I'm half welsh and live on the English/Wales boarder as my historic families have done for hundreds of years. So the more I learn about this whole period of history stretching from pre Romana right up into the early modern, the more fascinated I am by the degrees of movement of people and things. Thank you for this video. Very interesting.
Welsh Dragon, Iblis, Idris, Tribe of Dan, King Arthur, 12 tribes of his round table of Camelot, from Mt Carmel in Tyre, Jerusalem Trent Dane Lloyd River, Strong Mountain, Chosen by God Red, Prince, Serpent Grey, Scribe, Lord Pan, LORD, Shiva, Osiris, Sirius, Dog Star, Canine, Set, Seth, Assyria, Tau, Taurus Also Baal Hill, and Moloch, Loch, Rather and Gwendaline, the Sword in the Stone and Southern Cross McKenna, Fire born Isabel, Jezebel Dagda Dunn, Good Lord, Isabel Issa, Iktha, the fish, Ikthobaal, the fisher king Bellerophon Belladonna Baal, Beal, Tuatha de Danaan, Red tribe of Dan, Children of Light, Phoenicians, Pirates, Merchants, Jews Uncanny, Canny, Canaanite Macedonia, McDonald, King of the World It's one and the same, Jews came from Ireland and Wales, the Orkneys and the Bru na Boinne were the original source of the Secret Mystery Schools of the Magi, hence Stonehenge, built around the time as the Great Pyramid, and the same Astrological Base 60 system of Pythagoras found across the world is also found at both these sites. Esus is the Celtic God of Death, the Bible their Almanac. And a Prophetic curse upon Rome
I recommend Dr. Robert Sepher, who has 2 RU-vid channels, and is often called the world’s “most dangerous archeologist”. He is an anthropologist with several books breaking down the history of the Celts. His work is fascinating.
Most of these documentaries on Celtic topics mispronounced the names because none of the narrator pronounce the names as if they are in English orthography whereas the orthography of the the various Celtic is radically different. This annoys me immensely and ruins the experience of otherwise enjoyable and informative documentaries!
I have seen some of their wonderful jewelry pieces in Stuttgart, Germany. The name of the museum is Das alte Schloss am Schlossplatz. Many churches were built over the sacred places of the druids. So was Notre Dame in Paris, France.
According to history, archaeology, and genetics, the Gaels originated in Galicia, Spain, and in Portugal around Braganca. I;ve traced my family to there through relics we kept, genetics, and travelling to work in archaeological investigations. During the 17th century, after Aughrim, my family went into exile in Galicia. The Emperor gave us an estate at O'Grove, Galicia, for service in the Tercios Hibernia and Ultonia. My ancestor, Teige O'hAodha aka Don Tadeo Ojeda, could often communicate with people in remote pueblitos, who apparently spoke Goidelic amongst themselves, when CAstillians or priests weren't listening. Sadly, today, though much vocabulary relics may survive, this is no longer possible. Everybody speaks Galeg or Castrapo.
@@marciocarvalho8975 My ancestors moved from Southern Ukraine to Romania, then to the region around Berne Switzerland. Approximately 1000 BCE, many migrated to Iberia, during cycles of drought and famine, when tin ore became scarce, they migrated to Ireland.
Wikitongues is a very interesting youtube channel where you will get to hear many northwest European languages being spoken, such as Cornish, Manx, Shetlandic, Gaelic, Icelandic - and all the rest. There's also that guy Simon Roper who speaks Old English but he's often talking to people who speak other tongues and dialects ... like a guy in France speaking Gaulic for instance which was particularly interesting for me. I didn't know Gaulic was a thing.
This is why I get annoyed with people not bothering to research pronunciations. I don't expect anyone to sound like a native, but it would show some respect to at least make the effort. Most of it is a couple of clicks away.
@@timflatus Very few of the natives actually speak a Celtic language themselves so if you spoke in their native Celtic tongue they probably wouldn't understand you, even with great pronunciation. Perhaps Wales is an exception.
Excellent production and narration. As an Irish Celt, I can clarify that the festivals are pronounced Bee-owl-tana (Bealtaine/Beltane), Sow-inn (Samhain, rhymes with now-in), and Loo-nasa (Lughnasa/Lammas)
@@surfer-lc3nzStrange then that the Irish language, examples of which go back to circa AD 400, is recognised by scholars as being among the Celtic language family - Insular Branch- and is related closely to Manx and the Gaidhlig of Scotland but not quite so closely to the Brythonic Celtic Branch, Welsh, Cornish and Breton.
@@xotan There is a language family that includes Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. That is not in debate. It should not be called Celtic, because it isn't. It should be called Insular Western European, or something like that. The 'Celtic' label is based on outdated science, David, back when academic understanding was more limited. Scholars have failed to move on from this obsolete ruling, or refresh their perspective. Stuffy academics stuck in the past., unwilling to accept the new evidence that debunks that older, settled status quo.
Very interesting. What the programme, and many like them, often miss is the legacy of the Celts in Brittany, north-west Spain and northern Portugal where there is a very rich Celtic ancestry and culture. Who knew that? I would haved enjoyed this more seeing something of the Celtic history in these regions of Celtic influence, rather than this being so UK-centric.
@@marioguelbenzu2348I knew a man who played the Spanish bagpipes, and was once tasked with making the brocaded and fringed covers for the ones that were used in concert.
If you paid attention you would know that they came from "the Balkans" to keep it simple they are old-Serb people one of which was the "Vinchanska Culture" as called today located in Belgrade. Rasi aka Raseni who were all over the globe are none other but Serbs who spread culture, "Rasejani" was a word for people who traveled the world and spread culture. Today Russians still call themselves Rassi because they are these remaining old Serbs who made an empire for themselves while everywhere else they were forced to change their names. Rasejani comes from the word "to plant seeds" Rasejati, which even today Serbs still use this word. Rasejani basically means native Serbs who spread and plant themselves around the world, some come back, some don't. The short therm and even short was Rasi, Raseni as some called them. Hope this makes sense now. Celts are basically a altered word of Serbs. Because the latins mix up S with C, in cyrillic (old Serbian proto-European) C was always a S! Cepb = Serb. Do you see Celt in this? It's a alteration of letters really. C is a S, e remains, l is really a r (P in cyr) and t is b. Vatican latin basically often cant read cyrillic also they forcefully alter words so it doesn't tie in with Serbs who are native to everything in history. They don't want unity, all they want are small confused fake nations and countries that they can control over and collect tax. Get it? The history and everything was changed thanks to parasitic Vatican.
