’s corpus over time.

So, what was the archaic European Vishnu like? Look at Cú Chulainn (I believe his proper deity name is Neit). Recognize there the god of overpowering and permeating Tejas.


Perhaps more shocking is who his Norse parallel is.

Stay tuned.

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Cú Chulainn has parallels in the Vishnu avatars Vamana, Narasimha, Krishna, and even Narayana.

He is the total Vishnu — unsurpassed as such outside of Hinduism.


A few of us got together to discuss the details and implications of this parallel.
With Arno Preiner @ fvrorpoeticvs, Collin, and Josephus.

Part 1: Cú Chulainn is Vishnu

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vN5OXzH1qkA

Two translations of
Scáthach’s Prophecy to Cú Chulainn

Who do you think is the Norse parallel of this Gaelic “Hound”?


“Warriors will be set aside by you,
necks will be broken by you,
your sword will strike blows to the rear
against Setante's red river.
Hard-bladed, you will cut the trees
by the sign of slaughter, by manly feats.
[…]
A band of brigands you will join
and will bring away many people and oxen.
Many wounds will be inflicted
upon you, O hound of Chulainn.
You will suffer a vengeful wound
when you do battle at the last wall.
From your red-pronged weapon there will be defeat,
men pierced against the furious wave,
against the whale-tooth fiercely thrust,
a whale performing feats with blows.
Women will wail and tear their clothes,
Medb and Ailill boast of it.
No death-bed awaits you
after slaughters of great ferocity.”


———

“one against an army
your own blood a red plague
splashed on many a smashed shield
on weapons and women red eyed
the field of slaughter growing red
on chopped flesh raven's feed
the crow scours the plowed ground
the savage kite shall be found
herds broken up in wrath
great hosts driving the hordes
blood spilt in a great flood
Cuchulainn's body wasted
there are bitter wounds to bear
and warriors to slaughter
with your red stabbing spiked spear
grief and sorrow where you roam
murderous on Murtheimne Plain
playing at the stabbing game
now the crafty champion comes
in rage against a mighty wave
heroic in his mighty acts
and harsh scream and cruel heart
let him come and women kill
and Medb fight with Ailill
a bed of sickness lies in wait
your breast full of fierce hate
[…]
proud striding raider pitiless
for Ulster's land and virgin women
rise now in all your force
with warlike cruel and wounding shield
and strong shafted curved spear
and straight sword dyed red
in dark gatherings of blood.”

Could Fenrir actually be Vishnu?

Part 2 of our discussion:
https://tinyurl.com/sm23ussr

It is undeniable that Hindu tradition treats the lion-form Narasimha-Vishnu in the same way that Fenrir is treated in Norse tradition:

as a rampaging beast who the gods fear will destroy gods and cosmos alike, as MahaKala, Great Time.

In some versions he can only be defeated by an avatar of Siva whose sole purpose is to kill him.

Replace Siva with Odin and Narasimha with Fenrir and the myth is nearly identical.

Our roundtable discussion asks: is there any other interpretation of the evidence, or any other Vishnu parallel to be found?

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The Norse Cosmic Egg

If Ymir is Sky-Earth, then why is he born first, while Buri is born second?

Sky-Earth being formed first, as the "material shell" of the cosmos, is what we consistently see in Indo-European myth, when we look closer.

Thus Ymir as Sky-Earth is in the only position he could be in, created just before Buri emerges from the ice as the completed totality god who fathers the other gods.

Full video below:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1om6TCdBgYg

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🍎The Celtic Adam and Eve

I’ve discovered that Gaelic myth has the only provably Indo-European version of the “Adam and Eve” story that includes theft of the forbidden fruit.

What does this mean for Comparative Myth studies and the origin of this myth?

I’m joined by Collin, Arno Preiner, and Josephus to discuss the implications of this finding.

Part 1:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IVnF6sXZPqQ

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🍎The Celtic Adam and Eve: Part 2

Is the serpent tempting the “first man” to steal and eat the forbidden fruit…actually Indo-European?

Oddly enough, we may have a parallel of the serpent in the Celtic myth of Diarmuid and Grainne.

