Balder Ex-Libris - Tag - CeltesReview of books rare and missing2024-03-27T00:16:02+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearTaylor Thomas - The Celtic Christianity of Cornwallurn:md5:e13ae1a750efd6def1a3c23496d7cef52024-03-08T00:39:00+00:002024-03-08T00:42:05+00:00balderTaylor ThomasCeltesChristianity <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Taylor_Thomas_-_The_Celtic_Christianity_of_Cornwall.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Taylor Thomas</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall</strong><br />
Year : 1916<br />
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Divers sketches and studies. <strong>...</strong></p>Traynor Robert - Ancient celtic scottish viking sites in New Zealandurn:md5:b2628facc324acadc16dab5227154d3b2024-02-07T23:54:00+00:002024-02-07T23:58:13+00:00balderTraynor RobertCeltesNew ZealandScandinaviaScotland <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Traynor_Robert_-_Ancient_celtic_scottish_viking_sites_in_New_Zealand.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Traynor Robert</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Ancient celtic scottish viking sites in New Zealand</strong><br />
Year : 2003<br />
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Unbelievable to orthodox historical opinion? Yes! But so were any New Zealand dinosaurs thirty or so years ago. Now there are many books on such creatures and they have been accepted by orthodox institutions in NZ. So what is the probability of old pre-Maori, Celtic sites? If you have an open and inquiring mind there are many facts, artifacts and oral and written histories that confirm the existence of pre-Maori populations in NZ. Our archaeology has yet to be properly investigated by archaeologists that do not have pre-conceived or politically motivated agendas. Very ancient written records in Europe and the old world confirm knowledge that New Zealand and Australia existed. However getting access to and acknowledgement of these records is difficult. Concocted historical opinion has been based on deliberate intent to discredit and cover up such knowledge. NZ and Australia are not the only countries bound up by such conspiracies. However this article is about a particular NZ example, with some general observations thrown in. The following is an example of an oral history supported by records held in Scotland. A book about this particular story, with supporting documentation is due for release sometime in the year 2000. As information is slowly released and clarified the story on this page is kept updated. For now it is simply an interesting saga with all the intrigue, and bravery of any Icelandic Saga. The heroes in it eventually suffer horrific deaths though this does not prevent their genes from carrying on generation after generation in a new land. In that, perhaps it was a more successful settlement than was the Viking settlement at Brattahild in Greenland. <strong>...</strong></p>Stratton Thomas - The affinity between the hebrew language and the celticurn:md5:c758fb301985a69f4f730542375586d62023-12-13T19:05:00+00:002023-12-13T19:13:03+00:00balderStratton ThomasCeltesJew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Stratton_Thomas_-_The_affinity_between_the_hebrew_language_and_the_celtic.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Stratton Thomas</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The affinity between the hebrew language and the celtic</strong><br />
Year : 1872<br />
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Being a comparison between hebrew and the gaelic language, or the celtic of Scotland. <strong>...</strong></p>Merry Eleanor Charlotte - The flaming doorurn:md5:2321c04044acb007889bf7988036331b2022-11-19T23:47:00+00:002022-11-20T00:04:38+00:00balderMerry Eleanor CharlotteAnthroposophyCeltesMythology <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Merry_Eleanor_Charlotte_-_The_flaming_door.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Merry Eleanor Charlotte</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The flaming door The mission of the Celtic folk-soul</strong><br />
Year : 1936<br />
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A preliminary study of the mission of the Celtic Folk-Soul by means of legends and myths. <strong>...</strong></p>Mullins Eustace Clarence - Anglo-Saxons and Celts unite and fight against world governmenturn:md5:aec02d2db0e91aa0f8d5e4897d5454642020-03-15T22:50:00+00:002023-12-15T23:03:12+00:00balderMullins Eustace ClarenceAnglo-SaxonCeltesConspiracy <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Mullins_Eustace_Clarence_-_Anglo-Saxons_and_Celts_unite_and_fight_against_world_government.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Mullins Eustace Clarence</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Anglo-Saxons and Celts unite and fight against world government Total strategy for national and racial suicide</strong><br />
