Editing Demigod (section)

==Celtic==

The [[Celtic religions|Celtic]] warrior [[Cú Chulainn]], a major protagonist in the Irish [[national epic]] the ''[[Táin Bo Cuailnge]]'', ranks as a [[folk hero |hero]] or as a demigod.<ref>
{{cite journal
| editor1-last          = Macbain
| editor1-first         = Alexander
| editor1-link          = Alexander Macbain
| title                 = The Celtic Magazin
| year = 1888
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=5WZJAAAAMAAJ
| publisher             = A. and W. Mackenzie
| publication-place     = Inverness
| publication-date      = 1888
| volume                = 13
| page                  = 282
| quote                 = The Irish Fraoch is a demigod, and his story presents that curious blending of the rationalised supernatural - that is , the euhemerised or minimised supernatural - with the usual incidents of a hero's life, a blending which is characteristic of Irish tales about Cuchulain and the early heroes, who, in reality, are only demigods, but who have been fondly deemed by ancient tale-tellers and modern students to have been real historical characters exaggerated into mythic proportions.
}}
</ref> He is the son of the [[Tuatha Dé Danann |Irish god]] [[Lugh]] and the mortal princess [[Deichtine]].<ref>Ward, Alan (2011). The Myths of the Gods: Structures in Irish Mythology. p.13</ref>

In the immediate pre-Roman period, the Celtic Gallaceian tribe in Portugal made powerful, large stone [[Gallaecian warrior statues |statues of deified local heroes]], which stood on hill forts in the mountainous regions of - what is today - [[Northern Portugal]] and [[Galicia (Spain)|Spanish Galicia]].[[File:MuseuNacArqu-GuerreirosLusitanos.jpg|thumb|In the 1st century CE, [[Celts]] in the north of Portugal built [[Gallaecian warrior statues|statues of deified local heroes]] which stood as guardians over hill forts.]]