{"id":10107,"date":"2020-06-18T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/sol-invictus-enlightenment-thunder-intiwatana-apollo-tuatha-lug.html"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:43:47","slug":"sol-invictus-enlightenment-thunder-intiwatana-apollo-tuatha-lug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/sol-invictus-enlightenment-thunder-intiwatana-apollo-tuatha-lug.html","title":{"rendered":"Sons of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lugh the Tuatha<\/a> is called Son of the Sun<\/em>. Apollo the Greek bears the same title \u2013 in fact, he has so much in common with Lugh that many mythologists<\/a> assimilate them: although belonging to two separate traditions, Lugh and Apollo seem to be one. The Romans, for that matter, called Lugh the Northern Apollo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The giant Gargan<\/h4>\n

Apollo are numerous in Celtic legends. It seems, however, that the true Apollo of the Celts is King Gurguntius or Gargan, who became Garganus in late Latin. A cave in Mons Garganus (Monte Gargano) in southern Italy was once dedicated to Apollo.<\/p>\n

Celts in Italy? To me, it\u2019s not a discovery. Wasn\u2019t one of the two founders of Rome from Celtic Gaul? Remus of Reims faded in front of his twin Romulus<\/a>, but his presence was indispensable to consecrate the first king of Rome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Celts lived far away from the lands that are now theirs. Many parts of the world still bear the gal root in their name: Galicia in Spain, Galicia in Poland and Ukraine, to name but the most famous.<\/p>\n

There are traces of Celtic settlements in the Maghreb, in the Middle East. I showed the strange lexical<\/a> and toponymic<\/a> relationships between Arabic and Breton.<\/p>\n

In the 19th century, the Celtist Henri Gaidoz<\/a> launched the idea that the giant Gargantua was not invented by Rabelais. Gargantua means devouring, swallowing. Gaidoz thinks it is a Gallic god who “perhaps” devoured human victims burned in wicker hoods. <\/em><\/p>\n

To establish his thesis and the link with the Celtic world, he quotes a Gurguntius son of Beleni in the chronicles of Giraud de Barri and Geoffroy de Monmouth, identified with Gwrgant of the Mabinogion. (wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c9lie Henri Anatole Gaidoz (1842 – 1932) geographer, ethnologist, was fond of Celtism and traditional knowledge. He played an eminent role in the progress of Celtic studies in France which earned him the title of knight of the Legion of Honor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Giant snakes<\/h4>\n

I fully agree with Gaidoz\u2019s thesis, which Wikipedia quotes from the lips, neglecting as usual the most innovative theses. Just like Hashem the dragon of Eden, the god Gargan devoured his victims. But he did not burn them in wicker hoods, but by the devouring fire that came out of his giant dragon mouth.<\/p>\n

The Gigantomachy<\/a> tells of the terrible fight that the Olympian gods allied to the Cyclops<\/a> led against snakes of a phenomenal size. These snakes of another age are some of the dinosaurs that survived the extinction of their species. These great Mesozoic saurians ruled our planet for millions of years. It is not surprising that they have developed in their ranks a superior being, the dragon<\/a>, just as mammals have developed the human species.<\/p>\n

I think it is important to point this out. For the Greeks and the Romans, giants are not humanoids, but reptilians. On Greek vases, on frescoes and Roman mosaics, the gigantomachy represents Zeus, god of very large size, fighting snakes much larger than him.<\/p>\n

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And intrigued scholars wonder why giants are depicted as endless snakes. Because they are snakes. Their size is so impressive that it earned them the title of giant.\u00a0This code was known in antiquity, it escaped the scientists who do not want to hear about gigantic snakes. Poor things! We have the scientists that our ignorance deserves.<\/p>\n

Very large humans are not called giants, but Titans or Cyclops. As proof, Greco-Latin mythology reports a mythological fight against very large humans: Titanomachy. No giants<\/em> in there. Giants are definitely reptilians.<\/p>\n

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A universal title<\/h4>\n

The giant Gargan, reptilian, archon and dragon, is part of a solar myth<\/strong> associated with fire worship. This worship of fire could refer to his quality as a fire-eater. But I see something else in this solar myth.<\/p>\n

\"\"Greek mythology tells that Apollo<\/a> drove the chariot of the sun. One day, yielding to the prayer of his son Phaeton<\/a>, he\u00a0allowed him to take control of the hyper-luminous flying machine.<\/p>\n

Fire came out of that chariot, a fire whose brightness overshadowed the sun. But was it the chariot of the sun? Piloting the cumbersome craft was a heavy task. The young Phaeton could not avoid a road trip, and the sun ignited the earth.<\/p>\n

Like his father Apollo before him, Phaeton was named Son of the Sun. Strangely, all the most powerful of the ancient gods have received this title of Son of the Sun. In Egypt, the exact title was Son of Re Atoum, the solar god. The pharaohs of the early dynasties were also called Sons of the Sun.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the Atlantic, we find this title in the Andes: the Inca, priest-emperor of his people, was worshipped under the name of Son of the Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the many titles worn by Tibetan dignitaries of old, such as the Karmapa, was also that of Son of the Sun.<\/p>\n

The emperors of China, self-proclaimed the country under the sky, also received the title of Son of the Sun, like the mythical emperor Yao, in the name that is pronounced as Yahweh<\/a> or Jah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ancient omnipresence of this title raises questions. Of course, none of these gods or demi-gods come from our star the sun, where the extreme rise in temperature makes human or divine life impossible. So what?<\/p>\n

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Tuatha and Fomorians<\/h4>\n

Lugh was the son of a Tuatha de Danann and a Fomoirian, a rival clan of the Tuatha. Fomory and Tuathas were deadly enemies who always fought a merciless war against each other. The two clans of giant reptiliens or gigantic reptiles had the same origin, Hyperborea, which Plato says was the origin of all the former gods.<\/p>\n

Lugh\u2019s father was Cian the Tuatha and his mother Ethniu the Fomory, daughter of the dragon Balor. If the dragon Lugh is a Son of the Sun, so are his parents.<\/p>\n

The epithet Son of the Sun would then be a sacred distinction, such as the title of Hajj that carries the Muslim who made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Now, if the title of Hajj is worn by all pilgrims, that of Son of the Sun seems much more selective.<\/p>\n

More than a simple distinction, it denotes an affiliation, an origin. That of Hyperborea<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Sons of the Sun<\/h2>\n