1. The Sacred Fire - Celtic Mythology Short overview of four twelfth century cycles of traditional myths and legends, with a list of chief and minor tales. http://www.geocities.com/~huathe/mythology.html

Celtic Mythology The Mythological Cycles Ancient Irish history and legends have come down to us through history thanks to the diligent chronicling of the early Christian monks. The best record of the rich Celtic mythological tradition is contained in the four cycles drawn up by twelfth century Christian scribes: the Mythological Cycle , the Ulster Cycle (also known as the Red Branch Cycle) and the Fenian or Fianna Cycle , and the Kings, or Historical Cycle. Irish myths were probably recorded in the eighth century or earlier, possibly written by the Druids in Ogham . There are few surviving examples of Ogham because this writing was primarily done on bark, or or wands of hazel and aspen. However the legends of the early Celtic people were also passed down through the tradition of storytelling, and it was from this source that the Monks gathered their colorful tales. The early medieval monks rewrote the oral stories in a style that was designed to be read aloud to noble or royal households. When they set themselves the task of constructing a pseudo-history of Ireland, they also recast the ancient myths and legends into a Christian mold. In doing so, they demoted the old gods to mortals, and rewrote the sagas into an almost indecipherable maze of conflicting events.

2. Mythography | Exploring Greek, Roman, And Celtic Mythology And Art Exploration of Greek, Roman, and celtic mythology and art. http://www.loggia.com/myth/myth.html

E xplore mythology and art with information about the classic stories of heroes and gods...from the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, to the legends of the Celts. Mythography also presents resources and reference materials about mythology - including recommended books, and lexicons that explain Greek, Roman, and Celtic terms and words. Share your views about mythology on the message forum! Search Mythography For best results, use lower case queries in Altavista's syntax... search help! Home About Mythography Site Map ... Contact Us! No part of this website, including text and images, may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means without the express prior written permission of Loggia.com.

3. Celtic Mythology Considers the animistic, totemistic and anthropomorphic aspects of native Celtic religious expression. http://www.celtic-myth.com

Celtic Mythology Introduction What we know about Celtic Mythology is largely gleaned from the books and manuscripts of medieval Ireland and Wales. These literary sources can be supplemented by the iconographic and archeological record from the pre-Christian Iron Age Celtic world itself, alongside external observations about the Celtic peoples and their druidic religion by contemporary witnesses such as Posidonious, Plutarch and Julius Caesar. From these diverse sources we can develop a fascinating picture of a magico-religious system which in some ways parallels practices and beliefs evident from elsewhere in the Indo-European world in the last millenium before Christ. In other respects however, it is also possible to discern within this tradition an unusually sophisticated aesthetic and metaphysical conception which possibly owes something to the more indigenous elements of the prehistoric West - including the megalithic cultures of the Late Stone Age and Early Bronze Age background (3500 -1500 BC). The Celtic mythological universe is essentially animistic , in which the tutelary goddess , representing the life and fertility of the kingdom occupied a significant position. The

4. Timeless Myths: Celtic Mythology Guide to ancient and medieval celtic mythology from Ireland, Wales and Brittany. http://www.timelessmyths.com/celtic/

"O Lady of the Fair Hair, Sing to me of the fair ancient land. Yours divine voice Whispers the poetry of magic that flow through the wind, Like sweet-tasting water of the Boyne. "Girls, forever young and beautiful, Dancing around the broken dun, Where long forgotten heroes sang of victory And drank ales to old memories. "Sing to me one last time, Goddess of the Fair Hair, Before my old ear fail me. Let me see you dance, Before your beauty fade away from my failing sight." Song to the Lady of the Fair Hair from the Book of Heroes We now leave the mild climate of the ancient Aegean, and the cold, forbidding regions of the North. Here, we enter the lush, green land, shrouded in mists of magic and wonders. The land is young yet ancient; beautiful yet intriguing; and something quite magical. We meet people who are fair and noble. Yet when aroused into battle, these people can easily become savage. One can lose their heads, quite literally, at the end of the swords. Here we turn our page to Celtic Mythology Though Celtic myths was not written until eleventh century AD, after the Vikings was driven out of Ireland, their sources, mostly oral traditions, were quite old. Even ancient.

