Celtic, Gaulish
In 1897, a farmer near the town of Coligny in the Ain department of eastern France turned up a collection of bronze fragments. When assembled, they formed a tablet approximately 1.5 meters wide and nearly a meter tall, inscribed in the Gaulish language using Roman...
Celtic, Gaulish
Julius Caesar is the most frequently cited source on the ancient Druids. He is also one of the least reliable. That statement requires unpacking, because it’s not quite as simple as “Caesar lied.” The situation is more complicated and more...
Celtic, Gaulish, Welsh
The Wild Hunt: Tracing a Dark Tradition Across the Brythonic World Something rides across the winter sky. The sound comes first: hounds in full cry, hoofbeats that don’t quite land right, wind that carries voices you can’t quite make out. You don’t...
Celtic
Celtic mythology does not deal in simple heroes. The great figures of the Irish and Welsh traditions are skilled, powerful, sometimes genuinely admirable, and also frequently manipulative, violent, short-sighted, or outright cruel. They lie when it serves them. They...
Celtic
One of the most common mistakes in modern Celtic paganism is treating the otherworld as an afterlife destination. It’s easy to see why the confusion happens. The otherworld in Celtic mythology is where the dead go, sometimes. Heroes are invited there after...
Celtic, Irish
In Irish mythology, kingship is not a political arrangement. It’s a sacred one. The king doesn’t rule simply because he won a war, inherited a title, or commanded enough loyalty to sit on a throne. He rules because he has entered into a binding covenant...
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