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I'm on a little bit of kick at the moment, so drawing lots of and#gauls no particular period in history! Just enjoying reading them to my kids!

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2020-07-25

Lastly based are .

Project Roman is a historical Open-World RPG game set in South Wales during the time of the Roman Occupation. The game tells the history of the Welsh Celts and the Roman Invaders, with fantasy elements from Welsh and Roman mythology.

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2020-07-24

Ex
🇲🇽 - การกลับชาติมาเกิดใหม่ของวิญญาณนักรบที่เสียชีวิตไปแล้ว

🇯🇵- ผีเสื้อสีขาว หมายถึง วิญญาณผู้ตาย (ใครดูการ์ตูนจะเห็นบ่อยมาก)

ชาว Celts - วิญญาณของมนุษย์ที่บินกลับมาหาแม่ของตัวเอง

คริสต์ - สัญลักษณ์การฟื้นคืนชีพ

อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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2020-06-15

Aristotle on warriors' libido: "the Celts & some races have openly honoured passionate friendship between males. For [Homer] had reason to unite Ares & Aphrodite, for all martial men seem attracted to the companionship either of male associates or of women" [Politics I269b]

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2020-06-13

This week's colour: Brittany Blue.

'The Druidess' - inspired by the ancient Celtic nation of Brittany/Breizh and the standing stones of Carnac 💙

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2020-05-23

Happy Mayday! Originally, the Maypole was a living tree brought in from the woods with much merrymaking. Ancient Celts danced around the tree, praying for good crops and fertility. For youth, there was the possibility of courtship.
(illustration by Edith Alice Cubitt)

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2020-05-01

In Cumbrian dialect, 'leemers' is the nut from the hazel tree.
The Celts equated hazelnuts with wisdom and poetic inspiration, suggested by the similarity between the Gaelic word for the nuts, 'cno', and the word for wisdom, 'cnocach'.

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2020-04-24

In Celtic mythology a tree trunk or a whole tree was also included among the votive offerings placed in ritual pits or shafts dug into the ground.The Celts believed trees to be sources of sacred wisdom and the ‘Hazel’ tree was associated with wisdom by Druids.

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2020-03-09

A double ridge helmet dated around 6thC BC, excavated from a burial in Austria. This Hallstatt type helmet was worn mainly by Celts and Etruscans and had two small hooks front and back to hold a crest between the ridges. Now in the natural history museum, Vienna.

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2020-02-29

"Morrígan" 🧙🏼‍♀️🤺🤰🏻💀🖤✨
CG work. Day 8 Creatuanary 2020.
In the mythology of Irish Celts, Morrigan was one of a group of Irish warrior goddesses.
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2020-01-13

An opportunity today to sketch the magnificent head on the Iron Age Marlborough bucket in before my talk today. So many wonderful things under one roof. Why I became an archaeologist.

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2020-01-11

11月6日（水）発売！
CELTSITTOLKE Vol.6〜関西ケルト/アイリッシュ・コンピレーションアルバムのジャケット写真を公開いたします！
11月10日（日）はＣＤ発売コンサートも企画していますのでよろしくお願いいたします！！
　

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2019-09-03

11月6日（水）発売！
CELTSITTOLKE Vol.6〜関西ケルト/アイリッシュ・コンピレーションアルバムのジャケット写真を公開いたします！
11月10日（日）はＣＤ発売コンサートも企画していますのでよろしくお願いいたします！！
　

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2019-09-03

is an ancient Anglo-Saxon festival celebrated on August 1st, in early British Isles. It was also known as by the Celts.

Lammas celebrates the first grain harvest of the season and is a sacred moment in the wheel of the year.

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2019-07-29

Incredible illustrator Martin Brown brings Horrible Histories to life through deadly drawing, savage stories and foul facts. Martin will reveal more about the ruthless Romans and cut-throat Celts during a sponsored event https://t.co/oydF0LnltP

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2019-07-04

MERMAID'S TAIL A mermaid's tail prevents access to her 'lady parts' but early depictions show mermaids with provocatively parted twin tails, suggesting they could take human lovers. This bawdy deity has been compared to Sheila-na-gig, goddess of the early Celts

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2019-06-12

In Cumbrian 'leemers' is the nut from the hazel tree

The Celts equated hazelnuts with wisdom and poetic inspiration, suggested by the similarity between the Gaelic word for the nuts, 'cno', and the word for wisdom, 'cnocach'.

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2019-05-24

Can you spot the ‘Celts of Cautley Spout’? Detail from painting by currently on display in Howgill Gallery. painting

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2019-03-12