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J. A. MacCulloch. The Religion of the Ancient Celts
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES THROUGHOUT THIS WORK
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II
THE CELTIC PEOPLE
CHAPTER III
THE GODS OF GAUL AND THE CONTINENTAL CELTS
CHAPTER IV
THE IRISH MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE
CHAPTER V
THE TUATHA DÉ DANANN
CHAPTER VI
THE GODS OF THE BRYTHONS
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DIVINITIES WITH SIMILAR NAMES IN IRELAND, BRITAIN, AND GAUL
CHAPTER VII
THE CÚCHULAINN CYCLE
CHAPTER VIII
THE FIONN SAGA
CHAPTER IX
GODS AND MEN
CHAPTER X
THE CULT OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER XI
PRIMITIVE NATURE WORSHIP
CHAPTER XII
RIVER AND WELL WORSHIP
CHAPTER XIII
TREE AND PLANT WORSHIP
CHAPTER XIV
ANIMAL WORSHIP
1
2
3
CHAPTER XV
COSMOGONY
CHAPTER XVI
SACRIFICE, PRAYER, AND DIVINATION
PRAYER
DIVINATION
CHAPTER XVII
TABU
CHAPTER XVIII
FESTIVALS
SAMHAIN
BELTANE
MIDSUMMER
LUGNASAD
CHAPTER XIX
ACCESSORIES OF CULT
TEMPLES
ALTARS
IMAGES
SYMBOLS
CULT OF WEAPONS
CHAPTER XX
THE DRUIDS
CHAPTER XXI
MAGIC
CHAPTER XXII
THE STATE OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXIII
REBIRTH AND TRANSMIGRATION
CHAPTER XXIV
ELYSIUM
INDEX
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J. A. MacCulloch
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Scrutiny reveals the fact that Celtic-speaking peoples are of differing types—short and dark as well as tall and fairer Highlanders or Welshmen, short, broad-headed Bretons, various types of Irishmen. Men with Norse names and Norse aspect "have the Gaelic." But all alike have the same character and temperament, a striking witness to the influence which the character as well as the language of the Celts, whoever they were, made on all with whom they mingled. Ethnologically there may not be a Celtic race, but something was handed down from the days of comparative Celtic purity which welded different social elements into a common type, found often where no Celtic tongue is now spoken. It emerges where we least expect it, and the stolid Anglo-Saxon may suddenly awaken to something in himself due to a forgotten Celtic strain in his ancestry.
