#MythologyMonday @MythologyMonday #Celtic: Cormac, grandson of Conn, was reunited with his wife and children by the same mysterious warrior who had taken them away from him.`Ale and food were dealt out to them, and they became happy and joyous.

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#MythologyMonday @MythologyMonday #Celtic: Cormac, grandson of Conn, was reunited with his wife and children by the same mysterious warrior who had taken them away from him.
`Ale and food were dealt out to them, and they became happy and joyous. A cup of gold was placed in the warrior’s hand. Cormac was marvelling at the cup, for the number of the forms upon it and the strangeness of its workmanship.
“There is somewhat in it still more strange,” says the warrior. “Let three words of falsehood be spoken under it, and it will break into three: Then let three true declarations be under it, and it unites (?) again as it was before.” The warrior says under it three words of falsehood, and it breaks into three. “It is better to utter truth there,” says the warrior, “for sake of restoring the cup. I make my declaration, O Cormac,” saith he, “that until today neither thy wife nor thy daughter has seen the face of a man since they were taken from thee out of Tara, and that thy son has not seen a woman’s face.”
The cup thereby became whole. “Take thy family then,” says the warrior, “and take the Cup that thou mayst have it for discerning between truth and falsehood. And thou shalt have the Branch for music and delight. And on the day that thou shalt die they all will be taken from thee.
I am Manannan son of Ler”, says he, “king of the Land of Promise; and to see the Land of Promise was the reason I brought (thee) hither.“ …
Now on the morrow morning, when Cormac arose, he found himself on the green of Tara, with his wife and his son and daughter, and having his Branch and his Cup. Now that was afterwards (called) ‘Cormac’s Cup’, and it used to distinguish between truth and falsehood with the Gael. Howbeit, as had been promised him [by Manannan] it remained not after Cormac’s death.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Echtra-cormaic/Echtra-cormaic-text.htmlHere’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116160788296720337