Sins & Punishments
Background: Celtics preferred to pass on their sacred teaching and myths orally. After the coming of Christianity in the fifth century onwards, the monks recored the myths, and it is thanks to them that so many survive today. Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, known as the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like-other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celts in close contact with Ancient Rome. Their mythology did not survive the Roman Empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic Languages. It is mostly through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that their mythology has been preserved.
Overview: Though the Celtic world at its apex covered much of western and central Europe, it was not politically unified nor was there any substantial central source of cultural influence. As a result, there was a great deal of variation in local practices of Celtic religion. Inscriptions to more than three hundred deities, often equated with their Roman counterparts, have survived, but of these most appear to have been genii locrum, local or tribal gods, and few were widely worshipped. However, from what has survived of Celtic mythology, it is possible to discern commonalities which hint at a more in pantheon than is often given credit. The nature and functions of these ancient gods can be deduced from their names, the location of their inscriptions, the Roman gods they are equated with,and similar figures from later bodies of Celtic mythology. Celtic mythology is found in a number of distinct, if related, subgroups, largely corresponding to the branches of the Celtic languages: Ancient Celtic Religion, Ancient Gaulish, and Ancient British. Mythology in Goidelic languages represented chiefly by Irish mythology and Scottish mythology.
Once You Sin Except an Consequence!!! "The ages of the world” Many myths show sin and punishment but one that it clearly stands out in is “The ages of the world.” When the Mileslans landed in Ireland, they were greated by a goddess who welcomed them to her land. They we very happy and thankful for her welcoming with open arms to her land, except for one of their people. One man announced, “We owe no gratitude to you, for you have done nothing for us. Our own gods brought us to this land, It is they who will sustain us here, and it is they who we shall honor.” This was looked at as a sin by not accepting the hospitality of the goddess. As his punishment she said, “ Because you can not accept us along with your own gods, your gods will sustain your race , but they will not sustain you! You will not live to enjoy this land, and no child of yours will either!”
This story "ages of the world" demonstrates a lot about society and religion today. It is still known in Christianity, that if you do not accept Christ into your life you will later have punishment. It does not matter if you are a boy or girl, good or evil, without the acceptance of chirst, you will land in hell. In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell under the earths external surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living. This relates to the "ages of the world". In the story because they did not accept the goddess she punished them by death. That myth still carries on today in our lives. People tend to be careful about who and what they believe in. Mainly because the fright of death, and most important the horrors of afterlife. Adults and Children are taught to believe in a God, in every single religion not just Christianity. So i conclude that this is one of the most significant myths, that survived decades and still alive.
Hey Look!**Interesting facts: The Power Of Music
Music was of great importance to the Celts because they believed it had the power to enchant. The names of the Three Noble Strains end in trai, which means enchanter. Music could therefore magically summon or control emotion. It could also take the hearer into a place of dream and vision or bring the soothing of forgetfulness. It was an integral part of the Otherworld.
The sound of beautiful music greeted the entry of every hero into this realm, often being produced by magical birds. Magical birds also attended the silver-stringed harp of Aengus Og who used it, like Apollo, to charm them. For the harp was considered particularly magical. It was often owned and played by gods. It was the favoured accompaniment for telling the old tales, being able to conjure all the different moods as well as to accompany the vocal declamations of poetry. Thus every bard was expected to be skilled on it. Later, broken-stringed, the harp came to symbolize the sorrows of Ireland. Its magical music also retreated, along with the Tuatha, into the sidhe. Some evocative Irish music today is said to have come from tunes overheard in fairy revels.
By:Kani-Latrel Mapps
Background: Celtics preferred to pass on their sacred teaching and myths orally. After the coming of Christianity in the fifth century onwards, the monks recored the myths, and it is thanks to them that so many survive today. Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, known as the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like-other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celts in close contact with Ancient Rome. Their mythology did not survive the Roman Empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic Languages. It is mostly through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that their mythology has been preserved.
Overview: Though the Celtic world at its apex covered much of western and central Europe, it was not politically unified nor was there any
Once You Sin Except an Consequence!!!
"The ages of the world”
Many myths show sin and punishment but one that it clearly stands out in is “The ages of the world.” When the Mileslans landed in Ireland, they were greated by a goddess who welcomed them to her land. They we very happy and thankful for her welcoming with open arms to her land, except for one of their people. One man announced, “We owe no gratitude to you, for you have done nothing for us. Our own gods brought us to this land, It is they who will sustain us here, and it is they who we shall honor.” This was looked at as a sin by not accepting the hospitality of the goddess. As his punishment she said, “ Because you can not accept us along with your own gods, your gods will sustain your race , but they will not sustain you! You will not live to enjoy this land, and no child of yours will either!”
This story "ages of the world" demonstrates a lot about society and religion today. It is still known in Christianity, that if you do not accept Christ into your life you will later have punishment. It does not matter if you are a boy or girl, good or evil, without the acceptance of chirst, you will land in hell. In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations.
Hey Look!**Interesting facts: The Power Of Music
Music was of great importance to the Celts because they believed it had the power to enchant. The names of the Three Noble Strains end in trai, which means enchanter. Music could therefore magically summon or control emotion. It could also take the hearer into a place of dream and vision or bring the soothing of forgetfulness. It was an integral part of the Otherworld.
The sound of beautiful music greeted the entry of every hero into this realm, often being produced by magical birds. Magical birds also attended the silver-stringed harp of Aengus Og who used it, like Apollo, to charm them. For the harp was considered particularly magical. It was often owned and played by gods. It was the favoured accompaniment for telling the old tales, being able to conjure all the different moods as well as to accompany the vocal declamations of poetry. Thus every bard was expected to be skilled on it. Later, broken-stringed, the harp came to symbolize the sorrows of Ireland. Its magical music also retreated, along with the Tuatha, into the sidhe. Some evocative Irish music today is said to have come from tunes overheard in fairy revels.
Links & BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell
http://www.livingmyths.com/Celticmyth.htm
http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/cmain.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_mythology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology