Editing Tethra

{{short description|Irish god}}
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In [[Irish mythology]], '''Tethra''' of the [[Fomorians]] ruled [[Mag Mell]] after dying in the [[Cath Maige Tuired#Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh|Second Battle of Mag Tuiredh]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Tom P.|title=Ancient Irish Tales|publisher=Henry Holt & Co|url=http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/connla.html|access-date=1 May 2013|chapter=The Adventures of Connla the Fair|year=1936|quote=A woeful seat where Connla sits! Among short-lived mortals, Awaiting only dreadful death. The living, the immortal call to you; They summon you to the people of Tethra}}</ref> After the battle, his sword, Orna, was taken by [[Ogma]] and it then recounted everything it had done.<ref>{{cite book|last=McCullough|first=David W.|title=Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth|year=2010|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc|isbn=978-0609809075|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kwKgyZqL0EC&q=tethra+sword&pg=PA18|quote=Now in that battle, Ogma the champion found Orna, the sword of Tethra, king of the Fomoire. Ogma unsheathed the sword and cleaned it. Then the sword told what had been done by it, because it was the habit of swords at the time to recount the deeds that had been done by them whenever they were unsheathed.}}</ref>

==Etymology==
'''Tethra''' may be derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] ''*tet(e)ro-'' meaning 'quacking sound'.<ref>[[Julius Pokorny]]: 1079. Cf. also [http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/PCl-MoE.pdf] [http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/MoE-PCl.pdf] {{cite web |url=http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cceltic |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-02-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211181501/http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cceltic |archive-date=2006-02-11 }}.</ref>
Tethra means both sea and scald-crow [[Badb]] or Roynston's crow in Old Irish.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/duil-belrai/lorg.php?faclair=db&seorsa=Gaidhlig&facal=tethra&tairg=Cuardaigh |title=In Dúil Bélrai - Old Irish Glossary |access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref>

==Popular culture==
"Tethra" is the name of an armor set for the Highlander in ''[[For Honor]]''.

==Music==
"[[Tethra (band)|Tethra]]" is the name of an Italian Melancholic [[Doom metal|Doom]] [[Death metal|Death Metal]] band started in 2008, which is still active.

Ogives Big Band released a song called 'Tethra' on their EP 'HARM' in October 2019 with an accompanying music video.

==References==
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[[Category:Fomorians]]
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