Celtic Creation Legends

Celtic Creation Legends
   1. An Irish myth tells how Bith, his wife Birren, their daughter Cesara with her husband Fintan, their son Lara with his wife Balma, escaped to Inisfail in a ship, at the time of the Deluge. Later there was a large red moon, with bright expanding clouds breaking up into hundreds of pieces, and the whole family were killed, leaving the land uninhabited. Another legend tells that a woman had a magic cask which, when opened, flowed for so long that that water covered the earth.
   Boann, the wife of Dagda, is also linked with a Flood myth, concerning the overflowing of the Boyne. Badb prophesied after Mag-Tuireadh that there would be a disaster involving the gods similar to Ragnarok.
   2. In Wales, the Deluge myth tells of the overflowing of Llyon Llion, from which Dwyvan and Dwybach alone escaped. There is a Druid myth telling how fire and water prevailed over the earth.

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