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As a distinctive group of peoples who shared the same language, art, mythology, and traditions, the veils between the realms, worlds, and dimensions were gossamer thin for the Celts, as they danced about with the winds of cyclical change and the poetic rhythms of divinity. The ancient Celts were foremost pilgrim travellers embarked on a spiritual journey living a physical existence which they viewed as one of many interconnected lifetimes in an eternal sea of ever evolving sacred spiraling energy. Based on recorded history and archaeological findings many scholars believe that the Celts originated from the Black Sea area sometime around 4,000 B.C.E. From there they spread their ancient cultural roots outward when they migrated and expanded their sphere of influence in all directions. Celtic traditions and customs became the prevailing cultural influence in the world, as the Celts continued to migrate, until they had expanded throughout continental Europe, up into Scandinavia, down into Spain, across the waters to Britain and Ireland, and over the Asian sub-continent to the borders of China. Some of the Celts also migrated Southwest to Greece and Thrace; while, others migrated to the Northwest where they founded the Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic cultures. A general overall timeline for the Celtic Migrations begins in pre-recorded history before 25,000 B.C.E. when the Celts relocated from the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria prior to the deluges.
Around 4,000 B.C.E. the Proto-Indo European ancestors of the Celts lived near the Black Sea prior to the original wave of Celtic migration to the British Isles which took place around 2,000 - 1,200 B.C.E. The Urnfield Culture of the Proto-Celtic Unetice people who formed loosely knot tribes dominated most of continental from 1,200 - 800 B.C.E. Then from 700 - 500 B.C.E. the Hallstatt Culture developed on the Austrian lake shore and the Celts began trade with the Greeks and the Etruscans; while, the Celtic Lá Téne Culture spread throughout Europe and into Britain. During 450 - 200 B.C.E. the Celts further expanded their sphere of influence into Belgium, the British Isles, Brittany, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey. This Celtic migrational pattern was followed in the more recent centuries by vast numbers of Celts migrating to countries like America, Australia, and Canada.
According to many
historians, the Old Celtic language was derived from the Indo-European and Ur
language traditions; and; was a close cousin to Italic, the Latin precursor.
Having freely intermarried with most of the cultures of the planet, strains of
their spirit customs linger on under many other names and guises from the more
obvious "Feet of Flames", Irish step dancing, to the more subtle folk rhythms of
the Scotch-Irish immigrant descendants who settled in both the English and the
Indian communities in the American Southwest...
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