Manannan mac Lir

Manannan mac Lir Europe
The eponymous hero of the Manxmen. He was their first king and a great magician or medicine-man. Inis Manann, the Isle of Man, may have been an early centre for trade. Manannan was ‘son of the Sea’, mac Lir, the most renowned pilot in the west of Europe, and the trader who gave to King Cormac of Ireland the magic cup and branch. A sea god, Manannan appears in Irish and Welsh stories along with other wizards or magician kings.