The Celts were a group of tribes or clans, often at odds with each other, that inhabited the vast majority of Northern Europe. It was Julius Caesar that used their differences to divide and conquer them as they were not a nation, but a culture. This was used as the blueprint to also destroy the Native Americans.
@meladjusted agreed. Great documentary but I believe some information is out of date, and it's important for people to understand when it was made! I'm guessing 90s, judging by the video quality/style, and by a reference I caught in there somewhere regarding 700BC-which was referred to as "nearly 2700 years ago" ! 🤷♀️ Great that this is freely available on RU-vid, but the context of production date is important! Especially when discussing history-where our information, understanding and interpretation are all continually evolving.
@@hdfuller Older data is sometimes more accurate then new. Politics and agenda corrupt data and being closer to the period the event happened. Being people who seen, remembered or wrote down the event. ancient history is all about finding pieces to form theories around that may be accurate, inaccurate or a combination of both. Logic, experience, observation and the ability to reason.
@mountainben88 I would agree with this in everything but history. The amount of Historical knowledge we've acquired in just the last few years is staggering. Anyone trusting only old sources is literally living in a different world.
RE: the role of women in Celtic Society: In the Iron Age there was a famous Military Academy on the Isle of Skye between Scotland & Ireland run by a woman named 'Scáthach' (sounds like Skaw Hawk), from whom the island derives its name, that attracted students from far and wide!
So too in the Hebrews of the Hebrides, and Orkney islands and who practiced Dionysian Orphism, and Dionysians built Solomon's Temple Celts were Jews, England Wales and Ireland were the original home of the Secret Mystery Religion. Joseph of Arimathea was Celtic, and Joshua Tutmoses III, Moses Arkenaten and Solomon Rameses II, who founded Neo Assyrian Babylon in 911BC when he married Jezebel, Queen of Sidon and daughter of Hiram Abiff, King of Tyre, and Architect of the Pyramids, founder of Freemasonry
For those who want to learn about the most important aspects of the Celtic peoples and their lost civilisation, read the book “Not In His Image” by John Lamb Lash. It’s a must-read for everyone, really, but especially the Celtic people themselves..
There are no celts remaining, some of my ancestors where celts and i reside on the very same lands...however the celts culture died many years ago, unfortunately
@carlnebrin8613 the Jews Hebrews Phoenicians were CELTIC PEOPLE Pythagoras means Heart of the Serpent, he was born in Sidon, a fishing Port in Phoenicia. His mother recieved a message from the Oracle of Delphi that he would become a great Leader and Teacher. Sidon means Kingdom of the Fish, and the Essenes, who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls, worshipped Pythagoras. The Sarcophagus of Eschmun III found in Sidon names him as the Widow's Scion, aka Hiram Abiff, the Founder of Freemasonry, of which Tyre was the premier Capital (at least equal to Thebes). In 911BC Rameses II married the Queen of Sidon, home of Jezebel (Daughter or consort of Baal, basically "Queen") founding Neo Assyrian Babylon, an alliance between Egypt and Hiram, father of Jezebel and King of Assyria, and Egypt, forming the Phoenician colonies and building the first Temple of Melqart to commemorate the alliance. The Si in Sidon is the basis of the Latin Exe, or X, and is the basis of the Cross, or Chi Rho that Constantine painted on his shields. Also known as the Cross of Tyre, or Cross of Baal, being Ra-El, or Ba'El. Oddly enough irrational numbers can also be mapped using Euler's number, producing a Templar Cross in the process. This cross can also be seen around the neck of Nimrod in Assyria, and is consistent with the Union Jack, and Solstice Calendar found in the Vatican Shiva Lingam. Shiva is the Hebrew word for 7, their culture also found its way to Japan (via the Phillipines) ultimately becoming Shintoism. It was the Phoenicians who gave their name to the Pole Star, which they used to Navigate the Oceans using the Zodiac, thats what the Antikythera mechanism was for, and with it they wrote the Byblos Baal, what we now call the Bible. The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC and called the Vaticanus Greacus, or Son of the Sacred Serpent, a reference to Sirius, the basis of the Sothic Calendar, which uses a Hexidecimal or base 60 system found in all the Megalithic sites around the world. In the second century AD astronomer Valentinus Vettori transcribed it into a Lunar chart of 13 houses, what we now call the Zodiac. Horoscope means Star Watcher, and the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, was Israel or El, (Fruit) of Isis and Ra. El is the primary God of the Phoenicians, representing the offspring of Egypt, and his consort Astarte represents the Assyrian half of the alliance. It may be possible to trace lineages and alliances through the naming of gods, which can be traced all the way to Ireland and the Vikings, and to Indonesia and the Americas, even as far away as New Zealand and Australia. It denotes Sirius as Son of Orion and Pleaides, which sits at 33 degrees of the Zodiac. The basis of the Sothic (dir Seth) Calendar of the Egyptians. The New Moon in this position marks Rosh Hashanah, the Egyptian, Celtic, Phoenician, and Assyrian New Year, the first New Moon of September, which is called September because it's the 7th House of the Zodiac, when the Sun is in Ophiuchus. The Phoenix, Benben, or Bennu is the Egyptian word for Heron, a Feathered 'Serpent'. It baptised itself in frankincense and myrrh at BaalBek, and then alights atop the Pyramid, upon the Holy Grail, or Alter of Ra every 630 years to take three days off the calendar during the course of the first New Moon of Nisan, which means "Prince". The Capstone of Pyramids is even called the Benben or Bennu. The Phoenix is found in all religions, which are all Astrological Allegory for the Moon travelling through the Constellations, as a soul migrating from body to body, this is the basis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth, or the Hero's Journey. The various planets no doubt play their own roles as portents, omens, and aspects, this astrology is the science of the Bronze age, and lasted all the way up to the 20th Century. Resurrection was an early teaching of the Christian Church, and likely relates to