Our Ancestors, Scots, Picts, & Cymry, and What Their Traditions Tell Us by Robert Craig Maclagan
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Our Ancestors, Scots, Picts, & Cymry, and What Their Traditions Tell Us by Robert Craig Maclagan, published in 1913. A wide-ranging and idiosyncratic folkloric study exploring the mythological, religious, and symbolic traditions of the ancient peoples of Scotland, Britain, and related Celtic cultures. Maclagan examines themes of lunar worship, goddess traditions, ritual dance, and night rites through sections including Moon Reverence at the Present Day, A Female Phoebus, Night Worship and Female Dancing, Characteristics of the Moon in Folklore, and The Moon Personified. The work ranges further into comparative mythology and ancient religion with discussions of Artemis and Apollo, Ishtar, Beltis, Semiramis, Isis, Maenadic rites, the raven and the dove, Baltic origins, the shamrock, the Wheel of Mog Ruith, and the intersections of Scots, Cimmerians, Jutes, Goths, and other ancient peoples. Blending folklore, speculative anthropology, and comparative religion, the book reflects early twentieth-century antiquarian scholarship and remains of interest to students of Celtic studies, mythography, and ancient lunar cults. Hardcover with shelfwear to corners and spine ends.
