Dagda

Stories tagged Dagda:

• The Dagda’s Cauldron of Plenty Aug 13, 2025

  

  The Dagda had a belly like a drum and a laugh like a door flung open, and his cauldron never ran empty. You could put twenty ladles in at once and still it would feed a latecomer with a second helping and a story besides. But abundance without order is like a feast without chairs.

• The Morrígan and the Dagda at Samhain Aug 12, 2025

  

  When the wheel of the year turned toward Samhain, the night when the veil between the worlds grew thin, the gods themselves felt the pull of ancient powers stirring. It was on such a night, with the harvest gathered and winter approaching, that one of the most fateful meetings in Irish mythology took place – the encounter between the Dagda, the Good God of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and the Morrígan, the phantom queen who ruled over war, fate, and sovereignty.

• The Taking of the Sidhe Mounds Aug 12, 2025

  

  After the great victories over the Fomorians and the establishment of their rule over Ireland, the Tuatha Dé Danann found themselves facing a new challenge – not one of war, but of governance and the future of their people. The time had come when they could no longer live openly in the mortal world as they once had, for the age of gods walking among men was drawing to a close.

• The Harp of Dagda Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the ancient days when the Tuatha Dé Danann ruled over Ireland with wisdom and magic, there lived among them a mighty god known as the Dagda. The Dagda was the father of all gods, master of life and death, controller of the seasons, and keeper of the great cauldron that could feed any number of people without ever emptying.

  But of all the Dagda’s magical possessions, none was more precious to him than his enchanted harp, called Uaithne. This was no ordinary instrument, but a harp of such extraordinary power that its music could control the very fabric of reality itself.