Year : 2010<br />
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Communist Plan For Race-Mixing. Israel Cohen was a Communist leader in England in the early part of this century. In 1912 he wrote a book on communist tactics entitled "A Racial Program for The Twentieth Century." It was published in the U.S. Congressional Record of June 7, 1957 and states : “We must realize that our Party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By pounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the Whites, we can mould them to the program of the Communist party. The terms colonialism and imperialism must he featured in our propaganda. In America, we will aim for a subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the Whites we will endeavour to Instil in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. “We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroes will be able to intermarry with the Whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.” <strong>...</strong></p>Hutton Ronald - Blood and mistletoeurn:md5:c6cce6f9576369239e0fdc34f2b1b8c62019-12-13T16:10:00+00:002019-12-13T16:16:47+00:00balderHutton RonaldCeltesEnglandKu Klux KlanReligionUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Hutton_Ronald_-_Blood_and_mistletoe.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Hutton Ronald</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Blood and mistletoe The history of the druids in Britain</strong><br />
Year : 2009<br />
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Introduction. What’s in a name ? Where Druids are concerned, it seems, almost everything. It is very doubtful that anything like as much excitement would subsequently have been attached to these characters of ancient north-western Europe if the Greeks and Romans who wrote about them had simply called them by their own common words for priests or seers. It was the use of a unique native term, translating to modern English as 'Druid', which made them seem special and noteworthy: an order set apart from the rest of their own society and from other religious functionaries of their own time and of others. This put the seal on the indication, in those same ancient texts, that these particular priests and seers had indeed been unusual and distinctive in some way; elevated above their own peoples and unlike the priests of other societies. The world has been trying to make sense of them ever since. Among the modern peoples who have made the ancient Druids into important figures in their imagination are the Irish, Germans, French, Scots, English, Welsh, Americans, Canadians and Australians (more or less in that order). The relationship between each of these and the figure of the Druid would make a full study in itself : the present one confines itself to the three major historic peoples of the island of Britain. It may well be that, collectively, these have thought about Druids, or acted out being Druids, more intensely and for a more sustained period than any of the others. That, at any rate, seems to be what the face of the existing evidence shows; but further research may serve to disprove it. At any rate, it can be confidently asserted that the British relationship with Druids has been a long and complex one, and that a study of it can tell us some interesting things about the changes in British culture during the past half millennium. To focus on this relationship, rather than on the ancient figures themselves as most books concerned with Druids have been wont to do, is not to deny the potential worth of a quest for the Druidry of prehistory. It is certainly not to suggest that archaeology does not have very important things to tell us about the European Iron Age, as about every other period. It may well be, in addition, that at any point excavation could turn up evidence of decisive value for our knowledge of the 'original' Druids. <strong>...</strong></p>Greer John Michael - The druidry handbookurn:md5:b54307f58fce272e6e77940cf00359482019-12-12T15:10:00+00:002019-12-12T16:07:23+00:00balderGreer John MichaelCeltesChristianityProtestantUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Greer_John_Michael_-_The_druidry_handbook.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Greer John Michael</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The druidry handbook Spiritual practice rooted in the living Earth</strong><br />
Year : 2006<br />
