Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the horned god of Celtic polytheism.

Other deities occasionally accompanied by ram-horned serpents include " Celtic Mars ", " Celtic Mercury ", and the horned snake, and also conventional snakes, appears together with the solar wheel, apparently as attributes of the sun or sky god.

Only in Celtic mythology do we find a deity similar to Veles in his attributes and his complexity: Cernunnos, god of druids, nature, horned animals, and shamanism, whose symbol was a ram-headed serpent.

In the traditionally Celtic lands he was most often seen as a healing and sun god.

* Aoi Mac Ollamain, the Celtic god of poetry as an alternative first name and name abbreviation

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

There were two towns in Roman Britain named Camulodunum, Colchester in Essex, and Slack in West Yorkshire, derived from the Celtic god Camulos, and this has led to the suggestion that they originated the name.

Nothing is known about the god from literary sources, and details about his name, his cult or his significance in Celtic religion are unknown.

The name may be of Celtic origin: Lus and Tanus, " tribe of Lusus ", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name Luso and with the god Lugh.

The name has been connected with the personal Celtic name Luso and with the god Lugh.

They also have many parallels across the Celtic world: Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens ; Lugh is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus ; Tuireann is related to the Gaulish Taranis ; Ogma to Ogmios ; the Badb to Catubodua.

This is probably because in the Roman syncretism, Mercury was equated with the Celtic god Lugus, and in this aspect was commonly accompanied by the Celtic goddess Rosmerta.

Although Lugus may originally have been a deity of light or the sun ( though this is disputed ), similar to the Roman Apollo, his importance as a god of trade made him more comparable to Mercury, and Apollo was instead equated with the Celtic deity Belenus.

* Mercurius Artaios, a combination of Mercury with the Celtic god Artaios, a deity of bears and hunting who was worshiped at Beaucroissant, France.

* Mercurius Cissonius, a combination of Mercury with the Celtic god Cissonius, who is written of in the area spanning from Cologne, Germany to Saintes, France.

* Mercurius Moccus, from a Celtic god, Moccus, who was equated with Mercury, known from evidence at Langres, France.

* Mercurius Visucius, a combination of the Celtic god Visucius with the Roman god Mercury, attested in an inscription from Stuttgart, Germany.

The Indo-Eurpoeans worshiped the oak and connected it with a thunder or lightning god ; " tree " and drus may also be cognate with " Druid ," the Celtic priest to whom the oak was sacred.

It remained a lost asteroid for several decades until it was recovered on January 4, 1989, by Christian Pollas, and was named after the Celtic god Toutatis / Teutates — known to popular culture as the God that the cartoon character Astérix's chief Vitalstatistix evokes so that the sky may never fall on his head.

It is during this period that Bishop Asser applied to him the unique title of " secundarius ", which may indicate a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognised successor closely associated with the reigning monarch.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

The word clock ( from the Celtic words clocca and clogan, both meaning " bell "), which gradually supersedes " horologe ", suggests that it was the sound of bells which also characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century in Europe.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Hesychius of Alexandria glosses the Galatian word karnon ( κάρνον ) as " Gallic trumpet ", that is, the Celtic military horn listed as the carnyx ( κάρνυξ ) by Eustathius of Thessalonica, who notes the instrument's animal-shaped bell.

The song " The New Ground-Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears ", on the 2010 album Songs from the Heart by the group Celtic Woman, is about Annie Moore and Ellis Island.

The name has been explained as derived from a Celtic term for " far islands ", but in popular etymology it has long been understood as based on Old Norse fár " livestock ", thus fær-øer " sheep islands ".

A Reassessment of Pictish Chordophone Depictions ", Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 36, Winter 1998.

Image by Ernest Wallcousins | E. Wallcousins in " Celtic Myth & Legend ", Charles Squire, 1920.

* Paleopaganism: A retronym coined to contrast with " Neopaganism ", " original polytheistic, nature-centered faiths ", such as the pre-Hellenistic Greek and pre-imperial Roman religion, pre-Migration period Germanic paganism as described by Tacitus, or Celtic polytheism as described by Julius Caesar.

Waters has described it as " a kind of Celtic celebration of the Eastern European revolutions and their eventual outcome ", quoting Dubček's alleged comment: " They may crush the flowers, but they can't stop the Spring.

The first written references to an ancient Celtic sighthound, the " vertragus ", in the " Cynegeticus " of Flavius Arrianus ( Arrian ), Roman proconsul of Baetica in the second century, may refer to the Galgo, or more likely to its antecedant.

The traditional etymology considers the second element cognate with Latin planum " plain " ( with the characteristic Celtic loss of p ), and holds that the original meaning is " mid-plain ", " situated in the middle of the plain ".

The name " Fionn " is related to the Welsh name " Gwyn ", as in the mythological figure Gwyn ap Nudd, and to the continental Celtic " Vindos ", an epithet for the god Belenus.

The French word was derived from the Spanish embarazar, whose first recorded usage was in 1460 in Cancionero de Stúñiga ( Songbook of Stúñiga ) by Álvaro de Luna .< sup > 7 </ sup > The Spanish word likely comes from the Portuguese embaraçar, which probably is a combination of the prefix em-( from Latin in-for " in -") with baraça " a noose ", or " rope ", which makes sense with the synonym encinta (" on noose, on rope " because of the old usage of women to wear a strap of cloth on their dresses when pregnant ).< sup > 8 </ sup > Baraça originated before the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE .< sup > 9 </ sup > Thus, baraça could be related to the Celtic word barr, " tuft ".

H.L. Gray in his English Field Systems and Zachrisson's Romans, Kelts And Saxons defended in part the Seebohm thesis while at the present time H.P.R. Finberg and Gordon Copley seem to fall into the Celtic survivalist camp.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

Milwaukee's Violent Femmes jumpstarted the American folk punk scene, while The Pogues did the same on the other side of the Atlantic, influencing many Celtic punk bands.

The word “ pear ”, or its equivalent, occurs in all the Celtic languages, while in Slavic and other dialects, differing appellations, still referring to the same thing, are found — a diversity and multiplicity of nomenclature which led Alphonse de Candolle to infer a very ancient cultivation of the tree from the shores of the Caspian to those of the Atlantic.

Some celebrate in a manner as close as possible to how the Ancient Celts and Living Celtic cultures have maintained the traditions, while others observe the holiday with rituals culled from numerous other unrelated sources, Celtic culture being only one of the sources used ..

Some historians think that Asterio held a religious office which combined elements of the pagan and Christian religions, while others think he may be linked to the Brythonic refugees that settled in Britonia ( Galicia ) in the 6th century: The Parrochiale Suevorum ( an administrative document of the Suebi Kingdom ) tells that the lands of Asturias belonged to the Britonian see, and it is a fact that some features of the Celtic Christianity penetrated in Northern Spain, like the Celtic tonsure which was condemned by the Visigoth bishops who assisted to the Fourth Council of Toledo.

* The Carthaginian general Hasdrubal is murdered by a Celtic assassin while campaigning to increase the Carthaginian hold on Spain.

" Celtic Christianity " has been conceived of with differing levels of specificity: some writers have thought of it as a distinct " Celtic Church " uniting the Celtic peoples and distinguishing them from the " Roman " Catholic Church, while others classify it as simply a set of distinctive practices occurring in those areas.

* Quintus Fabius Ambustus and two other Fabii are sent as ambassadors by Rome to a wandering tribe of Celts ( whom the Romans call Gauls ), under Brennus, who are advancing down the Tiber while the Celtic army is besieging Clusium.

He changes his name to Francus and becomes king of Celtic Gaul ( while, at the same time, Bavo, cousin of Priam, comes to the city of Trier ) and founds the dynasty leading to Pepin and Charlemagne.

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

The iconography shows a clear association with the sea, while the dogs, pins and bracelets and bronze arm, which shows signs of disease, indicate a healing function: the dog is a companion of the healing aspect of Mars, and dogs were symbols of healing throughout the classical world and Celtic world because they were observed to heal their own wounds by licking them.

This diversified Britannia's cultures and religions, while the populace remained mainly Celtic with a Roman way of life.

Eimear Quinn's version featured in the Pierce Brosnan movie-The Nephew, while the song found a new life in America with the recording and widespread PBS broadcasting of it as part of the group Celtic Woman's rise to prominence there.

This residue is reflected as i in Indic while dropping in Iranian ; it gives variously e, a, o in Greek ; it mostly falls together with the reflexes of PIE * a in the other languages ( always bearing in mind that short vowels in non-initial syllables undergo various developments in Italic, Celtic, and Germanic ):

In some European Celtic or Germanic countries prior to the adoption of Christianity, the ruler upon his election was raised on a shield and, while standing upon it, was borne on the shoulders of several chief men of the nation ( or tribe ) in a procession around his assembled subjects.

One effect is that Scottish flags are rarer than might be expected amongst both sets of supporters ; Celtic fans are more likely to wave the Irish tricolour while Rangers fans tended to wave the Union Flag.

There was serious fan disorder during an Old Firm match played in May 1999 at Celtic Park, as several objects were thrown by Celtic fans, one of which struck referee Hugh Dallas, forcing the game to be stopped while he received medical treatment.