Inspiration and vision are the stuff of Celtic myth. These myths were first told by the ancient bards who were the keepers of a 'Higher Knowledge' so they are shot through with symbolic meaning. Reading them takes us back to a time when the veil between the material and spirit world was considered very thin, when bards and shamans underwent an arduous training which, they believed, enabled them to pass freely through these worlds. What they saw they held precious beyond price. They would not speak openly about it, but instead they encoded their knowledge, incorporating it into teasing riddles and into their tales. In this way they hoped to pass it on to those who were able to understand. Because of this tradition strictly forbidding them to write anything down, the hidden knowledge of the Celts might have been lost, except that after the advent of Christianity some of the early monks decided to record the old tales. However, they gave them a Christian perspective which often distorted or obscured their true significance. Here the Celtic myths are put back into the mouths of the bards in order to restore some of their original spiritual meaning.
- ISBN10 1842930591
- ISBN13 9781842930595
- Publish Date 10 October 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Watkins Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English