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Foreword. A work of alchemy. When you die, only three things will remain of you, since you will abandon all material things on the threshold of the Otherworld: what you have taught to others, what you have created with your hands, and how much love you have spread. So learn more and more in order to teach wise, long-lasting values. Work more and more to leave to the world things of great beauty. And Love, love, love people around you for the light of Love heals everything. FRENCH DRUID TRIAD, FRANÇOIS BOURILLON THE STORY OF DRUIDISM CAN BE DIVIDED INTO three phases: the ancient Druids, who left only traces of their teachings; the Revival Druids of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who left behind a great deal of literature; and modern-day Druids, who from the mid-twentieth century onward have developed Druidry into one of the leading alternative spiritualities in the world today. <strong>...</strong></p>Pennick Nigel - The celtic crossurn:md5:4874c6afb94d68c4e071077745aba88b2019-09-21T18:00:00+01:002019-09-21T17:03:05+01:00balderPennick NigelCeltesEuropeGermanyIranJewSymbolUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Pennick_Nigel_-_The_celtic_cross.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pennick Nigel</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The celtic cross An illustrated history and celebration</strong><br />
Year : 1997<br />
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Introduction. THE CELTS. The Celtic tradition is one of the most recognizable elements of contemporary European culture, and it is also one of the mo t ancient. Celtic trad ition can trace it roots back over 2,700 years. The ancient Greeks gave the barbarian peoples who lived to the north of them the name K eltoi. Although the e central European Celts were not a genetically cohe rent ethnic group, or a political u nion, nevertheless they formed a specific, recogni zable culture, with shared elements oflanguage, religious beliefs and arti tic outlook. Around 650 BCE, the Celts were influenced by Greek and Etruscan culture, and, by adding and adapting these elements to the Hall tatt culture, the characteristically Celtic style of art came into being. T he first recogni za bly Celtic civili zation emerged around 500 BCE in northeast France and the middle Rhine, which is called the 'early La T cne period', after the place where the characte ristic artef:1cts of the period were discovered. Early in the fourth century BCE, the Celtic tribes expanded westwards into what is now France and the British Isles. They moved southwest into the Iberian penin ula, south into northern Italy and east through the Balkans into Asia Minor. <strong>...</strong></p>Ashe Geoffrey - King Arthur In fact and legendurn:md5:fc04b3bc80984ff37f1cb0f7d84e2a182019-04-20T14:21:00+01:002019-04-20T13:24:13+01:00balderAshe GeoffreyBretagneCeltesConspiracyEnglandUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Ashe_Geoffrey_-_King_Arthur_In_fact_and_legend.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Ashe Geoffrey</strong><br />
Title : <strong>King Arthur In fact and legend</strong><br />
Year : 1969<br />
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How did the Arthurian legend begin, and in what forms have writers presented it over the ages ? Even more intriguing a question: Did King Arthur and his knights ever exist at all ? Geoffrey Ashe explores both paths - the fictional Arthur and the Arthur of historical and archaeological fact.
Arthur, King of Britain, became a national hero between the years 1150 and 1200. The real ruler during most of that time was Henry II, but the legendary monarch was soon more widely renowned than the actual one, and his fame in romance has continued ever since. Ashe traces the Arthur of fiction from the Middle Ages to the present day; he also tells the historical and archaeological facts of all that is known about the king. This includes an account of the results of recent excavations at South Cadbury, now believed to be the site of the original Camelot.
Superb illustrations, maps, and suggestions for further reading make this a book that will give the reader an exciting beginning to his own research and stimulate active interest in whatever aspect of Arthur most appeals to him - past, present, or future. <strong>...</strong></p>Ellsworth Roy - Berresford Ellis Peter - The book of deerurn:md5:f66af67216026c2c45c93d4b9356d49b2019-04-19T21:34:00+01:002019-04-19T20:42:36+01:00balderEllsworth RoyBilderbergCeltesConspiracyJewUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Ellsworth_Roy_-_Berresford_Ellis_Peter_-_The_book_of_deer.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Authors : <strong>Ellsworth Roy - Berresford Ellis Peter</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The book of deer</strong><br />
Year : 1994<br />
