Author: Aidan Meeha
Publisher: Thames & Hudso
Keywords: celtic, design, patterns, mastering, knots, traditional
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0500283990
ISBN-13: 9780500283998
A new step-by-step guide to the most popular form of Celtic design. Celtic knotwork is the single most widely appealing form within the rich repertoire of Celtic design. Aidan Meehan’s new book provides step-by-step instruction for anyone who wants to master the traditional methods of freehand Celtic knot design and then progress to designing fresh knotwork patterns and variations. First, Meehan carefully and clearly explains how to draw the basic knot. Once that technique has been mastered, Meehan shows how to create designs with more complex knots, and how to draw border layouts. The b
Author: Paul Russell
Publisher: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Keywords: celtic, grammar, suffixes, formation, word, velar
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1990-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1855001373
ISBN-13: 9781855001374
Author: Kenneth Hurlstone Jackso
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: celtic, classics, penguin, translations, miscellany, literature
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1972-02-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140442472
ISBN-13: 9780140442472
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, and Manx, this "Celtic Miscellany" offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cu Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the s
Author: Caitlin Matthew
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: celtic, cards, spread, cloth, otherworld, voyage, book, dead, guide
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 1992-04-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0312072414
ISBN-13: 9780312072414
Take a voyage in the company of Celtic heroes to find your life’s direction. The Celtic Book of the Dead is your guide to the mystical realms of the Celtic Otherworld, where the fullness of personal potential becomes clear. This is not a morbid journey, but a voyage to islands with plenteous salmon, feasting halls, and pillars of silver rising from the sea. There are challenges too, but each has its lesson for our lives today.This pack contains everything you need for your voyage:-Deck of 42 beautifully illustrated cards-Book explaining the background to the Celtic Otherworld and how to
Author: R.J. Stewart
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Keywords: celtic, goddesses, gods
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1844035506
ISBN-13: 9781844035502
Many of the beliefs and customs of the ancient Celts persist even today, sometimes in surprising waysand interest just keeps growing. Through illustrations old and new, this guide to Celtic magic and religion examines their enduring strength and continued relevance. It provides background on the Celts and their relationship to nature, their totem animals and mother goddesses, and the Irish Book of Invasions that supplied so much material for the mythological tradition. Individual chapters focus on such significant figures as Brighid, the sister or virgin aspect of the Great Goddess, as well a
Author: Stephen Blamire
Publisher: Llewellyn Publicatio
Keywords: celtic, rituals, llewellyn, wisdom, lore, history, otherworld, irish, magic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0738706574
ISBN-13: 9780738706573
Learn to live in harmony with the “Green World” Many people today distance themselves from the Earth. They forget they are a part of Nature. Magic of the Celtic Otherworld offers a holistic, magical system that will break down the barriers between you and the natural world. Drawing upon Irish Celtic spiritual tradition, history, and mythology, this book provides wondrous stories, seasonal rituals, and practical exercises that will expand your spiritual potential. This self-enriching journey to the mystical Otherworld will help you attune to Nature, channel magickal forces, and harmon
Author: D.W. Harding
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: art, celtic, archaeology
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-06-18
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415351774
ISBN-13: 9780415351775
More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art. Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art and views it within a much wider archaeological context. He re-asserts ancient Celtic identity after a decade of deconstruction in English-language archaeology. Harding argues that there were communities in Iron Age Europe that were identified historically as Celts, regarded themselves as Celtic, or who spoke Celtic languages, and that
