ORIGIN: Celtic [Irish]
TYPE:God
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP: From prehistoric times until after Christianization circa CE 400.
ART REFERENCES: monumental carvings and reliefs.
LITERARY SOURCES: Book of Invations; Cycles of Kings;
INFORMATION: A god of whom limited description is given but who was clearly one of the more important members of the Tuatha de Dannan band of Celtic deities in Ireland. Said to be the grandfather of Lug. He possesses the skills to make every warrior whole again and is referred to as having made a silver arm for the god Nuadu who was injured in the legendary Battle of Moytura and who subsequently took the epithet Nuadu argatlam (Nuada of the silver arm). Mortally wounded Tuatha were bathed and revived in Diancecht's sacred well, Slane.