This document is written in my own rather crude, simplified dialect of Gaulish, in 2010.  I still use long and short vowels, which are essential to the rhythm of it, though not the official metre.  I wrote it during a long and boring meeting, in which I was not expected to speak.  I have not checked the vocabulary in Delmarre’s  Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise, nor in Matasovic’s Etymological dictionary of Proto-Celtic.  In any case,…

Celts and Gauls: Matters of Terminology and Identity: Before we go any further, we need to address one of the simplest and yet most divisive questions found in Celtic Polytheist circles. To be sure, we won’t be able to come up with a final answer here, but we can at least come up with very provisional answers for the purposes of this column. Every few months, the Celtic Polytheist internet is convulsed by yet another…

Here we have a few books to help you learn about the Gaulish path. Many of them will be cited as this column progresses. 1) Celtic Heritage – Alwyn and Brinley Rees. General Celtic.   2) Dictionnaire de la Langue Gauloise – Xavier Delmarre.  Essential for Gaulish language study.  3) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic – Ranko Matasovic.  Also essential for Gaulish langauage.  4) La Langue Gauloise – Pierre-Yves Lambert.  Very good for Gaulish grammar.  5)…

Of necessity, this post will resemble material from my earlier book Celtic Flame. We are establishing ground rules here, what this column will address, and, insofar as it is using a similar format to my earlier work, it is going to resemble it to a great degree. The resemblance will decrease as the column goes on. So, then, the Gaulish polytheism which is the subject of this column has a number of elements, among them…

Digression #1 Driving out of the suburbs, on Highway 42, into the deep country, certain signs become increasingly visible to the discerning eye. Three crows in a field sit silently, giving no omens except their presence. Omen enough. Less than mile further on, three horses stand in a field, living signs of Who else is there. No telling what Her business is, except it doesn’t appear to concern me. A few miles further, a field…

This column is about Gaulish Polytheism, for the most part, though it will no doubt include the odd foray into other territory here and there. You can expect to find scholarly discussion of concepts and worldview, discussions of deities and spirits, both scholarly and not, rituals, calendrics, invocations, poetry and personal spiritual experiences. You’ll probably find the occasional look at the life of a Northerner living in the woods of rural Florida. The place I…