The assignment is, organize aren't a range of idiosyncratically Scottish deities to undertake from.
Up-to-the-minute Scotland is an blend of the ancient Picts who lived north of the Firth and Clyde rivers, the Brythonic human resources and besides some Irish settlers who brought with them their Gaelic culture and mythology. Utterly petite is know about Pictish gods and goddesses, and it is brutal to request which Brythonic and Gaelic deities were exclusive to the area now called Scotland and which were worshipped elsewhere in England, Ireland and Wales.
So, I carry lasting for MacKay, a kind from Scottish tradition who is mistrust to include aspects of an historical fire god, as my God of the Week.
The buzz goes that MacKay, chief of Race MacKay, was difficult to start a fire one dark and miserable night so that his clique may well cook their fuel. Glimpsing the lights of faeryfolk dancing in hills, he decisive to restrain one of the minute sparks so he would never another time give it a go against the twirl and the rain to get a fire leave-taking. It took him a range of a yearning day and night, but in the end he was thriving.
At a halt, on one occasion the fairies realised what had been stolen, they were so seething they vowed to annoy the human race for all time with their hard to pin down lights, but never another time be fixed. That is one origin of the consider of faery fires that flatter men inside the hills and glens, then lead them mislaid, lost for all time, never to get stern to what they make inquiries.
The catchword of Race MacKay is Sons of Burst into flames, and that is besides acknowledged to be a restatement of the ancient name's meaning.
If you are celebrating Burns Evening with a traditional haggis, neaps and tatties, I objective your cuisine fire lights quickly and you don't carry to route to the sad antics of old MacKay.
Links
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/01/burns-night.html
http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/scotland/welcome.php?
http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deities.html
http://mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=189601
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan MacKay
http://www.magickaschool.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9967&sid=4076614723d6355c4e757daa48b47d38
