Dian Cécht

Physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who fashioned Nuada's silver arm and healed the wounded at Mag Tuired.

Children

• Airmed
• Cian
• Miach

Domains

• healing medicine

Powers

• Restore the slain through the healing well
• fashions a working silver arm for the maimed King Nuada
• raises the slain whole again through the Well of Sláine

Epithets

• Dían Cécht old-irish · Dían Cécht'swift in power/quick-payment', physician of the Túatha DéCath Maige Tuired §§33-35 (Gray ed.) (primary)
• líaig Old Irish · liaig · titlethe Leech / Physician (of the Tuath Dé)Cath Maige Tuired (primary)

Relations

• ancestor of: LughDian Cécht's son Cian (not in registry) fathered Lug on Ethniu, daughter of Balor; Dian Cécht is thus Lugh's paternal grandfather. Relation, not parentId, since Cian is the intervening generation.Cath Maige Tuired §8; Lebor Gabála Érenn §59 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Cath Maige Tuired; Lebor Gabála Érenn (primary)