In Irish mythology, Abartach or Abarta (performer of feats) was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He was also known as the Giolla Deacair (the hard servant) and was associated with Fionn mac Cumhail. The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. ... This article is about a mythical people of Ireland. ... Fionn mac Cumhail (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly Finn mac Cool) was a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man. ...

One tale has Abarta tricking a group of Fianna into mounting a magical gray horse which took them to the underworld until beng rescued by Fionn. In Irish mythology, the Fianna were Irish warriors who served the High King of Ireland in the 3rd century AD. Their adventures were recorded in the Fenian Cycle. ... In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly-dead souls go. ... Fionn mac Cumhail was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology. ...

Abarta may have been associated with a servant of Apollo, who was said to have given him a golden arrow (i.e. a sunbeam) which could teleport him, cause him invisibility and give prophecies. In later, more purely Celtic myths, the golden arrow ws changed to a magical horse. Some similarities can be noted between Abaris and Paris), who slew Achilles with an arrow and the help of Apollo (a solar deity). Abaris' murder of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne by stabbing his heel with a boar's poisonous bristles has parallels with Achilles' story. Worship Apollo is considered to have dominion over the plague, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. ... Paris (also known as Alexander), son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. ... For other uses, see Achilles (disambiguation). ... A solar deity is a deity who represents the Sun. ... In Irish mythology, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (also known as Diarmuid of the love spot) was son of Donn and a warrior of the Fianna. ... Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. ...

Etymology

This theonym appears to be derived from Proto-Celtic *Adbero-tekos. The name literally means "service-begetting," which may have been a byword for the notion of ‘task performance’ (q.v. [1], [2], [3]). The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic theonym is likely to have been *Abertecos (q.v. [4] [5] [6] [7]). In historical linguistics, etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... The word Celtic can refer to: the European Celtic people, ancient or modern the Celtic languages, spoken by these people and their modern descendents the Celtic (Lusitania), Celts from the Alentejo. ... The term Romano-British describes the Romanised culture of Britain under the rule of the Roman Empire, when Roman and Christian culture had extensively entered into the life of the native Brythonic, Pictish and perhaps Gaelic -speaking peoples of Britain. ... This article is about the meanings of the word form connected with shape or structure. ... The word Celtic can refer to: the European Celtic people, ancient or modern the Celtic languages, spoken by these people and their modern descendents the Celtic (Lusitania), Celts from the Alentejo. ...