id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14672 MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott) The Religion of the Ancient Celts .txt text/plain 133182 10254 80 darkness, and in the divinities sun-gods and dawn-goddesses and a host these, while the Roman gods, by whose names Cæsar calls the Celtic the Roman god is added a descriptive Celtic epithet or a word derived anthropomorphic form of an earlier animal god, like the wolf-skin of Earth-god, the Celtic Dispater or Dagda, whose consort the goddess divinities, hostile to the gods of the Celts or regarded as dark But myth-making man easily developed the suggestion; gods were like men Celtic gods and heroes are often called after their mothers, regarded as gods, though certain Druids may have been divine priests, gods superseded goddesses, the divine priest-king would take the place Celtic Earth-god was lord of the dead, and that he probably took the there existed a dog totem or god, not of the Celts, but of a pre-Celtic of a divine king connected with an oak and sacred well, the god or ./cache/14672.txt ./txt/14672.txt