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The great Celtic illuminated Gospel books - such as Kells, Durro", Lindisfarne, Echtornach, Lichficld, Dimma, :\rmagh and so forth, produced during the se,·enth to tenth centuries AD - comprise one of the peaks of European artistic creation.<strong>...</strong></p>Berresford Ellis Peter - Dictionary of Celtic mythologyurn:md5:b395438a6ac472be49fdb0a3570fa7432019-04-13T21:21:00+01:002019-04-13T20:26:12+01:00balderBerresford Ellis PeterBosniaCeltesConspiracyDictionaryIranIraqMythologyPalestineRussiaUFOUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Berresford_Ellis_Peter_-_Dictionary_of_Celtic_mythology.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Berresford Ellis Peter</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Dictionary of Celtic mythology</strong><br />
Year : 1992<br />
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Preface. Following the publication of my A Dictionary of Irish Mythology (1987) there was a considerable expression of interest on both sides of the Atlantic and many readers were curious to place the Irish myths in their wider Celtic context. My publishers therefore suggested that I produce a further volume, A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, to accommodate this heightened interest in the subject. The present volume is not designed to be an extension of A Dictionary of Irish Mythology. It is a self-contained volume. Naturally, it contains repetition with respect to many of the Irish entries; this is, of course, inevitable as Irish mythology constitutes the largest surviving section of Celtic mythology. However, A Dictionary of Irish Mythology, by virtue of its scope, carries a more detailed account of the Irish myths while this volume concentrates on the general sweep of Celtic mythology and also makes comparisons between the various branches of the Celtic myths. I have produced a composite alphabetical dictionary and made no effort to split the work into subsections dealing with the separate cultures: Irish, Welsh, and so on. However, the individual Celtic culture is clearly identified in each entry, and in the case of entries deriving from the two major Celtic cultures, abbreviations are given for identification: I = Irish and W = Welsh. As with A Dictionary of Irish Mythology, I should also point out that a major problem has been that of obtaining a consistency in the spelling of names. For the general reader this involves not simply the natural orthographical changes of a language over the centuries but also the numerous Anglicised distortions. Should Aranrhod be Arianrhod or Cúchulainn be Cú Chulaind? Should Cei be Kai or Kay? I have attempted to choose the most popular form in the native language, but where the choice has been a difficult one I have resorted to cross-references. <strong>...</strong></p>Berresford Ellis Peter - A brief history of the Celtsurn:md5:b15c1bc425e140761e6bd2565b4f76752019-03-04T21:19:00+00:002019-03-04T21:20:11+00:00balderBerresford Ellis PeterCeltesCivilizationsConspiracyEuropeIsraëlSouth AfricaUFOUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Berresford_Ellis_Peter_-_A_brief_history_of_the_Celts.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Berresford Ellis Peter</strong><br />
Title : <strong>A brief history of the Celts</strong><br />
Year : 1998<br />
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Preface. At the start of the first millennium BC, a civilisation which had developed from its Indo- European roots around the headwaters of the Rhine, the Rhône and the Danube suddenly erupted in all directions through Europe. Their advanced use of metalwork, particularly their iron weapons, made them a powerful and irresistible force. Greek merchants, first encountering them in the sixth century BC, called them Keltoi and Galatai. Later, the Romans would echo these names in Celtae, Galatae and Galli. Today we generally identify them as Celts. The ancient Celts have been described as ‘the first Europeans’, the first Transalpine civilisation to emerge into recorded history. At the height of their greatest expansion, by the third century BC, they were spread from Ireland in the west across Europe to the central plain of what is now Turkey in the east; they were settled from Belgium in the north as far south as Cadiz in Spain and across the Alps into the Po valley. They not only spread along the Danube valley but Celtic settlements have been found in southern Poland, in Russia and the Ukraine. Recent evidence has caused some academics to argue that the Celts were also the ancestors of the Tocharian people, an Indo-European group who settled in the Xinjiang province of China, north of Tibet. Tocharian written texts survive from the eighth to ninth centuries AD. That the Celts left a powerful military impression on the Greeks and Romans there is little doubt. In 475 BC they defeated the armies of the Etruscan empire at Ticino and took control throughout the Po valley; in 390 BC they defeated the Romans and occupied the city for seven months – it took Rome fifty years to recover from that devastating disaster; in 279 BC they invaded the Greek peninsula, defeating every Greek army which was sent against them before sacking the Greek holy sanctuary of Delphi and then returning back to the