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(0)Miranda J Aldhouse-Green
1) Celtic myths
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Explores mythology and beliefs of pagan Celts from 600 B.C. to A.D. 400. Since they were non-literates there is no written record of their lives, beliefs or stories, but those written by others.
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This text offers a wide-ranging review of the significance of the female in Celtic myth and religion. Celtic goddesses presided over nature, animals, healing and fertility. Terrifying battle goddesses were invoked in times of war and a Mother Goddess was supplicated for the fertility of animals and crops. Goddesses were often linked with animals - birds, dogs, bears, pigs and snakes all had their divine protectresses. Divine and semi-divine females...
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"An Archaeology of Images presents a new interpretation of the ways images worked within ancient European societies, in the period from 600 BC to AD 400." "Using archaeology and social anthropology, the author investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued, and seeks to undermine the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped. It is clear that the deposition of images...