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	Maui Celtic - A Celtic Jewellery / Bagpiping Source on Maui, Hawaii
		Celtic people were at one time all over Europe, from the British Isles in the west, to even as far as what is now Turkey in the East.
		Next was the festival of IMBOLC on the eve of February 1st, marking the beginning of Spring, associated with the goddess Brighid, Brigit, or Bride, divinity of healing and childbirth, smithcraft and the hearth.
		Brighid is an important link between the Old Ways and the Celtic Christian church, and the hearth tradition continued in the form of St. Brigit of Kildare, who founded a monastery there, where a sacred flame, tended by nuns, burnt continuously from the 5th century until the Reformation, hundreds of years later.
	www.mauiceltic.com /celtic-beliefs.htm (2718 words)

	Celtic deities, mythological beings and historical figures
		Dea Matrona In Continental Brythonic mythology, Dea Matrona was the goddess of the river Marne in Gaul.
		Eri (Eriu) In Dal-Riada and Celtic mythology, Eriu, or Eri, was the personification of Ireland and mother of Bres by Prince Elatha.
		Govannon (Goibniu) In Insular Brythonic mythology, Govannon (Welsh) was the son of Danu and Beli or Brigid and Tuireann.
	www.mandrake-press.co.uk /Definitions/celticmythbeings.html (13655 words)

	page CELTI-TO-CON page of celtic mythology
		These Lives are a typically Celtic mix of allegory and legend-often the stories of the Celtic saints are mixed with former traditions so that the Lives become part of Celtic mythology itself.
		The saints of the Celtic Church are numerous, for the designation "saint" was given to all missionaries and teachers of distinction, signifying that they were eminent men and women.
		It was, of course, under the auspices of the monks and scholars of the Celtic Church that the mythology of the Celts began to be written, and, unfortunately for posterity, many of the monks, with their newfound Christian zeal, sought to bowdlerise the myths with Christian images and morality.
	www.celtic.mythology.50megs.com /celti---con.html (1477 words)

	Celtic deities, mythological beings and historical figures
		Dea Matrona In Continental Brythonic mythology, Dea Matrona was the goddess of the river Marne in Gaul.
		Eri (Eriu) In Dal-Riada and Celtic mythology, Eriu, or Eri, was the personification of Ireland and mother of Bres by Prince Elatha.
		Govannon (Goibniu) In Insular Brythonic mythology, Govannon (Welsh) was the son of Danu and Beli or Brigid and Tuireann.
	mandrake-press.com /content/Articles/Definitions/celticmythbeings.html (13655 words)

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		Despite colonial oppression, successive generations of Celtic Irish toiled and sweated on the rocky bogland and the barren soil of Connaught, and learned to master the capriciousness of the Atlantic - despite being told they were not allowed to go within a mile of the coastline or fish the rivers and lakes.
		The Celtic spirit began to weaken as it was pushed further westwards while the new Irish 'Free State', minus six north-eastern counties, struggled to survive in a fiercely competitive 20th century.
		Celtic Ireland is now a desire that resides in the ambitions of those, like Hallissey and McNally, who want to see a return to the Celtic way of life.
	members.tripod.com /~poetpiet/2002/5-3.htm (16814 words)

	Bambooweb: Cessair
		In Goidelic mythology, Cessair was the first Queen of Ireland before the Great Flood.
		She was daughter of Bith and Birren, and one of the 18 wives of Fintan.
		According to legend, when her father was denied a place in the ark by Noah, Cessair advised him to build an idol.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/c/e/Cessair.html (116 words)

	United Irelander: UI's Celtic Mythology - Cesair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Cesair was the daughter of Bith, son of Noah and one of the earliest arrivals in Ireland.
		In her myth, Celtic and Hebrew traditions were brought somewhat uncomfortably together by the monks who wrote down the sagas and who suggested that the first settlers had reached Ireland before the Flood.
		Although Bith was denied a place in the Ark, he was fortunate to be advised by a god to build his own boat.
	unitedirelander.blogspot.com /2005/07/uis-celtic-mythology-cesair.html (293 words)

	The Isles
		The folklore and mythology of `the Green Isle' are much more in touch with local prehistoric events than are their counterparts in the neighbouring isle.
		After many adventures, they landed on the southern shore of the Isle, at the confluence of `The Three Sisters', that is of the three rivers, whose sources lie in the mountains that gave birth to the island-goddess Eriu.
		Bith was carried to the far north, taking seventeen maidens with him.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/d/davies-isles.html (12477 words)

