|
Sith
May 20, 2005 10:31:16 GMT -5
Post by Andy on May 20, 2005 10:31:16 GMT -5
There is an ancient irish legend of a race of small red mischief makers called the Sith. Emma Jung refers to this in her book the Grail Legend. Bringing up Authur, Lancelot, Percival, and the rest as character comparison. The Fisher King.
|
|
|
Sith
Feb 9, 2007 14:05:16 GMT -5
Post by fadhail on Feb 9, 2007 14:05:16 GMT -5
I have to make a comment on this. I am not familiar with Emma Jung or her novel, but I am familiar with Celtic Mythology and language having grown up surround by it and speaking Gaelic. Despite what Emma Jug put in her book, and you should never take the word of a single author as fact, the "sith" (actually spelled sidhe ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidhe ) and pronounced sith or shee)in Irish and Scottish lore does not refer to "a race of small red mischief makers". The truth of it however connects the "Star Wars" Jedi and Sith much more closely to this lore. In Gaelic "sidhe" refers to a the whole of the people some call the Fey. This includes elves, faeries, sprites, brownies, and leprechauns. In language and lore the reference is not to them as a race, but as the personification of the forces of the mother goddess of nature and the dragon. In the druids own words "the power of the Sidhe is that forces which flows through all nature, connecting all things together on, under, and above the earth." (sound familiar, like from some movie you may have seen) Also, the term is closely connected to the Robert Jordan "Wheel of Time" series. (Aes Sedai from the white tower; Aes Sidhe -- people of peace)
|
|