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144 Irish pedigrees, which are here quite in point, as they make both Conchobars grandsons of one and the same Ross the Red. Conchobar was doubtless not a man; his sister Dechtere, the mother of Cúchulainn, is called a goddess; and the scribe of an old story in the Book of the Dun is obliged, in spite of his Euhemerism, to remark in passing that Conchobar was a día talmaide, or terrestrial god, of the Ultonians of his time. He is, in short, to be regarded as holding, in the Ultonian cycle, a place analogous to that of Nuada and Llûᵭ in the cycles to which they belong.

In respect of his partially acknowledged divinity, Conchobar differs from Cormac mac Airt, who is treated throughout as a mere man. The next to be mentioned is Aengus, who, on the other hand, is never treated as a historical character: he is described as son of the god called Dagda the Great, and the goddess Boann, from