Collin, Josephus and I discuss this topic and its connection to Gilgamesh and Orpheus.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gjnUKIPM6b8

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🔥🔥THE PURUSHA EXPLAINED🔥🔥

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhrWIdWDyo0

(Switch video setting to HD to read the chart)

The concept of “The Purusha” has been misunderstood and sloppily applied by all of us to a scandalous degree.

The Purusha is a being of FIRE.

Neglecting this point has been a disaster to the understanding of pagan theology as it is found across the Indo-European traditions.

The very same “Purusha” figure is found preserved in multiple major European mythologies — consistently as a being of Fire.


In this talk we explain the Purusha once and for all and go in-depth into his mythos.

— And as always, we ask the strange-sounding question that must be asked:

Could Surtr be the actual Norse “Purusha”?

I’m joined by Arno Preiner @ fvrorpoeticvs and Josephus, with a special appearance by Collin, for the definitive discussion on the role of the Purusha in comparative myth.

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The Purusha of Vedic tradition is the congealed fire-form arising from the primordial fiery airs.

He is called Death, and The Ender.

He is the personified Fire of Totality that divides into all things.

He is:

Norse: Surtr
Welsh: Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid
Gaelic: Delbaeth-Lugaid
Greek: Zeus as the embodied fiery Aether

Here we see the original ideology of the Indo-European sacrifice preserved.

Watch:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhrWIdWDyo0

Did the Ancient Druids believe in a Veil of Ignorance (Ajñāna, Avidya, Maya) between the World and Absolute Reality or God?


The Gaelic mythology indeed preserves a concept of a Veil of Ignorance between the manifest World and The Absolute (Breoghan/Tat/Dedad), very much like the metaphysics found in Indian religions.

Alldui (Great Ignorance =Ajnana/Avidya), is son of Tat (Father =God), son of Tabhairn (=Tavern, a poetic term for Ocean, =The Cosmic Ocean). The genealogy of the gods concludes there.

Indui, meaning the negation (In-) of Ignorance (Dui), is the son of this Alldui. In this sequence we then have the Great Veil of Ignorance (Alldui) emerging from the Absolute (Tat) and immediately being followed by its own negation (In-dui), which is thus a new born Wisdom piercing the veil of Darkness, the primordial intellectual Sun rising.

This is confirmed in a separate version of the same mythos found in the Ulster legends. We have Dui (Ignorance) who is foster-son of Dedad (God) and son of Lugaid (the Purusha form), who is killed and succeeded by Fachtna Fáthach, son of Ross.

Fachtna Fáthach mac Ross means the Hostile Wise One, son of Knowledge, and Fáthach comes from the same root word as the name Odin and numerous words for seer.

Thus once again we have Ignorance (Dui), sired by The Absolute (Dedad/Lugaid), and succeeded by its own negation, The Wise One (Fachtna).

Tat > Alldui > Indui

Dedad > Dui > Fachtna


Now Indui is called the king of the North country and lord of horse breeding peoples. The Horse has a solar and fiery meaning, and Fachtna is indeed grandson of Rudraige, “The Red”, who must be the Red Sun called Rohita (The Red/Red Horse) in the Vedas. Rohita is also included as one of the esoteric names of Rudra in the Satarudriya litany. That is, Rudra is directly identified with this Red Sun in the Vedas.

Thus Fachtna/Indui seems to be a highly solarized and primordial Rudra/Odin/Finn type, very much comparable to Apollo, sprung from the primordial (also Rudra-coded) Sun God (Rudraige/Rohita), who then defeats the darkness of the Veil of Ignorance with the light of Wisdom and Knowledge.

The red, dawning Intellectual Sun (Rudraige) is emanating the god of Raging Intellect (Fachtna), the latter appearing to be like a furious extension of the former.

As Indui is the lord of the North, so he must be the god most consistently tied to the North in Indo-European myth: Rudra/Apollo, here in a primordial and highly solarized form, as his lordship over horse breeding implies. It is thus hard to know if Indui parallels Fachtna, his grandfather Rudraige, or both as one, yet it is Fachtna who directly kills Dui.

From Indui all the other gods then follow, his first successor being Neit (Vishnu).

Likewise from Fachtna and his lover Ness (Vac, Speech) and her other consort Cathbad (a Rudraic Brihaspati), the other god-heroes also follow, such as their son Conchobar (Prajapati) and their daughter’s son Cuchulainn (Vishnu).