north. Some of them crossed into Asia Minor and established a Celtic kingdom on what is now the central plain of Turkey. So respectful of the Celts’ fighting ability were the Greeks that they recruited Celtic units into their armies, from Epiros and Syria to the Ptolemy pharaohs of Egypt. Even the fabulous Queen Cleopatra had an élite bodyguard of 300 Celtic warriors which, on her defeat and death, served the equally famous Herod the Great and attended his funeral obsequies in 4 BC. Hannibal used Celtic warriors as the mainstay of his army and, finally, after the conquest of their ‘heartland’ Gaul, the Celts even served the armies of their arch-enemy, Rome. Yet warfare was not their only profession. They were basically farmers, engaging in very advanced agricultural techniques whose methods impressed Roman observers. Their medical knowledge was highly sophisticated, particularly in the practice of surgery. As road builders they were also talented and it was the Celts who cut the first roads through the previously impenetrable forests of Europe. Most of the words connected with roads and transport in Latin were, significantly, borrowed from the Celts. As for their art and craftsmanship, in jewellery and design, they have left a breathtaking legacy for Europe. They were undoubtedly the most exuberant of the ancient European visual artists, whose genius is still valued and copied today; their masterpieces in metalwork, monumental stone carvings, glassware and jewellery still provoke countless well-attended exhibitions throughout the world. <strong>...</strong></p>Berresford Ellis Peter - The Mammoth book of Celtic myths and legendsurn:md5:bf1e8111cd59df341f5f0bee5d6c76852019-02-05T12:33:00+00:002019-02-05T12:38:24+00:00balderBerresford Ellis PeterAmericaCeltesConspiracyMind controlMythologyRussiaSlaveryTexasUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Berresford_Ellis_Peter_-_The_Mammoth_book_of_Celtic_myths_and_legends.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Berresford Ellis Peter</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Mammoth book of Celtic myths and legends</strong><br />
Year : 2002<br />
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Introduction. The mythology, legends and folklore of the Celtic peoples are among the oldest and most vibrant of Europe. The Celts were, in fact, the first European people north of the Alps to emerge into recorded history. They were delineated from their fellow Europeans by virtue of the languages which they spoke and which we now identify by the term “Celtic”. This linguistic group is a branch of the greater Indo-European family. The Indo- European family of languages encompasses most of the languages spoken in Europe, with a few notable exceptions such as Basque, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian. The Indo- European group also covers Iran and northern India. Since the old classical language of India, Sanskrit, was identified in the eighteenth century, the concept of linguistic evolution and language relationships has become a science. What this means is that we can see from the linguistic relationship of the Indo- European languages that, at some point in remote antiquity, there was a single parent language, which we call Indo-European, for want of a better designation. This parent language diversified into dialects, as its speakers began to migrate from the geographic location where it was originally spoken. These dialects then became the ancestors of the present major European and Northern Indian language groups – Italic or Latin (now called Romance), Germanic, Slavonic, Baltic, Celtic, Iranian, Indo-Aryan and so forth. Even today, there remain relative forms of construction and vocabulary among the Indo- European languages which are not found in other languages: features which help us identify them as such. Features common to Indo-European include clear formal distinction of noun and verb, a basically inflective structure and decimal numeration. An experiment which demonstrates the relationship is to note the cardinal numbers – one to ten – in each Indo-European language and one will find the same sound values indicating the common parent. Where was the Indo-European parent originally spoken and when did it begin to break up? It is probable, and only probable, that the speakers of the parent tongue originated somewhere between the Baltic and the Black Sea. It also seems probable that the parent tongue was already breaking into dialects before waves of migrants carried them westward into Europe and eastward into Asia. The first Indo-European literature that we have records of is Hittite, a language spoken in what is now eastern Turkey. The Hittites formed an empire which eventually incorporated Babylonia and even briefly exerted authority over Egypt. Hittite writing emerged from 1900 BC and vanished around 1400 BC. Hittite literature survives on tablets written in cuneiform syllabics which were not deciphered until 1916. Scholars argue that the Celtic dialect of Indo-European, which became the parent of all Celtic languages, emerged at about 2000 BC. The Celtic peoples began to appear as a distinctive culture in the area of the headwaters of the Danube, the Rhine and the Rhône. In other words, in what is now Switzerland and South-West Germany. <strong>...