Cu Chulainn

(Death's Harbinger, C.nick Arach, 2012)

This is a depiction of the death of the Irish hero Cù Chulainn, Cù Chulainn was a feroucious fighter so much so that no one believed him dead until a raven appeared. Cù Chulainn's name comes from an incident in his youth when he killed a gaurd dog belonging to Culann, to make up for the death the then Sétanta changed his name and became the hound (Cù) of Culann gaurding Culann's house until a replacement could be trained. Because of that name sake Cù Chulainn has a geas (a taboo) placed on him forbidding him from eating dog meat, it is the breaking of this geis that marks the beginning of Cù Chulainn's death.

 C.nick Arach