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		The oldest examples of the "Celtic" cross are those engraved or painted on flat pebbles, dating from 10,000 BC and found in a cave in the French Pyrenees.
		Celtic animal interlace is similar in construction but the cords terminate in feet, heads, tails etc. The animal designs are very much influenced by an older Saxon tradition of abstract beast forms that when combined with the new more sophisticated knotwork of the Celtic designers became known as Hiberno-Saxon.
		Celtic spiral designs are an older design form and have been practised by the Celts since the dawn of their existence.
	www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/internet-FAQs/soc.culture.scottish/soc.culture.scottish_FAQ (13643 words)

	Celtic Deities
		This Celtic deity was worshipped during the 30 day midsummer feast in Ireland, where sexual magic ensured ripening of the crops and a prosperous harvest.
		Morrigan was the Celtic goddess of war and death who could take the shape of a crow or raven.
		As one aspect of the Celtic triple goddess, Morrigan is seen washing bloody laundry prior to battle by those destined to die.
	members.fortunecity.com /rowanlove/deities.html (1942 words)

	BLUE: Feature Archive - Ghostlands by Robert Allen
		And it is a major attraction for tourists who have been fed a diet of Celtic legend and mythology, who are easily tempted by the Irish Tourist Board's Céad Míle Fáilte (A Thousand Welcomes).
		Three and a half centuries ago Celtic Ireland was scattered to the winds and left to die.
		This editorial is an extract from Ireland Unbound: A Celtic Odyssey - a book which examines modern Irish society in the context of its Celtic Atlantic culture and suggests a vision for an Ireland that is self-sufficient and not dependent on corporate and British capital and rule.
	www.bluegreenearth.us /archive/article/2001/ghostlands.html (7889 words)

	Celtic Deities
		This Celtic deity was worshipped during the 30 day midsummer feast in Ireland, where sexual magic ensured ripening of the crops and a prosperous harvest.
		Morrigan was the Celtic goddess of war and death who could take the shape of a crow or raven.
		As one aspect of the Celtic triple goddess, Morrigan is seen washing bloody laundry prior to battle by those destined to die.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/dublin/115/deities.html (1942 words)

	De Agus Ande
		The Celtic Church could not replace her, so they absorbed her as the "foster-mother" of Christ and as St. Brigit, the daughter of the Druid Dougal the Brown.
		Brighid is very like the Greek Goddess Athena, a Goddess of Wisdom, yet she also has the nuturing warmth of the heart, the home and the hearth within Her.
		Bres (Bress), "Beauty", Irish (Celtic) god of fertility and agriculture, briefly a leader of the Tuatha De Danann and husband of the goddess Brighid and father of Ruadan.
	wolf.mind.net /library/celtic/deagusan/deagusan.htm (3010 words)

	Middle East Ancient Religion: Deluge Legend, the Island of the Blessed, and Hades
		In Indian mythology the world is destroyed by a flood at the end of each Age of the Universe.
		In the Celtic (Irish) account of the flood, Cessair, granddaughter of Noah, was refused a chamber for herself in the ark, and fled to the western borders of the world as advised by her idol.
		Pir-napishtim, the Babylonian Noah, and the semi-divine Gilgamesh appear to be represented in Vedic mythology by Yama, god of the dead.
	www.spiritualbookstore.com /Middle_East_Ancient_Religion_Myths_Deluge_Legend_Island_Blessed_Hades.htm (6566 words)

	part8.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The war of Marduk in Babylonia against Tiamat and Kingu becomes the legendary King Math in Celtic tradition who is said to be the brother of Danu.
		Govannon is the British smith-demiurge or artificer similar to Hephaestus in Greek mythology and to Goibniu in Celtic tradition.
		The Celtic Hu and the goddess Ceridwyn have chariots drawn by serpents.
	members.aol.com /maatmythology/part8.htm (4763 words)

