The Cath Maige Tuired, for a wider audience: Part 4~ The Healers.

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The battle of Moytura is better known as the Mythological story cycle. This audio re-telling is especially designed for, but not limited to, a younger audience. In part 4,The Healers, we discover how Nuada achieves another shot at the kingship, the sad fate of Miach, Dian Cécht's son and we meet his sister, Aimed, a gifted herbalist.

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Notes for Part 4: The healers: When Isolde and I were working on this text we did wonder if this episode conerning Miach's death and 'rebirth' in the form of new plant growth might have once had an alternate context. Etymologically speaking. Dian Cécht has the meaning 'Eager Plough.' Miach and Airmid are both words used for measures of grain. So the cutting down of Miach, his burial and the regeneration of new geowth from the site where he was 'planted' has much in common with a number of agrarian myths; for eaxample, Isis and Osiris or even, in the Uk, John Barleycorn.

In this audo re-telling. I have just kept to the story, as it is given in the text(s), concentrationg on the characters, their actions and their relationships rather than any inherant symbolism that they may carry..

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