Book description
This is a fascinating book about the Celts and their religion,
which covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customers, cult-objects
and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoples. The first chapter
introduces the Celts and the evidence they have left behind, and
places them in their geographical and chronological context. The
following chapters cover the various cults of the sun and the sky, the
mother-godesses and fertility, war, death and the underworld, water
gods and healers, animals and animism, and symbolism and imagery. This
is a rewarding overview of the evidence for Celtic religions, beliefs
and practices which uses modern scholarship to bring an obscure, but
captivating part of European history to life. It covers 500 BC to AD
400, and embraces the whole of the Celtic world from Ireland to Australia.
