Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (CR) is a Neopagan religious movement. It is an effort to reconstruct, in a modern context, an ancient Celtic religious framework. Neopagan reconstructionists have been around since the 1970s but little of it has been specifically Celtic. Many of the people who went on to establish CR were involved in Neopagan groups in the seventies and eighties. Often these groups contained many Celtic elements that eventually found their way into core CR practice. This period, and these groups, are often ref ...

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• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - First Modern Appearance of the Term and Other Historical Data
• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Celtic Reconstructionism and Neo-Druidry
• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Bibliography

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Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - First Modern Appearance of the Term and Other Historical Data, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Celtic Reconstructionism and Neo-Druidry, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Bibliography

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An early, key event in laying the groundwork for much Proto-CR and CR practice was the Celtic workshops, discussions and rituals at the 1985 Pagan Spirit Gathering, in Wisconsin, USA. Participants at this gathering returned home and continued to develop the foundations of their CR sub-traditions, now incorporating some of the ideas they had shared in person. In later years some of them would re-meet online and once again collaborate. The first appearance in print of the term "Celtic Reconstructionist", used to describe a specific reli ...

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Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - First Modern Appearance of the Term and Other Historical Data, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Celtic Reconstructionism and Neo-Druidry, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Bibliography

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Why Wicca is Not Celtic Paganism

There are many out there who believe that Wicca and its related forms of NeoPagism are a type of Celtic Paganism (and vice versa),  but this is simply not true. The following article is meant to be a comparison of Wicca and Celtic Paganism in order to demonstrate this, and to educate the public about Celtic Paganism. While Wicca certainly contains elements of Celtic mythology, folk magic and religious belief, its basic tenets and beliefs are radically different from those of Celtic Pagans.

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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 calendar - Neolithic Calendar?
• Celtic calendar - Continental Celtic Calendar
• Celtic calendar - Mediaeval Irish and Welsh Calendars
• Celtic calendar - Neo-Pagan calendars

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Toward a Celtic Numerology

What's in a word? Or a name? What special power resides in a word, connecting it so intimately to the very thing it symbolizes? Does each word or name have its own 'vibration', as is generally believed by those of us who follow the Western occult tradition? And if so, how do we begin to unravel its meaning? Just what, exactly, is in a word? Well, LETTERS are in a word. In fact, letters COMPRISE the word. Which is why Taliesyn's remark had always puzzled me. Why didn't he say he had been a 'letter among words'? That, at least, would seem to make more logical sense than saying he had been a 'word among letters', which seems backwards. Unless...  

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Celtic Wicca is a synthesis of Wicca with Celtic or Celtic-inspired traditions. Some Celtic Wiccans claim that the tradition is an ancient practice, which originated in the British Isles and has not been attributed to one teacher. Other Celtic Wiccans, and most mainstream scholarship, views Celtic Wicca as derived from Wicca combined with elements from attempted reconstructions of ancient Celtic religions. Wicca as established by Gardner contained Celtic elements, along with elements from many other cultures. Celtic Wicc ...

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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 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 - Branches of Celtic mythology
• Celtic mythology - Celtic deities
• Celtic mythology - The gods of the ancient Celts
• Celtic mythology - The gods of Ireland
• Celtic mythology - The gods of Wales
• Celtic mythology - The Dagda
• Celtic mythology - The Morrígan
• Celtic mythology - Belenus
• Celtic mythology - Lúgh/Lug
• Celtic mythology - Other gods
• Celtic mythology - Temples
• Celtic mythology - Celtic worship
• Celtic mythology - The druids
• Celtic mythology - Significance of Prophecy in Druidic Ritual
• Celtic mythology - Modern remnants
• Celtic mythology - Druidism?

