Talk:The Red Ettin

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Dear god, can someone who knows the story make it a bit easier to read? It doesn't make much sense as is. Little jumbled in parts.

Three heads[edit]

A three headed god, I read, appears Indo-European beliefs. Hercules defeats the three headed Celtic giant of Geryon in his tweleve labors. A Gaullish statue of Mercury has three heads/faces. So is Red Etin a rememberance of Mercury/Lugh? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.196.44.146 (talk) 01:54, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Geryon has nothing to do with Celts and is just a character of Greek myth, probably not really even based on anything real. His home MIGHT be Spain, but Spain in that period wasn't mostly filled with Celts other than the North; the Celtic Lusitanians would eventual border the Tartessians, though. He is more connected with the Tartessian area of Iberia and, though some Celtic etymologies have been proposed for their personal names, the Tartessians were VERY unlikely to be Celtic and might not have been Indo-Europeans. The Red Ettin might be inspired by Geryon, as Herakles was known to medieval and early modern people, but he might not be related. An influence from a Gallish statue is less likely. - The Mummy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.73.104 (talk) 11:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]