Lugh - The Many-Skilled
The god of light, skill, and craft who excels in every art and leads the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Lugh Lámfada (of the Long Arm) is master of every skill - warrior, poet, smith, musician, healer, and more. At Lughnasadh, his festival honors his foster mother's sacrifice. Lugh represents the ideal of excellence in all pursuits and the victory of skill over brute force.
In every craft I am a master, for to know one thing truly is to know all things.
Lugh represents the Celtic ideal of mastering multiple skills to achieve true excellence.
Battle of Moytura
Written about in
- What Celtic tradition says about envy and comparison
At the gate of Tara, Lugh named one skill after another and the doorkeeper answered each time that Tara already had such a man. He was let in only when he asked whether they had one man who held them all. Excellence here is assembly, which is a comparison you can only lose against yourself.