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The Gaulish Coligny calendar is the oldest known Celtic solar-lunar ritual calendar. It was discovered in Coligny , France, and is now on display in the Palais des Arts Gallo-Roman museum, Lyon. It dates from the end of the second century AD, [ 2 ] when the Roman Empire imposed the use of the Julian Calendar in Roman Gaul .
It is the most important evidence for the reconstruction of an ancient Celtic calendar. It was found in 1897 in France, in Coligny, Ain ( 46°23′N 5°21′E / 46.383°N 5.350°E / 46.383; 5.350 , near Lyon ), along with broken pieces of a bronze statue of a life-size naked male holding a spear, likely Roman Mars or Romano-Celtic Lugus
On the Isle of Man, the phrase 'fairy tree' often refers to the elder tree. [1] The medieval Welsh poem Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Trees) is believed to contain Celtic tree lore, possibly relating to the crann ogham, the branch of the ogham alphabet where tree names are used as mnemonic devices. "The Druid Grove" (1845)
Diagram comparing the Celtic, astronomical and meteorological calendars. Prior to the Christianisation of Ireland in the 5th century AD, the Celtic quarter days were observed: [4] Imbolc (February 1) Beltaine (May 1) Lughnasadh (August 1) Samhain (November 1) These are now called cross-quarter days since they fall about halfway into each of the ...
Tricephalic head found at Roquepertuse, a major Celtic religious centre dated to the 3rd century BC The three faced Corleck Head, Irish, 1st century AD. Celtic stone idols are Northern European stone sculptures dated to the Iron Age, that are believed to represent Celtic gods. The majority contain one or more human heads, which may have one or ...
Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.
The clootie well near Munlochy, on the Black Isle, Scotland. Clootie tree next to St Brigid's Well, Kildare, Ireland. A clootie well is a holy well (or sacred spring), almost always with a tree growing beside it, where small strips of cloth or ribbons are left as part of a healing ritual, usually by tying them to branches of the tree (called a clootie tree or rag tree).
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