Editing Lugus (section)

===Lugh in Irish mythology===
[[Lugh|Lugh Lamfhota]] (literally, "Long-armed Lugh") is an [[Irish mythology|Irish mythological]] figure from the [[Mythological Cycle]] and the [[Ulster Cycle]]. He is portrayed as a leading member of the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]], a supernatural race in medieval Irish literature often thought to represent [[euhemerized]] pre-Christian deities. Alongside [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]] and [[Cú Chulainn]] (Lugh's supernatural son), he is one of the three great heroes of the Irish mythological tradition.<ref name=MacKillopLugh>{{cite encyclopedia |first=James |last=MacKillop |title=Lug Lámfhota |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Celtic Mythology |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2004 |edition=Online |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-3067 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=James |last=MacKillop |title=Tuatha Dé Danann |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Celtic Mythology |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2004 |edition=Online |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-3684 }}</ref> The Irish celebrated [[Lughnasa]], a [[harvest festival]] which fell on 1 August and which, according to Irish tradition, was established by Lugh in honour of his foster mother.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=James |last=MacKillop |title=Lughnasa  |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Celtic Mythology |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2004 |edition=Online |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-3087 }}</ref>

Arbois de Jubainville made the connection between Lugh and Lugus.<ref name=Hutton/>{{rp|69–70}} He adduced two connections between Irish Lugh and Celtic Lugus. Firstly, he drew attention to the (above discussed) correspondence between Lugh's epithet {{lang|mga|Samildánach}} ("master of all arts") and Caesar's description of Gaulish Mercury.<ref name=MaierCaesar/>{{rp|127}} Secondly, he pointed out that an annual [[Sanctuary of the Three Gauls|''concillium'' of the Gauls]] in Lugdunum/Lyon, instituted in 12 BCE in honour of the emperor [[Augustus]], fell on exactly the same day as Lughnasa. He suggested that both must ultimately derive from a Celtic festival in honour of Lugus.<ref name=MaierCaesar/>{{rp|130}}<ref name=Drinkwater/>{{rp|111}} Recent scholarship has tended to dismiss this as a coincidence.<ref name=Ovist/>{{rp|515}}{{efn|1=There are a number of reasons 1 August may have been chosen for a festival in honour of Augustus: [[Roman calendar#Later reforms|the month bore his name]]<ref name=MaierCaesar/>{{rp|130}} and the date was the anniversary of his political victory over [[Mark Antony|Antony]] and [[Cleopatra]].<ref name=Drinkwater>{{cite book |title=Roman Gaul: The Three Provinces, 58 BC - AD 260 |location=Oxford / New York |last=Drinkwater |first=J. F. |publisher=Routledge |date=2014 }}</ref>{{rp|111–113}}}} Maier has pointed out that the Continental Celts used a [[lunar calendar]], whereas the Irish used a [[solar calendar]], so continuity of a seasonal festival would be unlikely.<ref name=MaierCaesar/>{{rp|130}}