Editing Lugh (section)

==Comparative mythology==
Lugh has been connected with the pan-[[Celt]]ic god [[Lugus]]. Through Lugus, [[John Rhys]] has argued Lugh is cognate with the [[Welsh mythological]] figure [[Lleu Llaw Gyffes]].<ref name="ohogain">Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí. ''Myth, Legend & Romance: An encyclopaedia of the Irish folk tradition''. Prentice Hall Press, 1991. pp.273-276</ref><ref name=Hutton>Hutton, Ronald (2011). "Medieval Welsh Literature and Pre-Christian Deities". ''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies''. 61: 57–85.</ref> Sometimes Lugh is interpreted as a [[storm god]]<ref>Ward, Alan (2011). ''The Myths of the Gods: Structures in Irish Mythology''. p.13</ref> and, less often today, as a [[sun god]].<ref name=monaghan/> Thus, equating Lugh with the Roman gods [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] or [[Sol (Roman mythology)|Sol]], respectively. Others have noted a similarity in Lugh's slaying of [[Balor]] to the slaying of [[Baldr]] by [[Loki]].<ref name="dolmens">{{cite book |last1=Borlase |first1=William Copeland |title=The Dolmens of Ireland |date=1897 |publisher=Chapman and Hall |location=Indiana University |pages=796, 802, 806, 813 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA802 |access-date=6 August 2019 |archive-date=16 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916221136/https://books.google.com/books?id=wvJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA802#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Lugh's mastery of all arts led [[Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville]] to link Lugus with the unnamed Gaulish god whom [[Julius Caesar]] identifies with [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] and describes as the "inventor of all the arts".<ref>[[Julius Caesar]], ''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Caes.+Gal.+6.17 6:17] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916221145/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Caes.+Gal.+6.17&redirect=true |date=16 September 2024 }}</ref><ref name=Hutton/>

St. Mologa has been theorized to be a Christian continuation of the god Lugh.<ref name=dolmens />