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The Gods of the Celts

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The book is loaded with archeological data and illustrations. It also reveals the confusing plethora of local pantheons that seem to be a major featue of Celtic Religion. Unfortunatly, Green rigidly applies the sky god/earth god dichotomy originally proposed and heavily debated for the Greek pantheon. Though she admits to puzzling inconsistancies this causes in her interpretations she does not apply other material already known about the Celtic faith to resolve the problems.

I purchased this book after using my campus' 1986 hardback copy so many times that I might as well own it! I was disappointed with this 2001 reprint, however, when I realized the References section in the 1986 publication was lacking in the reprint.

I'm not sure if there's a specific term to describe Green's type of citation of sources in the 1986 publication, as it was the first time I'd come across such a unique system (references are to page and line where the ref. is found most often at the end of the cited line), but it was difficult to use and be certain with even then... and I can't even use the photocopied 1986 Reference pages to help with the 2001 publication to be certain I've got the correct citation since the page numbers and lines do not match up between the two.

So, just a heads up. If you're interested in just the topic itself it shouldn't bother you. But if you need citations - find the 1986 version.