Animals in Celtic Life and Myth

Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Routledge

<p>Here is an exciting, innovative study of ancient European religious practice and practitioners. The Aldhouse-Greens entertaining and informative book represents a search, a voyage of discovery in which evidence is sought that there were individuals living in Europe from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman period who believed they were able to liaise with the spirit-world through the medium of trance and who perceived themselves to be part-human and part-animal.The authors support their argument with diverse and rich evidence, including the 30,000-year-old lion-human ivory figurines found in south-western Germany, which may represent monsters seen by shamans in altered states of consciousness; the newly discovered and spectacular Nebra sky-disc, which depicts the sun, moon and the Pleiades, indicating that Bronze Age shamans were using highly sophisticated objects to explore the heavens; and, the Doctors Grave from southeast England, which suggests that a Late Iron Age chieftain, who may have been a shaman, was sent to the Otherworld equipped with hallucinogens, medical kit and divining tools.</p>

The Quest for the Shaman: Shape-Shifters, Sorcerers and Spirit Healers in Ancient Europe

Stephen Aldhouse-Green

Reference

Thames and Hudson

Continuing the tradition of the Everyman Art Series,combining learned yet lively text by acknowledged scholars in the field with high quality illustrationin colour throughout.

Celtic Art: Reading the Messages

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Everyman"s Library

Os mitos celtas. Um guia para deuses e lendas antigas (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Vozes

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