No One Should Be Surprised That Celtic Britain Was Women-Centric

The Iron Age people of west and central Europe lived right on the edge of history. The first written records of these people and their beliefs were not written by them, but by their neighbours to the south – the literate civilizations of the Phoenicians, ancient Greece and Rome. It’s the Roman literature in particular which perhaps gives us the bes

Woman is then the first worshipped being in the human world.

Many of his contemporaries regarded them as of Roman or of later date, but Aubrey realised they were far more ancient and that they were ceremonial centres.

Filled with mystery and magic, the life of the Celt included Shamanism and a connection to the solar and seasonal cycles, as observed in pagan ritual and practice. The Celts believed that the Goddess and God in their many forms and faces could appear in any world, at any time and place, and that humankind could actively enlist the help of these dei

Historians used to claim that the Celts came to Britain in a series of invasions from about 500 BC, and that the Druids, being Celts, could not therefore have built the stone circles.

The Goddess-centered art with its striking absence of images of warfare and male domination, reflects a social order in which women as heads of clans or queen-priestesses played a central part. Old Europe and Anatolia, as well as Minoan Crete, were a gylany.14 A balanced, non-patriarchal and non-matriachal social system is reflected by religion, my