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Celtic Mythology

This category is for questions about the religion, mythology, Gods and Goddesses, and ancient wisdom of Iron Age Celts, including the Gaels, Celberians, Picts, and Brythonic tribes.

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What was the name of the Celtic god of war?

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Belatu-Cadros (Belatucadros, Belatucadrus,

Balatocadrus, Balatucadrus, Balaticaurus,

Balatucairus, Baliticaurus, Belatucairus,

Belatugagus, Belleticaurus, Blatucadrus,

and Blatucairus), a god of war

What is the inscription on Excalibur?

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I think the written words are "the person who pulled not with great strength will be bestowed as King or the land." Why because the movie sword in the stone show that hell be able to rule the weak and the illiterate.

Whoso Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Rightwise King Born of All England

What other name can Epona goddess of horses in Celtic mythology carry?

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Who was the leader Celtic god?

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The Celtics had thousands of gods. They did not write about them, only pass them on through oral traditions. One of the main sources we have was Julius Caesar, who wrote that Mercury was the most honored of the Celtic gods. The also highly valued Apollo, Mars, Jupiter, Minerva, and Brigit. However, these were not their Celtic names, but the names that Caesar equaled them to from his own religion.

Teutates is believed to have been an important war god, and human sacrifices were made to him. The people being used as offerings were drowned in vats. The names of most Celtic gods were only ever recorded once or twice ever, so most of the knowledge has been lost.

However, some Celtic gods have been brought back into popularity by neopaganist groups. Ceridwen and Cernunnos are two of these.

When did Celtic Empire start and end?

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There was never a Celtic empire. Although the peoples we describe as Celtic spread widely over Europe and the British Isles, they never had one government, but existed as a collection of warring tribes that shared similar languages and cultures. No doubt there was an early Celtic proto-culture, but never an empire.

What cultures does Celtic mythology come from?

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Celtic Mythology was developed independent and indigineous to the British Isles, though it bears some similarity with other Northern European Pantheons.

Did the Celts have shops?

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the celts never had shops they grew what they ate and they farmed animals

What do io and europa have in common?

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In Greek myth, both Io and Europa were maidens loved by Zeus, they are also related: Io being the mother of Epaphus who had with Memphis a daughter Libya who had with Poseidon: Agenor King of Phoenicia who with Telephassa or Antiope the parents of Europa.

Who are the goddesses of love and passion and beauty?

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It depends upon which ancinet religions goddess you look into; Norse it was Freyja, in Egypt it was Hathor, the Roman Venus and the Greek Aphrodite. There are many more.

What is a goat like man - Greek Sylvan deity?

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A satyr is a man with the legs of a goat and goats horns

Where did the Picts live before they lived in Scotland?

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They Came across the sea in their long canoes over 2000 years ago. They are the Mikmaq

If you take the time and look closely you will see.....:) These are my people! The Micmacs probably came across the Atlantic around 2000 BC. They had previously received an Egyptian migration in Maine around 2500 BC; the Egyptians gave them hieroglyphics, which they still have! The Micmacs probably set out to find their ancient home Egypt, and found Scotland instead. They mixed with the many peoples they found there, including ancient Capoids ("brownies"), Basque-like Ambrones from the Netherlands, Etruscan-like Attecotti from Thrace, Liguro-Lappic Fomori from Norway (Iuchurbe), who fought the Tuatha De Danaan in Ireland, and the remnants of the ancient Goidelic Celts of Britain (the Gogmagogi) who were driven north by the invading Cimbric Celts (Brythonics) when the latter invaded Britain from Bohemia. It's mind-boggling how many people the Picts really were! Now they are the Scots. When Columbus visited Ireland shortly before his voyages to America, he saw two Micmacs, a man and a woman, who had washed up on the Irish coast in a canoe; they were close to death. Columbus asked the man with sign language where he had come from; the man pointed to the West and died. Some say that this experience is what prompted Columbus to undertake his historic voyages.

How did the iron-age Celts treat ladies?

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While the Celtic societies were basically patriarchal, women of ability could do anything a man could. Women ruled, were warriors, Druids, and bards. Furthermore women ran the schools that trained the warriors.

Average women were protected by many laws and had may rights. They could divorce, own property, and were protected from abuse. They usually lived with a foster family where they were taught to do the domestic arts until they were 14. They were then married and lived with and assisted their husbands

Did the iron age Celts use seasoning?

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As the Celts spanned the majority of Western Europe before the Romans took their land and intergrated them into their empire (with varying degrees of success), they would have been aware of certain items that could be used as seasoning. Certainly they would have used salt as a preservative for meats rather than as a seasoning. When the meat was cooked after being preserved with salt, it would have tasted very salty indeed so seasonings would have been used to try and mask the taste of the salt.

Why did the picts vanish?

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the reason they.(VANISHED.)is quite simple the picts handed down power through the female side of the family and kenneth mac alpins mother was princess of picts and his father was king of dalriada scots so in time kenneth became king of both peoples so that in effect they amalgamated and the scots today are a mixture of both these people .