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Today we think of the Celts as being confined to Ireland, Wales, Scotland or Brittany, but the word Celt is derived from the Ancient Greek word "Keltoi" referring to a non-town dweller and would have applied to most of the tribes occupying Northern Europe at the time of the Roman expansion. |
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Yet Celtic society was still essentially a pastoral one, and as such governed by Nature Spirits and the need to appease them on a daily basis. It is probable then that, alongside his attendance at public rituals and festivals, where he was virtually a "passive" onlooker, the individual Celt still negotiated directly with the Spirit World much as his ancestors had done. |
Celtic society was however, by virtue of the surplus wealth created by warfare, plunder and slavery, very much a stratified one, with kings and a warrior caste. This was reflected too in the spiritual domain with a hierarchy of druids and arch-druids and a pantheon of Gods and Goddesses to rival Rome or Greece. |
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