... Mebd, which left Fergus unarmed. This type of jealousy is the same type of jealousy that caused wars in the Greek epics or caused gods to pick sides. In the Iliad there is a scene where the mother of Achilles who is a goddess, went to Zeus to ask him to aid Achilles in his revenge against Agamemnon. Zeus' wife saw this and ... . There is a difference between the god's interactions in other European epic stories and The Tain. The Tain the gods do not intervene in wars physically like they do in the Iliad or the Aeneid. The Tain had more of a mystical interaction; there is a curse that is ...

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