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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 - Extent of Celtic polytheism
• Celtic polytheism - Research
• Celtic polytheism - Syncretism with other forms of polytheism
• Celtic polytheism - Cosmology and eschatology
• Celtic polytheism - Worship
• Celtic polytheism - Religious castes
• Celtic polytheism - Druids
• Celtic polytheism - Bards and filid
• Celtic polytheism - Festivals
• Celtic polytheism - Beltane
• Celtic polytheism - Samhain
• Celtic polytheism - Cults within Celtic polytheism
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of Lugus-Mercurius
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of tribalism lordly power and thunderous force
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of radiance or healing
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of youthful masculinity
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of thermal spring-water
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of impressiveness
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of exaltedness
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of Sucellos
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of maritime forces
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of craftsmanship
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of agricultural gods
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of terrestrial bounty
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the power of boggy terrain
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of maternity
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of femininity & majesty
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of cyclicality in nature
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the trinitarian war-goddess
• Celtic polytheism - Cults of fluvial water
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the stag’s vitality
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of the bullish vitality
• Celtic polytheism - Cult of horse power and horsemanship
• Celtic polytheism - Deities
• Celtic polytheism - The effect of Christianity
• Celtic polytheism - Literature

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One part of Britain, indeed, derived a great part of its Christianity from post-Patrician Irish missions. St. Ia and her companions, and St. Piran, St. Sennen, St. Petrock, and the rest of the Irish saints who came to Cornwall in the late fifth and early sixth centuries found there, at any rate in the West, a population which had perhaps relapsed into Paganism under the Pagan King Teudar. When these saints introduced, or reintroduced, Christianity, they probably brought with them whatever rites they were accustomed to, and Cornwall certainly ...

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• Celtic Rite - How Christianity Reached the Area
• Celtic Rite - Formation and Development
• Celtic Rite - Establishment of the Gaelic Rite
• Celtic Rite - The Easter Question
• Celtic Rite - The Form of the Tonsure
• Celtic Rite - Some Unspecified Difference in the Manner of Baptizing
• Celtic Rite - Celtic Christianity in Scotland
• Celtic Rite - Attempts at Spreading the Gaelic Style
• Celtic Rite - Celtic Prayer
• Celtic Rite - The Celtic Rite in the Grand Scheme
• Celtic Rite - Manuscript Sources
• Celtic Rite - The Divine Office
• Celtic Rite - The Baptismal Sercice
• Celtic Rite - The Visitation Unction and Communion of The Sick
• Celtic Rite - The Consecration of Churches
• Celtic Rite - Hymns

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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 Christianity - What is Celtic Christianity?
• Celtic Christianity - The Debate about the Church's Existence
• Celtic Christianity - Antiquity of the Celtic Church: Tradition & Legend
• Celtic Christianity - Antiquity of the Celtic Church: Known and Generally Accepted
• Celtic Christianity - Ecclesiastical Structure: How separate was the Celtic church?
• Celtic Christianity - Differences from the rest of Catholicism
• Celtic Christianity - The Easter problem
• Celtic Christianity - Celtic Saints
• Celtic Christianity - Celtic Christianity today

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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

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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 cross - Origins
• Celtic cross - Political symbol

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The social structure of Iron Age Celtic society was highly developed. It was a tribal society that was bonded together by a complex system of laws and social customs. The established body of Law was known as 'Fenechas', the law of the Feine (Freemen), or more commonly, the Brehon Laws. This body served the People for centuries. The most common body of Brehon Laws was codified in 438, by the order of Laighaire, a High King of Ireland. The proceedings by which this work was done by three Kings, three Brehona (Recitors of the Law), and t ...

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• Celtic law - Sources

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The Celtic League can refer to either: A league of professional Rugby Union clubs involving teams from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. See the article, Celtic League (Rugby Union) An organisation that seeks to advance the independence movements of the various Celtic nations, and forge links between them. See the article, Celtic League (political organisation) Other related archivesCeltic League (Rugby Union), Celtic League (political organisation), Ireland, Rugby Uni

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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

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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 ...

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• Boston Celtics - Franchise History
• Boston Celtics - Historical Rivalries
• Boston Celtics - Players of note
• Boston Celtics - Basketball Hall of Famers:
• Boston Celtics - Not to be forgotten:
• Boston Celtics - Retired numbers:
• Boston Celtics - Other notable figures
• Boston Celtics - Current Roster updated October 6 2005
• Boston Celtics - 2004/2005 Season Coaching Staff
• Boston Celtics - 2005 Draft picks

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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

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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 ...

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