A 19th-century engraving depicts the pagan goddess Nehalennia ... period [was] this transitional area between the Germanic and Celtic language area,” says Peter-Alexander Kerkhof, a research ...

To appease deities during ... many of Celtic traditions were reframed with a Christian narrative in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the pagan practices while spreading the new ...

Celtic mythology holds that the chieftains slept with the goddesses in a mating ritual that crossed the boundaries of physical and metaphysical as these Goddesses could shape shift into birds and ...

Therefore, some Celtic cultures believed that humans were the descendants of the deities that they worshiped. Like other pagan cosmologies, such as Norse cosmology, the Celts probably believed ...

The goddess had to be appeased and celebrated to ensure the fertility of the land, animals, and people. Celtic mythology holds that the chieftains slept with the goddesses in a mating ritual that ...

In fact our nation is named after the Goddess Ériu. Brigid the pre-Celtic pagan Goddess and the Christian Saint appear to have morphed into each other over the centuries. In the legends of Brigid ...

The powerful Celtic social class posed a threat ... with the blood of captives and [consulted] their deities through human entrails.” The pagan practitioners presented an existential threat ...

Strong said she believes that attempts to recast St. Brigid as a New Age Celtic pagan goddess “is a blatant attempt to diminish the strong faith once held in this country.” “It is yet ...