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| User: | harpofoak (123147) The All Father
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| Name: | Alistair Yale Davenport | |||||||||
| Bio: | Age and physical description: 25, slim, dark brunette hair, dark eyes * Former Deity Name and Pantheon: Dagda, Celtic Pantheon * Personality: Generous, likes people, is willing to fight when push comes to shove, likes the good things in life. * History: Alistair is the eldest of five brothers. His parents Eli and Maoire Davenport are a anthropologist and a musician. They moved all around the world for his father's job. He learned to appreciate different cultures and he became absolutely passionate about the different foods and spices that they used. So after high school, he attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. After graduating from there and having worked at a number of small and large restaurants, he and a friend decided that they wanted to start up their own restaurant/pub. Alistair chose Bucksnort because of the fact that the competition was low, the potential was great, and he really loved the name. His business partner, Justin makes fun of him for that all the time. * Strengths: a general jack of all trades, he's not bad at almost anything he tries. His major passions are food, music, and the ladies. He's a constant exerciser. Preferring to be busy and he thrives with hectic schedules. * Weaknesses: He hates being still. He's always got to be doing something. He has a hard time relaxing because he doesn't know how to turn his brain off. * General Deity History: From Encylopedia Mythica: Dagda - The Irish-Celtic god of the earth and treaties, and ruler over life and death. Dagda, or The Dagda, ("the good god") is one of the most prominent gods and the leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is a master of magic, a fearsome warrior and a skilled artisan. Dagda is a son of the goddess Danu, and father of the goddess Brigid and the god Aengus mac Oc. The Morrigan is his wife, with whom he mates on New Years Day The Dagda is portrayed as possessing both super- human strength and appetite. His attributes are a cauldron with an inexhaustible supply of food, a magical harp with which he summons the seasons, and an enormous club, with one end of which he could kill nine men, but with the other restore them to life. He also possessed two marvellous swine---one always roasting, the other always growing---and ever-laden fruit trees. One of his epithets is Ollathir, which means "All-father". He is identified with the Welsh Gwydion and the Gallic Sucellos. From Wikipedia: The Dagda is an important god of Irish mythology. He is the supreme god in Irish mythology. His name means "The Good God" ( Old Irish deagh dia; Modern Irish dea-Dia), not necessarily good in a moral sense, but good at everything, or all-powerful. The Dagda is a father-figure (he is also known as Eochaid Ollathair, or Eochaid All-Father) and a protector of the tribe. In some texts his father is Elatha, in others his mother is Ethlinn. Irish tales depict the Dagda as a figure of immense power, armed with a magic club and associated with a cauldron. The club was supposed to be able to kill nine men with one blow; with the handle he could return the slain to life. The cauldron was bottomless, capable of feeding an army. He also possessed Daurdabla, a richly ornamented magic harp made of oak which, when the Dagda played it, put the seasons in their correct order; other accounts tell of it being used to command the order of battle. He possessed two pigs, one of which was always growing whilst the other was always roasting, and ever-laden fruit trees. The Dagda was moreover the High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann , the supernatural beings who inhabited Ireland prior to the coming of the Celts. His lover was Boann and his wife was Breg. Prior to the battle with the Fomorians, he coupled with the goddess of war, the Mórrígan, on Samhain in exchange for a plan of battle. [1] Despite his great power and prestige, the Dagda is sometimes depicted as oafish and crude, even comical, wearing a short, rough tunic that barely covers his rump, dragging his great penis on the ground.[1] The Dagda had an affair with Boann, wife of Nechtan. In order to hide their affair, Dagda made the sun stand still for nine months; therefore their son, Aengus, was conceived, gestated and born in one day. He, along with Boann, helped Aengus search for his love. [2] Aengus later tricked him out of his home at the Brú na Bóinne ( Newgrange). He arrived after the Dagda had shared out his land among his children, and there was nothing left for Aengus. Aengus asked his father if he could live in the Brú for a day and a night, and the Dagda agreed. But Irish has no indefinite article, so "a day and a night" is the same as "day and night", which covers all time, and so Aengus took possession of the Brú permanently. In "The Wooing of Étaín", on the other hand, Aengus uses the same ploy to trick Elcmar out of Brú na Bóinne, with the Dagda's connivance. [2] The Dagda was also the father of Bodb Dearg, Cermait, Midir, Aine and Brigit. He was the brother or father of Ogma, who is probably related to the Gaulish god Ogmios; Ogmios, depicted as an old man with a club, is one of the closest Gaulish parallels to the Dagda. Another Gaulish god who may be related to the Dagda is Sucellus, the striker, depicted with a hammer and cup. He is credited with a seventy or eighty-year reign (depending on source) over the Tuatha Dé Danann, before dying at the Brú na Bóinne, finally succumbing to a wound inflicted by Cethlenn during the first battle of Magh Tuiredh.[3] The Cerne Abbas giant, a famous outline of an ithyphallic giant with a club cut into the chalky soil at Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, England, was probably produced in Roman times, but may represent the Dagda. * Played By: Sean Maher * Other Pertinent Info As Needed: He knows he's special, not like all the other regular humans, but he doesn't know the actual name of the deity he's the reincarnation of. I don't own Sean Maher and this is a character for a Role playing game. No harm is intended. | |||||||||
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