The Celts Flashcards
When? where? from where? (Celts)
700 BC, England Wales Scotland, from north-west Germany.
Their language (celts)
Is found in Gaelic and Welsh
How were they? (Celts)
Muscular, tall, had fair skin, blond hair, blue eyes
What were they? (Celts)
Farmers, hunters, fishermen, metalworkers
Their clothes?
Cloaks and skirt striped, checked, piece of jewellery
Their priests? Functions? (Celts)
Druids, religion-justice-education-medicine.
Ceremonies in forests
Holy elements? Believes?
(Sun, moon, trees, rivers.
(Water=holy element
[immortality, transmigration of the soul from one to another. Life after death spent in caves hills an lakes.
Communication with spiritual world?
Through sacrifices, more valuable object more powerful the act.
Sacrifice domestic animals, a human when great needs.
Evidences? (Celts)
We know them from the Romans, which invaded them for its agricultural and commercial prosperity
