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- "Bile: was king of those countries after his father's death, and wassucceeded by his son Milesius (Galamh). This Bile had a brother namedIthe."
From Jim Kinsella (jim@kinsella.org) Ancient Kinsella Lineage
http://kinsella.org/history/famline.htm
"Information taken from O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" and Rev. P.L.O'Toole's"History of the Clan O'Toole" "
The Kinsella Homepage http://www.kinsella.org/
Jim Kinsella, the son of John Kinsella (who collected the information),son of Daniel Kinsella
Below from "Spain and Scotland: The Ancient Connections" at
http://www.members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/Spain.html
The ancient connections between northern Britain and Celtic Spain arestrong and supported by many myths and legends. The dolmens, standingstones and the trail of "cup and ring" designs carved on stones by theprehistoric people of Iberia make their way from Spain and Portugal andnorthern France to Ireland and Scotland and represent the earliestevidence of the movement of prehistoric man from Iberia to the northernislands.
Of these ancient kingdoms, Galicia, of course, is still one of the sevenrecognized Celtic nations, and the word itself means "The Land of theGaelic People." It is from Galicia that Irish origin legends claim thatthe Irish race sprung towards Ireland.
According the Irish origin myths, King Brigus built Breoghan's Tower orBrigantia in Galicia, and also the city of Brigantia or Braganza inPortugal. He also created the most ancient kingdom of Castile which wasthen also called after him or "Brigia." The ancient Celtic blood of theCastilians was later the driving force in the creation of the modernSpanish nation as the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon joined under thecrowns of Isabella and Ferdinand in the 15th century.
Some Victorian scholars, such as John O'Hart, submit that "Castile" (or"Castilla" or "Castle Land" in Spanish) itself was so called from thefigure of a castle which Brigus bore for his Coat of Arms on his banner.The name of that ancient land, however, can only be historically tracedto the Dark Ages. In any event, King Brigus, well used to conqueringlands and establishing new kingdoms, sent a colony of his people intoBritain. His invaders settled in that territory now known as the countiesof Durham, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and perhaps Cumberland. Thesesettlers were named after him and were called "Brigantes" by the Greeks.It was these people who ferociously opposed the Roman invader centurieslater.
Of even more interest to Pictophiles, King Brigus' son was named Bile,and he was also a Celtic King of Spain. Several Pictish Kings were alsocalled Bile or Bili, including its most famous King, the destroyer of theAngles at Dunnichen in 685 A.D. The name Bile is of high interest also tostudents of Celtic mythology. According to the Celtic Encyclopedia
"In British tradition he was called Bel or Belinus, but in Irish he wasBile. In some texts, he is said to come to Ireland from Spain - which isclearly intended to be the Land of the Dead. The fires of Beltaine werelit to mark his recognized feast. Very little is known of his mythos, buthe, like Danu who is sometimes named as his consort, was a powerfulancestral deity to the Celtic races. (bil-ay) One of the names of the godof Death (i.e. of the Underworld), father of Miled; equivalent, Cymricgod Beli, husband of Don".
Bile's son was Milesius, perhaps the most famous of all the Celtic Kingsof Spain and the father of the Irish race. As a youth Milesius,distinguished himself as a warrior in Egypt and was also known as Galamh.According to Hynes:
"The original name of Milesius of Spain was, as already mentioned,"Galamh" (gall : Irish, a stranger; amh, a negative affix), which means,no stranger: meaning that he was no stranger in Egypt, where he wascalled "Milethea Spaine," which was afterwards contracted to "MilóSpaine" (meaning the Spanish Hero), and finally to "Milesiius" (mileadh:Irish, a hero; Lat. miles, a soldier)".
Because of his prowess as a warrior, Milesius was given the hand ofScotta, daughter of the Egyptian pharaoh. From her name comes the name ofthe Scottish people. He took her to Spain and they reigned as King andQueen of that European nation.
As legend has it, it was his uncle (or perhaps brother or evengrandfather), Ith, who one clear day saw the outlines of Ireland from ahigh tower built by King Brigus. King Miled then sent a fleet of warriorsto investigate and by the time it was all over and done, Ith was killedtrying to solve a dispute between three kings in Ireland and as a resultthe avenging Sons of Mile conquered Ireland and defeated the Tuatha deDanaan. According to the Celtic Encyclopedia, the Danaan were:
"The people of Dana. They ruled Ireland after Nemed, according to theBook of Invasions, and were descended from one of his great-grandsons.They were supposed to come from the northern isles of Greece where theyhad learned all the arts of magic. They brought four treasures with themfrom these parts: the Stone of Fal from Falias, which screamed under thefoot of every rightful king; the Spear of Lugh, which came from Gorias;the Sword of Nuada, from Findias; and the Cauldron of the Dagda fromMurias. They fought long against the Fomorians and the Firbolgs, but wereeventually vanguished by the Milesians, after which they retired to theOtherworld."
and the Firbolg people. Again, according to the Celtic Encyclopedia theFirbolg were:
"(fir vulag) Nemedian survivors who return to Ireland; name signifies'Men of the Bags'; the FirBolg, FirDomnan, and Galionin races general-lydesignated as the Firbolgs; the Danaan's and the Firbolgs; The firstinhabitants of Ireland, according to ancient traditions, were theFirbolgs, who were conquered and driven into the Western Islands by theTuatha De Danann. The Firbolgs became the first Fairies of Ireland,Giant-like, grotesque creatures. They and the Tuatha De Danann may becompared with the Titans and the Olynpic gods of Greece; They settled inIreland, fleeing Greece where they had been enslaved and made to carryearth in bags. They afterwards made ships out of these bags and sailed toSpain. They held Ireland after the death of Nemed until the coming of theTuatha de Danaan."
who at that point were the living in Ireland. It is thus that the Irishare known as "the Milesian race."
And thus we now come to the Pictish connection - probably more fable thantruth, but present nonetheless: One of King Milesius' sons was Heremon.He and his eldest brother, Heber reigned together in conquered Irelandand were thus the first Milesian Kings of Ireland. After Heber was slain(c. 1698 B.C.) Heremon reigned as sole King of Ireland for fourteenyears; during which time a new group of Iberian settlers arrived inIreland. These new people we called "Cruitnii" by the Irish - or the"People of the Designs," -- these people were the Picts.
Irish legend says that the Picts arrived in Ireland and requested Heremonto assign them a part of the newly-conquered country to settle in, but herefused. Since the Picts had not brought wives with them, the King gavethem as wives the widows of the Tuatha de Danaans, whose husbands hadbeen slain in battle by the Spanish, and he sent them with a large partyof his own forces to conquer the country to the East then called "Alba,"(present day Scotland) with the condition that they and their posterityshould be liege to the Kings of Ireland and that all bloodlines shouldpass through the wives.
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