Talk:Celtic mythology

message: clasqm, we certainly need to keep Irish mythology distinct from Celtic Mythology; there are a great number of overlaps but not all a = b nor is necessarily all b = a. I would probably prefer that the gods are dealt with in distinct articles in their own right as per Norse Mythology; do you have any problem with this? sjc
:Hi, sjc. No problem at all. I think CM can deal with the mythology of generic Celts wherever they found themselves, while IM can be specifically Irish. Perhaps someone will then later write something on Scottish mythology, Celtiberian mythology etc. Feel free to plunder CM for stub material, but I suggest leaving it there too. it's only a minor duplication ... clasqm
::Hi, and many thanks. Let's see if we can get this as definitive as NM is on its way to becoming. sjc
:I'm a little concerned that the deities labeled as "Celtic" are in fact Irish. I'm also not sure the word pantheon should be used in the context of Celtic myth, since it means, literally and in terms of scholarly use "all gods." Pantheon implies an ordered, systemic hierarchy, when there doesn't appear to have been anything of the kind outside of the Celto-Romano context, where the was a desire to create one-to-one equivalencies between Roman and non-Roman deities. --DigitalMedievalist.
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This is looking good - I'm a big fan of the norse pages, and hope to eventually get around to working on the Roman (as opposed to the Greek-borrowings).  --MichaelTinkler
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Can anybody add pronunciation guides?  They'd be useful here ans in several other places, but i'm not sure where to find them...JHK
I'll see what I can do on this front. sjc
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There are definitions of both Dagda and Morrigan in this page, and links to other pages with more detailed definitions.  Should we have these definitions in both places, or should the names just appear here, with links to their definitions? -- corvus13
No, this is just work in progress and overlap between clasqm's original work and my desire to parallel other mythologies e.g. Norse Mythology in their treatment. We will straighten this out in the fullness of time (probably about 7 - 10 days at the present rate of progress). sjc
::There are broader reasons: each Wikipedia entry must stand on its own, without consulting links to get a basic understanding. There are bound to be many overlaps, even of text, at Wikipedia. Essential links don't actually stand out, where practically every noun is linked. Wetman 07:04, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish distinct from Celtic mythology

message: In case nobody noticed, I merged Celtic Religion. Cheers, (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 18:28, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: I made broad changes to this article, primarily in the first paragraph, to reduce the apparent conflation of Gaulish tribes with "the Celts" per se.
--Ryanaxp 17:31, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
It still needs work. For example "Because of the scarcity of surviving materials bearing written Gaulish, it is surmised that the pagan Celts were not widely literate—although a written form of Gaulish using the Greek alphabet was used (as evidenced by votive items bearing inscriptions in Gaulish and the Calender of Coligny)." which is okay up to "although" and then goes wrong, implying that Gaulish was only written in the Greek alphabet (the Latin, Iberian, and Lepontic alphabets were also used) and naming only one example (which uses the Latin, not Greek, alphabet). --Nantonos 16:16, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reworking of first paragraph 

message: It would be easier to understand if somewhere there was a table indicating the correspondence between each goidelic, insular (brythonic), continental (brythonic), and proto-celtic deity. 
e.g. 
Goidelic        	Insular          	Continental	Proto-Celtic
Badb            	                 	Catubodua  	
                	Beli Mawr        	Belenus    	
Caladbolg       	Excalibur        	           	
Danu            	Dôn              	           	
Goibniu         	Govannon         	           	
Lug             	Llew Llaw Gyffes 	Lugus      	
                	Mabon ap Modron  	Maponos    	
Macha           	Rhiannon         	Epona      	
Manannan mac Lir	Manawydan        	           	
                	Modron           	Dea Matrona	
Nuada           	Lludd Llaw Eraint	           	Nodens
Ogma            	                 	Ogmios     	
Tuireann        	Taranis          	Taranis    	
~~~~ 09:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equivalence 

message: ive been so intrigeed by all sorts of myhtology.
i love all soorts of it greek celtic   
since i was about 12years old im now 16 still love thse stuff of mytology
i want to be able to studie this more    ive been inspirated to all this♥ this is very fun to learn 81.82.218.7 (talk) 08:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  celtic