The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

Chapter Twenty-Three - goddess Brigid, who was adored by poets, smiths and medical practitioners and who is clearly the goddes ...

Ritual and the Druids - tells us that the druids used to bring the cattle as a safeguard against the diseases of each year to ...

Chapter Twenty-Three - were already in the habit of uniting the two offices of priest and king. The festival may have been hel ...

Ritual and the Druids - 'heathenish practices' is contained in the Dingwall Presbytery Records of 6 August 1778 (Mitchell 1862 ...

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Ritual and the Druids - 200 ft (6I m), at the Romano-British shrine at Muntham Court, Sussex, contained a great many dog skele ...

Chapter Twenty-Three - specialist in religious beliefs and practices supervising the building of the Navan ritual construct .. ...

Ritual and the Druids - Bromwich, R. and Williams, Sir Ivor (1972) Armes Prydein, Dublin: Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies ...

Chapter Twenty-Three - Etudes Celtiques 27: 221-34. Stead, I. (1979) The Arras Culture, York. Stokes, W. (1887) The Tripartite ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR SANCTUARIES AND SACRED PLACES --..... -- Jane Webster A belief that Celtic rituals were centred on atectonic ...

Chapter Twenty-Four - Not surprisingly, most classical accounts of Celtic cult sites employ Greek or Roman vocabulary. Equally ...

Sanctuaries and Sacred Places - Table 24.1 Classical references employing standard vocabulary Author Reference Location Vocabu ...

Chapter Twenty-Four - A 'NATURAL' RELIGION? 'Natural' loci such as woods, groves and trees are often advanced as Celtic cult l ...

Sanctuaries and Sacred PLaces - Goudineau's suggestion that this nemeton was a grove is unlikely, and the context suggests a s ...

Chapter Twenty-Four - AD (Deyts 1983; Webster 1991: 200-9). The recently excavated examples from Montlay-en-Auxois (Cote d'Or) ...

Sanctuaries and Sacred Places - Islands There is some evidence that islands were favoured as cult sites by Atlantic Celtic peo ...

Chapter Twenty-Four - corpus as the result of an over-reliance on accounts of water worship in the medieval Irish literary sou ...

Sanctuaries and Sacred Places - ENCLOSURES AND THEIR RELATED STRUCTURES Until recently, it was thought that prior to the secon ...

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Sanctuaries and Sacred Places - Belgic sanctuaries In the last decade, a series of excavations in the territory of the Bellovaci ...