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Fer benn and the deer cult in Buile Suibhne
Boucherit G.
XIV COMHDHÁIL IDIRNÁISIÚNTA SA LÉANN CEILTEACH XIV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CELTIC STUDIES, Maynooth : Ireland (2011) - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00621072
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Fer benn and the deer cult in Buile Suibhne
Gilles Boucherit () 1
1 :  Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC Rennes)
http://www.univ-rennes2.fr/crbc
Université de Rennes II - Haute Bretagne
Place du Recteur Henri Le Moal CS 24307 35043 RENNES Cedex
France
By saying these words: "Cidh iomdha dom dhamraidh-si " (O'Keeffe, 1913/1996, p. 79) d.l.e. "A mathair na groidhi-si" (ibid.) , at paragraph 40 of the Buile Suibhne, Fer benn, is adressing the same type of spirit as the Tungus do in Anisimov's study "Cosmological concepts of the Peoples of the North", namely Bugady Enintyn. Both are considered a mother and an animal, elk or deer, and both play the same part as guardian of her herds : "The mistress of the earth has a husband--the nameless shepherd of her herd". The mythology referred to can be epitomized in the Cosmic hunt (a form of personification of the sun cycle). Its trace can be followed on the cliffs from Siberia to Europe, beginning with Lake Baikal Neolithic which is contemporaneous with the Afanasevo civilisation of the Minusinsk steppe belt, originating itself in the Repin migration situated on the Don river before the Yamnaya horizon appeared. Connections with the Volga-Ural Repin-Yamnaya world were maintained by a continuing round of migrations moving in both directions (3700-3500 / 2.400 BCE). The Deer and Tree of life on the cylindrical seal found in Kragnosvarkdeisk (Maikop-Novosvobodnaya), dated from the beginning of the third millennium B.C., must come from Siberia because Cervus elaphus is not known in Mesopotamia where the technique itself originates however. Likewise, the deer among the Hittites is a sacred animal and seems to have been primarily the supreme female deity, superseded afterwards by Teshoub: "l'ancêtre direct du Zeus Dolichénos". A deer cult is pervasive among the Indo-Europeans, from Usatovo, Polonia, Scandinavia and Val Camonica, Iberia and Gaul (Cernunnos). This cult must have come in Ireland, Scotland sometime (Bronze Age, Iron Age) from somewhere (Iberia, Gaul) on the Continent.
En ur lavarout ar gerioù-mañ "Cidh iomdha dom dhamraidh-si " d.l.e. "A mathair na groidhi-si", e pennad 40 Buile Suibhne (O'Keeffe, 1913/1996, p. 79), emañ Fer benn o komz ouzh an hevelep doare spered ma ra an dToungoused e studiadenn Anisimov ""Cosmological concepts of the Peoples of the North", elese Bugady Enintyn. An daou a vez sellet outo koulz evel mamm ha loen, elnez pe karvez, hag a c'hoari an hevelep perzh evel suward he bagadoù : "The mistress of the earth has a husband--the nameless shepherd of her herd". Ar mojennerezh daveet amañ a c'hell bout aroueziet gant an Hemolc'h kosmek (un doare personelañ trovezh an heol), hag a c'hell bout lennet war ar brioù eus Sibiria d'an Europ, da gregiñ gant Neolitik al Lenn Baïkal a zo kempred gant sevenadur Afanasievo stepennoù ar Minousinsk, o tont eus divroadeg Repin war ar stêr Don a-gent da sevenadur Yamna dont war wel. Kevreoù etre an daou ved-se Volga-Oural ha Repin-Yamnaya a voe dalc'het gant ur monedonea disehan a zivroadegoù (3700-3500 / 2.400 K.H.A.). Ar C'harv hag ar Wezenn Vuhez war ar siell granek bet kavet e Kragnosvarkdeisk (Maikop-Novosvobodnaya), deiziataet e derou an trived milved K.K, a dle dont eus Sibiria rak ne gaver ket Cervus elaphus e Mezopotamia m'emañ ar c'halvezder o tont koulskoude. Heñvel, ar c'harv e-touez an Hittited a zo nevet hag a hañval bezañ bet a-zigentañ ar barez doueel uhelañ, erlec'hiet gant Teshoub: "l'ancêtre direct du Zeus Dolichenos." Un azeul karv a zo em skignet gant an Indez-Europiz, e Usatovo, Polonia, Skandinavia hag ar Val Kamonika, Iberia ha Gallia (Cernunnos). An azeul-se a rank bezañ deuet da Iwerzhon hag Alba d'ur mare bennak (Aremvezh, Houarnvezh) eus a lec'h bennak (Iberia, Gallia) war an douar-bras.
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05/08/2011

XIV COMHDHÁIL IDIRNÁISIÚNTA SA LÉANN CEILTEACH XIV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CELTIC STUDIES
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05/08/2011
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Animal mother – Fer Benn – Dagda – Hittites – Juno Dolichenos
Mamm loen – Fer Benn – Dagda – Hittited – Juno Dolichenos
The Congress Acts have not been published yet / Aktoù ar C'hendalc'h n'int ket deuet er-maez c'hoazh / Les Actes du congrès ne sont pas encore parus

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