Celtic polytheism

Celtic polytheism, commonly known as Celtic paganism,Ross, Anne (1974). Pagan Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition. London: Sphere Books Ltd.Hutton, Ronald (1991). The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell.Jones, Prudence and Pennick, Nigel (1995). A History of Pagan Europe. Routledge. refers to the religious beliefs and practices adhered to by the Iron Age peoples of Western Europe now known as the Celts, roughly between 500 BCE and 500 CE, spanning the La Tène period and the Roman era, and in the case of the Insular Celts the British and Irish Iron Age.

Celtic polytheism was one of a larger group of Iron Age polytheistic religions of the Indo-European family. It comprised a large degree of variation both geographically and chronologically, although "behind this variety, broad structural similarities can be detected"Cunliffe, Barry (1997). The Ancient Celts. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Page 184.Ross, Anne (1986). The Pagan Celts. London: B.T. Batsford. Page 103.

The Celtic pantheon consists of numerous recorded theonyms, both from Greco-Roman ethnography and from epigraphy. Among the most prominent ones are ...
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