# Stories * tain bo cuailnge (the cattle raid of Cooley) * set in the ulster cycle * set in 1st century in a pagan heroic age * often considered Irelands national epic- sometimes compared to the Iliad * Lebor Gabala Erenn (the book of invasions, or the book of the taking of ireland) * christian stories merging with irish ones, in an attempt to reconsile irish lore with catholic lore * made up of poems and prose * lists 6 invasions of ireland * the people of Cessiar * the people of Partholon * the people of Nemed * the Fir Bolg * the Tuatha De Dannan * the Milesians * has some potentially original irish stories * origin myth for the tuatha de dannan * the story is inconsistent and heavily changed by catholic writers * a group of warriors(?) flee from some land overseas * the group, in their ships, are enveloped in mist as they approach ireland. catholic stories often list this as god trying to slow them down, but some sources suggest the mist was actually a protection from the goddess danu * danu takes them in as her own, forming the tuatha de dannan (the clan or tribe of danu) and ireland becomes their home. in some stories she is the one to give them their powers and make them gods --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://kb.heathen.group/old-kb/codex/irish/research/wip/stories.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.