</strong></p>Bellamy Félix-Charles-Marie - Merlin dans la littérature et les traditions populairesurn:md5:c12249333ff5497cc29bf3cf97910f2d2018-03-21T21:06:00+00:002018-04-14T19:45:00+01:00balderBellamy Félix-Charles-MarieBretagneCeltesIsraëlJewTradition <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Bellamy_Felix-Charles-Marie_-_Merlin_dans_la_litterature_et_les_traditions_populaires.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Bellamy Félix-Charles-Marie</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>Merlin dans la littérature et les traditions populaires</strong><br />
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CHAPITRE I : NÉ D’UNE VESTALE. I - Merlin né d’une vestale. Privilégié de catalepsie et de seconde vue. Fut-il chrétien ? Merlin, quel nom ! Quel merveilleux prestige, après quatorze siècles, l’entoure encore aujourd’hui ! Fut-il dans les annales bretonnes un nom plus populaire et plus justement vénéré ? - Salut, noble barde ! Si l’île de Bretagne eut le privilège, paraît-il, de vous donner le jour, la terre d’Armorique elle aussi a quelquefois prétendu cet honneur. Mais qu’importe après tout cette circonstance fortuite du lieu de la naissance ? Vos sentiments, vos actes et vos constants efforts montrent que vous ne fûtes pas seulement l’homme d’un lieu unique ; ne vous proclame-t-on pas la personnification la plus accomplie de la patrie bretonne ? À ce titre vous appartenez à la race entière, et l’Armorique, avec non moins de raison que la Cambrie, vous revendique au nombre de ses plus illustres enfants. Et par un juste sentiment d’orgueil, en attachant votre nom à des lieux, à des monuments, à des chants nationaux, elle a voulu rendre votre mémoire impérissable parmi les hommes. Avant de parler de Merlin, le personnage le plus considérable avec Arthur que les anciens romanciers, dans leur imagination, ont conduit en Brocéliande, et à sa merveilleuse Fontaine, je dois dire à quelle source j’ai puisé ce que je vais rapporter. J’emprunterai une large part de cette notice au livre de M. de la Villemarqué, intitulé Myrdhinn (1862). Apportant la lumière en cette obscurité qui enveloppe ces temps anciens, et débrouillant la confusion, le savant écrivain nous fait connaître en ce livre les multiples aspects de cette imposante figure du prince des bardes, dans la vénération duquel s’unissent toujours les divers rameaux de la race bretonne. Multiples aspects, ai-je dit, c’est que, en effet, la légende, la fable, l’histoire, la poésie, le roman, la philosophie, se sont tour à tour emparés de Merlin, et en ont fait pour ainsi dire autant de personnages différents. Mais outre ce livre, chemin faisant je m’aiderai du concours d’un grand nombre d’autres auteurs, que j’indiquerai à fur et mesure qu’ils apparaîtront. <strong>...</strong></p>Lambert Pierre-Yves - Les quatre branches du Mabinogiurn:md5:af78ae323ba5563839aae2006e61ec1b2017-07-31T17:13:00+01:002018-04-14T19:57:15+01:00balderLambert Pierre-YvesAmericaCeltesConspiracyConteIsraëlUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Lambert_Pierre-Yves_-_Les_quatre_branches_du_Mabinogi.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Lambert Pierre-Yves</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>Les quatre branches du Mabinogi et autres contes gallois du Moyen Age</strong><br />
Année : 1993<br />
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Avant-propos. Cette nouvelle publication des contes gallois du Moyen Âge, quatre-vingts ans après la traduction de Joseph Loth, se justifie moins par le besoin de corriger/ou d'améliorer sa traduction que par la nécessité de mettre à jour ses notes et commentaires. <strong>...</strong></p>Le Scouëzec Heol Loïc Gwennglan - La médecine en Gauleurn:md5:bf4b586d762913ab20baaff69dc4dab62017-06-15T13:50:00+01:002018-04-14T20:02:15+01:00balderLe Scouëzec Heol Loïc GwennglanCeltesFranceJewReligionSociology <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Le_Scouezec_Heol_Loic_Gwennglan_-_La_medecine_en_Gaule.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Le Scouëzec Heol Loïc Gwennglan</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>La médecine en Gaule</strong><br />
Année : 1967<br />