the lineage of Kings (The King is Dead, long live the King.) Phoenicians represent the interim step between Egypt and Greece, their artisans and culture exceeding that of the Greeks, who literally adopted the Phoenician Alphabet, which we still use to this day, sounding out words phonetically. Phoenician is aliiterated in Venetian, and Vikings, being Kings of the Sea. The Bennu is the Egyptian Phoenix, to Phoenicians the Hoyle, no different to the traditions of the Etruscans, who saw birds as sacred, just as the Celts. Hebrew and Iber as in Iberia have the same root meaning over, as in overseas, as in those who travel "over the sea." A colony called Iberia also appears on the Eastern shores of the Black Sea, where the same Dolmens and Megalithic culture originating in Ireland and Brittany appeared circa 4500BC. _Phoenician_ means Scions of the Phoenix, the first Bible: Vaticanus Greacus Son of the Sacred Serpent (Prince). Then there's the Essenes, Sons of Light, the Tuatha De Danaan, Sons of Light, Annunaki, Sons of Light, Arthur Pendragon means Arthur Son of the dragon, Chertoff is Russian for "Son of the Devil" and Dracula also means Son of the Dragon, Masons have been known at times to call themselves the "Brotherhood of the Great White Serpent". The Ziggurat of Anu also denotes her as a great white Serpent, while New Grange and the Bru na Boinne in Ireland (4000BC) coated buildings with white quartz to denote the Moon. The Moon itself travels outside the Solar Elliptic by 5 degrees, which means it passes through specific constellations in a serpentine fashion that is always changing, but repeats every 19 years, the time it took to train a Druid or Magi, Magi meaning "Teacher" the Phoenix is also associated with this sacred number 19. The name "Pharoah" means "Great House" or "House of Light" and Cairo used to be called Babel. Pharaoh's themselves wore a hooded crown representing feathers, just as Native American Chiefs, ie the Feathered Serpent, they were also called the Commander in Chief. Aztecs also had Serpent Kings, (Canaan means Serpent Kings, and Sidon was a Son of Canaan, and Great Grandson of Noah) who were called to lead with cunning and guile, being the very virtue by which they claim the title in the first place; but to be seen in public as just and diplomatic. "As wise as Serpents, but gentle as Doves" the old Egyptian flag of an Eagle attacking a Snake is also reflected in the Modern Mexican flag, denoting the Constellations of Serpentis (13th sign of the Zodiac) and Aquila. The dimensions and 12 mathematical constants of the Great Pyramid are also expressed in New Grange, and Stonehenge, as well as in Watson Brake, (2500BC) and Teotihuacan, which correlates to the Phoenician/ Sumerian Hexidecimal system, which is what our modern systems of time are based on. Officially no one knows who invented astrology, the zodiac, navigation by the stars, and time keeping. But whoever built the pyramids, and pioneered the 24hr clock in Egypt 5000 years ago also knew the exact dimensions of the Earth, as well as the speed of light. These calculations can all be made using these Megalithic sites as surveyors use a theodolite. Specifically Teotihuacan, which sits 180 degrees opposite Cairo, and has the exact same footprint. The ideal positions to determine the speed of light using the transit of Venus, by which one can accurately determine Longitude for navigation. Capt cook did the same thing in 1774 when he 'discovered' Easter Island. The only culture that fits the bill was wiped out "not one stone upon the other" by the Romans in 146BC. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia (israel) sat just offshore from Ur Shalom, City of the New Moon, or City of Peace. The root of the name Jerusalem, and was also seized by Rome in 70AD after a 13 year seige. The gap between is 216 years. Greek Dionysians built the Temple of Solomon (now called the Temple of Melqart) representing the Solar Lunar Metonic Calendar on which this system is based, they also carried mirrors, a practice associated with both the Magi and the Druids as well as Greek and Egyptian scholars, these Mirrors are Astrological charts called "Cycladian Frying Pans" and record the cycles of the planets. The first Temple of Melqart (the Phoenician form of Horus, or Hercules, or Pan, or Thor) representing the 13th Constellation of Ophiuchus or the Serpent Bearer (hence Orphic Serpent worship) had pillars of Emerald and Gold, representing Isis and Osiris. The Jerusalem Temple only took payment in "Shekels of Tyre" a currency minted during the Jewish rebellion against Rome. "Give that which is Ceasar's unto Ceasar" When Alexander sacked Tyre in 332BC they moved to Carthage meaning "New City" or New Jerusalem, where they built a second temple with Pillars of Bronze. Nebuchadnezzar also seiged Tyre for 13 years, taking the City captive in 573BC: the same time as the biblical account of the Jews. And again in 70AD after a three and a half year seige, also consistent with biblical accounts. Esus was a character created by Joseph of Arimathea, who was a Celt, the King of Tyre, the Bible is the Phoenician Almanac, Esus the God of Death, Polaris, the Pole Star. It's written backwards, in a mirror, just as Egyptians made their astrological records, the Zodiac.
@@limhan3209 false, Joseph of Arimathea was Celtic, and I'm him, so if the King of the Celts is here, so are his people. Or did you not know we believe in Reincarnation?
@@limhan3209 Half of the native modern-day inhabitants of the British Isles are still of Celtic blood. There is also some Celtic blood remaining on the European mainland, as well as intermixed with the Scandinavian peoples. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Celtic peoples weren’t just a culture-they were & still *are* a racial group.
My family is a mix of Scots and German (Celtic and Teutonic). I have been fascinated by Celtic culture since an aunt was able to trace the Scots side to the mid 900's, primarily by inheritance records, both oral and written. Rome so thoroughly distorted our view of them its hard to winnow out the truth. You did a stellar job with this video. Thank you.
Sorry to hear that. Interest in the Celts has sparked new interest the the ancient Norse, Teutons, and Slavs, all of whom also got dismissed because of Greece and Rome.
How could the Celts borrow the dragon motif from the Vikings? The Celts were at their height culturally long before the Vikings came around. Isn't it more likely that the dragon motif is an ancient symbol, and the Celts used this symbol because it was already a part of their culture.
