Britannia Rules - Seabrook, Lochlainn

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Biographie:
one that dates back to the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles: female-based religion. In this one-of-a-kind illustrated work Colonel Seabrook overturns the long-standing notion that the first Britons and Celts were patriarchal and that they worshiped a male Heavenly Father. Using the latest archaeological, anthropological, etymological, onomastic, historical, and mythological evidence, he shows that both the Anglo-Saxons and the Celts were matriarchal peoples who venerated the Supreme Being in female form. This Heavenly Mother of the early Celto-Britons was none other than the universal Great Goddess, venerated around the ancient world under a myriad of names, and who manifested in ancient Egypt as Isis, in Judaism as Asherah, in Hinduism as Kali Ma, in Gnostic Christianity as Sophia, in orthodox Christianity as Mary, in Buddhism as Mara, and in the British Isles as Britannia. In light of the overwhelming worldwide reemergence of feminine spirituality, the advent of the Goddess Reclamation Movement, the recent resurgence of British and American interest in traditional Anglo-Celtic culture, and the reexamination of the real relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Britannia Rules is a topical work...

Sommaire:
Britannia Rules: Goddess-Worship in Ancient Anglo-Celtic Society, by award-winning author and historian Lochlainn Seabrook, is a unique and captivating book that celebrates a seldom discussed, yet long and noble English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish tradition...