Celtic Mythology

Celtic Mythology The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people ..'.even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.' This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well - for it is a complicated history with the earliest written records destroyed by the marauding Vikings. Inside you will read about... - The Arrival of the Tuatha d Danann - Hibernia - The Main Gods of the Celtic Pantheon - Celtic Life and Rituals - Sources of Celtic Mythology - The Effect of Christianity and Beliefs and Superstitions The oral tradition harks back to 4000BCE and is a compilation of myths and cultures of many different peoples including the Indo-Iranians, Slavs, Greeks, Germans, Austrians and finally, the Gauls, who washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle. Whatever aspect of this rich, mystical and lavishly embellished