I think they just framed it weirdly. The Celts took some aesthetics from the vikings to play up being fierce and scary to mainland Europe. But the Celts absolutely had folklore about big fire breathing serpents prior to that, though the imagery changes significantly before and after contact with the vikings. Initially it was more snakelike, while the vikings had the more traditional European dragon.
Except that it’s full of lies. Such as the claim that the Celts originated from the Indian subcontinent Or that the Celts got the dragon motif from the Vikings. These are two examples of this documentary getting facts shockingly incorrect.
Celtic folk did have a written language called Ogham and they dominated Europe from the late Bronze Age to early Roman times.They originated side by side with early Latins and their languages have close connections.
@robertolang9684 yep, Caibeiro tribes of Iberia, the Phrygians, Sintians, Lydians, and Chaldeans/Achaeans Who become the Assyrians and later Phoenicians
@@jaynesegman7847 Latin derives from Phoenician, Jesus is the Celtic God of Death, from Galilee, Gaul, Galatians, Gaels, Gaelic Lots of Graecan toes too with Macedonia MacDonald, and Graecans settled in Italy. The first bible was called the Vaticanus Graecus Son of the Divine Serpent 🐍
I am Scandinavian and Celtic and the comments on here prove what a sense of humour people that are of Celtic descent & people INTERESTED in Celtic origins, have. Some of the funniest people I have ever met are of Celtic descent.
I too consider myself a Celtic viking due to my dna ancestry all the areas of the calts and the vikings are all my dna is. My ancestors got around apparently. But there is truth to your comment. You can't be redheaded n not have a sense of humor.
What are you talking about: Celtic descent? Unless, you're from Iberia, France, the Alps, Germany or somewhere like that, you don't have descent from Celtic peoples, for the most part.
“History” only begins, in the classical sense, when writing systems makes it possible to record events. The word, history, refers to the period following the development of the written word. So, anything before ~5,000 years ago, is pre-historical. This is a why people who study pre-history human cultures are anthropologists, not historians.
@@jaynesegman7847The OG is referring to the opening lines of a Spinal Tap song and how similar the opening line of the show is to them. It was a funny thought. Ease up and try to recognize humor.
The main thing has not been said here: with the exception of the tribes that controlled the passes in the Alps who considered the consumption of wine a factor of social destabilization and military laxity, the Celtic peoples defeated and conquered by Julius Caesar in Gaul had already become addicted to the Roman wine. It is known that Rome always introduced wine at a low cost in regions that it intended to conquer militarily after some time. The Celts fell victim to their weakness, lack of cohesion, and predilection for consuming large quantities of Roman wine.
@@ladyD-e9b I suppose not, but bullshit produced on an industrial scale (and eventually distributed for free on the internet) is today's equivalent of Roman wine in the past. The algorithms of antisocial networks are addictive like wine and also weaken people cognitively. But there is a problem: Americans and Europeans also consume the same bullshit and the political systems of developed and aggressive countries can also be manipulated from a distance by the people they intend to invade and conquer.
I came here because my ancient DNA test showed me closely related to the Celts, Gaels, Celtic Britons and Danish Vikings. They matched me to some of the ancients bones that have been found. Such a cool site!
No English DNA? For you to have Danish DNA and Celtic then you may be originally from the Danelaw area of northern England. The Celtic strain is strong in the north of England with place names like Pen Y Ghent . Irish Vikings were of Norwegian descent but you Gael DNA could still come from Britain as the Irish had several colonies on the British mainland. And of course the Danes settled the north of England as part of the Danelaw. Google Rheged for a good example of a Celtic kingdom in the area I described. It was a Celtic kingdom that married into the Angle kingdom of Northumbria in order to survive. Less than 200 years later it was part of the Danelaw and had all the DNA ingredients that you have mentioned. Sorry for the long post.
Celtic and bell beaker culture are fascinating topics. I got into it when I learned Celts were also in the Iberian Peninsula (think Spain) academically called Celtiberians.
the two countries aren’t that far apart. but i’ve only heard that a spanish ship landed in ireland, or was shipwrecked in ireland. leading to a few spaniard staying there. never heard of vice versatility. thanks. their descendants were called the black irish. but it’s an extremely rare heritage. since it was only a few people.
My great grandfather came from Ireland to America in the the later part of century 19. His son my grandfather fought in ww,1 I have his helmet and canteen next to me on a table Iam very proud of them.
Nice documentary, well put together, but I’m not sure when it was made? Celts were and are a Indo-European / Neolithic Farmer people with hunter gather admixture. Neolithic Farmers originated in Anatolia and took two routes into Europe, one around the Mediterranean and into Iberia, and the other through the Balkans before meeting again Central Europe. The Indo-Europeans originated north of the Black Sea. The Indo-European dna found in Persia and India is do to a back migration of The Corded Ware people from North, East and Central Europe. There are also earlier migration from the Yamnaya culture (A major fountain head of IE culture and dna) that travelled east. Thanks for the video:)
One academic here said Celts originated in India. That's the BJP Indian nationalist view of history for Aryans. It's debunked, and the Celtic speakers were a branch of Yamnaya peoples, who had Steppe ancestry. It must be from the 90s this program.
I think many of the earlier Celtic peoples were hunters and gatherers. This documentary focuses on Celts in western isles of Europe during the Roman invasion. At that time and place they relied heavily on agriculture, primarily livestock and grains.
amazing thank you so much, i've read that celt priests had an important role in the advance of christianity through europe at some point, and I think it makes sense giving the fact that the holy trinity as a symbol adapts very well to the way that celts had a view of live that involved three perspectives of things.
Some ancient Celtic buildings were beautiful carved wood structures, painted in rich colors but wood doesn't preserve well unless it falls into a bog and most of those were completely drained centuries ago. I think Celts often get the noble savage trope placed onto their ancestors. Compared to the vikings and the Romans most ethnic groups look to be extremely peaceful, love simplicity and lived ecofriendly lives. When you compare every leather hand bag you find a diamond encrusted Himalayan Birkin you seem them all as ecofriendly and simplistic. I just wanted to point this out. :)
@robertolang9684 not true before Norman invasions Irish forts were made of wood and many beautifully carved Irish churches were carved out of wood. Cranogs could be seen throughout the Celtic world and they were almost entirely made of wood.
