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Most people associate Celtics with irelandOh, yes, because Ireland was independent of Roman and tried to keep its independent always. This is good example of Celtic nature but I don't want to speak about nationalism.
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Lacertus=lizard
It is my nickname for all sorts of rallies (really Lacerta). I extended it to all my forums.
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Happy Birthday! Good luck! Be happy!
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But yes, you're right, there is a danger in overemphasizing the extent of women's rights in Celtic culture and religion. Some bad scholarship along those lines helped create some New Age women-centered, goddess spiritualty cults that are based on an overly romanticized idea of Celtic matriarchy.I'm agreed but I advanced my opinion only and this theme was honey to my soul. I know this viewpoint is not holds much favour nevertheless it has right to be. It is impossible to write and look back to bad scholarship.
It is better then Celtic nationalism for example or something like that.
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Religion and magic had a central place in the life of Celts. As in any Pagan society there were many Gods: god of light, god of wisdom, oratory and writing ( The Celts had their own runic alphabet), god of sea, goddess of war, and a countless number of demigods
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the Celts never built Stonehenge,it was here long before the Celts migrated into Britain.Oh, yes. The monument's construction has been attributed to many ancient peoples throughout the years but the most captivating and enduring attribution has been to the Druids. This erroneous connection was first made around 3 centuries ago by the antiquary, John Aubrey. Julius Caesar and other Roman writers told of a Celtic priesthood who flourished around the time of their first conquest (55 BC). By this time, though, the stones had been standing for 2,000 years, and were, perhaps, already in a ruined condition. Besides, the Druids worshipped in forest temples and had no need for stone structures.
The best guess seems to be that the Stonehenge was begun by the people of the late Neolithic period (around 3000BC) and carried forward by people from a new economy which was arising at this time. These people used of pottery drinking vessels, began to use metal implements and to live in a more communal fashion than their ancestors. Some think that they may have been immigrants from the continent but that contention is not supported by archaeological evidence. It is likely that they were indigenous people doing the same old things in new ways.
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I found some information about it. Constantine invited the bishops of all the major Pagan religions of Rome to the Council of Nicaea because he wanted to present officially Christianity like main Roman religion and give Roman Catholic Church more privileges concerning to other religions. Maybe it is true.
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If I could be a man and if take into account my adventurous nature I would be a pirate and made Roman's life a burden. Probably I could come to a sticky end. lol
Hardly I could be a legioner or something like that because I don't like any system and like my own freedom.
If I could be a woman... I'll hang first!!!
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I lived in Egypt eight years off and on. Of course this event was seared into my memory. I going to return to Egypt and take part in an archaeological digs next summer. I treat with one of the Europe University about it and going to interlocution with project director next week. I try to renew my knowledge about ancient Egypt and read many books about it now.
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I make bold to add this thread and put a table listing some of the many gods and goddesses of Egyptian mythology. The deities are listed as closely as possible to the order of their appearance in the myths, from oldest to newest.
