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Post by Anittas on Sept 5, 2011 5:04:26 GMT -5
What is "alonged"?
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Post by ruadh on Sept 5, 2011 5:06:03 GMT -5
That;s a big question. The basic principle of their religion was metempsychosis - they believed that the soul did not die but passed from one body to another after death. This idea is perhaps best expressed by the Roman poet, Lucan (I c. AD):
While you, ye Druids, when the war was done, To mysteries strange and hateful rites returned: To you alone 'tis given the gods and stars to know or not to know; secluded groves your dwelling-place, and forests far remote. If what ye sing be true, the shades of men seek not the dismal homes of Erebus or death's pale kingdoms; but the breath of life still rules these bodies in another age; Life on this hand and that, and death between. Happy the peoples 'neath the Northern Star In this their false belief; For them no fear of that which frights all others: they with hands and hearts undaunted rush upon the foe And scorn to spare the life that shall return. Ye too depart who kept the banks of Rhine safe from the foe, and leave the Teuton tribes free at their will to march upon the world.
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Post by uz on Sept 5, 2011 13:42:54 GMT -5
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Post by ruadh on Sept 6, 2011 11:14:04 GMT -5
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Post by elemag on Sept 6, 2011 16:26:38 GMT -5
There is no such thing as Celtic Bulgaria. Celts were people who lived on our territory for some time and that was it. Even Roman Bulgaria would be more accurate. Let us not drop down to the level of our northern neighbors with their funny Daco-Roman theories about their origin.
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Post by ruadh on Sept 6, 2011 17:12:04 GMT -5
Which facts don't you like?
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Post by elemag on Sept 6, 2011 17:15:09 GMT -5
What facts should I like? Celtic traces are from minimal to no-existant. I don't care if they were here and made a few bbq-s. I don't care about Alaric or whoever Celt. Celts are not a factor for the formation of our nation.
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Post by Anittas on Sept 6, 2011 17:31:25 GMT -5
I agree. Celts were good looking. Bulgarians are Mongoloid.
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Post by elemag on Sept 6, 2011 17:35:33 GMT -5
I guess, you have been living in a cave for your entire life (nice cave, I guess, with electricity and so on) and you have never met a single Bulgarian in your life. Where are you living mate? In the Transylvanian mountains Bear Grylls showed on Discovery?
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Post by ruadh on Sept 7, 2011 4:22:59 GMT -5
Have either of you actually read the evidence? - balkancelts.wordpress.com/If so, have u got anything constructive to say, besides insulting each other?
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Post by elemag on Sept 7, 2011 14:16:48 GMT -5
Your evidence ends with the sentence that what probably survived from Celtic culture ended with early Christianity in Bulgaria. What do you want me to comment on that?
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Post by ruadh on Sept 7, 2011 15:00:52 GMT -5
So u have read the end of one article, and misunderstood it. Well done. By the way, the evidence does not 'end' there. It is only beginning.
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Post by Anittas on Sept 7, 2011 15:01:58 GMT -5
ruadh, where are you from, mate?
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Post by ruadh on Sept 7, 2011 16:47:42 GMT -5
Here and there.
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Post by ruadh on Sept 9, 2011 12:27:42 GMT -5
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Post by Anittas on Sept 9, 2011 12:30:06 GMT -5
Ruadh, you seem like a nice guy. If you are born in Bulgaria, I suggest getting a passport, moving to a decent country, marry a foreigner and forget of your past life. You deserve better.
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Post by uz on Sept 9, 2011 19:18:12 GMT -5
What is the Celtic connection towards this? This is a symbol that is very universal now, yet back then considered rare. Who did they adopt the evil-eye from?
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Post by ruadh on Sept 10, 2011 9:31:30 GMT -5
The 'connection' is that this is Celtic, from a Celtic burial in Gaul (5th c. BC) These 'eye beads' were brought to Bulgaria (and Galatia - present-day central Turkey) in the 3rd c. BC during the Celtic migration. They have been found at Celtic Iron Age sites here such as Arkovna (Dalgopol, Varna region), Zaravetz (Veliko Tarnovo) etc. All this is explained in the article: balkancelts.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/the-evil-eye-and-little-glass-men/
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Post by uz on Sept 10, 2011 16:40:53 GMT -5
^ You sure they didn't adopt that from the Greeks?
If I remember correctly the first refrencing ever of the usage of the evil eye was in Greece long before the Celtic arrival.
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Post by ruadh on Sept 10, 2011 16:47:29 GMT -5
If u have a reference to these glass 'evil eye' beads being used by the 'Greeks' before the 5th c. BC, I would very much like to see it.
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