@robertolang9684 Dude you make no sense. The Irish are more Celtic than the British as the British were conquer by the Romans. I can see what you mean about the Scottish as they are the odd man out of the uk culturally. But they had the ancient tower keeps called brochs which if you claim Scottish aren't Celts then your stone building argument falls to pieces as the British didn't build stone buildings in ancient times beyond the Romans building them. Probably the same with wales and the Celtic half of France isn't known for ancient stone houses either. :)
They weren't a unified nation in the popular sense; they didn't "rule" pre-Roman Europe. They were just the mountain folk that spread north of the Mediterranean world, trading with the latter and developing their distinct art styles and mythology. Super cool history!
The Celts are alive and well! Some of us still retain our ancestry (though mine is mixed between western France, Wales, and a bit of southeastern Irish).
World first cultures Lepenski vir, Starcevo, Vinca culture today Serbia. World first industrial revolution ca. 6000 BC. Bronze metallurgy. (BBC History news March 2010) Gordon Childe-The Danube in Prehistory, Jacque Pirenne-Agriculture at Danube Farming start about 6000 BC. Vinca First Calendar start to count years at 5508 BC. Farming wouldn’t be possible without knowledge of calendar. Both development started and developed together. Harald Harman about first cyrillic writings in Vinca culture in 5500 BC so 2000 years before any writings anywhere else on the world. Vinca Iron production 1400 BC. In today English language there is more than 2000 same or similar Serbian words. Names of the Balkan tribes: Pelasgians, Mycenaeans, Etruscan, Wendi, Illiyrians, Dardanians (Troy is here ,not in Turkey Homer wrote sea is freezing in the winter-Panonian sea), Moesians, Dacians, Tracians, Rasci, Celts, Scythians, Sarmatians, Arians, Sea People, Peleset, Philistines, Hittites, Bhrygians, Etruscan. Tribes spread in all directions ……. Wild Greeks arived ~ 1000 BC from Egipt, Hungarian from Asia and Bulgariens from Asia they found culture on the Balkans, writings and language and they mixed with domestic people.
@@Dragan-t6w And then we have the history of Gobekli Tepe - estimated at >12,000 years old. the "Bosnian Pyramid" - estimated at >12,000 years old, Gunung Padang - estimated at > 25,000 years old. None of which could have been built without "modern" tools and techniques. That is why "Historians" hate sites like that - because they "rewrite" our concepts of "history" (and we know what Napoleon said about history). Beyond that, we have the knowledge of the "precession of the equinoxes" and the "Great Year". One might wonder how that knowledge came about and how many times it was observed before accepting it as "fact". 😀 But I certainly do not disagree with what you have written regarding "this time around".
Yes, but looks like all cultures started at Danube area. I would like to present evidence about even older ancient culture existing on the Balkans region starting with Atlantis ca. 13,000 BC (Romanian scientists M. Gh. Ticleanu - A. Vasas - G. Bindea). I'm giving sources to my text as well.
Im here because i have a module of civilization in university, and this is the first lesson we're gonna see tomorrow with the teacher, to be honest i have no idea aboutt the celts, i hope its gonna be easy and enjoyable
The Celts were a culture of separate tribes or clans that inhabited most of Northern Europe. There were "Germanic" Celts and "Norman" Celts and Celts from N Spain. Making them out to be British was a missed opportunity to highlight how vast their culture really was. They were crushed by Julias Caesar and he documented it all. The leftovers got pushed up into the British Isles, possibly displacing other peoples or mixing with them. They men bleached their hair with lime water and shaved their beards except for above the lip, this is pretty well documented.
Definitely not right. France was Celtic when Caesar conquered them. Do you think the whole of France got into small boats and crossed the channel? 😮 No, they stayed in France.
Thank you for this fascinating information. I came from Irish, English and Scottish ancestry so this helpful. I used to have book about Celts when I was a kid and always liked looking at the art works . I also Ironic how they talk about fat men being fined as it show male large reenactors who are quite large in the belly .
This is at least 20 years old and precedes Cunliffe and Koch's Celtic from The West theory. Why did you cut the opening credits off? It's from the DVD The Celts, by: Prince Les. Brookes, Phil. Tovell, Vanessa. Freeston, Jeremy. Mahon, Penny. Eagle Rock Entertainment. Films for the Humanities (Firm)
@@hardywatkins7737 Only an idiot would try to discredit industry experts instead of a particular aspect of what they might disagree with. Reams of peer-reviewing professors credit a wide spectrum, and I doubt that you know anything about C & K's works, otherwise you'd have easily quoted it instead of going personal. My comment was addressed to beginners so that they know that this is out of date, not idiots like you.
What interests me is that the name for the English derives from the Angles (as in Anglo/Saxson) but the name for the English used in Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic is actually Saxon (Sassenach, Sasenach, Saesneg).
Yeah, so many languages and dialects! Languages are alive, changing , many have disappeared. speaking another language that is not the first one adds other dimensions snd experiences, multiplies your cognitive flexibility . My point is that our desire for certainty, limits , separation keeps us reduced instead of growing; that is my preference. . I personally prefer chaos and irregularity in problem solving and creativity. conventional , repetitive and static Uugghh Etymology of words is fun and helps a lot though In Spain we have four languages , 3 are romance languages, bask is the oldest and of unknown origins. But in our romance languages we have words and sayings from other languages , languages or variations of languages of tribes that invaded our lands. Beautiful, organic, always changing. Thank you for hearing me out
I am a Celtic person, and speak the old northern dialect of Gaelic. Our thought processes and world view, and our values are distinct from other European peoples, There are other subtle nuances, too. Ask a person whom you believe to be Celtic to hold their hand vertically, and flex their fingers individually, then in groups of two, three, four. A Celt will be able to bend at least three fingers individually to the palm, plus the thumb. They'll be able to also flex fingers in any number of up to four at a time in unison. History and our custom of exogamy being as they have been, not all have only Celtic ancestry, nor entirely Celtic influences and customs, but they have the language of their fathers and mothers. It is our way. Thank you for once again telling our story, keeping the spark alive.
