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The Celtic religion: an Eastern origin?

Thursday 17 July 2003, by Babak KHANDANI

In an article published in the issue of July 2003 of the magazine Pour la Science (French edition of Scientific American), Jean-Louis Brunaux, responsible for research at CNRS, exposes his arguments in favour of an Aryan origin of the religion of the Celts.

According to him, the archaeological data confirm the Eastern origin of the Gallic religion in the old texts.

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  • The Celtic religion: an Eastern origin? 2 January 2007 00:19, by zaneta garratt

    one interesting likeness between celtic mythology and iranian is that in iranian mythology rustam, the hero who has superhuman strength, kills his son sohrab in battle by mistake and in irish mythology the super-human hero cu-cuchulan kills also his son by mistake in battle.Cu-cuchulan was killed by his enemy queen maeve using magical deception and, i seem to remember that rustam was also killed by magic deception too-best wishes,zaneta

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  • The Celtic religion: an Eastern origin? 8 October 2007 15:54, by marie

    The ancient Central American pantheon of gods includes Cuculan, a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent god. He was viewed, inter alia, as a sympathetic creator god who also appeared in human form, performing heroic deeds. Another version sees him as a reincarnation of other plumed serpent gods; he was seen to disappear over the eastern horizon on a float of snakes, with the promise to return. Myth and legend intermingled in the 10th century and it is not clear what the origins of the plumed serpent god are. Keep in mind that St Patrick is said to have banished snakes from Ireland, in more or less the same period.

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