This fascinating book offers twelve chapters by experts in the field of Celtic mythology—from myth and the medieval to comparative mythology and the new cosmological approach. Celtic Myth in the 21st Century offers a wide range of innovative research that leads readers on an adventure through the wonders of Celtic history: the possible use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in ancient Ireland to the mental mapping in the interpretation of the Irish legend Táin Bó Cuailgne. It also looks at the modern integration of established scholarship with new findings that have recently emerged at the Indo-European level; these developments have the potential to open up the whole field of mythology in a new way. An exciting addition to existing scholarship, Celtic Myth in the 21st Century is the first book to offer a view of Celtic mythology as the reflection of a prehistoric state that it is possible to recover through integrated cosmological enquiry.
Author(s): Emily Lyle
Series: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 225
City: Cardiff
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Celtic Myth in the 21st Century: Jonathan M. Wooding, Series Editor
Section 1: Myth and the Medieval
1: God and Gods in the Seventh Century: Tírechán on
St Patrick and King Lóegaire’s Daughters: Elizabeth Gray
2: Identity, Time and the Otherworld: An Observation on The Wooing Of Étaín: John Carey
3: The Celtic Dragon Myth Revisited: Joseph Falaky Nagy
4: Tory Island and Mount Errigal: Landscape Surrogates
in Donegal for the Gods Balor and Lug: Brian Lacey
Section 2: Comparative Mythology
5: Ireland as Mesocosm: Grigory Bondarenko
6: Hunting the Deer in Celtic and Indo-European Mythological Contexts: Maxim Fomin
7: Gods, Poets and Entheogens: Ingesting Wisdom in
Early Irish Literary Sources: Sharon Paice MacLeod
8: The Armorican Voyage to the Afterlife and Celtic Myths: Fañch Bihan-Gallic
Section 3: The new Cosmological Approach
9: Towards Adopting a Double Perspective on Celtic Mythology and its Prehistoric: Roots Emily Lyle
10: Sisters’ Sons in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi: Anna June Pagé
11: Fashioner Gods in Ireland and India: the Dagda and Tvaṣṭṛ: John Shaw
12: Psycho-Cosmology: Mental Mapping in Táin Bó Cuailnge: James Carney
Bibliography
Index
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