Irish Wolfhound (redirect from Celtic Hounds)
Symbol of Celtic Splendor. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-87605-169-6. McBryde, Mary (1998). The Irish Wolfhound: Symbol of Celtic Splendor....
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Druid (redirect from Druidess (Celtic mythology))
A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators...
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Wicker man (category Celtic mythology)
man was purportedly a large wicker statue in which the druids (priests of Celtic paganism) sacrificed humans and animals by burning. The main evidence for...
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Mars (mythology) (section Celtic Mars)
doves. His consort Ancamna is also found with the Celtic god Smertrios. Mars Loucetius. The Celtic god Loucetios, Latinized as -ius, appears in nine inscriptions...
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Nemeton (category Ancient Celtic religion)
A nemeton (plural: nemeta) was a sacred space of ancient Celtic religion. Nemeta appear to have been primarily situated in natural areas, often sacred...
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James MacKillop, A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford. pp. 43–44, 91 Patricia Monaghan, The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. New York:...
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This is a list of Spanish words of Celtic origin. It is further divided into words that are known (or thought) to have come from Gaulish and those that...
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Caledonians (category Articles containing Proto-Celtic-language text)
Καληδῶνες, Kalēdōnes) or the Caledonian Confederacy were a Brittonic-speaking (Celtic) tribal confederacy in what is now Scotland during the Iron Age and Roman...
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Collar-and-elbow (redirect from Celtic wrestling)
used to set up throwing techniques. A similar requirement exists in other Celtic styles like Cornish wrestling and Breton Gouren. At wrestling events in...
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Marcomannic Wars. The name "Ballomar" can be broken down into two Celtic elements, ballo- meaning "limb, member" (cf. Gaulish ballos Irish ball), and maro meaning...
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Dupuytren's contracture (redirect from Celtic hand)
Dupuytren's disease, Morbus Dupuytren, Viking disease, palmar fibromatosis and Celtic hand) is a condition in which one or more fingers become permanently bent...
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author of the Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, derives the name fíana from reconstructed Proto-Celtic *wēnā (a troop), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh...
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white nationalism, white supremacy, Neo-Nazism, and white pride. In its Celtic cross form, it is used as the logo for white nationalist website Stormfront...
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This is a list of Galician words of Celtic origin, many of them being shared with Portuguese (sometimes with minor differences) since both languages are...
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Human sacrifice (redirect from Celtic human sacrifice)
mortality rate. There is some evidence that ancient Celtic peoples practiced human sacrifice. Accounts of Celtic human sacrifice come from Roman and Greek sources...
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John Pinkerton (section Celtic/Gothic furore)
yellow-haired, blue-eyed, fair complexioned, large of limb, and tall of stature." "The Celtic, on the other hand, dark-haired, dark-eyed, of swarthy...
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which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th...
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ships Encantado (Brazilian) – shapeshifting trickster dolphins Glashtyn (Celtic) – Horse goblin from the sea Makara (Hindu mythology) – half terrestrial...
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well known in academic circles. His main areas of academic interests were Celtic history and folklore, as well as languages and linguistics. Moskvin had...
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the character is a Tibetan man, while the film version is an androgynous Celtic. Swinton's casting was widely criticized as whitewashing. Director Scott...
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Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians, the Celtic or Gaulish people of parts of Anatolia. A court sculptor of the Attalid...
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Graeco-Roman culture on the one hand, whereas the fylfot is associated more with Celtic and Anglo-Saxon culture on the other.[citation needed] Although the gammadion...
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Bathhouse spirit Banshee (Irish) – Screaming death spirit Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers...
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Hindu calendar (section Five limbs of time)
Aztec Tōnalpōhualli Xiuhpōhualli Babylonian Bulgar Byzantine Cappadocian Celtic Cham Culāsakaraj Coligny Egyptian Enoch Florentine French Republican Germanic...
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Eye color (section Limbal ring)
Among European Americans, green eyes are most common among those of recent Celtic and Germanic ancestry, with about 16%. The green color is caused by the...
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death, describes Caesar as "tall of stature with a fair complexion, shapely limbs, a somewhat full face, and keen black eyes". Using the Latin alphabet of...
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with the elements, especially water, from which the aquatic horse known in Celtic countries is derived. Air gave rise to the winged horse, known in Greece...
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Chief's Crown. Sister Dot, dam of champion two-year-old and sire Dehere. Celtic Assembly, dam of Volksraad, leading sire in New Zealand. Betty's Secret...
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Tocharian A and Tocharian B cognates are given whenever possible. For the Celtic languages, both Old Irish and Welsh cognates are given when possible. For...
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Dacker et les Dioscures celtiques" [The pursuit of the Gilla Dacker and the Celtic dioscuri]. Revue Celtique (in French). 49: 102. Daniel Ogden, Magic, Witchcraft...
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