#Celtic #MythologyMonday: I would love to see #CúChulainn, #Fionn Mac Cumhaill with his #Fianna and #Boudicca join #Vercingetorix in repelling the Roman invasion of #Gaul.

In #IronAge #Gaul New Year's Eve was called Uegilia Samoni. It was an evening celebration commemorating the ancestral spirits and souls of the deceased. It survived in Christian lore as Halloween or All-Saints-Day.
Source: Michel-Gérald Boutet “The Calendar and Almonach of the #Ancient #Druids”
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The fascinating Coligny Calendar from Roman Gaul attempted to reconcile the lunar & solar year; written in Gaulish [Musée Gallo-Romain]

#amreading a bio of Julius Caesar. the aristocrats of #Gaul would trade a slave for a single amphora of #wine and archaeological research had uncovered many amphorae. I wonder how the wine impacted the natives was it like the drunken red indian stereotype of Hollywood westerns? #ancienthistory #romanrepublic

In #IronAge #Gaul New Year's Eve was called Uegilia Samoni. It was an evening celebration commemorating the ancestral spirits and souls of the deceased. It survived in Christian lore as Halloween or All-Saints-Day.
Source: Michel-Gérald Boutet “The Calendar and Almonach of the #Ancient #Druids”
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RT @ElvaBJohnston@twitter.com
The fascinating Coligny Calendar from Roman Gaul attempted to reconcile the lunar & solar year; written in Gaulish [Musée Gallo-Romain]

Superfilthy Sludgedoom with a twist of Black Metal.

Gaul - Corrupted
https://gaul.bandcamp.com/track/corrupted

#doom #doommetal #sludge #blackmetal #bandcamp #band #gaul #reco

Lutteurs

Les deux personnages forment la poignée d'une ciste, coffret cylindrique d'époque étrusque.

Bronze coulé et ciselé.

2° moitié du IV° siècle av. J.-C..

Lieu de découverte : 12 rue Lacépède, Paris, 1882.

Musée Carnavalet
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#Archéologie #Archaeology
#etrusque #Étrusques #CivilisationÉtrusque
#Bronze #Ciste
#Lutteurs
#Gaule #Gaul #Lutetia
#MuséeCarnavalet #Musée #Museum #Carnavalet

In #IronAge #Gaul New Year's Eve was called Uegilia Samoni. It was an evening celebration commemorating the ancestral spirits and souls of the deceased. It survived in Christian lore as Halloween or All-Saints-Day.
Source: Michel-Gérald Boutet “The Calendar and Almonach of the #Ancient #Druids”
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RT @ElvaBJohnston@twitter.com
The fascinating Coligny Calendar from Roman Gaul attempted to reconcile the lunar & solar year; written in Gaulish [Musée Gallo-Romain]

FolkloreThursday: The Name of the #Celtic goddess #Belisama means `the most luminous/radiant`. Belisama was worshipped in #Gaul and Britain and was associated with lakes and rivers, crafts and arts, fire and light. She was possibly the companion of #Belenos, the two names
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#Celtic #Torcs found in #Gaul, #Galatia (#Turkey) and the area of today's Scotland and #England