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Detail of Adam Ferguson's grave The grave of Adam Ferguson, St Andrews Cathedral churchyard. Adam Ferguson, FRSE (Scottish Gaelic: Adhamh MacFhearghais), also known as Ferguson of Raith (1 July N.S. [2] /20 June O.S. 1723 – 22 February 1816), was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.
The rivers in Scotland were considered the dwelling places of goddesses with their characteristic denoting the nature of the river, such as the River Forth being called "deaf or soundless river" on account of its silent flow conditions, and the River Clyde called as "the purifying river" as it caused scouring and cleansing, carrying "mud and ...
In the mid-sixteenth century, the churchman John Bale theorised the existence of a separate theologian called Adam the Carthusian, who Bale believed flourished around 1340; Bale attributed six works to that writer. It is now acknowledged, however, that this distinct Adam the Carthusian never existed, and that all these works were written by others.
The Scottish Gaelic name Slúagh stems from the Old Irish slúag (≈ slóg), meaning 'host, army; crowd, assembly'.Variant forms include slógh and sluag. [3] It derives from the Proto-Celtic root * slougo-(cf. Gaul. catu-slougi 'troops of combat', Middle Welsh llu 'troop', Old Bret.-lu 'army'), whose original meaning may have been 'those serving the chief', by comparing with Balto-Slavic ...
General deities were known by the Celts throughout large regions, and are the gods and goddesses called upon for protection, healing, luck, and honour. The local deities from Celtic nature worship were the spirits of a particular feature of the landscape, such as mountains, trees, or rivers, and thus were generally only known by the locals in ...
According to Julius Caesar, the Gauls also claimed descent from a god whom he likened to Dis Pater, the Roman god of the underworld. [4] The Christian writers who recorded the Lebor Gabála Érenn made Donn into Éber Donn one of the mythical Milesian ancestors of the Gaels. [6] The Milesians invade Ireland and take it from the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Adam was included in the peace called the "Pacification of Perth" of 23 February 1573. He was then allowed to go to France, where he tried to rally support for Queen Mary. [ 12 ] Then in 1574, Adam was in touch with the English diplomat in Scotland, Henry Killigrew , and in France, and Francis Walsingham trying to secure his reconciliation with ...
Ogma / ˈ ɒ ɡ m ə / (Modern Irish: Oghma) is a god from Irish and Scottish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, he is often considered a deity and may be related to the Gallic god Ogmios. According to the Ogam Tract, he is the inventor of Ogham, the script in which Irish Gaelic was first written. [1]