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Chapitre premier : La GAULE. L’histoire de la Gaule commence vers le milieu du Ier millénaire avant Jésus-Christ, par l’arrivée et l’installation, à l’ouest de l’Europe, sur les rives de la Manche et de l’Atlantique, d’un groupe de tribus nouvelles venues de l’est. Ce peuple se donnait à luimême le nom de Celtes, mais les Romains nommaient Galli1 : de là vient le mot Gallia qui va désigner le vaste territoire compris entre le Rhin, les Alpes et les Pyrénées. Ces nouveaux arrivants étaient jusqu’alors installés dans la haute vallée du Danube, entre l’Elbe et le Rhin. De là, ils devaient, après l’an mille avant Jésus-Christ, se répandre sur un immense espace, depuis les rivages de l’Océan à l’ouest jusqu’aux plateaux d’Anatolie à l’est. Les Galates d’Asie Mineure et le royaume gaulois de l’Hellespont furent l’extrême avancée orientale des Celtes, mais du côté occidental, leur domination et leur influence devaient être beaucoup plus importantes et plus durables. <strong>...</strong></p>Vaillat Claudius - Le culte des sources dans la Gaule antiqueurn:md5:0784bacf8f9c02c3ed915be1100793ac2017-06-10T09:57:00+01:002018-04-14T20:02:19+01:00balderVaillat ClaudiusAmericaAnglo-SaxonBabylonCeltesChristChristianityIsraëlJerusalemReligionRome <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Vaillat_Claudius_-_Le_culte_des_sources_dans_la_Gaule_antique.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Vaillat Claudius</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>Le culte des sources dans la Gaule antique</strong><br />
Année : 1932<br />
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Préface. Le sujet du livre de M. Vaillat est précis et nettement limité. Sans exclure certaines divinités, qui personnifiaient plutôt des rivières que des sources proprement dites, l’auteur a fait porter ses recherches sur le culte des sources ; il ne s’est point occupé des lacs, des étangs, des mares où les Gaulois et les Gallo-romains ont si souvent consacré des ex-voto. D’ailleurs, le nombre des sources, qui furent d’après des documents certains, exactement localisées et sans aucun doute antiques, l’objet d’un culte populaire, est fort élevé. En se bornant aux fontaines naturelles qui jaillissent de terre, M. Vaillat n’en a pas moins traité une matière abondante, presque touffue et à certains égards complexe. Il est allé, pour ce faire, droit aux documents. Non seulement, il a scruté les textes épigraphiques, les monuments et les vestiges d’archéologie monumentale, les plans de sanctuaires, les morceaux de sculpture et les innombrables ex-voto recueillis autour des sources sacrées ou parfois dans les eaux de ces sources, mais encore il s’est rendu, si l’on peut dire, sur le terrain ; il a voulu voir ces sources elles-mêmes, lorsqu’elles sont encore accessibles ; il a parcouru quelques-unes des régions de la France où leur culte était le plus répandu, de Nîmes à la Bourgogne, par exemple. Aux renseignements d’origine livresque, il a pu ainsi ajouter des impressions personnelles, éprouvées sur les lieux où nos ancêtres venaient implorer ou remercier tel dieu, telle déesse. Après avoir réuni les matériaux de son travail, M. Cl. Vaillat, sous la direction de maîtres compétents, les a soumis à une étude critique, à la fois perspicace et mesurée cette étude a porté sur les noms des divinités, sur le plan parfois très original des sanctuaires tantôt luxueux, tantôt rustiques, sur les rites suivant lesquels le culte des sources était célébré. Cette partie analytique de l’ouvrage constitue, comme l’ont dit d’excellents juges, un véritable Corpus des documents relatifs au culte des sources dans la Gaule antique, corpus très utile et qui peut être appelé a rendre de réels services. Mais tous ces documents ou presque tous datent de la période gallo-romaine, des premiers siècles de notre ère. M. Cl. Vaillat ne s’en est pas tenu là. Il a montré, à l’aide de la linguistique pour les noms divins, à l’aide de l’archéologie pour la disposition même des temples de sources, que tous ces cultes étaient en Gaule plus anciens que la conquête romaine. Passant, suivant une méthode prudente et sûre, du connu à l’inconnu, il a démontré l’origine préromaine, celtique ou même peut-être préceltique, de cette religion essentiellement naturiste ; il a démontré également que si parfois sous l’influence de la mythologie gréco-romaine le nom et la conception des Nymphes s’étaient introduits en Gaule, le plus souvent la vieille religion ancestrale avait gardé sa physionomie et son caractère propre. <strong>...</strong></p>Girard Michel-Antoine - Histoire de Vercingétorix roi des Arvernesurn:md5:3040b78e445a8b780a1a8a6504f13e162017-06-08T14:16:00+01:002018-04-14T20:02:25+01:00balderGirard Michel-AntoineAnglo-SaxonCeltesCivilisationsEuropeFranceIsraëlJewRome <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Girard_Michel-Antoine_-_Histoire_de_Vercingetorix_Roi_des_Arvernes.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Girard Michel-Antoine</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>Histoire de Vercingétorix Roi des Arvernes</strong><br />
Année : 1863<br />
