An important and popular deity in Celticreferring to the Celts, early inhabitants of Britain whose culture survived in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany mythology, Lug (or Lugh) was a god of the sun and light known for his handsome appearance and skills in arts and crafts. A patronspecial guardian, protector, or supporter of heroes, Lug appears in many Irish and Welsh legends.

Lug was the son of Cian and the grandson of Balor, the king of the evil Formorians, a race of violent, supernaturalrelated to forces beyond the normal world; magical or miraculous beings who lived in darkness. Warned by a prophecyforetelling of what is to come; also something that is predicted...