This sourcebook on the Celts and their religions covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult-objects and sacred places. It introduces the Celts, describes the geographical and chronological scope of the book and examines the nature of the evidence. Further chapters cover the various cults of sun and sky, mother-goddesses and fertility, war, death and the underworld, water gods and healers, animals and animism and, finally, symbolism and imagery.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
103 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 172 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-1581-6 (9780750915816)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Celts and religion; cults of sun and sky; fertility and the mother-goddeses; war, death and the underworld; water-gods and healers; animals and animism; symbolism and imagery in Celtic cult expression.