The Druids indeed had a metaphysics of The Veil of Ignorance that is born from The Absolute and then supplanted by the hostile god of solar Wisdom. Whether we call it Ajñāna, Avidya, Maya, or Alldui, this veil is there in plain language right at the beginning of the mythic genealogies of the Gaels.

May this message of clarification find its way to those who will preserve it, that we may pierce the Great Veil.

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Did the Ancient Druids believe in a Veil of Ignorance (Ajñāna)? Alldui, Indui, and Fachtna EXPLAINED

níp sái nech corop dái

no one will be wise till he is (first) ignorant

- Tecosca Cormaic 56


I explore the incredibly cryptic figures of Indui, Alldui, Tat, Tabhairn, and Fachthna who are found right at the beginning of the mythological and legendary genealogies, to uncover a metaphysics of the overcoming of the primordial Ignorance by a god of Solar Wisdom.

*Note: the meaning of Tat is uncertain, see pinned video comment.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lUrGJvi88

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ON MISCONCEIVING THE “SKY FATHER”
The “Sky Father” has been reconstructed by philologists based on a perfect linguistic correspondence between the names of Zeús, Jūpiter and Dyu Pitr̥, which point to PIE *Dyéws Ph̥₂térs.
Scholars soon found themselves frustrated by the lack of shared mythology between the Græco-Roman and Indic Gods who shared this name, which they “explained” assuming that the Greek Zeús was heavily influenced by Middle Eastern deities, and that the Roman Jūpiter was a ripoff of the Greek Zeús, effectively leaving Dyu Pitr̥ as the only typical IE “Sky Father”.
Noticing the lack of a Germanic God of the same name, they assumed that Týr (whose name, from PIE *Deywós, is related, but not identical, to *Dyéws) was the Germanic “Sky Father”, but that Óðinn somehow took over the “Sky Father” rôle.
So, this “Sky Father” is reconstructed based on utter disregard for our traditional mythologies and their internal coherence.
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If we look at the evidence itself and not at earlier philologists’ hypotheses, it’s clear that there are different rôles in each mythology for: {a} the Sky personified, exemplified by Dyu Pitr̥, Ouranós, Cælus, the upper half of Ymir, and Matholwch, {b} the God of Intellect who separates Sky from Earth, exemplified by Rudra, Krónos, Saturn, Óðinn and Efnisien; {c} the Lawful Sovereign, God of oaths and justice, one of the many thunder-wielders, whose PIE name might have been *Deywós, exemplified by Mitra, Zeús, Jūpiter (especially in his Dīus aspect), Týr and Lleu Llaw Gyffes.
- Jōsēphus Græcus, The Sun Riders
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The Dagda Dáire: The Gaelic PRANA, The Breath of the Absolute

The mysterious legendary Gaelic figure called Dáire is in reality the personified breath of the Absolute, called Prana by the Vedics, as a precise parallel shows.

Dáire also happens to be an epithet of the Dagda, who is indeed the Gaelic Wind God, and thus Dáire appears to be the primordial form of the Dagda.

What can we say about the essence of this god of primordial Prana?

And what god is the controlling essence of the Prana, and of Dáire?

Watch:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cT9L4iNwl5M

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Taliesin’s Treasures: 2024 Preview of Current Research

An anxiety occasionally seizes me that I could die at any time, before publishing all of the solutions I’ve found to the puzzles of Celtic and Indo-European mythology.
So many things have begun to align in my research, they burn a hole in my pocket.

And so this is a summary “list” post which functions as an insurance policy and a preview of upcoming articles and videos. I prefer to get information out as fast as possible anyway, and the fact is I currently have no time to write full articles or book chapters. Eventually these comparisons, along with those in my recent videos, will make the bulk of my next book, Breoghan’s Tower, so this post is a giant spoiler.

Don’t expect full explanations in this post. The points in this list will be fully explained and fleshed out when I get the time. They are here for those who will find them useful, so that they can be put to use as soon as possible and not months or years down the line.

Celtic mythology can be decoded, and it is being decoded. It is not lost.

It may be Gaelic but it’s not rocket science.

https://telegra.ph/Taliesins-Treasures-Summary-of-Current-Research-02-06

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