Celtic religion
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Recent papers in Celtic religion
Continuation of the Atlantic Theory of Homer's Ilias and Odyssey (part 1: Atlantic Troy; part 2: Atlantic Ismaros-Kikones). Odysseus' wanderings after his departure from Troy: Route Brittany-Senegal. Study of Atlantic authors De Grave,... more
Le dieu gaulois Ogmios semble être le verbe créateur à l'origine du monde vivant. Il mène les les êtres, les choses et les dieux en les liant magiquement dans le filet du destin.
Rechercher la signification du serpent à tête de bélier, cette « chimère » celtique, est d'autant plus délicat que le corpus des exemples est assez limité et que ses deux parties sont des symboles quasiment universels qui ouvrent un très... more
The Gundestrup Cauldron has remained enigmatic since the day it was discovered in a Danish peat bog near Borremosebog in May of 1891. Many have wondered and pondered over the mysterious imagery and have tried to give it an interpretation.... more
Czech translation of Die Kelten, 3rd. ed. 2012
[FR v.infra] The aim of this paper is to question the traditional polis religion model as it presents an artificial, static and distorted image of the religious conditions in the Roman West. The religious experienceof the individual and... more
When the Early Imperial Roman writers imagined the cultural processes taking place in the newly-conquered Gaul, they frequently had recourse to a rhetoric that can appear strikingly similar to some later, colonial narratives of... more
Kniha byla vydána v Praze roku 2009 / The book was published in Prague 2009. ISBN 978-80-7387-233-5 Drazí kolegové, tato kniha je umístěna kvůli jejímu mimořádnému významu a její špatné dostupnosti vědcům a studentům. Naléhavě Vás... more
The Dictionary of Indo-European Poetic and Religious Themes (DIEPART) was a desideratum in the field of comparative studies. Initiated by the founding father Adalbert Kuhn, Indo-European phraseology and poetics has been a constant subject... more
Can we use the "polis religion" model for understanding religious activities in the Roman provinces? No! Models based on Classical Greece and religious institutions in Rome are not helpful for understanding developments in the Roman... more
This work explain in french how druids became christians and what they led into early middle ages theology
La première édition de Cycle et métamorphoses du dieu cerf a été publiée en juin 2014 dans un très petit nombre d'exemplaires. Les nombreux changements et ajouts font de la présente un nouveau livre. Il me semble donc logique d'en changer... more
Las creencias celtas y la cristianización en Galicia La zona geográfica que conocemos como Galicia, España, estuvo habitada por diversas culturas desde tiempos prehistóricos. Los celtas llegaron en el IV a.C. y los romanos ocuparon el... more
Kniha vyšla roku 1998 v Praze / The book was published in 1998 in Prague.
This essay provides an analysis of how and when St Winefride’s cult became popular; how personal and political motives lead to the promotion of the cult (particularly at Holywell, Shrewsbury and Basingwerk) and also how her popularity... more
A paper on the art historical / archaeological evidence for Cernunnos composed for the Roman Archaeology course I took during my MSc in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh
En el siguiente trabajo se realizará un breve análisis sobre los druidas y las druidesas y el papel que estos desempeñaron en la sociedad celta, así como la relación que tuvieron con el Imperio Romano y las medidas llevadas a cabo por... more
Семененко А. А. Кельтские этюды. О кельтской конной богине и её ригведийско-южноазиатских истоках. О кельтской транспортно-боевой платформе. — Воронеж: Электронная монография на правах рукописи, 2021. — 553 с. + 474 илл. — ISBN... more
Kniha byla vydána roku 1995 v Praze ve 4 vydání. The book was published in 1995 in Prague in 4 editions. ISBN: 80-200-0526-9
Université Libre de Bruxelles. Année académique 2014-2015, première session. Mémoire présenté sous la direction de M. Eugène Warmenbol, en vue de l'obtention du titre de Master en Histoire de l'art et archéologie à Finalité Pratique de... more
The present paper is an expanded version of a chapter of the catalogue of inscriptions of an ancient regio, the Baeturia Celticorum, which was being prepared for printing at the time the Congress took place, and was published in the... more
Building upon her work in the facsimile commentary volume on the Lindisfarne Gospels in 2003, Michelle Brown discusses further evidence for the dating of this important manuscript to c.715-722. She situatues its manufacture within the... more
The aim of this paper is to re-assess the role of 'hero' worship in ancient Celtic religions, trying to re-evaluate the literary and archaeological evidence from pre-Roman and Roman times.
The study examines the concept of the sun god as a god of wisdom named Find in early Irish tradition. Various avatars of Find are discussed including the best known - the warrior hero Fionn mac Cumhaill.
The paper presents the results of recent research into Irish Bog Bodies in particular mythological material that appears to relate to a bog body found in a bog at Moydrum, Co. Meath.
Symbols are important cultural expressions that may be circulated through both time and space as groups appropriate, modify, and ascribe new meanings to them within a larger context of cultural appropriation and invented tradition. I... more
This paper offers a detailed discussion of Pliny naturalis historia 16, 249–251, maybe the best known passage on druids in ancient literature. Pliny’s famous description of druids culling the mistletoe from oaks fundamentally influenced... more
This drafts gives an overview over major steps in the shift of use of society-building pagan concepts as displayed in Insular Celtic literature to their oppressive abuse by Norman-Christian conquerors. The re-interpretation of pagan... more
The article was published in Sikorska, Liliana, Thise Stories Beren Witnesse. The Landscape of the Afterlife in Medieval and Post-medieval Imagination. Medieval English Mirror 7. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010.
In the ninth century Irish text “Cath Maige Tuired”, the figure of Bres offers an illustration of a failed king and his impact on prosperity. The goal of this paper is to uncover a greater mythical significance to Bres, and to begin to... more
The silver cauldron from Gundestrup allegedly manufactured by Celts or Thracians on behalf of Celts remains a unique and enigmatic object until today. Since its discovery in Denmark in 1891 and first publication in 1892 the Gundestrup... more
Did druids really exist? Did Celts perform human sacrifice? The aim of this paper is to scrutinise our sources on Celtic religion. We can see that our sources are not only unreliable, but they were also consciously used to manipulate the... more