	Celtic Astrology -- Early Irish Astrology: An Historical Argument by Peter Berresford Ellis
		The idea that these 'signposts' might lead to the fact that ancient Celtic astrology and Vedic astrology also had a common link, another surviving parallel, was thrown into sharp relief by a small gloss on a 9th Century Irish manuscript at Wurzburg.
		Our Knowledge of Irish mythology is based on some 150 tales Professor Kuno Meyer and Dr Eleanor Hull have both estimated that there are a further 400 identified texts that had not been examined and that a further 50/100 which could still be hidden in libraries.
		One point cannot be over stressed; that this long and rich tradition of Celtic astrology has been sadly neglected and, albeit perhaps unwittingly, suppressed by those who would prefer to follow the fantasies and inventions of Robert Graves and his 'tree zodiac'.
	cura.free.fr /xv/11ellis1.html (3750 words)

	Book of Invasions
		Cesair was the daughter of Bith and granddaughter of Noah.
		The Insular Celtic referred to the languages spoken in the British Isles and Brittany.
		It is a 18th and 19th myths that the Celtic druids were involved in long barrows in Ireland or stone circles, like the Stonehenge in England.
	www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/invasions.html (6604 words)

	DeDanaan » Early Peoples of Ancient Ireland
		The first inhabitants of Ireland were Cesair, daughter of Bith, son of Noe (whom Christian scribes have altered to read as Noah), and their three men and 50 women, along with Fintann (son of Bochra), and their pilot Ladra.
		The women were divided among the men, Fintann took his wife, Cesair, and sixteen women; Bith took Cesair`s companion, Bairrfhind, and sixteen women; Ladra was left with the remaining sixteen women.
		Hi……..Being Of Celtic linage(Irish-Scots who were Irish before they took the name of Scots) I enjoyed your article…My husband and I used to sell Keltic and Nordic history at the Highland Games, Irish Festivals, Nordic Festivels and the Society for Creative Anacroism in 7 states.
	dedanaan.com /untilled-fields-of-irish-history/early-peoples-of-ancient-ireland (2712 words)

	A Selection of Celtic Deities and Heroes
		Bith (Ireland)—the son of Noah, he was supposed to have been one of 53 people who came to Ireland at the time before the Great Flood, only three of whom were men.
		Cernunnos (General)—one of the most ancient Celtic gods; known as “the Horned One,” he had the ears and antlers of a stag and was the lord of the beasts.
		They may have been associated with the megalithic monuments of Britain; they appear to have been in existence prior to 2000 B.C., and to have enjoyed a freedom of thought and action until the Roman finally destroyed their pagan rituals and eradicated them.
	www.new-wisdom.org /Lectures/Part_1/13-Celts/11304.htm (1788 words)

	Short Celtic God List
		She was a Mother-Goddess, the wife of Beli Mawr (the Great) and considered to be the ancestor of all the Gods, the Tuatha dé Danann, who found themselves obliged to the reside in the Otherworld when Miled brought the Celts to the British Isles.
		Sometimes he is illustrated riding a single horse, throwing thunder-bolts (hence an occasional idenification with Jupiter) and using his symbolic radiating wheel as a shield, as he tramples the chthonic forces of a snake-limbed giant.
		She is the mate of The Dagda and it is she that gives her name to the preeminent brugh in all of Ireland, Brugh na Boinne.
	www.draeconin.com /database/godlist.htm (3892 words)

	Geo Trevarthen (formerly Geo Cameron) - Celtic Shamanism - Masters Thesis
		This seems to be a characteristic of Celtic culture, certainly as it is portrayed in early Irish literature, and much of later folklore.
		There are later references in Celtic folklore, particularly in some of the witch trial accounts of acquiring the power to heal, which refer to the witch being healed of the same illness herself.
		If we confirm the shamanic aspects of Celtic spirituality in comparison with that of other cultures, it may shed light on areas of Celtic myth and religion that are poorly, or partially, understood.
	www.celticshamanism.com /alt_thesis.html (14394 words)

	Imbolc by Susa E. Black
		Her cult was so powerful that the Celtic Christian Church had to adopt her as a Saint, and the Roman Catholic Church followed suit, for her people would not abandon her.
		In Celtic mythology, Brigit is the daughter of the Morrighan and the Dagda 6, the Good God and Chief of the Tuatha de Danaan, the ancient fairy race of Ireland, and the sister of Ogma, who invented the Ogham alphabet.
		She is not a flsmith herself, that niche is occupied by the Celtic deities, Goibnu and Govannon, but she inspires the creativity and artistry of the flsmith craft just as she inspires the creativity of poets.
	druidry.org /obod/festivals/imbolc (6562 words)

