The scientific study of ancient Celtic religion is a thing of recent growth. As a result of the paucity of materials for such a study, earlier writers indulged in the wildest speculative flights and connected the religion with the distant East, or saw in it the remains of a monotheistic faith or a series of esoteric doctrines veiled under polytheistic cults. With the works of MM. Gaidoz, Bertrand, and D'Arbois de Jubainville in France, as well as by the publication of Irish texts by such scholars as Drs. Windisch and Stokes, a new era may be said to have dawned, and a flood of light was poured upon the scanty remains of Celtic religion.
CONTENTS:
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE CELTIC PEOPLE
III. THE GODS OF GAUL AND THE CONTINENTAL CELTS
IV. THE IRISH MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE
V. THE TUATHA DÉ DANANN
VI. THE GODS OF THE BRYTHONS
VII. THE CÚCHULAINN CYCLE
VIII. THE FIONN SAGA
IX. GODS AND MEN
X. THE CULT OF THE DEAD
XI. PRIMITIVE NATURE WORSHIP
XII. RIVER AND WELL WORSHIP
XIII. TREE AND PLANT WORSHIP
XIV. ANIMAL WORSHIP
XV. COSMOGONY
XVI. SACRIFICE, PRAYER, AND DIVINATION
XVII. TABU
XVIII. FESTIVALS
XIX. ACCESSORIES OF CULT
XX. THE DRUIDS
XXI. MAGIC
XXII. THE STATE OF THE DEAD
XXIII. REBIRTH AND TRANSMIGRATION
XXIV. ELYSIUM
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CONTENTS:
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE CELTIC PEOPLE
III. THE GODS OF GAUL AND THE CONTINENTAL CELTS
IV. THE IRISH MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE
V. THE TUATHA DÉ DANANN
VI. THE GODS OF THE BRYTHONS
VII. THE CÚCHULAINN CYCLE
VIII. THE FIONN SAGA
IX. GODS AND MEN
X. THE CULT OF THE DEAD
XI. PRIMITIVE NATURE WORSHIP
XII. RIVER AND WELL WORSHIP
XIII. TREE AND PLANT WORSHIP
XIV. ANIMAL WORSHIP
XV. COSMOGONY
XVI. SACRIFICE, PRAYER, AND DIVINATION
XVII. TABU
XVIII. FESTIVALS
XIX. ACCESSORIES OF CULT
XX. THE DRUIDS
XXI. MAGIC
XXII. THE STATE OF THE DEAD
XXIII. REBIRTH AND TRANSMIGRATION
XXIV. ELYSIUM
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
The scientific study of ancient Celtic religion is a thing of recent growth. As a result of the paucity of materials for such a study, earlier writers indulged in the wildest speculative flights and connected the religion with the distant East, or saw in it the remains of a monotheistic faith or a series of esoteric doctrines veiled under polytheistic cults. With the works of MM. Gaidoz, Bertrand, and D'Arbois de Jubainville in France, as well as by the publication of Irish texts by such scholars as Drs. Windisch and Stokes, a new era may be said to have dawned, and a flood of light was poured upon the scanty remains of Celtic religion.
CONTENTS:
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE CELTIC PEOPLE
III. THE GODS OF GAUL AND THE CONTINENTAL CELTS
IV. THE IRISH MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE
V. THE TUATHA DÉ DANANN
VI. THE GODS OF THE BRYTHONS
VII. THE CÚCHULAINN CYCLE
VIII. THE FIONN SAGA
IX. GODS AND MEN
X. THE CULT OF THE DEAD
XI. PRIMITIVE NATURE WORSHIP
XII. RIVER AND WELL WORSHIP
XIII. TREE AND PLANT WORSHIP
XIV. ANIMAL WORSHIP
XV. COSMOGONY
XVI. SACRIFICE, PRAYER, AND DIVINATION
XVII. TABU
XVIII. FESTIVALS
XIX. ACCESSORIES OF CULT
XX. THE DRUIDS
XXI. MAGIC
XXII. THE STATE OF THE DEAD
XXIII. REBIRTH AND TRANSMIGRATION
XXIV. ELYSIUM
CONTENTS:
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. THE CELTIC PEOPLE
III. THE GODS OF GAUL AND THE CONTINENTAL CELTS
IV. THE IRISH MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE
V. THE TUATHA DÉ DANANN
VI. THE GODS OF THE BRYTHONS
VII. THE CÚCHULAINN CYCLE
VIII. THE FIONN SAGA
IX. GODS AND MEN
X. THE CULT OF THE DEAD
XI. PRIMITIVE NATURE WORSHIP
XII. RIVER AND WELL WORSHIP
XIII. TREE AND PLANT WORSHIP
XIV. ANIMAL WORSHIP
XV. COSMOGONY
XVI. SACRIFICE, PRAYER, AND DIVINATION
XVII. TABU
XVIII. FESTIVALS
XIX. ACCESSORIES OF CULT
XX. THE DRUIDS
XXI. MAGIC
XXII. THE STATE OF THE DEAD
XXIII. REBIRTH AND TRANSMIGRATION
XXIV. ELYSIUM
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| BN ID: | 2940016470191 |
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| Publisher: | Unforgotten Classics |
| Publication date: | 05/20/2013 |
| Series: | Unforgotten Classics , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 594 KB |
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