The Ancient Celts were Awesome.
#1
Posted 03 February 2013 - 07:52 PM
Finally I realized that there would be documentaries on Youtube. Derp.
So I looked some up, and I found this:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Interesting stuff.
Apparently the ancient Celts had more advanced calendars than the Romans, they had more advanced roads than the Romans, they had highly advanced metalworking and mining technologies, they were incredibly wealthy, and they had more progressive laws. Some of which allowed Women to be rules, they *mandated* the protection of children (including the mentally handicapped), and they allowed women to divorce their husbands for reasons including: Impotence, infertility, or domestic abuse.
#2
Posted 03 February 2013 - 10:24 PM
#3
Posted 04 February 2013 - 12:31 AM
On top of all those things, they were also balls crazy.
I mean over the top, murderlust, crazy-eyed insane.
No one fucked with them without feeling the wrath of an army of pissed off, naked warriors.
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
#4
Posted 04 February 2013 - 02:43 AM
"Listen men, if we are conquered by those Romans, they are going to take all of our mad lootz, and change all our laws to their laws, which don't make any goddamn sense! And worst of all, THEIR CALENDAR IS STUPID! FOR GAAAAUUUL!"
#5
Posted 04 February 2013 - 12:04 PM
Obviously the British celts were repressed to extinction as well...so they weren't that great.
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#6
Posted 04 February 2013 - 01:16 PM
Basically all existing accounts of the Celts from that time were written by the Romans and the Greeks.
Both groups had plenty of reason to paint the Celts in a poor light, and have been shown to have been lying or wrong in several of their accounts.
#7
Posted 04 February 2013 - 03:39 PM
There were instances yes, but so many different cultures are depicted as inhumane monsters that kill their own to appease the gods, how can they all be true without huge amounts of evidence?
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
#8
Posted 07 February 2013 - 03:07 PM
On the topic of human sacrifice, you have to consider the fact that a lot of the documentation about Celtic human sacrifice was written by people who probably saw the Celts as threatening. There are plenty of instances of aggressive activity and the like being largely exaggerated by the enemies of particular civilizations. Propaganda, man.
#9
Posted 07 February 2013 - 09:01 PM
Most cultural quirks can be viewed as tangibly beneficial to the culture that created them in some way. Even religious stuff.
Ancient Hebrews didn't eat certain foods because of their religious law. It also just so happened that they lived in a desert and a lot of those same foods tended to be dangerous to eat in those conditions.
Hindus don't eat cows because they consider them sacred, but as a culture with a strong caste system (and the pronounced poverty inherent therein) it has always been somewhat more beneficial to keep a cow and continue to benefit from the things it produces (milk for drinking, feces for burning, etc) than to kill the cow and suddenly have nothing.
I, at least, cannot think of a single tangible benefit to human sacrifice.
Controlling overpopulation does not count, either. Otherwise more cultures would have adopted it more freely. Humans are rampantly overpopulated.
Plus, the Celts were constantly at war with each other, so that controlled their populations just fine.
#10
Posted 10 February 2013 - 11:18 PM
you innocent... fucking... fox...
#11
Posted 11 February 2013 - 12:25 AM
I, at least, cannot think of a single tangible benefit to human sacrifice.
Controlling overpopulation does not count, either. Otherwise more cultures would have adopted it more freely. Humans are rampantly overpopulated.
Plus, the Celts were constantly at war with each other, so that controlled their populations just fine.
Their corn crops were bountiful that year.
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#12
Posted 11 February 2013 - 09:34 AM
Huh.
Maybe they're mad at us for quitting with the human sacrifices, and that's why global warming is happening.
#13
Posted 11 February 2013 - 09:11 PM
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