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The Ancient Celtic Religion And Ritual Reading Language Arts Periods ½ Semester 4

If you traveled back in time you would see that The Celtics are very historic people who are very talented for their rituals and religions and you might actually besacrificed to the Gods. The group The Celtics name means “galno” or “power andstrength”. The Celtics were mostly found in France, Northern Italy, Spain, Thrace,Britain, Belgium, Ireland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia tinyurl.com/cz5z5zq. TheCelts time period was 600 B.C.E to 50 B.C.E.The Celts are best remembered for ametalwork that a lot of people use today.tinyurl.com/6pyk5d8

Did you know Celtic religion is still used today? There are still some Celtics still alive today studying the religions and performing the rituals to please The Gods.Today they come from Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. A bunch ofCeltic festivals are still happening today such as The Hebridean festival, TheChristian Festival, and The Harvest Festival. The main idea is that The Celts had a very good religion and ritual of honoring the Gods/Goddesses and There have 3 sub topics to prove the main idea. The first sub topic is what did they do in their rituals? My second sub topic is what did they do in their religion. The third sub topic is  What did they do in their rituals? They killed humans and animals as offerings to the Gods/Goddesses. The Celts would also sacrifice one of their most valuable objects to please the gods. They would also put someone in a bog and slice, strangle or beat them to death. The Celts would also sacrifice one of their most valuable objects to please the gods. What did they do in their religions? To the Celts they thought the #3 was a sign of power. They used a carved statue as a way to send messages to the Gods. They believed in Epona r the Goddess of war to watch over them during battle. They thought that holy knowledge

was too important to be written down. The Celtics priest called Druids made sacred rites of the grooves of the tree such as the mistletoe tree, the oak tree, and the moon were magical to the Celts and also to animals. The Celts celebrated a festival for Lug the god of the arts. They also thought holy thoughts were too important to be written down.

Who did the Celtics believe their protectors were? The God Cernunnos was the God of nature or fertility. He used twigs, leaves and mulch as his invisibility cloak. He was believed to live from (40,000 B.C.E to 10,000 B.C.E). It is believed that if you see a deer at a graveyard you should chant the name of Cernunnos and he will lead you towards “new birth” in spiritual terms. Part of the poem for Cernunnos was “Hail Cernunnos __Stag__ of wood come to us we pray you, cover us with Earthly faith and an adventurous love of life and that first part is pretty inspiring. The last parts pretty nice it is “worship in the dark night of mystery embrace __Nema__”. Cernunnos is also known as the lord of the __Vertility__ and __Abundance__. tinyurl.com/ctgkj2c

If you traveled back in time you would see that The Celtics are very historic people who are very talented for their rituals and religions and you might actually be sacrificed to the Gods. I hope you see how historic and great these

interesting people were back then and also today. I mean seriously you must think there cool with that awesome god Cernunnos or their awesome tools that they use to sacrafice people. For the most part theses people have a very good life.

Glossary

Stag- A male deer.

Vertility- The masculine property of being capable of procretioning.

Abundance- A very large quantity of something.