5. Animal Symbolism In Celtic Mythology Overview article by Lars Noodén, discussing the tie between animals in Celticand Welsh mythology with fertility and vitality. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/rel375.html

Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology A paper for Religion 375 at the University of Michigan by Lars Noodén, 22 November 1992 Animals in Celtic and Welsh mythology are tied in with fertility and vitality, because they are living, moving, and growing. They also provide vitality and continued life for the tribes through their meat, skins, and bones. In addition, they are a connection to the realm of spirits and the gods. This connection is seen through their use in the hunt, search for secrets and wisdom. Specific animals have specific associations depending on the characteristics of the type of animal. Birds, fish, serpents, deer, cattle, swine, and so on all tend to be used as symbols. Boars fishes serpents birds , and herd animals are the most frequently described. In addition to representing fertility and wealth, boars symbolize courage and strong warriors MacCulloch , 356) for they are strong, dangerous, and very hard to kill. Their appearance in dreams and visions also indicates warriors. Isolt's forewarning of the death of Tristan, a great warrior, came in a dream about the death of a great boar

6. Celtic Mythology Abstracts of tales about Cuchulainn, The Fianna of Erin, and Finn McCool and theSalmon of Knowledge. http://freespace.virgin.net/dominic.fitzgerald/celtic.htm

CUCHULAINN THE FIANNA OF ERIN CUCHULAINN Cuchulainn was an ancient Gaelic hero who was endowed with superhuman qualities. His name means 'The Hound of Culainn', but he was first called Setanta. His parents were Dechtire and Lugh Lamhfhada (Lugh of the Long Hand / Pronounce "Loo Lawvodda"). At the age of five he left home to join the Red Branch Knights, the Ulster army of the king Conor Mac Nessa. With him he took his hurley, his silver ball, his javelin and his spear. He would hit the silver ball with the hurley, leap forward and hit it a second time before it touched the ground, toss the javelin ahead and then the spear, run after them all, catch the ball and javelin with one hand and the spear with the other. When he reached the palace at Emain Macha (Armagh), he beat 150 boys at hurling and other games. Cuchulainn achieved his name at the age of seven when he killed the watch dog of Ulster belonging to Culainn', the smith and in return undertook to protect the kingdom of Ulster and its people himself. The Queen learnt of a great Brown Bull in Cooley, County Louth. The chieftan of Louth refused to let Maeve have his bull, so she resolved to get it by force. Secretly she promised her beautiful daughter in marriage to every leader in her army and so secured the help of every warrior outside Ulster. The army marched to Kells, on the Ulster border and pitched camp. Maeve sought an interview with the Ulsterman and, amazed to find him a mere boy, offered him gold and great rewards if he would desist. Cuchulainn refused, but Maeve secured his agreement to fight one of her heroes each day at the ford that lay between, reckoning that this was better than losing one hundred every night to Cuchulainn's sling. Day after day Cuchulainn fought Maeve's warriors,overcoming Morrigu, the water goddess, during his fight with the hero Loich who he still managed to wound mortally.

7. Celtic Mythology - Myths Of The Celts - Ancient World Commentary and literary resources on the ancient religious and spiritual beliefsof the Celts. http://www.comparative-religion.com/ancient/celtic/

CELTIC MYTHOLOGY THE CELTS MABINOGION MYTHS AND LEGENDS MAIN SITE COMPARATIVE RELIGION INTERFAITH DIALOGUE FORUM ABOUT MAIN SECTIONS WORLD RELIGIONS ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY GENERAL ARTICLES SPECIAL FEATURE: APOCRYPHA DIRECTORY ADVERTISING: PLATINAX INTERNET BRITECORP MARKETING COMMUNITY FORUMS MONOTHEISM EASTERN THOUGHT ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY COMPARATIVE STUDIES comparative religion ancient belief systems celtic mythology celtic mythology Known as the Keltoi to the Greeks, and the Galli to the Romans, the peoples north of the Alps were of little initial interest in the ancient world. Then in the fourth century BC the great Celtic migrations from Central Europe pushed out in earnest, and overran the illustrious ancient civilisations on the mediterranean. In 390 BC the Celts became the only ancient civiliation to ever capture Rome; a century later they sacked prestigious Delphi of the Greeks. The Celts had arrived in the history books. Unfortunately, there is little we can guage of their history from their own perspective, but we have many clues, through the historical sources and especially archaeological excavations. For a start, the Celts were a mixture of over 40 tribes who generally shared customs and beliefs, who pushed from central Europe and north into Britain, west into Spain, south into Turkey, but came up against the ever more closely migrating Germanic peoples in the West. Eventually Celtica became trapped in the vice of Roman imperialism and Germanic expansion, and gave way to one and then the other over time.

