Celtic Myth in the 21st Century: The Gods and their Stories in a Global Perspect

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This book explores the exciting world of Celtic mythology and demonstrates how it can be related to its prehistoric Indo-European roots.

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This fascinating book offers twelve chapters by experts in the field of Celtic mythology—from myth and the medieval to comparative mythology and the new cosmological approach. Celtic Myth in the 21st Century offers a wide range of innovative research that leads readers on an adventure through the wonders of Celtic history: the possible use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in ancient Ireland to the mental mapping in the interpretation of the Irish legend Táin Bó Cuailgne. It also looks at the modern integration of established scholarship with new findings that have recently emerged at the Indo-European level; these developments have the potential to open up the whole field of mythology in a new way. An exciting addition to existing scholarship, Celtic Myth in the 21st Century is the first book to offer a view of Celtic mythology as the reflection of a prehistoric state that it is possible to recover through integrated cosmological enquiry.

Author Biography

It is aimed at an academic audience, but mythology exerts a strong attraction and the book can be expected to have some appeal to a wider readership.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Celtic Mythology in the 21st CenturyJonathan Wooding, Series EditorSection 1: Myth and the Medieval1. God and Gods in the Seventh Century: Tirechan on St Patrick and King Loegaire's Daughters - Elizabeth A. Gray2. Time, Identity and the Otherworld: A Note on The Wooing of Etain - John Carey3. The Celtic Dragon Myth Revisited - Joseph F. Nagy4. Tory Island and Mount Errigal: Landscape Surrogates in Donegal for the Gods Balor and Lug - Brian LaceySection 2: Comparative Mythology5. Ireland as Mesocosm - Grigory Bondarenko6. Hunting the Deer in Celtic and Indo-European Mythological Contexts - Maxim Fomin7. Gods, Poets and Entheogens: Ingesting Wisdom in Early Irish Literary Sources - Sharon Paice MacLeod8. The Armorican Voyage to the Afterlife and Celtic Myths - Fanch Bihan-GallicSection 3: The New Cosmological Approach9. Towards Adopting a Double Perspective on Celtic Mythology and its Prehistoric Roots - Emily Lyle10. Sisters' Sons in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi - Anna June Page11. Fashioners of the Cosmos in Ireland and India: The Dagda and Tvastr - John Shaw12. Psycho-Cosmology: Mental Mapping in Tain Bo Cuailgne - James CarneyBibliographyIndex

Review

"Celtic mythology, for long sidelined by mainstream scholarship, is making a comeback - but, like the material that it examines, it is returning in a shifted shape. In this volume, we find a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the body of myth in Celtic languages. Structuralist approaches are reinvestigated and revived. Stories and beliefs are set within their contemporary literary and historical contexts, and wider international analogues are considered. This enterprising collection of essays resets the agenda for work on mythology in Celtic Studies."--Gregory Toner, Queen's University Belfast

Review Text

The book brings together a wide variety of new studies by experts in the field who have chosen their own topics to explore.It is informed by an awareness that mythology has a key role to play in human self-understanding.It is the first book to offer a view of Celtic mythology as reflecting a prehistoric state that it is possible to recover through integrated cosmological enquiry. This should offer a stimulus to readers and serve as an invitation to view wider horizons.This cosmological approach highlights the key importance of features that are too often taken for granted, such as the sovereignty goddess.

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"Celtic mythology, for long sidelined by mainstream scholarship, is making a comeback - but, like the material that it examines, it is returning in a shifted shape. In this volume, we find a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the body of myth in Celtic languages. Structuralist approaches are reinvestigated and revived. Stories and beliefs are set within their contemporary literary and historical contexts, and wider international analogues are considered. This enterprising collection of essays resets the agenda for work on mythology in Celtic Studies."

Author Comments

Emily Lyle is an Honorary Fellow in the department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Details ISBN1786832054 Pages 256 ISBN-10 1786832054 ISBN-13 9781786832054 Format Paperback Year 2018 Author Emily Lyle Media Book Imprint University of Wales Press Subtitle The Gods and their Stories in a Global Perspective DOI 10.1234/b10914 Place of Publication Wales Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Emily Lyle DEWEY 299.16113 Series New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology Language English Illustrations No NZ Release Date 2018-03-01 Publication Date 2018-03-01 UK Release Date 2018-03-01 Publisher University of Wales Press Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781786832061 AU Release Date 2018-05-16 We've got this

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