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10 best books like Women of the Celts (Jean Markale): Pagan Celtic Britain, The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales, The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual, The Celtic Heroic Age, Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, The Ancient Celts, Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age

Pagan Celtic Britain
AuthorAnne Ross
ISBN0897334353
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr. Anne Ross writes...
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0520034147
The title Mabinogi refers to the first four stories in this collection of tales from Welsh tradition. They are best known as the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi," and comprise the tales of Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math. The remaining stories also spring from the same tree, and together they form...
The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual
AuthorAlexei Kondratiev
ISBN0806525029
Certain cultures in different parts of the world have maintained a respectful and balanced relationship with their natural environment, and some people today, especially those in industrial/capitalistic societies, are turning to them to learn how to rediscover these ancient and sacred attitudes...
The Celtic Heroic Age
AuthorJohn T. Koch
ISBN1891271091
A new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both the well known Herodotos, Plato,...
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
AuthorAlwyn Rees
ISBN0500270392
In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Rees reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently...
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
AuthorMiranda Aldhouse-Green
ISBN0500279756
Warlike, exuberant and superstitious, the ancient Celts saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility and death. They possessed a complicated array of concepts and rituals, a powerful priesthood - the Druids - and...
The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN1852305606
The Celtic tradition is a source of inspiration to many seeking to discover their ancestral spiritual heritage. This superb sourcebook contains many new translations of seminal Celtic texts, including stories, poems, and prose pieces, some dating from as far back as the seventh century. Key ingredients...
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
AuthorJames MacKillop
ISBN0192801201
This new work offers an exhaustive survey of one of the world's most fertile and exciting mythological traditions. It covers the persons, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, in all its ancient and modern traditions, in 4000 entries ranging from brief definitions to extended...
The Ancient Celts
AuthorBarry W. Cunliffe
ISBN0140254226
The archetypal `barbarians from the north', the Celts were feared for their ferocity in battle and admired as skilled craftsmen. For two and half thousand years the Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. THE ANCIENT CELTS presents an absorbing account of the tribes...
Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age
AuthorBarry Raftery
ISBN0500279837
Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish sagas: epic tales of heroic struggles between kings and warriors, of outlandish gods and wise Druids. But how do these images compare with the evidence revealed by the excavator's trowel? Recent archaeological...
The Celts
AuthorNora Kershaw Chadwick
ISBN0140250743
A history of Celtic culture in Britain from its origins to its transformation under the Romans and Saxons.

The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Britain traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent...
The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit
AuthorPatricia Monaghan
ISBN1577314581
This exciting project brings together decades of study about mythology with one seeker’s circuambulation through the landscape of Ireland, all described with a poet’s voice. Pat Monaghan has studied and taught many integrated studies in poetry, science, mythology, feminist spirituality,...
Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses
AuthorR.J. Stewart
ISBN0713721138
This is a weird one. Unlike most works on the Celtic deities, Stewart here presents a cross-culture view that enables him to get at his understanding of the underlying roles and similarities of the various god/desses. It usually works, but ends up being rather cursory on any individual deity's lore....
Legends of the Celts
AuthorFrank Delaney
ISBN0806983515
Delaney's collection of Welsh and Irish legends is a pretty quick, easy read and a good intro into the colorful, bizarre world of Celtic legends. He provides some nice historical prefaces that never become too academic or pedantic, and in the longer stories- the Cattle Raid of Cooley and Tristan and...
Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature
AuthorPeter Berresford Ellis
ISBN0802838081
Drawing on literary, mythological, legal, and historical sources, Peter Berresford Ellis sets out to explore the reality behind the myriad images we hold today. His Celtic Women provides a balanced and informed perspective on the position of women in Celtic society and asks how much of this ancient...
Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism
AuthorIsaac Bonewits
ISBN0806527102
A book about Druids unlike any other, Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism not only goes far behind the usual Celtic and Classical references by discussing the evolution and migration of the Proto-Indo-European peoples, from whom the Celts arose, but also discusses the beliefs and ritual practices...
The Druid Way
AuthorPhilip Carr-Gomm
ISBN1852303654
I did genuinely really like this book. It sucked me in, and I felt like I was doing the journey with him, which is all you can ask from a book.

In spite of the fact that I've always been deeply drawn to the Celtic tradition, anything I've ever read about it academically, has left me cold, and also sort...
Witches, Druids and King Arthur
AuthorRonald Hutton
This might be the first book I can't finish and I won't finish. Yes I'm giving it a one star, but it doesn't mean this a bad book. Some people might enjoy this better. Read the first few essays, not for me. I feel like he knows too much and doesn't do a great job explaining. There were so many off-topic references...
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