The Celtic Druids' Year: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts (original 1994; edition 1994)

by John Robert King (Author)

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The author explains how the Celtic year, with its cycles related to the changes of the seasons, was the very essence of Druidism and its practice.--From publisher description.

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Title:	The Celtic Druids' Year: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts
Authors:	John Robert King (Author)
Info:	Blandford Press (1994), 240 pages
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The author explains how the Celtic year, with its cycles related to the changes of the seasons, was the very essence of Druidism and its practice.--From publisher description.

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"King's focus is on the wheel of the Celtic year with its cycle of four celebrations.... King describes the religious underpinnings of the festivals, the functions of the Druid priests and bards, relationships to other mythologies, and the influence of historical assimilation and migration on what we know of Celtic myth."-- "Booklist. 256 pages, 30 b/w illus., 6 x 9 1/4.

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