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RELIGIONS ANCIENT AND MODERN
THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND
RELIGIONS : ANCIENT AND MODERN.
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ANIMISM.
By EDWARD CLODD, Author of of
By J ALLANSON PICTON, Author of The of the
AMES
Universe.
THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA.
By Professor LL. D., Professor oi Chinese in the University
of Cambridge.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE.
By JANE HARRISON, Lecturer at College, Cambridge,
Author of to of Religion.
ISLAM IN INDIA.
By T. W. Assistant Librarian at the Office,
Author of The of
ISLAM.
By SYED AMEER C.I.E., late of High Court
of Judicature in Bengal, Author of The Spirit of and The
of
MAGIC AND FETISHISM.
By Dr. A. C. F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at Cam-
bridge University.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
By Professor W. M. F.R.S.
THE RELIGION OF AND ASSYRIA.
By THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, late of the British Museum.
BUDDHISM.
By Professor RHYS late Secretary of The Royal
Asiatic Society.
HINDUISM.
By Dr. L. D. of the Department of Oriental Printed
Books and MSS., British Museum.
SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION.
By WILLIAM A. Joint Editor of the English
Dictionary.
CELTIC RELIGION.
By Professor A Professor of Welsh at University College,
NWYL,
Aberystwyth.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
By CHARLES SQUIRE, Author of The Mythology of
JUDAISM.
By I Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cam-
SRAEL
bridge University, Author of Jewish Life in the
PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.
By JOHN SUTHERLAND BLACK, Joint Editor of the
SHINTOISM. MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIANITY.
ZOROASTRIANISM. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT
Other to follow.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF
ANCIENT BRITAIN
IRELAND
BY
CHARLES SQUI RE
OF
LONDON
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Edinburgh: T. and A. Printers to His Majesty
THIS little book does not profess in any way to
supplement the volume upon Celtic Religion
already contributed to this series. It merely aims
at calling the attention of the general reader to
the mythology of our own country, that as yet
little-known store of Celtic tradition which reflects
the religious conceptions of our earliest articulate
Naturally, its limits compel the writer
ancestors.
to dogmatise, or, at most, to touch but very briefly
upon disputed points, to ignore fascinating
side-issues, and to refrain from putting forward
any suggestions of his own. But he has based
his work upon the studies of the leading Celtic
scholars, and he believes that the reader may
safely accept it as in line with the latest re-
search.
c. s.
CONTENTS
I. TEE AND THEIR . 1
9
II. GODS OF THE CONTINENTAL .
14
III. THE GODS OF THE INSULAR .
31
IV. THE MYTHICAL HISTORY OF IRELAND, .
v. T HISTORY OF BRITAIN, , 42
HE
VI. THE HEROIC CYCLE ANCIENT ULSTER, 5 4
VII. THE OR . .
61
VIII. THE ARTHURIAN . . . 68
SYLLABUS, . . . 77
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