ancient Celtic society was predominantly rural. The close link with the natural world is reflected in what we know of the religious systems of Celtic Europe...

Animism (from Latin: anima meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence...

religion Phrygian religion Proto-Celtic paganism Ancient Celtic religion Breton paganism Cantabrian paganism Celtic Animism Cornish paganism Irish paganism...

Ancient Celtic religion, and other Celtic head figurines have also been found (often near water which also held significance in Celtic animism). While...

The Celtic deities are known from a variety of sources such as written Celtic mythology, ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, religious objects...

Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples. Like other Iron Age Europeans, Celtic peoples followed a polytheistic religion,...

similar festival is held by the Brittonic Celtic people, called Calan Gaeaf in Wales. Samhain is believed to have Celtic pagan origins, and some Neolithic passage...

the Snow Queen. Baba Yaga Banshee Bodach Carlin stone Carrauntoohil Celtic animism Cyhyraeth Imbolc Labbacallee wedge tomb Sheela na Gig Slieve Gullion...

Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because there are no extant native...

yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese traditional medicine, Hermeticism, Celtic animism, Gnosticism, cabala, geomancy, ley lines, Pythagoreanism, and ancient...

A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators...

evolutionary stages in a culture's development. He also coined the term animism. Tylor disagreed with Herbert Spencer, another founder of anthropology...

978-0738731650. Wallace, Mark I. (2019). When God was a bird: Christianity, animism, and the re-enchantment of the world. Groundworks: ecological issues in...

new moon at the end of the tenth lunar month. It has many features of animism, attributing souls or spirits to animals, plants and other entities. Sat...

Celtic Wicca is a modern form of Wicca that incorporates some elements of Celtic mythology. It employs the same basic theology, rituals and beliefs as...

setting of the sun, and the north star. The Gauls practiced a form of animism, ascribing human characteristics to lakes, streams, mountains, and other...

fragmentary pre-Christian Celtic mythology, or in terms of international folklore. There are certainly components of pre-Christian Celtic mythology and folklore;...

various religions and philosophies with historical paganism. Polytheism, animism, and pantheism are common features across pagan theology. Modern pagans...

or volcanoes. Accepted in panentheism, pantheism, deism, polytheism, animism, totemism, shamanism, and paganism, the nature deity can embody a number...

Religion in ancient Rome Sámi shamanism Slavic paganism Thracian religion Animism Crypto-paganism Dayawism Dharmic religions East Asian religions Eleusinian...

used as technical terms for ancient Celtic bards, prophets and philosophers. The terms correspond to a Proto-Celtic word which can be reconstructed as...

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 32: 229-256. MacKillop, James (January 2004). "Bánánach". A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford...

In ancient Celtic religion, Maponos or Maponus ("Great Son") is a god of youth known mainly in northern Britain but also in Gaul. In Roman Britain, he...

others. Tree worship is core part of religions which include aspects of animism as core elements of their belief, which is the belief that trees, forests...

(solstices and equinoxes), while Insular Celtic peoples marked the four midpoints between them. The four Celtic festivals were known to the Gaels as Beltane...

Gaeilge–Béarla. Retrieved 1 December 2015. M. Whittock, A brief guide to Celtic myths and legends, Constable & Robinson Ltd, London, UK, 2013. Kuno Meyer...

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Cormac's Adventure in the Land of Promise, it represents entry into the Celtic Otherworld or Tír na nÓg. In Imram Brain ("Voyage of Bran"), the silver...

survivors of Lughnasadh, such as the Puck Fair. Since the late 20th century, Celtic neopagans have observed Lughnasadh, or something based on it, as a religious...

wanderer"; Elbereth, the Elves' "Queen of the Stars", associated with Venus; animism, the way that the natural world seems to be alive; and a Beowulf-like "northern...