Aye 10/10 production, although questionable sources leave questions only the wise one could answer

Man I really look forward to any chance to listen to these stories. thanks so much for doing this and please continue! You have a gift for it.

I have never come across mention of the Salmon of Knowledge before, but it fills out the whole story so much better now! Thank you so much for sharing. Truly. I think this is going to help greatly in my own studies.

Excellent as always. Could you recommend a book(s) you deem to have the best translations for these tales? Or any book list would be helpful. Thank you

Definitely one of my favorite tales!

fascinating stuff

Fintan sounds very much like Thoth!

Mr. Murphy, this was wonderful. Thank you. I wonder if you know any specifics about Fionn and the hill of Uisneach? I understand there is some connection there and wonder if Finnleasachs Well is somehow related to him?

I really enjoyed this! Thank you :-)

In FInland, we have a myth on the swan of Tuonela (the land of the dead). The swan is sacred, and the one who kills the swan, will die themselves. The hero Lemminkäinen gets an order to kill the swan. He tries to kill it, but a shepherd kills kills him with a sharp/poignant arms. Lemminkäinen is sliced into pieces, that are spread into the river Tuonela. Lemminkäinen's mother hears the news of the death of her son, and runs to save him. She asks the bee to get honey from the God of heaven, to heal the wounds. The bee flies to God of heaven and gets the honey. Lemminkäinen's mother has gathered her son's limbs together, and puts the honey to his wounds. Lemminkäinen's limbs grow back together, and he wakes up, back into living. Also, the Egyptian Osiris and Isis myth sounds a lot similar.

Awesome

Slainte. Love your videos. Please could you help me with a question: what colour was the Salmon? I am writing a series of stories featuring Irish mythology and this would be extremely helpful. Much respect 🙏

Thankyou, I love story telling, so much can be gleaned from the symbolism as well as the patterning of the words. Wondering how much oral telling of these tales is left?-- perhaps it can be still found in the West? Very much enjoying all I hear, Lesley x

It should also be noted that both salmon and hazelnuts are good brain food. The mythologising of these food stuffs can be seen as an ancient form of 'eat your greens' type advice from parent to child. Eat these and you'll be as wise as Finn etc.

Great to hear these myths before they are lost in time.

Could these creatures be ancient emblems on shields eg coats of arms ? Great stuff👍

Thank you so much for this. Fascinating! I have become interested in viewing Noah's PART of the worldwide Flood accounts to be just one out of several that we may rely upon. His regional experiences of that time are limited geographically, while other places saw the flood through differently (Inca account, Peruvian Andes &c.)

Bravo Anthony for breathing real life into this myth. My view,like that of mythographer Joe Campbell, is that a myth always stands in contradistinction to something aberrant in our contemporary mind,body, spirit that urges us towards reconciliation, evolution.. For me, Finglas as bardic poet and seer-had our ancestors had their say- would have been the natural custodian of the Salmons eternal truths, not Finn, a young not so naive warrior youth, into fraud war and attrition. The fraud is that since then, we are neutral in name only. The fact that this wonderful inheritance has suffered so deesply is evident from our contemporary society's inability ' to be honest' about this and everything else inconvenient to the status quo. and the seminal spiritual one, that as Yeats knew, we have lost contact with our ancestors,the guidance of those who have gone before, as Jung found out, the realtime arbiters of our unconscious.

Fin, Finton, Finigus...? What is the translation of these names? (correct spellinf?)

The bone fire's.

I have been studying everything Irish for the past 40-50 years.. You pronounce most things differently from the way I learned them.. Is that a dialect or have I been taught wrong.? I'm very interested in pronouncing all words properly.. Thank you..

Maybe the 12 tribes all needed food.

Cú corb.

Adam n Eve and salmon of knowledge.... That comparison is uncanny. Even the biblical interpretation is got wrong by most or at least options are limited by most as they stick to the 'she did it!' version. So fintan is a God then!

That is wrong.