Anyone on here interested in Celtic paganism

[TheOldNorth]

I'am starting to be interest on it as a religion. I can't stand the abrahamic religion for many reasons.
Pagan religion might include many stuff I enjoy.

The problem is that it's hard to find any information about it.

And pagan is an umbrella word for many differents movement.

That’s why I specified Celtic paganism (I don’t mean Wicca, Wiccan is made up trash)
Also Celtic paganism in it self isn’t necessarily one thing. Theirs Gaelic, Gallic, and late Brittonic Celtic paganism as well as the poorly attested celtiberian or Hispano-celtic paganism

[smurph]

I dislike any "religion" that sacrificed babies.

[Jehan]

That’s why I specified Celtic paganism (I don’t mean Wicca, Wiccan is made up trash)
Also Celtic paganism in it self isn’t necessarily one thing. Theirs Gaelic, Gallic, and late Brittonic Celtic paganism as well as the poorly attested celtiberian or Hispano-celtic paganism

Can you provide me a link to some good materials?

[TheOldNorth]

I dislike any "religion" that sacrificed babies.

They... didn't... celts only sacrificed prisoners of war or volunteers (mostly grown men) and only in times of great desperation

[TheOldNorth]

Can you provide me a link to some good materials?

That's the problem, there is no good sources, the real evidence is spread out over many sources. I would give the channel "sanctuary of the gods" a watch, but he can get a bit out-there in his theories, although he reads directly from the last written sources of the stories that may provide a hint. One thing that may help you is understanding the nature of indo-european pantheons, and myths in general and then reading the sources, some things will just fit.

[smurph]

They... didn't... celts only sacrificed prisoners of war or volunteers (mostly grown men) and only in times of great desperation

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/rac19.htm

Coming danger could also be averted on the same principle, and though the victims were usually slaves, in times of great peril wives and children were sacrificed.

The Nemedian sacrifice to the Fomorians is said to have been two-thirds of their children and of the year's supply of corn and milk

Diodorus says the Irish ate their enemies, and Pausanias describes the eating the flesh and drinking the blood of children among the Galatian Celts.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes of course see my signature. I just love Celtic mythology. I was brought up reading it and have never stopped loving it.

[Jehan]

They... didn't... celts only sacrificed prisoners of war or volunteers (mostly grown men) and only in times of great desperation

A french pagan on youtube tell that it might be a legend invent by christianity to picture pagan as violent monster.
He beleive human sacrifice might have never exist.

No ideas if it might be true or not.

[TheOldNorth]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/rac19.htm

Have you considered the main sources that we have of the gauls were when they were in a time of great desperation, also Romans tended to exaggerate such practices and their frequency as a form of propaganda or simple bias. The Romans also said that the gauls had sword that always bent on impact, and yet science has proven them wrong. They also accused the gauls of 'liking their own men more than their women' as a form of propaganda as well (because in roman society, being penetrated was a sign of emasculation) to say "We are real men, they aren't"
It's clear to me that a society like theirs wouldn't have even worked if they sacrificed, and had as many gay relations as the Romans state, just as they wouldn't have almost conquered Rome itself with sword that are constantly bending.

[TheOldNorth]

Yes of course see my signature. I just love Celtic mythology. I was brought up reading it and have never stopped loving it.

Unfortunately for me, the stories were lost in my family, so I had to rediscover them in my journey of ancestral discovery