Cult Accessories CT054
Celtic Tomes
This chapter covers Temples, Altars, Images, Symbols, and the Cult of Weapons of the Ancient Celts.
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Festivals CT053
Celtic Tomes
The Celtic year was not at first regulated by the solstices and equinoxes, but by some method connected with agriculture or with the seasons.
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Tabu CT052
Celtic Tomes
The Irish geis, pl. geasa, which may be rendered by Tabu, had two senses. It meant something which must not be done for fear of disastrous consequences, and also an obligation to do something commanded by another.
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Sacrifice and Prayer CT051
Celtic Tomes
The Celts offered human victims on the principle of a life for a life, or to propitiate the gods, or in order to divine the future from the entrails of the victim. We shall examine the Celtic custom of human sacrifice from these points of view first.
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Cosmogony CT050
Celtic Tomes
The Celts may have possessed the Heaven and Earth myth, but all trace of it has perished. There are, however, remnants of myths showing how the sky is supported by trees, a mountain, or by pillars.
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Animal Worship CT049
Celtic Tomes
Animal worship pure and simple had declined among the Celts of historic times, and animals were now regarded mainly as symbols or attributes of divinities.
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Tree and Plant Worship CT048
Celtic Tomes
The Celts had their own cult of trees, but they adopted local cults. This chapter also details how the Celts made their sacred places in dark groves, the trees being hung with offerings or with the heads of victims.
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River and Well Worship CT047
Celtic Tomes
Among the Celts the testimony of contemporary witnesses, inscriptions, votive offerings, and survivals, shows the importance of the cult of waters and of water divinities. This chapter also details the many fairies and folklore creatures associated with water.
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Primitive Nature Worship CT046
Celtic Tomes
McCulloch talks about animism, where everything was a person and the greater objects of nature were worshiped for themselves alone.
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The Cult of the Dead CT045
Celtic Tomes
The custom of burying grave-goods with the dead and other grave customs is the subject of this chapter. McCulloch also talks about the role of fairies and the festival of Samhain.
info_outlineThe Religion of the Ancient Celts (1911)
Chapter 3: The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts
by
J. A. MacCulloch
A discussion of the innumerable Gods of Gaul and the influence of the Roman gods on the continental deities.
Names Used in this Section
Apollo
Juppiter
Minerva
Dispater
Jupiter Taranis
Apollo Grannus
Augustus
Lares
Belenos Augustus
Holder's Altceltischer Sprachschatz
Anwyl
Allobrogi
Pliny
Arverni
Puy de Dôme
Artaios
Mercurius Cultor at Wurtemberg
Moccus
Cimiacinus
Ogmíos
Lucian
Dumias
Borvo, Bormo, or Bormanus
Ausonius
Belinuntia
Maponos
Bonus Puer
Mogons or Mogounos
Diodorus
Boreads
Caturix
Belatu-Cadros
Albiorix
Rigisamus
Toutatis, Totatis, and Tutatis
Seckau, York, and Old Carlisle
Professor Rhŷs
Taranis
Neton
Camulos
Cumal
Fionn
Braciaca
Cernunnos
Esus or Silvanus
Taranoos and Taranucnos
Sucellos
Kulhwych
Mycenæans
Neter
Alexandrian Serapis
Nantosvelta
M. D'Arbois
Balor
Autun
Vandoeuvres
Reims
Saintes
Beaune
Dennevy
Malmaison
M. Mowat
Bran
Janus
Smertullos
Silvanus
Salzbach
Aeracura
Ober-Seebach
Tarvos Trigaranos
M. Reinach
Cúchulainn
garanus
trikeras
trikarenos
Esugenos
Poeninus
Vosges mountains, Vosegus
Dii Casses
Cassiterides
Dea Bibracte, Nemausus, and Vasio
Bibracte, Nimes, and Vaison
Belisama
Nemetona
Cathubodua, Badb-catha
Andrasta
Andarta of the Voconces
Boudicca
Bellona of the Scordisci
Camma
Cæsarius of Arles
Stanna
Perigueux
Vesunna and Aventia, Vesona and Avanche
Seine, Sequana
Bormo, Bormana, Damona
Dea Brixia was the consort of Luxovius, Luxeuil
Clota, Clyde
Sabrina, Severn
Icauna was goddess of the Yonne
Sinnan of the Shannon
Deoe Matres
Berecynthia
Hathors in Egypt, the Moirai, Gorgons, and Graiæ of Greece, the Roman Fates, and the Norse Nornæ
Juno with Clivana
Religion of the Ancient Celts can be found on Sacred Texts.
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