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Avant-propos. Asinius Pollion, dit Suétone1, pense que les Commentaires de César ont été rédigés avec peu de soin et peu de respect pour la vérité. Il l’accuse d’ajouter foi trop légèrement aux récits des fictions des autres et, soit qu’il ait agi de dessein prémédité ou manqué de mémoire, de dénaturer les siennes. Asinius croyait que César aurait refait et corrigé ses Mémoires. Tel est le degré de confiance qu’inspiraient à un intime ami de César ces Commentaires, dont Hirtius et Cicéron ont admiré la beauté, sans parure, et la grâce simple et naturelle. Ces reproches, adressés par Pollion à César, méritent d’autant plus de considération qu’il avait fait avec le proconsul les guerres des Gaules. Il était du nombre des officiers devant lesquels César, hésitant à com-mencer la guerre civile, prononça ces paroles devenues si célèbres : « Nous pouvons encore retourner sur nos pas, mais si nous franchissons ce petit pont, tout se décidera par les armes. » Pollion avait composé une histoire2 qui n’est pas parvenue jusqu’à nous ; et, dans ses attaques contre César, il n’a pu être animé que par l’intérêt de la vérité, puisqu’il suivit toujours la fortune du dictateur, et que, écrivant sous le règne d’Auguste, il se serait bien gardé d’accuser d’infidélité le grand-oncle et le père adoptif de cet empereur, si César n’en eût pas été réellement coupable. <strong>...</strong></p>Le Goff Jacques - Héros et merveilles du moyen âgeurn:md5:12caa8cd62fec01d692cd908f67cc62c2017-04-26T00:44:00+01:002017-04-25T23:51:39+01:00balderLe Goff JacquesCeltesCommunismEuropeMind controlMythologiePropagandaUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Le_Goff_Jacques_-_Heros_et_merveilles_du_moyen_age.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Le Goff Jacques</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>Héros et merveilles du moyen âge</strong><br />
Année : 2005<br />
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Avant-propos. Cet ouvrage est la nouvelle édition en format de poche du « beau livre » que j’ai publié aux éditions du Seuil en 2005. Je répète ici à quelles intentions répond ce livre. D’abord souligner l’importance de l’imaginaire dans l’histoire, ensuite montrer que le Moyen Âge a été créateur de héros et de merveilles destinés à faire rêver dans la longue durée, le plus souvent sublimant des réalités sociales et matérielles de l’époque : cathédrales, chevaliers, amour (Tristan et Iseut), jeux et spectacles (jongleurs, troubadours et trouvères), femmes exceptionnelles se situant entre Dieu et Satan (Mélusine, papesse Jeanne, Iseult, Walkyrie). J’ai spécialement voulu suivre les avatars de l’imaginaire dans la longue durée avec ses éclipses et ses réveils. Ceux-ci ont surtout été le romantisme et plus encore les nouveaux moyens d’expression artistique : cinéma, bandes dessinées. Tout ceci doit enfin mettre en valeur et montrer par des images la modernité du Moyen Âge. <strong>...</strong></p>Markale Jean - Sites et sanctuaires des Celtesurn:md5:579d1ec066d3d6da6f3cdd77083bd95b2017-04-17T19:07:00+01:002017-05-18T09:53:17+01:00balderMarkale JeanCeltesEgypteEuropeHébraïsmeIsraëlPalestineSatanisme <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Markale_Jean_-_Sites_et_sanctuaires_des_Celtes.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Auteur : <strong>Markale Jean</strong><br />
Ouvrage : <strong>Sites et sanctuaires des Celtes</strong><br />
Année : 1999<br />
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Avant-Propos. Ce livre n'est pas un guide touristique, encore moins une étude archéologique des lieux qu'on suppose avoir été occupés par les peuples celtes. C'est avant tout une série de réflexions, d'informations et aussi de méditations à propos de certains sites connus ou non, où la présence de ces peuples celtes est attestée à différentes périodes de l'histoire. Il est évident qu'un ouvrage de ce genre ne peut être exhaustif, car les sites sur lesquels ces peuples celtes ont laissé leur empreinte sont innombrables. Il existe beaucoup d'autres livres, la plupart excellents, qui les répertorient et les décrivent en les replaçant dans leur contexte historique et archéologique. Il s'agit donc ici d'un choix limité, mais qui n'est pas forcément arbitraire : j'ai voulu en effet faire partager l'enthousiasme qui est le mien envers des lieux que je connais personnellement et qui me sont devenus familiers, pour tenter d'en mieux définir l'esprit et d'en mieux saisir les éléments subtils qui en font leur spécificité et leur intérêt. Cet intérêt me paraît double. Les peuples celtes sont mal connus, car avant l'arrivée du christianisme, ils n'ont jamais écrit et n'ont donc jamais laissé de témoignages directs sur eux-mêmes, et il importe d'utiliser toutes les sources d'informations qui sont à notre disposition actuellement sur leur civilisation afin de mieux la comprendre. <strong>...</strong></p>