at one point he invents an entire ritual to explain causewayed enclosures. It's neat speculation, but it is speculation.
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where I completely lose patience with Celtic studies is wishful thinking based on "these two languages are both IE so the...
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culture must have equivalences." There was a rash of books that did that with India. Lot of folk like that idea.
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right? Was discussing w
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extremely. there are certainly going to be similarities re: Lugh on the continent and in Britain and Ireland...
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so certain deities had a wide range, however, they weren't going to be the same.
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sort of like how Roman and Greek religions were similar but not identical.
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frankly even just Greek OR Roman religions being one uniform thing is an oversimplification.
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also true, and they changed vastly over time.
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Yeah we have a weird concept of pagan religions from antiquity being static - based on what? No religion is static.
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in fact it's one of the greatest indicators of societal change and development
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