The Gods of the Celts
by Miranda Green
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This is a fascinating book about the Celts and their religion, which covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customers, cult-objects and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoples. The first chapter introduces the Celts and the evidence they have left behind, and places them in their geographical and chronological context. The following chapters cover the various cults of the sun and the sky, the mother-godesses and fertility, war, death and the underworld, water gods and healers, animals show more and animism, and symbolism and imagery. This is a rewarding overview of the evidence for Celtic relig show lessTags
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Miranda J. Green is Professor of Archaeology and Head of Research in the School of Humanities at the University of Wales, Newport, and President of the Prehistoric Society
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- Original title
- Gods of the Celts
- Original publication date
- 1986
- Dedication
- For Stephen:
to remind him of chthonic monsters, ram-horned snakes and famous pigs. - First words
- Prologue:
The Celts had no tradition of written records and therefore cannot identify themselves to us directly.
The nature of our information about the Celts and their religion comes from a number of different sources, all of which have to be treated with a degree of caution, for reasons that will become apparent. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Whilst it is only in the Roman period that we can name and classify deities, there existed before that time a physically-expressed and complicated series of religious rituals which argue for the Celts' possession of a deep sense of the natural world and a deliberate desire to come to terms with the vagaries and capricious elements of the supernatural
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Religion & Spirituality, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 299.16 — Religion Other religions Shintoism/Taoism/Other Mythologies Indo-European Celtic, Druid
- LCC
- BL900 .G74 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism History and principles of religions European. Occidental Other European
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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