Diancecht
Family: Tuatha de Danaan · Role: healer · First appears: The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2
Among the Tuatha de Danaan, Diancecht made a silver arm for Nuada, with movement in every finger, and fitted it to him; Nuada was thereafter called Nuada Argat-lamh. His son Miach had proved a better healer than his father, but Diancecht struck him repeatedly with his sword until Miach died, then buried him.
When Airmed arranged the healing herbs from Miach’s grave, Diancecht mixed them together, so their powers could no longer be known. Later, at the well of Slaine, he worked with his son Octruil and daughter Airmed, singing spells and putting herbs into the water; wounded men emerged whole and sound, ready to fight again.
Relationship record
Life events
- Diancecht made and fitted Nuada with a silver arm, earning him the name Nuada Argat-lamh.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2)
- With: Nuada
- “And then Diancecht, the healer, made an arm of silver for him, with movement in every finger of it, and put it on him.”
- 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: Miach
- “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)
- They healed wounded men with spells and herbs in the well, restoring them to fight.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 the well of Slaine)
- With: Octruil Airmed
- “And Diancecht and his son Octruil and his daughter Airmed used to be singing spells over the well and to be putting herbs in it; and the men that were wounded to death in the battle would be brought to the well and put into it as dead men, and they would come out of it whole and sound, through the power of the spells.”
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2
- child: Miach “Now Miach, son of Diancecht, was a better hand at healing than his father, and had done many things.”
- protégé: Nuada “Now as to Nuada: after his arm being struck off, he was in his sickness for a while, and then Diancecht, the healer, made an arm of silver for him, with movement in every finger of it, and put it on him.”
- enemies with Miach “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.”
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2
- child: Octruil “And Diancecht and his son Octruil and his daughter Airmed used to be singing spells over the well and to be putting herbs in it; and the men that were wounded to death in the battle would be brought to the well and put into it as dead men, and they would come out of it whole and sound, through the power of the spells.”
- child: Airmed “And Diancecht and his son Octruil and his daughter Airmed used to be singing spells over the well and to be putting herbs in it; and the men that were wounded to death in the battle would be brought to the well and put into it as dead men, and they would come out of it whole and sound, through the power of the spells.”
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda
- servant: Corann “And Corann was the best of the harpers of the household; he was harper to the Dagda's son, Diancecht.”
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Extracted from the original text of Gods and Fighting Men. Made with Rho MD.