If the content Celtic Legends Of The Beyond not Found or Blank, you must refresh this page manually.ĭownload Celtic Legends Of The Beyond PDF/ePub, Mobi eBooks by Click Download or Read Online button. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Click Download or Read Online button to get Celtic Legends Of The Beyond book now. But we have no evidence on this point.’ His survey ends with the observation that in the inscriptions of the Roman period no allusion is made to any religion except that of the old Phrygian gods and that of the Emperors.Home › eBooks Download › celtic legends of the beyond Celtic Legends Of The Beyondĭownload Celtic Legends Of The Beyond PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. But certainly almost all the references-unfortunately very few-to Galatic religion point to the rapid adoption of the ancient and impressive cult of Cybele… The Galatians may perhaps have modified to some degree the character of the Phrygian ritual by their own nature and customs, as both the Phryges and the Greeks did. It is hardly probable that the Gaulish religion was wholly disused or forgotten in the last century B.C.
160, and presumably the rites at Drynemeton. It would be difficult to mention any except the sacrifice of captives, which was practised as late as B.C. ‘Few traces,’ he says, ‘of the old Gaulish religion can be detected in Galatia. Doubtless they identified their gods with the Phrygian, and did not keep up any separate cult: otherwise it would be incredible that no trace of it should have remained.’Ī similar view was expressed in the following year by Sir W. And more particularly in the religious sphere I observed that the evidence indicated that the religion prevailing in the Imperial period was ‘purely Phrygian: there is no trace of any Celtic cult…The new settlers perforce adopted the native cultus: for it was always necessary to “know the manner of the god of the land” (2 Kings, xvii. Eleven years ago I contributed to the Journal an account of exploration in Galatia, and in summarizing the evidence which it supplied as to the civilization of Galatia, I pointed out that the Celtic conquerors assimilated the culture of the conquered Phrygians without seriously modifying its character.
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