en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn Genesis A retelling of the familiar Judaeo-Christian story of the creation, the fall of Man and the early history of the world. In addition to Genesis, the author draws upon several recondite works for many of his details (e.g. the Syriac Cave of Treasures), as well as the four Christian works mentioned earlier (i.e. The City of God, etc.). Early history of the Gaels This chapter explains, and is based on, the belief that all mankind is descended from Adam through the sons of Noah. It tells us how Noahs son Japheth is the forebear of all Europeans (see Japhetites), how Japheths son Magog is the forebear of the Gaels and Scythians, and how Fénius Farsaid is the forebear of the Gaels. Fénius, a prince of Scythia, is described as one of 72 chieftains who built the Tower of Babel. His son Nel weds Scota, daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh, and they have a son named Goídel Glas. Goídel crafts the Goidelic (Gaelic) language from the original 72 languages that arose after the confusion of tongues. Goídels offspring, the Goidels (Gaels), leave Egypt at the same time as the Israelites (the Exodus) and settle in Scythia. After some time they leave Scythia and spend 440 years wandering the Earth, undergoing a series of trials and tribulations akin to those of the Israelites, who spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness. After many years at sea, they settle in the Maeotian marshes, then sail via Crete and Sicily and conquer Iberia. There, Goídels descendant Breogán founds a city called Brigantia, and builds a tower from the top of which his son Íth glimpses Ireland. Tower of Hercules (A Coruña, Galicia) rebuilt 2nd and 18th centuries: according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Breogán was the father of Ith, the leader of an expedition to Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula; from Breogáns Tower Ith first saw Ireland, 900 kilometres north
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