Selasa, 22 Maret 2011

Ancient Celtic Myth, Magic

Ancient Celtic MythMagic

The ancient Celts were an enchanting and mysterious pre-Christian with a romantic and legendary history - a nation of heroes, wizards and fairies. Julius Caesar said the Celts (Gauls) were "brave, but headstrong and impetuous." This indomitable clans, identified by their language and culture, have migrated from Central Europe and settled much of Western Europe, Great Britain and Ireland until they are replaced by Christianity, then the Romans.

The origins of the Celts in Britain are lost in antiquity, but many scientists now believe these mysterious tribes of their first appearance in the United Kingdom around 1500-1000 BC. Their migration to Britain has been gradual for hundreds of years when they moved and decided today, we know regions, like England, Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, Brittany, the Isle of Man and Wales. The Celtic languages ​​are now divided into two camps: P-Celtic is the former British, similar to Welsh, Cornish and Breton, Gaelic is Q-Celtic, Irish, Manx and missing Celtiberian of Spain.

Celtic social structure was a mixture of religious cosmology, animism and democratic idealism with each tribe has its territory of agriculture, forests and wild lands. Other countries were common to the chief priests, the sick and worked for the poor. They were brave men and women were trained as warriors.

Celtic society in Britain a number of shrines and holy days of the earlier megalithic immortalized with the largest Celtic festival in which the four annual "Festival of Fire." Celtic beliefs were polytheists and had no less than four hundred deities. They also believed that death transmigrated souls of others, and other life forms. Later, with the advent of Christianity, Druidism not disappear, but merely transformed, and even if the historic St. Brighid converted to Christianity, kept her and her followers to kill the fire Dare.

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