The Ancient Celts and Their Culture
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Topic: The Ancient Celts and Their Culture
Posted By: HistoryGuy
Subject: The Ancient Celts and Their Culture
Date Posted: 14-Jul-2010 at 11:01
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Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have last posted on this forum, but do any of you know if there are academic experts on ancient Celtic culture? I am also looking for a text that has well-rounded, up-to-date information on ancient Celtic culture, that includes archaeology, history, etc. I have become exceedingly interested in ancient Celtic culture through Peter Berresford Ellis. Do you believe that Peter Berresford Ellis is a credible source of ancient Celtic culture? I have heard many good things about his work. I'm trying to obtain the most unbiased and most recent research on the ancient Celts. ------------- هیچ مردی تا به حال به شما درباره خدا گفته. |
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Posted By: Cryptic
Date Posted: 14-Jul-2010 at 18:49
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Welcome back and stay around.
I know very little about ancient Celts, but Spike TV did a Deadliest Warrior episode on "Celt vs Persian immortal". The show featured celtic weapons experts using traditional celtic slings, war clubs, swords and spears on gel targets and animal carcasses.
Though the show is not purely history, but "edu-tainment", you would might find the celtic weapon demonstrations to be interesting. I think the episode can be watched via computer from the Spike website.
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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 15-Jul-2010 at 01:36
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According to Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9273574/Celt - http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9273574/Celt (for kids "Among the ancient European peoples were the warlike Celts—tall, fair-skinned wanderers who spoke an Indo-European language. Their ancestors probably came from the distant steppes near the Caspian Sea. By 500 BC they were living in northeastern France, southwestern Germany, and Bohemia. The Celts, who were also called Gauls, continued to migrate in all directions. " It seems to be very possible that the region in the west of the Caspian sea where modern Galish and Talish people live was the original land of the Celtic culture, these people have been called as Cadusii: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadusii - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadusii in the ancient Greek sources but the famous Roman historian Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 AD) mentions that they have always called themselves Gaeli -> http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/6*.html - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/6*.html "Gaeli, quos Graeci Cadusios appellavere" (Gaeli, whom the Greeks called Cadusii). Modern Galish languages is of course very similar to the Gilaki language which is spoken by about 3 million people in Gilan province of Iran but there are also a large number of words in this language which could have Celtic origin, like the word Baleno (fire festival), look at this thread: http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27755 - Gaulish Beltane & Galesh Baleno, Summer Festival , it should be also mentioned that people who live in the west of the Caspian sea have certainly fair skins and mostly light hairs, some kids from this region:
They are also tall and powerful, like Ali Hosseini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeid_Ali-Hosseini - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeid_Ali-Hosseini Iranian weightlifter who holds the junior world record for the +105 kg category:
But about the ancient culture and religion of this people, we know they worshipped the God di (Celtic word for "God", Latin deus, Sanskrit deva, ...), and like ancient Urartians who entered this region in the later times, also called themselves Khaldi (Servant of the God), English word Culdee has the same Celtic origin: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Culdee+&searchmode=none - http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Culdee+&searchmode=none As you read in the book "WHO WERE THE CELTS", Chapter XII: http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pob/pob_ch12.html - http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pob/pob_ch12.html in all probability the name "Celt" also comes from "Khaldi" and ancient Celtic people in Europe also called themsleves with the same name.
They built temples of mouthless Statue Menhirs, these temples have been found from two far regions in the west of the Caspian sea and the western part of the Europe!
A Celtic statue menhir from Montpellier in southern France:
 Some other similar ones from Shahr Yeri in the northwest of Iran:
 Look at this thread: http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28028 - http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28028 ------------- 
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