rajsuspect wrote:
its fascinating stuff and i have spent many happy hours researching this in the past; the mythology has some similarities too.
(mind you mythology generally does have similar veins in most pantheons)
but is it similar because we veiw it as such, or is it similar because the cultures communicated, and the stories got their own slant depending on the culture? fuck nose.
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the language stuff is great new info i will go and read up on;
while not specifically well read about sanskrit there are only a few root european languages: germanic and celtic being the best known and of course the latin derived languages
ive been racking my brains for where i heard this. my lady’s mum studied etymology, so it might have been her, also me girl studied archeology and she studied the link in a module, but im sure ive read it myself somewhere, and i cant think where! as soon as i remember i’ll post some links…
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the celts as a terminology is confusing as it is generally thought to have arisen from the romans to whom celtic meant “not roman” and was thought to be used to refer to all those they didnt like….
we always get a good gigle out of folk that refer to what they play as ‘celtic’ music…..
its a shame the first and nearly only “historical” documentation of celtic lifestyles was by caesar, in his diaries back home when he was trying to wipe them out (caesars diaries are a wicked read btw, its easy to read and well interesting). “biased” doesnt quite cut it, he had so many reasons for skewing his reports its untrue. shame in some ways, but it makes you think that maybe if he hadnt obscured all our info we wouldnt be so romantic about those times…
a lot of pagan related words are kind of insults, heathen means someone who lives on a heath, i presume that the heath dwellers were traditionally religiously skeptical or summat, and pagan itself just means villager or rural dweller. prolly more likely they hung onto their old beleifs longer than the city dwellers. they were used to make the pagans feel like they were backward and werent changing with times…somethings never change, eh?