8. Celtic Pagan. Com, Green Man's Grove - On-line Celtic Pagan Mythology, Networkin Providing resources to the world wide Pagan and Wiccan Communities. They offer information on celtic mythology, an events calendar, and links to other Pagan, Wiccan and magickal web sites. http://www.celticpagan.com

Celtic Pagan, Wiccan and Magickal Shop and Information To Celtic Pagan .com, Green Man's Grove is here to provide resources to the world wide Celtic Pagan and Wiccan Communities. We offer great information on Celtic Pagan Mythology , an events calendar links to other great Celtic, Pagan, Wiccan and Magickal Web Sites Please stay a while, look through our pages and drop us a line to let us know how we can better serve the Celtic Pagan, Wiccan and Magickal Communities! E-Mail JUST ADDED Over 100 new Celtic Jewelry items in various categories! Check out our new Celtic Sabbat Jewelry Section Our Celtic Pagan Mythology section offers information on various Irish and Celtic Pagan Gods Goddesses and Celtic Heroes The upcoming events page includes a listing of Pagan Gatherings Public Wiccan Sabbats Regular happenings within the Celtic, Pagan and Wiccan Community and links for more info. The Celtic Pagan Networking Page offers links to groups, organizations and web sites

9. IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA Encyclopedia Mythica celtic mythology The Encyclopaedia of the Celts Lugodoc s Guide to celtic mythology A to Z of Ancient Ireland http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/

HISTORY LANGUAGE PERIODICALS The Story of the Irish Race Irish History on the Web History of Ireland Ireland History in Maps ... Gaelic Languages - Links Pronunciation of Irish Gaelic Learn Gaelic with the Chieftain LingoLab - Learn Irish Interactive Irish Lessons ... Hornpipe Magazine LITERATURE Encyclopedia of the Celts Knud Mariboe Early Modern Irish Poetry Maureen S. O'Brien Sonnets from Ireland E. Blomquist Irish Poetry Page Dagmar Müller Colum's Anthology of Irish Verse Bartleby.com The Book of Kells Carmina Gadelica CELT Irish Electronic Texts Classics Ireland ... Bibliography of 19th-c. Irish Literature - Julia M. Wright Irish Lit. of the 20th Century - Mac McGuire Irish Literature - Island Ireland Irish Writers' Centre Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift Biography - Incompetech Gulliver's Travels Project - L. Jaffe Tale of a Tub Project - Deep Singh Gulliver's Travels - UTEL "A Modest Proposal" - UTEL "Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding" - Bartleby.com "Argument Against Abolishing Christianity" "Letter Of Advice To A Young Poet" Selected Poetry of Swift - UTEL Oscar Wilde Wilde Biography - Ireland's Eye The Official Home Page of Oscar Wilde The World-Wide Wilde Web Complete Works of Oscar Wilde - Cyrus CELT: Oscar Wilde Oscariana - jOnnO NYC Poetry of Oscar Wilde - Bartleby.com

10. IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA MYTHOLOGY. celtic mythology Encyclopedia Mythica celtic mythology The Encyclopaedia of the Celts An Overview of celtic mythology Lugodoc's Guide to http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

11. Celtic Deities And Myth This accounts for the great diversity of names in celtic mythology, there are over 300 different names recorded. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

12. Mythography | Celtic Mythology And Art Learn about celtic mythology and art, with recommended books and resources. http://www.loggia.com/myth/content2.html

home celtic Celtic Mythology Gods of Britain Heroes of Britain Gods of Gaul Gods of Ireland ... Gods and Heroes of Wales Resources The Bibliography The Mythography Forum Lexicon Search Mythography For best results, use lower case queries in Altavista's syntax... search help! Do you have a specific question about Celtic mythology? Then try the Mythography forum Dictionary of Celtic Mythology This book is a great source for information about Celtic mythology! Described as both a "who's who" and a "what's what", this reference book features entries on the important gods, heroes, and other characters from Celtic myth and legend. Bulfinch's Mythology Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend Home About Mythography ... Contact Us! No part of this website, including text and images, may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means without the express prior written permission of Loggia.com.

