Ullr and Bres: Identifying The Germanic and Irish Sun Gods The recognition of Bres as occupying the position of Sun God in the Irish mythology (in part 6, "Paris," of our previous article: https://taliesinsmap.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-heroes-of-iliad-as-indo-european.html ) opens up a further layer of comparison to the Norse figure known as Ullr. In his Mitra-Varuna , Georges Dumezil points out that Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum contains an account of a sequence of rulers which match very closely the pattern we also find in Irish mythology. Despite recognizing this parallel, Dumezil was operating under a false understanding of Irish Nuada as a Mitraic god (an understanding which he recognized later in his career as erroneous) which prevented him from accurately uncovering the significance of this parallel. If we recall the Irish sequence of divine rulers found in the Battle of Magh Tuireadh narrative, first is the king Nuada, who rules from th...