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1911. In this work, MacCulloch attempts to rebuild Celtic paganism and to guess at its inner spirit. He portrays the Celt as a seeker after God, linking himself by strong ties to the unseen and eager to conquer the unknown by religious rite and magic art. The earliest aspect of his religion was the cult of nature spirits and of life manifested in nature.

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There is some evidence that certain women had priestly functions, perhaps a near relation of the góthi, and occasionally acting for him. Such a woman was called gydja and might even own a temple. The god Frey had a young priestess in his temple, regarded as his consort...-from "Scandinavia: Worship and Its Accessories"Highly readable and densely informative, this general survey of Celtic and Scandinavian mythology and its beliefs and practices...

Excerpt from The Religion of the Ancient Celts And we are left to our own interpretations, more or less valid, of the existing materials, and to the light shed on them by the comparative study of religions. As this book was written during a long residence in the Isle of Skye, where the old language of the people still survives, and where the genius loci speaks everywhere of things remote and strange, it may have been easier to attempt to real...

Excerpt from Comparative Theology But allowing (what few will deny) that Christianity is the abso lute religion, it may be asked, DO the faiths of the past and of the present have any bearing upon its content? Is it possible to take any Christian belief, and, after comparing it with those of other faiths, to find any resemblance to it? And if so, may we say that the earlier belief is a foreshadowing of, a kind of testimony to, and a preparati...

Excerpt from The Childhood of Fiction: A Study of Folk Tales and Primitive Thought To many who love folk-tales for themselves, and because they, of all forms of literature, are to the eye of the mind "Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn, " I shall seem to be no more than "One who would peep and botanise Upon his mother's grave, " because I have dared to show that some of the things which, in these...

Excerpt from The Misty Isle of Skye, Its Scenery, Its People, Its Story The Isle of Mist, how much more thrilling is this than the better-known Isle of Skye! But why it should be so called, I do not know. Rain there is in plenty, but scarcely any mist, and one is forced to go on the lucusa non lucendo principle in seeking for the reason of this name. But in the early days when it was first applied to this green isle of the west, the whole lan...

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Comprehensive study from 1911. "The scientific study of ancient Celtic religion is a thing of recent growth. As a result of the paucity of materials for such a study, earlier writers indulged in the wildest speculative flights and connected the religion with the distant East, or saw in it the remains of a monotheistic faith or a series of esoteric doctrines veiled under polytheistic cults.

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