human
Celtic Druids, speaks of Samhan or Saman as
gpt
He says:--
human
An annual solemnity was instituted to his honour, which is yet celebrated on the evening of the first day of November, which yet at this day is called the _Oidhche Samhna_, or the night of _Samhan_. He further informs us that he was
gpt
and that
human
These attributes of _Samhan_ seem at first contradictory, but they are not unusual amongst the heathen gods. With the Greeks, Dionysos, the good Demiurge, is identified with Hades. In Egypt, Osiris was the lord of Death; with the Scandinavians, Odin, the god beneficent, was, at the same time, King of the infernal regions. This deity was above all the others whom we have named, but he was below the supreme being Baal. If Samhan were the sun, as we see he was, he answers to Mithra of the Persians, who was the middle link between Oromasdes and Arimanes--between the Creator and the Destroyer, and was called the _Preserver_.