@@cb664 You inherited that trait in full, and it's fully expressed. It's not improbable. Don't wish for too much of it, you could develop things such as ALS, Or HHC. They're the downside of it all. :(
Thanks for asking. Mine are straight, but the straighter the more evident. It's possible this ability occurs in persons of only a fraction of Celtic ancestry, it's in the odds. Taken with other traits, you get an idea of how "purebred" or inbred a person is. And remember, we are customarily exogamous. We don't tend to inbreed. I have cousins who are half Genovese half Irish.@@susantumminello5866 They look more stereotypically Irish than my father (who had a somewhat dark complexion due to HHC), and we've found a lot of cognate words and expressions comparing Gaelic and Genovese/Ligurian.
Many Italian people have Celtic ancestors, some are descended from war captives, some from refugees, some from conquered Gauls in the north, from Emiglia Romana to Liguria, to Piemonte, To Bologna, to Milano, to Venice. There were settlements in the south, too. The country is a hodge-podge of peoples. I have an old g=GF from the Alps north of Milan. She recently got tested genetically, so did her brother. Bottom line is they are something like 90% Celtic genetically.
The social justice of the Celtic tribes is something I wish they touched on. Care of the elderly & more vulnerable in the tribe etc & general social society . Wish Celtic culture was taught more in mainstream education. One of the great European cultures. Rome saw them as a great threat & for many generations the Celtic tribes had the upper hand against Rome & the culture was spread widely over parts of Europe
If the people of northern Europe were, on average, smaller than the Celts, that could be where some legends about fae folk came from. If the areas which became Wales and parts of Ireland saw more cultural and biological mixing, then maybe Welsh and black (haired) Irish people are the closest thing we have to half-elves.
@@overlord5068 I'm Irish Gael 100%, fluently speak the old northern dialect of Gaelic. My grandfathers, great grandfathers, uncles and great uncles were over 6' 6" tall. One of my great grandfathers was 7' 4". On both sides, we were considered TANISTS, i.e. princes. Our women typically are 5' 6" to 5' 10". Most of us have dark red brown hair, some are blond, a few dark brown. Of my hundreds of kinfolk, only one or two have black hair. We all have light brown, green, hazel, blue, or gray eyes. The ancient graves of our warriors and princes, druids, and artisans are consistent with this. Perhaps, you refer to burials of commoner folk, or even fuidir, who were war captives, usually Germanic or Thracian, occasionally Roman or Greek, or in Iberia, BAsque or Iberian?
@@johnhayes8557Can I ask what is Irish Gael and how is that different to the average Irish person? It's also interesting that you're 100% I didn't think you could be 100% anything! I'm English not Irish but fascinated by the history and languages of the ancient people of Britain and Ireland.
There's nowhere near enough videos like this about ancient Europe. I fear that a channel like this one will soon be walking the path of the History Channel. Less and less history, and more of what the censorship allows people to see.
I'm Breton/Cornish, and here's a history lesson for thee. In the far South West, in Penrith Parish, we have never stopped speaking the Old Cornish language. Not this 'Neo' Cornish 'thing'.
@@Madonnalitta1 Don't laugh too hard, it is in danger of being a dead language. It is only spoken by a relative tiny minority. I don't think it will ever be spoken widely again and will remain spoken only by a few, which is certainly a sad thing ... unless for some reason it catches on and becomes popular but i don't see that happening.I am from Devon but live in Cornwall ... although i do have alot of ancestry from Cornwall as well as south Devon, but i hardly ever meet anyone who speaks even a little Cornish - occasionally i meet someone who does speak some. I know the libraries in Cornwall demand their employees speak, or learn to speak Cornish, which was a great initiative but in practice i don't see it happening although one of the women at my local library does speak Cornish, - the libraries are one institution that do promote the Cornish language and always stock books and audio tutorials for learning Cornish. Estimates are that there are about 1000 Cornish speakers in Cornwall.
My job adviser is Cornish and she told me she had a DNA test and it said she was 100% Cornish. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Do you think it would be fair to assume that brown hair/brown eyes would be a fairly typical Cornish or even Breton phenotype? What do your family typically look like if i may ask?
@@hardywatkins7737 There would have been a variety, a range of phenotypes, right? We Gaels refer to the people of Kernow as "Cousin Jacks." Drustan and Esseilte, a lot of intermarriages, trade, refugees passing to Eriu. It's our shared heritage.
In regard to the point that's made towards the end of this documentary regarding the way that Celts thought in a more layered anf nuanced way as opposed to the more black and white thinking of Anglo Saxon's, thats might help to explain the orginis of the Scottish legal system which has the verdict as Guilty, Not Guilty or Not Proven. While elsewhere, it's either Guilty or Not Guilty. Most of life is a grey area so Celtic thinking makes perfect sense to me.
The Celts took artistic motifs from the Vikings??? Yet the Vikings didn't arrive in Britain until after the Anglo Saxons had already displaced most of the Celts. There is also a lot of emphasis on war. This is not a particularly accurate portrail. Boudicca was not a hereditary queen, nor did she attack the Romans out of a sense of Celticness. She was the wife of the King of the Icon who in turn became Roman vassals/allies. But a Roman governor feared the Iceni and attacked, killing her husband and raping Boudicca and her daughters. That's when she became a fully ruling queen and attacked the Romans to exact revenge. This is like a bad Classics comic book. Very disappointing.
My ancestors learned a lot of artistic motifs including musical ideas from the Saka, the Skyths. During the millenia in the Sea of Grass, they lived along side of various Saka groups, before the great trek into Europa. The language and culture were rapidly evolving. By 4000 BCE, in the Danube Gates, to the Harz, and Switzerland and Austria, they began to emerge. The Doric people were fairly close kin, and the Phrygians. Greeks first dubbed my ancestors Keltoi. I was taught we called ourselves either The Free People or The Shining People.
Sorry, but what's your point? Cultures always borrow from previous cultures, but you can't borrow from cultures you haven't yet encountered.@@johnhayes8557
Exactly , the Viking age is usually held to be from the 790s AD until 1066 , while Celts were a cultural group that originated in Central Europe before 600 B.C.E. By 250 B.C.E So, Celts were ancient, Vikings were early medieval.
