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...
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Animism (from Latin: anima meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence...
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religion Phrygian religion Proto-Celtic paganism Ancient Celtic religion Breton paganism Cantabrian paganism Celtic Animism Cornish paganism Irish paganism...
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Ancient Celtic religion, and other Celtic head figurines have also been found (often near water which also held significance in Celtic animism). While...
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Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples. Like other Iron Age Europeans, Celtic peoples followed a polytheistic religion,...
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The Celtic deities are known from a variety of sources such as written Celtic mythology, ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, religious objects...
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Cailleach (category Celtic goddesses)
the Snow Queen. Baba Yaga Banshee Bodach Carlin stone Carrauntoohil Celtic animism Cyhyraeth Imbolc Labbacallee wedge tomb Sheela na Gig Slieve Gullion...
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Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because there are no extant native...
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Samhain (redirect from Celtic new year)
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...
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yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese traditional medicine, Hermeticism, Celtic animism, Gnosticism, cabala, geomancy, ley lines, Pythagoreanism, and ancient...
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evolutionary stages in a culture's development. He also coined the term animism. Tylor disagreed with Herbert Spencer, another founder of anthropology...
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Druid (redirect from Druidess (Celtic mythology))
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...
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setting of the sun, and the north star. The Gauls practiced a form of animism, ascribing human characteristics to lakes, streams, mountains, and other...
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Christo-Paganism (redirect from Christian animism)
978-0738731650. Wallace, Mark I. (2019). When God was a bird: Christianity, animism, and the re-enchantment of the world. Groundworks: ecological issues in...
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List of nature deities (section Celtic mythology)
or volcanoes. Accepted in panentheism, pantheism, deism, polytheism, animism, totemism, shamanism, and paganism, the nature deity can embody a number...
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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...
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Modern paganism (section Animism and pantheism)
various religions and philosophies with historical paganism. Polytheism, animism, and pantheism are common features across pagan theology. Modern pagans...
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fragmentary pre-Christian Celtic mythology, or in terms of international folklore. There are certainly components of pre-Christian Celtic mythology and folklore;...
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Religion in ancient Rome Sámi shamanism Slavic paganism Thracian religion Animism Crypto-paganism Dayawism Dharmic religions East Asian religions Eleusinian...
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Bard (category Articles containing Proto-Celtic-language text)
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a...
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Bánánach (category Celtic mythology stubs)
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 32: 229-256. MacKillop, James (January 2004). "Bánánach". A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford...
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Maponos (category Celtic gods)
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...
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Lughnasadh (section Celtic Reconstructionist)
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...
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Part of a series on Celtic mythologies Religion (Proto) Deities (list) Animism Gaelic Irish Scottish Brythonic Welsh Breton Cornish Literary works Mythological...
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Vates (category Articles with text in Celtic languages)
used as technical terms for ancient Celtic bards, prophets and philosophers. The terms correspond to a Proto-Celtic word which can be reconstructed as...
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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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Sacred tree (section Celtic)
others. Tree worship is core part of religions which include aspects of animism as core elements of their belief, which is the eco-friendly belief that...
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Irish mythology (category Celtic mythology)
Christianised the myths. Irish mythology is the best-preserved branch of Celtic mythology. The myths are conventionally grouped into 'cycles'. The Mythological...
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("three gods of craft"). Several of the Tuath Dé are cognate with ancient Celtic deities: Lugh with Lugus, Brigit with Brigantia, Nuada with Nodons, Ogma...
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Wheel of the Year (section Celtic)
(solstices and equinoxes), while Insular Celtic peoples marked the four midpoints between them. The four Celtic festivals were known to the Gaels as Beltane...
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