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THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
RELIGIONS : ANCIENT AND MODERN. FooZscad 8vo. Price IS. net tier a uolume. ANIMISM. ‘ B y EDWARD C LODD, Author of T&z Sto?~ of Cwadion. I?ANTHEISM. B y JAMES ALLANSON P ICTON, Author of The Rdigion of the Universe.
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By Professor W. M. FLINDERS
PETRIE,
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Dictionary. CELTIC RELIGION.
Joint Editor of the Oxfoord English
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0~ NICENE
C H R I S T I A NI TY .
By JOHN S UTHERLAND B LACK , LL.D.,
~ncyczop~ain
BiElicn.
Joint Editor of the
SHINTOISM.
MEDIAEVAL
ZOROASTRIANISM.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ITALY. Other VoZumes
CHRISTIANITY.
to follow.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
BY
CHARLES SQUIRE AUTXOR OF
LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & C O LTD 16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET
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Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTADLE, Printers to His Majesty
FORE’WORD THIS little book does not profess in any way to
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supplement the volume upon Celtic Religion already contributed to this series. It merely aims at calling the attention of the general reader to the mythology of our own country, that as yet little-known store of Celtic tradition which reflects the religious conceptions of our earliest articulate Naturally, its limits compel the writer ancestors. to dogmatise, or, at most, to touch but very briefly upon disputed points, to ignore ma,ny fascinating side-issues, and to refrain from putting forward any suggestions of his own. But he has based his work upon the studies of the leading Celtic scholars, and he believes that the reader may safely accept it as in line with the latest research. c. s.
CONTENTS OfmF.
PdOE
I.
TEE CELTS
AND
THEIR &IYTHOLOQY,
II .
TXJE GODS
OF THE
CONTINENTAL CELTS,
OF
IRELAND, .
31
OF
BRITAIN , ,
42
THE HEROIC CYCLE OB A NCIENT ULSTER ,
54
THE FENIAN,
.
61
.
.
68
.
.
77
IV.
THE MYTHICAL HISTORY
OF THE
v . THE MYTHICAL
VIII .
9
.
14
THE GODS
VII .
1
.
III .
VI .
.
THE
OR
INSULAR C~ELTS,
HISTORY
OSSIANIC, SACAS,
A RTHURIAN
CHRONOLOOICAL
LEOEND,
S YLLABUS,
S ELECTED B O O K S BEARINQ
.
ON
. .
C E L T I C MYTEOLOGY,
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