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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic

The words Celt and Celtic can have a variety of meanings. Sometimes a pronunciation distinction is maintained - see Pronunciation of Celtic. The following may be pronounced either /kelt(ik)/ or /selt(ik)/, but in academic use there is a clear preference for /kelt(ik)/: the European Celtic people, either ancient or Modern Celts the Celtic languages, descending from the Proto-Celtic language, spoken by these people and their modern descendants Celtic mythology the Celti ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia II - Celtic Fusion - Celtic Metal Main article here Celtic Metal is a fusion of black metal, death metal, and Celtic folk music. It is a small but influential genre and includes a few well known bands like Cruachan, as well as many lesser-known bands like Eluveitie. ...

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Celtic law - Sources

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic music

Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. The term Celtic music may refer to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded popular music with only a superficial resemblance to folk styles of the Celtic peoples. Most typically, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland, because both places have produced well-known distinctive styles which actually have genuine commonality and ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic metal

Celtic metal is a sub-genre of black metal. Its focus is on Celtic mythology and instruments mixed with black metal. Celtic metal has developed a huge underground scene in Ireland, where pioneers like Cruachan, Geasa, Waylander and other such bands play. By far the most successful album is Cruachan's Tuatha Na Gael which sold out its label's supplies within a few months. It cannot be considered a great success, however, because it was a small label and only pressed a few thousand CDs. See the article on Celtic Fusion for information on ot ...

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Celtic metal - Subgenres

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic Astrology

The term Celtic Astrology is used to refer to the "tree calendar" invented by Robert Graves, freely based on the historical Ogham script, described in The White Goddess (1952). It has no relation to the historical Celtic calendar. Other related archives1952, Celtic calendar, Ogham, Robert Graves, The White Goddess

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic Congress

The International Celtic Congress is a cultural organisation that seeks to promote the Celtic languagues of the nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. It was formed out of previously existing bodies that had sought to advance the same goals such as the Celtic Association and the Pan-Celtic Congress. There had even been two meetings of an Inter-Celtic Congress in 1838 and 1867. It first met in 1917 at Birkenhead Eisteddfod and has met virtually annually since then. There ...

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Celtic Congress - External link

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic mythology

Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, the apparent religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celtic peoples in close contact with Rome, such as the Gauls and Celtiberians, their mythology did not survive the Roman empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic languages. Ironically it is through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that what we do know of their belie ...

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Celtic mythology - Historical sources

Celtic mythology - Julius Caesar’s comments on Celtic Religion and their significance

Celtic mythology - Significance of Prophecy in Druidic Ritual

Celtic mythology - Modern remnants

Celtic mythology - Druidism?

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic Sea

The Celtic Sea is that area of the Atlantic Ocean which is bounded by the south coast of Ireland, the southwest coast of Wales and the north coast of Devon and Cornwall in England west of the Bristol Channel. It does not really have south and west boundaries, although it is generally considered to stop at the same longitude as the west edge of Ireland and at the same latitude as the western tip of Brittany. The name is commonly used by workers in the oil and fishing industries to avoid nationalist connotations. The Celtic Sea is sep ...

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity

This article is about the ancient form of Christianity in Britain and Ireland, which was addressed at the Synod of Whitby[citation needed] in 664 in an attempt to reconcile it with the Roman rite. The existence of a Celtic Church, or a Celtic Catholic Church (also known as "Culdee Church"), is generally agreed upon by Roman sources but highly debated among scholars. Celtic Christianity - What is Celtic Christianity?. Celtic Christianity, or The Celtic Church, is thought to be a form ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic calendar

The term Celtic calendar is used to refer to a variety of calendars used by Celtic-speaking peoples at different times in history. Celtic calendar - Neolithic Calendar?. A neolithic engraved stone found at Knowth, Ireland, may be a graphical representation of a lunar calendar. While pre-dating the Celts, Brennan (1994) speculates that it operates on the same principle as the Coligny calendar. Irish calendar, Celtic art Celtic calendar - Continental Celt ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic cross

A Celtic cross combines the cross with a ring surrounding the intersection. It is the characteristic symbol of Celtic Christianity, though it may have older, pre-Christian origins. Celtic cross - Origins. In Celtic regions of Britain and Ireland many free-standing upright crosses – or high crosses – were erected, beginning at least as early as the 8th Century. Some of these 'Celtic' crosses bear inscriptions in runes. There are surviving free-standing crosses in Cornwall and Wales, in the island ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic polytheism

Celtic polytheism (also called Druidic polytheism) is the term for the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Celts. Celtic polytheism - Extent of Celtic polytheism. As the religion of the ancient Celts, the shifts in the fortunes of Celtic Polytheism coincided with those of its people. The Celts, like other ancient Indo-European peoples, practised a form of polytheism, which reached the apogee of its influence and territorial expansion during the 4th century BC, extending across the length o ...

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Celtic polytheism - Festivals

Celtic polytheism - Cults within Celtic polytheism

Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic art

Celtic art is art associated with various peoples known as Celts speaking the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the medieval period and beyond, as well as art of ancient peoples whose language is unknown but where cultural and stylistic similarities lead archaeologists to consider it probable that they were predecessors of those known to speak Celtic languages, and Celtic revival art from the 18th century to the modern era which began as a conscious effort by Modern Celt ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Celtic knot

Celtic knots are a variety of (endless) knots and stylized graphical representations of knots used for decoration, first known to have been used by the Celts. Though Celtic knots were being created in pre-Christian times, these knots are most known for their use in the ornamentation of Christian monuments and manuscripts like the 8th century Book of Kells. Celtic knot - History. Not much history of the knots is available before the beginning of the Christian influence on the Celts in about A.D. 450. There i ...

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Celtic: Encyclopedia - Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Their 16 NBA world championships are the most of any basketball franchise. Boston Celtics - Franchise History. The Celtics were formed in 1946 as a team in the Basketball Association of America. After the merger of the BAA and the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association. The Celtics had struggled during their early years. But the hiring of Coach Red Auerbach would change all that. One ...