Norse
Odin
wisdom, poetry, war
Balor
Celtic (Irish) tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- Fomorian king
- Symbols and attributes
- The destructive eye
- Children
- Ethniu
Key myth
Fomorian king whose evil eye burns whatever it looks upon. Lugh, his grandson, kills him with a sling-stone in the second Battle of Moytura.
Place in the family graph
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Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Balor: war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.