	Cessair at AllExperts
		In Irish mythology, Cessair (or Ceasair) was the leader of the first inhabitants of Ireland before the Biblical Flood, in what may be a Christianisation of a legend that pre-dates the conversion, but may alternatively be the product of post-conversion pseudohistory.
		She was daughter of Noah's son Bith and his wife Birren.
		According to legend, when her father was denied a place in the ark by Noah, Cessair advised him to build an idol.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ce/cessair.htm (518 words)

	Imbolc - In Her Name... - TURFING
		In the old Celtic language, she was Briganti, which is connected to the old Indo European word, Bhrghnti.
		Brigit is a “pan Celtic” goddess, who was worshipped by both the Goidelic and Brythonic Celts in the British Isles and beyond.
		In Celtic mythology, Brigit is the daughter of the Morrighan and the Dagda, the Good God and Chief of the Tuatha de Danaan, the ancient fairy race of Ireland, and the sister of Ogma, who invented the Ogham alphabet.
	earthrites.org /turfing/index.php?/archives/224-Imbolc-In-Her-Name....html (2268 words)

	Celtic Lunar Zodiac - Birch Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Whilst their observation of the rhythmic laws of nature was fundamental to their social customs and agricultural calendar, spiritually the birch was the alpha and omega, the first and last principle, signifying the eternity of God and immortality of the soul.
		Beth is a word strikingly similar to Bith (meaning world), the son of Noah and father of Cessair who, with the pilot Ladra, were the first people to invade or settle in Ireland according to the Irish Mythological Cycle of Invasions.
		He was found and fostered (a typical Celtic concept of how man evolved from contact with the gods), and grew up to become the master bard Taliesin, who raised the skills of Welsh bardism to new heights and recognition.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/personal/birch.html (3460 words)

	Celtic Deities and Their Counterparts
		While training as a depth psychologist I sometimes caught myself translating the Greek deities I was learning about into their Celtic equivalents in order to understand these beings better in terms of my ethnic background.
		By "Celtic" I mean: of the collections of people who probably originated somewhere near the Caucasus and carried a common language and similar habits and beliefs across most of pre-Romanized Europe.
		The Celtic pantheons are rich in highly localized earth deities like Sequana, goddess of the Seine, and Tamesis, goddess of the Thames, whose influences remain within fixed geographical bounds.
	www.terrapsych.com /gods.html (2308 words)

	the birch tree - tribe.net
		The birch tree is associated with the letter beta in the Celtic tree-alphabet, the first of the 13 consanants of the Celtic letters that formed a calendar of seasonal tree-magic.
		Angry as she was for bearing a child of such trickery, she could not kill him because of his radiant beauty; instead, she concealed him in a leather bag, placed the bag in a coracle, and cast him unto the mercy of the sea.
		From The Celtic Lunar Zodiac by Helena Paterson.
	people.tribe.net /jaecap/blog/663f894b-f64a-46b5-939e-949bd5a6344a (3490 words)

	Early Irish Astrology
		The Celtic 'tree zodiac' fabrications, the direct result of Robert Graves' invention of a tree calendar', have become an almost insurmountable barrier to any serious study of the forms of astrology that were practised by pre-Christian Celtic society.
		Only when Celtic Studies began to be properly organized at university level, when serious scholars such as Sir John Rhys (1840-1915) become the first Professor of Celtic Studies at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1877, were the fabrications of Williams and his comrades identified and dismissed.
		The answer, I fear, lays in the stigma placed upon the Celtic languages by their conquerors; for the key to opening the door to this knowledge lies through the Celtic languages, particularly Irish which houses the biggest repository of material in the field.
	www.sceala.com /phpBB2/irish-forums-361.html (9053 words)

	Celtic Deities
		What we'll be discussing is everything from general archetypes to deities for specific Celtic traditions and also the deities that I associate most closely with the major festivals of the year.
		There is another Celtic warrior god who is perhaps representative of an older function, which is the "warrior and the healer." His weapon is the sword and his animal is the dog.
		Indeed, the Celtic spirit and its relationship to the powers of the cosmos still reaches out to the deity within the land, Nature, the sea and the sky.
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/aonachclass/cctrans6.htm (3934 words)

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