13. Gods Goddesses Myths The Bestiary. Amazons in Greek Mythology. Celtic Deities and Myths. Voodoo. Origins of the Days of the Week. Back to Valley of the Ancients http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

14. Deanna's World: Celtic Whispers Offers a guide to pronouncing Celtic words, as well as a brief description of the main characters in celtic mythology. http://www.dworldonline.com/celtic.htm

The history of the Celts began before information or written records were kept. In what is now Eastern Europe, the Celts seem to have moved west into Austria, Switzerland, France, and modern Germany. During the beginning of the Classical period, which took place about 500 BC, many groups spread over a wide area of Europe, from Scotland to Ireland, and to the southern Mediterranean. They were equipped with both iron weapons and a variety of ornamental arts, which were important to their culture and legacy. By the time that their existence was recorded, the Celts were so numerous that writers named them as one of the four great barbarian peoples in the world. Their union was not that of a nation, but it was more cultural in nature. While they did have kingslike chiefs, or druids, they still had no apparent authority. And although each tribe had its own identity, they were still similar in language, religion, and lifestyle. Celtic language, as defined by the dictionary, is a group of Indo-European languages usually subdivided into Brythonic and Goidelic and now largely confined to Brittany, Wales, western Ireland, and the Scottish Highlands. Deanna's World: About Deanna Advice Staff Celtic Whispers Chat Parlor Dramatique Faerie Circle Good Deeds Guestbook Internet Treasurebox Introduction Interviews Martial Arts A Pink Floyd Tribute Poetry Gallery Radical Change Realm of the Unicorns Reflections of the Renaissance Victorian Treasures Contents Celtic Pronunciation Key A key to pronouncing Celtic words.

15. The Sacred Fire - Celtic Mythology celtic mythology http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

16. Lugodoc's Guide To Celtic Mythology This is not a telling of Celtic myth, only a map. Chronological sense is maintainedexcept where This is the nearest thing to a Celtic creation myth. http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/MYTH/MYTH01.HTM

Lugodoc's Guide to Celtic Mythology Through a monstrous perversion of the Bard's art, Lugodoc has reduced the entire canon of Celtic myth into bite-sized chunks, easily digested by today's 3-minute attention spanned video game-addicted goldfish-minded web-surfing generation. This is not a telling of Celtic myth, only a map. Chronological sense is maintained except where this would ruin the flow of the Celtic knot of interweaving stories. Try too hard to put these in proper order and you will go mad. Myth is not history. Some stories appear under their traditional titles, some I have had to make up. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots. There are two main cannons of myth, Irish and Welsh Irish Mythology The oldest of these stories were composed in the pagan Celtic iron age of Ireland, possibly as early as 300 BC, and passed on in the druidic oral tradition until the coming of Christianity and the decay of the druidic priesthood in the 5th century AD. The stories were then passed on by wandering bards, added to and bits lost, until the first scraps were first written down in a highly confused order with odd legal and historical notes on cow-hides by early Irish Christian monks in the 7th century. The oral tradition continued to grow and mutate, monks kept writing them down, and manuscripts were copied and then lost. These myths are scattered about in several still extant ancient Irish manuscripts written by Christian monks between the 12th and 14th centuries AD, such as The Book of the Dun Cow (LU), The Book of Leinster (LL) and The Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL). Some were written as late as the 18th century. The original pagan myths therefore suffer from varying degrees of Christian contamination.

17. Celtic Heart - Main Menu Cultural resources including gods, myths, artisans and manuscripts. Includes a detailed Celtic encyclopedia. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

18. Ancient Spirits: Celtic Jewellery Shop (Celtic Jewelry, Celtic Jewellery, Celtic Porcelain jewelry from Nova Scotia. Fifty designs in celtic mythology motifs. Pendants are round, oval or octagonal. Brooches and earrings available by request. http://www.aquarianage.org/arts/celts/

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19. Mythography Exploring Greek, Roman, And Celtic Mythology And Art Exploration of Greek, Roman, and celtic mythology and art. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

20. Animal Symbolism In Celtic Mythology Overview article by Lars Nood n, discussing the tie between animals in Celtic and Welsh mythology with fertility and vitality. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

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