Miach

Family: Tuatha de Danaan · Role: healer · First appears: The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2

At Teamhair, Miach replaced a young man’s lost eye with a cat’s eye, which startled at small movements when he tried to rest but slept when he wished to watch. Later, dissatisfied with what his father Diancecht had done for Nuada, Miach restored the king’s severed hand, healing him over three days and three nights with the words, “Joint to joint, and sinew to sinew.”

Diancecht struck Miach repeatedly with his sword, and Miach died after the final blow. Airmed, his sister, spread out her cloak and arranged herbs according to their virtue from Miach’s grave, but Diancecht mixed them up, leaving their full powers unknown.

Relationship record

Life events

• Miach replaced a young man's lost eye with a cat's eye.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2 · 📍 Teamhair)
  • “So Miach put the cat's eye in his head; but he would as soon have been without it after, for when he wanted to sleep and take his rest, it is then the eye would start at the squeaking of the mice, or the flight of the birds, or the movement of the rushes; and when he was wanting to watch an army or a gathering, it is then it was sure to be in a deep sleep.”
• Miach restored Nuada's severed hand and healed him.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2)
  • With: Nuada
  • “And Miach was not satisfied with what his father had done to the king, and he took Nuada's own hand that had been struck off, and brought it to him and set it in its place, and he said: ‘Joint to joint, and sinew to sinew.’ Three days and three nights he was with the king; the first day he put the hand against his side, and the second day against his breast, till it was covered with skin, and the third day he put bulrushes that were blackened in the fire on it, and at the end of that time the king was healed.”
• Diancecht struck Miach with his sword repeatedly, and Miach died after the final blow.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2)
  • With: Diancecht
  • “Then he struck him the third time and the fourth, till he cut out the brain, for he knew no physician could cure him after that blow; and Miach died, and he buried him.”
• Diancecht mixed up the healing herbs Airmed had arranged from Miach's grave.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2)
  • With: Airmed Diancecht
  • “But Diancecht saw her doing that, and he came and mixed up the herbs, so that no one knows all their right powers to this day.”

The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2

• parent: Diancecht “Now Miach, son of Diancecht, was a better hand at healing than his father, and had done many things.”
• siblings with Airmed “And Airmed, his sister, came and spread out her cloak and laid out the herbs in it, according to their virtue.”
• protégé: Nuada “And Miach was not satisfied with what his father had done to the king, and he took Nuada's own hand that had been struck off, and brought it to him and set it in its place, and he said: ‘Joint to joint, and sinew to sinew.’”
• enemies with Diancecht “Then he struck him the third time and the fourth, till he cut out the brain, for he knew no physician could cure him after that blow; and Miach died, and he buried him.”

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Extracted from the original text of Gods and Fighting Men. Made with Rho MD.