Pagan Celtic Britain

This classic and unsurpassed study of iconography and literature pertaining to deities and various types of symbolism found in Celtic myth, I think has often been overlooked by students... as well as by enthusiasts, who inexplicably prefer trying to discern the veracities of topics related to Celtic paganism through online chat rooms, where many posts (including heated arguments and mind-boggling claims and posturing) rarely seem to culminate in any kind of helpful or accurate conclusions. And readers and seekers deserve better!

I would highly recommend that people step away from the phone, and pick up this book! So many of… show more.

I am fascinated by the author’s contention that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice across the land. I also like the combination of archaeological and anthropological evidence with folklore and tradition, which is very unusual in such works, and provides a far broader insight into the early Celtic world than most books of its type. 

Because it was the first book that really drew me into the fascinating world of British religion and belief during the Roman period, and started me on my own path of discovery about religious traditions that steadfastly maintained their ‘Britishness’ even after the Roman occupation. The material collected in Ross’s book – often previously unpublished and unrecognised for what it was – made me think hard about the ways that cults and rituals from two very different ethnic groups might change each other and, even more importantly, came to evolve into a merged set of Roman and British deities and… show more.