Irish · Mythic/divine figure - deity status uncertain · Certain
Elatha
Elatha mac Delbaith is the specifically Irish Fomorian king and father of Bres. Cath Maige Tuired gives unusually precise living-human iconography: golden-yellow shoulder-length hair, gold-worked garments, five neck circlets, and two silver-headed bronze-shafted spears.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
No direct correspondence has sufficient reviewed evidence here yet.
Archive scope and classification
- Figure classification
- Mythic/divine figure - deity status uncertain · ambiguous
- Pantheon or tradition shelf
- Irish
- Cultures
- Irish
- Traditions
- Pre-Christian Irish religion
- Periods
- Unspecified
- Places
- Unspecified
Identity and a conservative image prompt are grounded in accession-level historical comparanda; textual, cultic, and relational extraction remains incomplete.