Nekhbet vulture goddess of Upper Egypt
Wadjet cobra goddess of Lower Egypt
Meskhenet childbirth goddess, represented by a tile
Taweret hippopotamus goddess, also childbirth goddess and protectoress
Bet childbirth god and protector of children
Atum Heliopolis (ancient On) sun god, self-created from the Watery Waste of Nun
Shu god of air, created by Atum
Tefnut goddess of moisture, created by Atum, sometimes a lion goddess
Geb earth god, created by Shu and Tefnut
Nut sky goddess, also goddess of death and burial, created by Shu and Tefnut
Osiris fertility god, later king of the dead, child of Geb and Nut
Isis Mistress of Magic and Speaker of Spells, also goddess of the dead, sister-wife of Osiris, child of Geb and Nut, mother of young Horus and therefore symbolic Mother of the Egyptian King
Seth rival of young Horus, destroyer of Osiris's body, child of Geb and Nut
Nephthys one of the goddesses of the dead, sister-wife of Seth and child of Geb and Nut
Horus the Elder often shown in man's form, or as a hawk, child of Geb and Nut
young Horus son of Isis
Hathor powerful sky and cow goddess, fertility figure, consort of young Horus but kept a separate temple, associated with tirual music
Thoth Hermopolis god, moon god and reckoner of time, depicted in human form with an ibis mask
Neith national goddess of Lower Egypt, huntress with crossed bow and arrows as her symbol, also goddess of the dead, sometimes supreme creator
Serkhet a goddess of death and burial
Re sun god, in the creation myth with Neith as supreme god, wept men and women from his eyes
Ptah Memphis god, considered primeval being first created to take precendence over Atum
Sekhmet represents the rays of the sun at midday, consort of Ptah and daughter of Re, the sun god, lion goddess of Middle Egypt
Aton Aye at el-Armana tomb chapel, also claimed to take precedence over Atum
Khnum First Cataract deity, ram-headed supreme creator god
Satet and Anuket represent the Nile in flood, helpers to Khnum
Nun and Nunet Ogdoad of Khemenu gods (City of Eight), represent the primeval abyss
Heh and Hauket Ogdoad of Khemenu gods, represent infinity
Kek and Kauket Ogdoad of Khemenu gods, represent darkness
Amun and Amunet Ogdoad of Khemenu gods, represent the unknown gods, also male and female principles in the cosmic system, Amun later a chief god
Mut both lion and warrior goddess, consort of Amun at Thebes, replacing Amunet
Bastet cat goddess, important in the last 1000 years B, originally a lion goddess
Meretseger cobra goddess of the peak overlooking the Valley of the Kings, name means "she who loves silence"
Renenutet snake goddess and protector of the king and the harvest
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unrv.com has pop up windows? thats new for me...I said uncorrect... I don't know how may say rightly... but it was a problem of confirmation messages and it was solved.
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And the Vestals. Who are the Vestals?Not me only lol
/point on my sig
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Most likely the secret of it was lost.
There are guess-works only but they have rights to live.
Incendiary weapons were nothing new in warfare in the Mediterranean world. Naphtha, a petroleum distillate, was known in the 4th century BCE. In combat on both land and sea, petroleum, sulphur, bitumen, and resin had been used since early Christian times. But Greek fire was more insidious. It was projected upon enemy forces in the fashion of a flamethrower. Contemporary accounts frequently mention the mixture being discharged from tubes mounted on the prows of Byzantine ships. Like modern napalm, it adhered to whatever it struck, and could not be extinguished with water.
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What about the region? African legions would differ undergarment wise in comparison to troops in Pyreenes, just as American troops from Alaska wear noticably different shirts under their BDU Jacket during the winter over troops stationed in Georgia.Yes, I think there were differents between African legions and legions from Britain for example. I saw a picture (cannot find it now unfortunately) of Roman legioner in Britain (bas-relief). The legioner was drown in really celtic trousers and fur cape. It is unlikely that similar clothes were needed in Africa. But it was absolute necessity in Britain. I think legions had analogous equipment and colour spectrum as clothers as scutums etc.
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lol. I found a mistake in the game.
Was done "Russia, Kharkov". But it is not Russia. It is Ukraine.
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If all registered members were sorted into Citizens and not Citizents and it was a question even of imperor (lol) how treat with women here which hadn't franchise in ancient Rome???
And how about pontifices? :angel:
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"By the year 391 A.D., the breed was known in Rome, when the first authentic mention of it was written by the Roman Consul Quintus Aurelius, who had received seven of them as a gift which "all Rome viewed with wonder."
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There are a lists of invited to the Councils persons.
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It is barbarously savage, isn't it?
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Well, say me please, Frankq, what books you read (exact name of books).
I want to check it becouse I know that translation may be different or shortly. If say honesty I don't remember such antagonisms. I read as Appian as Plutarch.
Thanks.
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Charming!
Is it really celtic? or it is a nice name of breed?
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Yes, the theme is great. It is astonishing that we have many really archaeological evidences of so remote time. Very interesting are the numerous stone pedestals that once bore metal statues of the pre
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I found some links about trade routs.
and about trade ships.
Celtic Nationalism
in Hora Postilla Thermae
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lol. I don't dispute against it. The talk was about Ireland and Galicia.
BTW: interesting link