@@lexdunn4160 Celtic monks used art motifs from Vikings and Anglo Saxon to teach the Gospels. Interlace motifs are found on Celtic items dating back into the bronze age.
@@johnhayes8557 Yes, but Vikings did not show up in Britain until the 9th and tenth centuries long after the Celts were displaced by Angel Saxons who did not appear in Britain until the 3rd to 7th centuries. This "documentary" suggests that the Celts interacted with these groups in the Bronze Age which they did not.
There is so much wrong in this documentary. “The dragon motif was borrowed from the Vikings”?!?! Vikings are from AD750 at the earliest. The Celts date back to 1,400 years prior to the existence to the Vikings. Also “the Celts came from the Indian subcontinent”?!?!? Just no, no all around on that. That’s a fringe Aryan invasion of Europe theory that was discarded by the late 1960’s and has been thoroughly disproved through linguistic, genetic, and archaeological evidence.
Actually they found a mound with a king inside more recently. Lots of bodies but they were able to get DNA and confirm it took a few decades for the indo group to arrive. Then the here was a Turkish invasion then the Roman one. The mounds predate the Egyptian ones and they can tell from the design they were sun worshippers and., they married siblings as the Egyptians did. I agree this video has too much factual inconsistency to watch.edited to say I watched a doco on the archaeologist and it was pretty amazing
I completely agree. Viking is a profession not a culture. The Norse and Celts did develop significant cultural and artistic interplay, but that was centuries after the Roman invasion and La Tene period.
Do you think the vikings just suddenly appeared out of nowhere in 750CE? They had ancestors too and obviously inherited their culture from their earlier ancestors. I agree about the dragon motif though, however i don't see the dragon much in Celtic art.
Dru E Io Set te Ari Matea King Joseph of Arimathea Jesus is the Celtic God of Death, the Sun of Man, where the Son of God is the Moon And John the Baptist, avatar of Aquarius Israel, Fruit of Isis and Ra The Angel of Death ☠️
The beginning of the docu is a bit misleading true iron-working dates back to the Hittites in around 2000 BC. We find the Celts iron work around 1000 BC. However, they have some of the most beautifully intricate iron work.
As a Irish Celt i am rather fed up of our real history being mixed up with mythology . Time to forget the fairys and the dracons and look at who we really are.
It's astrology And literally how to find out who you are The Israelites Jesus was a creation of Joseph of Arimathea, a curse upon Rome. He's the Author, or Arthur, who pulls the Cross from the Stone; the guy with a feather, or Scribe's pen, hence the Pen is mightier than the Sword. E Io te Ari Matea is also a figure in Maori mythology in New Zealand, which aligns to the Zodiac, and the Southern Cross, and is forty degrees south of the equator. They also have He Uenuku Atua, or Rainbow spirit, a reference to the Unicorn, and Jesus, and worship Papatunuku, the Great Earth Mother, also worshipped by the Phrygians of Anatolia as El Pipitunaka, or Titikaka, which is also found in Teotihuacan, along with Amarru Marru, and in New Zealand Oamaru And best yet, in the western part of the North Island sits Taranaki, which means Northern Star The Bible is an almanac encoding a world map, including New Zealand, Hyperborea, or Elysium, the Underworld of Hades, and the secret home of the Phoenicians. Maori having a character called Maui, or the Navigator, alligning to Ophiuchus, the 13th Starsign which lasts 18 days (3x6) and the Manger or Cave in which Jesus was born and died in. Maui plants two eels, just as Osiris planted two serpents, which sprouted into pillars, like Sampson, or Moses, picking up the Serpent Staff of Pharoahs. Ophiuchus being the Serpent Bearer, just as Jesus represents Hephaestus, or the Brazen/ Rainbow Serpent of the Dream time. Maui also slows the sun, just as Joshua in the Bible, in a battle campaign that aligns with that of Tutmoses III, and his battle with Jericho, aka Megiddo, in which he used a Goat Track, which relates to Capricorn, and we also find in the tale of Sparta. Cap as in Capstone, or Headstone, or Altar of Ra, the Holy Grail atop the Mountain of Moses, or Great Pyramid, the Holy Mountain of Hermon. Now if you impose a Star of David and align the central axis to the North and South poles, and flip it upside down, you have exactly what the Bible describes as the transition of the Age of Pisces into Aquarius, and the zenith of Orion, the Root of the Zodiac or Tree of Knowledge And Maori again have a Forest God called Tane, who separated the Sky God from the Earth Goddess, his position is no different to that of Atlas, propping up the world by his shoulders. Jews were Celts, and Celts settled New Zealand and mapped it out at least 5000 years ago, at the period of Ireland's Megalithic period. New Zealand being a land of only birds, which Celts saw as sacred, and great trees like the Kauri, not unlike Menkauri pyramid. Great for ship masts, and plenty of flax to make sails for Aladdin's flying carpet (Sailing ship). Aladdin being King Solomon, his mines being the astrological knowledge that put them centuries ahead of Rome Sadly in 200AD lake Taupo (Night of Tau, Taurus) erupted and buried the entire island, very few survived, but some did, and their ancestors are still around to this day. They have the same language and stories as Palestinians, who speak Aramaic, like Jesus, and E Io te Ari Matea Which means the clear first month of the Calendar, and relates to Tammuz Hence the call in the Wilderness, Pan, E Io Matea calling out to his people Come out, come out of here my people, and so shall she deliver of of ye yea, up up up unto me, and in so that I might bring of ye yea some comfort.
I dont believe in Astrology . It has no scientific foundation . Celts came to New Zealand on the convict boats . Not before that. And there as been constant immigration from Celtic lands since . First they found the Maori rather against them . Because Maori rightly thought Celts would take their land . In general Celts are not The Jews . They are a North and Central European tribe . Not Semites . I could be an exception to that rule as although I said I am a Celt . I am not fully so . My mothers people have connections to Belarus Jews . Now this is the surprising fact . You mentioned Palastinians , they and other Arabic people are the closest link to Jewish despite all the wars and destruction. Jewish and Arabs are Semities . You are right they more or less share a similar language . There are many things in their languages wich are similar . And in their cultural practices . Celts are not Semites they do not have a similar language nor did they have similar cultural practices. The most obvious being Celts eat pork , Semites dont . I cannot understand how you got to the theories that you got to . I pass on it .
