Ogma
Family: Tuatha de Danaan · Role: Nuada's brother · First appears: The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1
Ogma was a brother of Nuada, taught the Tuatha de Danaan writing, and was called “the shining poet.” During the reign of Bres, he was ordered to bring firing from the Islands of Mod to the palace each day for the army; weakened by hunger, he lost two-thirds of his bundle to the sea each day. Tuireann was his son.
Relationship record
Life events
- Ogma was ordered to bring firing for the whole army.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · 📍 the palace)
- “Ogma himself, the shining poet, was under orders to bring firing to the palace every day for the whole army from the Islands of Mod; and he so weak for want of food that the sea would sweep away two-thirds of his bundle every day.”
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1
- siblings with Nuada “And of the others that were chief among them were Ogma, brother to the king, that taught them writing, and Diancecht, that understood healing, and Neit, a god of battle, and Credenus the Craftsman, and Goibniu the Smith.”
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1
- employer: Bres “Ogma himself, the shining poet, was under orders to bring firing to the palace every day for the whole army from the Islands of Mod; and he so weak for want of food that the sea would sweep away two-thirds of his bundle every day.”
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 1
- siblings with Nuada “That is no use to us; we have a champion before, Ogma, brother to the king.”
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1
- child: Tuireann “the three sons of Tuireann, son of Ogma”
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Extracted from the original text of Gods and Fighting Men. Made with Rho MD.