It’s Lovely! Thank you for sharing!

Bright Blessings
~Antonia~

But yah, check out the E-Keltoi links on Spain. If you look at the mines of SW Spain and realize that the Roman Empire really only took off after taking these mines from Phoenicians, you can see the “pillars of hercules” was essentially the finance center of trade and empire in the mediterranean. And this area retained much of the mediterranean goddess/mystery traditions.

Bows.

“By the way, the other day I was watching Terry Jones’ “Barbarians”, and it’s a big eye opener regarding the distorted way Romans portrayed the Celts, how little we still know about them, and how Celts are completely different than what traditional history has been portraying them. In many ways, the Celts have been portrayed as savages with rudimentary technology. Today we know they were far more advanced, and that the Romans were the real “Barbarians” of the story, making up these stories about genocides committed by them in order to have gold and dominate other natural resources.”

Pedro,

No true, but most early Eurocentric history and even anthropology did not fairly treat any culture fairly, look at dismissal of Egyptian Hieroglyphics and deity dismissed as “superstition of death”.

While most Celts were advanced culturally, there was not nearly the same technological sophistication and classical organizational ability as the Romans (although the hundreds of thousands of warriors gathered by Vercingetorix at Alesia was impressive). And the fact is though the Celtic charioteers were likely as skilled and nimble as today’s skateboarder x-gamers, honestly they only had ponies and a vast majority of North British and Irish Gaelic celts only had spears & javelins and no swords.

From…

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/tablets/

see TABLET 164

nenu…[.]n. Brittones
n 2 nimium multi · equites
n 3 gladis · non utuntur equi-
n 4 tes · nec residunt
n n 5 Brittunculi · ut · iaculos
n 6 mittant

TRANSLATED IS….

“… the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins.”

But you can also see the pattern of arrogance and colonial mentality of Romans, eventually became same arrogance of White Europeans from 1400′s onwards.

Another way Romans were able to colonize Gaul and Britain was that actually the Druids, though holding together pan-Celtic traditions and all meeting someplace every 12 years (like Kumbh Mela, India), they kept their traditions secret from lower class peasants and not written down. Although one can say that some of the bardic colleges survived, (via the Irish and even Irish Catholicism, forming basis of today’s university system), all the Romans had to do was break up the druid centers, and buy loyalty of regional kings, and voila, colonialism.

Taking Iraq as an example, the Roman strategy would be to eliminate Saddam & sons, and maybe 5 generals at the top, leaving structure intact and put their own folks at the top, like what CIA did with central & south america from 50′s to 70′s.

So called “classical civilization”, glad were inching beyond the narrow views!