Celtic paganism was one of the first sorts of paganism I got into, after a friend told me she was Wiccan and I read about Wicca. Many people are content to worship the gods and do other religious practices, but to me, reading & understanding mythology is the most important foundation for serious 'religious' paganism, whether I actually want to do any other practices or not.
Can anyone recommend any books that have one or more of any of the full cycles of Irish mythology? I have already read the Mabinogion (Welsh) and am aware some other areas of the British Isles and Western Europe have mythology/folktales, but I want to read & understand the Irish stuff, since I think it is quite important in the subject of Celtic paganism. After I read the Irish stuff, or possibly at the same time, if it builds on the Irish stuff, I might read some of the Scottish and then other Celtic stuff.
It has been decades since I got into Wicca, but I am no longer really Wiccan rather than 'pagan'/'heathen,' and I know what I want to know about gods, and I have my own spiritual practice, so please do not waste your time mentioning any religious books other than ones that are mostly mythology. When I asked specific mythology questions in other WWW places, sometimes the only answers I got were of non-mythological religious books, or videos, etc., but I will probably not even look at those.
I found some WWW sources, but they are not complete, but hopefully books are. What I have seen on the WWW also has Abrahamic religion included in the 'Celtic' mythology, and I hope to avoid reading Abrahamism in books unless it is pointed out and criticized. For example, one site is referencing Noah, and the Abrahamic God, and probably Jesus, etc., though there is a Celtic mythological figure that is similar to Noah. I am 100% pagan, not half-pagan, half-Abrahamic, and if the most complete books has that stuff in it, I will skip or skim those parts. Actually, what I saw on the 'net had so much of it, that I had trouble skimming it and finding the genuine stuff, so please recommend any pure Celtic mythology books or series (of any complete cycle) if you know of them.
Can anyone recommend any books that have one or more of any of the full cycles of Irish mythology? I have already read the Mabinogion (Welsh) and am aware some other areas of the British Isles and Western Europe have mythology/folktales, but I want to read & understand the Irish stuff, since I think it is quite important in the subject of Celtic paganism. After I read the Irish stuff, or possibly at the same time, if it builds on the Irish stuff, I might read some of the Scottish and then other Celtic stuff.
It has been decades since I got into Wicca, but I am no longer really Wiccan rather than 'pagan'/'heathen,' and I know what I want to know about gods, and I have my own spiritual practice, so please do not waste your time mentioning any religious books other than ones that are mostly mythology. When I asked specific mythology questions in other WWW places, sometimes the only answers I got were of non-mythological religious books, or videos, etc., but I will probably not even look at those.
I found some WWW sources, but they are not complete, but hopefully books are. What I have seen on the WWW also has Abrahamic religion included in the 'Celtic' mythology, and I hope to avoid reading Abrahamism in books unless it is pointed out and criticized. For example, one site is referencing Noah, and the Abrahamic God, and probably Jesus, etc., though there is a Celtic mythological figure that is similar to Noah. I am 100% pagan, not half-pagan, half-Abrahamic, and if the most complete books has that stuff in it, I will skip or skim those parts. Actually, what I saw on the 'net had so much of it, that I had trouble skimming it and finding the genuine stuff, so please recommend any pure Celtic mythology books or series (of any complete cycle) if you know of them.
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