On the question of the ethnicity of Partholón and the origin of his name (comment to the article «Partholón» in the «Etymological Dictionary of Celtic Theonyms» by V. P. Kalygin)

Настоящая статья посвящена сравнительно-сопоставительному анализупараллелей в способах верификации правды / правдивости, применявшихся в древнихобществах северных иранцев, валлийцев и ирландцев. Наряду с традиционными спосо-бами установления бытовой или профанной правды, рассматриваются запечатленныев Нартском эпосе и в валлийской и ирландской мифологии чудесные способы верифи-кации Правды высшего порядка, относящейся к самопознанию мифологического Героя,совершающего инициационный Подвиг преодоления своей хтонической природы и под-линности его Свершения. This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the parallels in the methods ofverifi cation of truth / veracity used in the ancient societies of the northern Iranians, Welsh andIrish.Along with the traditional methods of establishing everyday or profane truth, we considerthe wonderful ways of verifying the Truth of the highest order, recorded in the Nart epic and inWelsh and Irish mythology, related to the self-knowledge of the mythological Hero who performsthe initiatory Feat of overcoming his chthonic nature and the authenticity of his Accomplishment. This work is a commentary on the article «Partholón» in the Etymological Dictionaryof Celtic Theonyms» by V. P. Kalygin, in which an outstanding Soviet celtologist examines themythological image of Partholón and identifi es the problem of Partholón associated with theambiguity of ethnicity and the origin of the name of the hero of Irish and Welsh legends. Theauthor of the commentary offers a solution to the Partholón problem based on a comparativeanalysis of sources on the ancient history of the British Isles and historical data on the Cimmeriansand Scythians in the Anterior and Minor Asia in the VII-VI centuries BC. The article discusses thearguments in favor of the Cimmerian origin of Partholón and the fi rst inhabitants of the BritishIsles, and for the fi rst time a hypothesis is put forward about the Cimmerian origin of the namePartholón.