I am Celtic, and one side of my Celtic family is dark haired, with blonde (I was blonde as a child), the other is dark, blonde and ginger. My genetics are traced back a long time to Celtic origins, yet I'm told I look like a foreigner, frequently. My roots are Isle of Man, Scotland and mostly Wales..I currently live in Finland and here they think I am Finnish. It's interesting.
My daughter at 1 had blond hair and blue eyes......by 3 her hair had turned bronze/auburn and her eyes were blue with a very green outer ring......by 10 her hair was jet black and has the darkest coloured eyes, far darker than brown
I have cousins whose father was 100% Irish Gael, and mom was a Finn of royal descent. She used to read tales to me from the Kalevala when I was a shaver. My cousins look like anybody off the streets of Strabane, Co Tyrone. Perhaps the best thing about these videos is they get people talking?
World first cultures Lepenski vir, Starcevo, Vinca culture today Serbia. World first industrial revolution ca. 6000 BC. Bronze metallurgy. (BBC History news March 2010) Gordon Childe-The Danube in Prehistory, Jacque Pirenne-Agriculture at Danube Farming start about 6000 BC. Vinca First Calendar start to count years at 5508 BC. Farming wouldn’t be possible without knowledge of calendar. Both development started and developed together. Harald Harman about first cyrillic writings in Vinca culture in 5500 BC so 2000 years before any writings anywhere else on the world. Vinca Iron production 1400 BC. In today English language there is more than 2000 same or similar Serbian words. Names of the Balkan tribes: Pelasgians, Mycenaeans, Etruscan, Wendi, Illiyrians, Dardanians (Troy is here ,not in Turkey Homer wrote sea is freezing in the winter-Panonian sea), Moesians, Dacians, Tracians, Rasci, Celts, Scythians, Sarmatians, Arians, Sea People, Peleset, Philistines, Hittites, Bhrygians, Etruscan. Tribes spread in all directions ……. Wild Greeks arived ~ 1000 BC from Egipt, Hungarian from Asia and Bulgariens from Asia they found culture on the Balkans, writings and language and they mixed with domestic people.
"Hole in the roof" for the smoke? Modern reconstructions disprove this. A hole is a fire risk, the smoke will diffuse through the thatch well enough and the smoke helps to preserve it.
Les Prince says Celtic culture moved from the Indian subcontinent!? No serious scholar thinks that Celtic culture moved from the Indian subcontinent! This info is so outdated.
Though the genes for red hair have been scientifically proven to have originated in the Himalayan-Hindu Kush region 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, and spread NE and NW into the "Sea of Grass."
yes, it is scandalous that this video does not mention the reasons for the wars with the neighbors. Always and forever that daily noise of those bagpipes
Ekwos* is the reconstructed form of the word for horse in Common Celtic. Epos is the gaulish descendant, and "each" the Irish one, so the goddess would be known as Ekwona*
@@hardywatkins7737 if the dragon is borrowed from the Vikings, the Vikings must be present. If not, they can say it is borrowed from the Vikings' ancestors. But most probably, it's the other way around, the Vikings borrowed the Celtic dragon.
@@kifi672 I would suggest that neither of these peoples called themselves Celts or Vikings so being pedantic about names is rather redundant. Each group is perfectly capable of coming up with dragon motifs on their own without needing to borrow the idea from someone else. Dragons have been used as a motif the world over for a long time.
Celts were NOT the first masters of Ireland - we actually were only inhabited by the La tene celts (the beaker people). We had people living here thousands of years before the Celts…so much so that our stone work is far more advanced than other areas of Europe; because celtic people from Central Europe got here so late. The Irish language is also not called Irish Gaelic it’s called Gaeilge, “Gaelic” is a sport in Ireland and is only used as a word predominantly by English speakers & British people as a way to describe the Irish language due to ignorant post colonialism
There is an "Old World" that we barely see a glimpse of. Even sites like Gobekli Tepe and Gunang Padang give us just "peeks" at what civilization was like more than 12,000 years ago.
@@random2829 Looking at archaeological investigations over the last 85 years, between the culture that built sites such as New Grange, and the arrivals (yes arrivals) of waves of Halstatt (1000 BCE to 200 CE) and La Tene (500 BCE to 100 CE) Celtic people from the continent, there's evidence of Beaker People now considered proto-Celts, you are correct. But their numbers were not large, evidence found up to now is scanty. The ancient tales such as Lebor Gabbala na hEireann seem to hint at waves of epidemics, famines, invasions we've not yet discovered. I'm looking into Maigh Tuireadh and the Plague Graves myself. You, Cat??
Yeah interesting. I'm instantly reminded of that triskel/triskelion symbol at newgrange ... the triple spiral thing that everyone thinks is Celtic, yet both Newgrange and the symbol predate the Celts. That symbol is also found all over Europe so i consider to be a very ancient symbol used by a large group of indo european peoples.
The Janissaries, considered to be the strongest military units of the Ottoman Empire, were established in Anatolia in 1362, and the Janissary army was formed by selecting the physically strong children of the Celtic and Roman people. The Janissaries, who caused the biggest rebellion in Ottoman history, revolted in Anatolia in 1826. The Ottoman sultan had difficulty suppressing the rebellion. After this process, the Ottoman Empire entered a period of collapse.
Red hair and fair hair came from the Nordic region, the vikings/nords and northern Germans had red hair. They brought it with their invasions. Most Celts had dark hair.
Exactly what i just said in another comment. Most Celts had dark hair as dark hair was predominant in Europe. Dark features are also genetically dominant.
Red and blond hair have been traced genetically back to mutations that occurred in the Hindu Kush/Himalayas 30,000 to 15,000 years ago. The new genes were carried NE and NW after the last glacial melt onto the new Sea of Grass, the steppes.
Very interesting as a Slavic person looking As Ireland through History had ALLWAYS a hard life like RUSSIANS but we ALLWAYS manage to defend what we believe in do what we have to do as hard as it is And Still Manage to sing and dance and drink AND LAUGH AT OURSELVES THERE IS THIS BRAVADO AND KEEP ON KEEPING ON AND NEVER GIVE UP
