Celtic Europe

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⚜️🇫🇷🇮🇪🇬🇷 “Da sleagh” (Irish: “Two spears”)… what Gallic warrior burials and both Irish and Greek literature reveal about the Indo-European warrior ethos. Pictured: Artistic recreation of a Gallic chariot burial from Châlons. Consistently, archaeologists uncover Celtic warrior burials from the La Téne period in which the deceased were interred with their military equipment: Chariot, shield, sword, and spears. The spears most often come as a pair, though burials with three and even five are not unknown. Bows and arrows are conspicuously absent. The same panoply is described repetitively in the Irish Ulster Cycle, the heroes being described multiple times as equipped with sword, shield, two spears (Irish: “da sleagh”) of a type that can be used both for thrusting or throwing, and of course, a chariot. Interestingly, it’s the same ideal panoply identified with the heroes of late Helladic Greece, depicted glaringly by Homer in his epic The Iliad. And Homer gives us an invaluable insight into the European warrior mind: Again and again he scoffs at the inferior Trojans for their cowardly use of the bow. To Homer, Achilles, Agamemnon, and others, a true warrior defies danger bravely by testing himself against the enemy in hand to hand combat. The Irish hero Cú Chulainn embodies this ideal perfectly, demanding single combats from his enemies and killing them up close and personal. This was the bushido (warrior ethos) —not just of Greece— but of the whole of ancient Europe. Middle Eastern armies (like the Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians and Arabs) on the other hand, relied primarily on the bow. Likewise the steppe peoples —Parthians, Turks and Mongols— with their mounted-bowman tactics. All were regarded by Europeans as the most unmanly of cowards. And the testing grounds of battle seemed to vindicate them every time the easterners failed to avoid close-quarters combat: The Persians were brutally thrashed by Greeks at Plataea (479 B.C.) and routed by Alexander at Gaugamela (331 B.C.), shocked Muslim invaders fled during the night after being violently tossed around by the French in AD 732 at the Battle of Tours, and a much larger Turkish army likewise fled during the night after being viciously mauled as if by bears by the starved and exhausted crusaders at the 1098 Battle of Antioch… What would our forebears think of us today, hiding in bunkers like mice, killing each other with drones, and calling in airstrikes?

Statue found near Seltz, in the Bas-Rhin department of France, depicting the Celtic sky and thunder deity Taranis riding down a cosmic rival, believed to be Lugus; 1st century AD. ⚜️🇫🇷 This statue and others like it reveal something about Celtic religion that historial sources did not record: There was a myth —now mostly lost— about a cosmic struggle won by the thunder god. Comparative mythology can help us guess a thing or two about it: In Germanic cosmology, Thor battles the trickster god Loki and his serpent offspring Jörmungandr, while Slavic mythology follows the same pattern with Perun fighting the serpent Veles. The Canaanite Ugarit Cycle is particularly revealing: It tells of an ages-long cosmic struggle between Hadad and the sea god Yam (who, like Loki, has a serpent offspring named Lawtan, which actually appears in the Biblical Book of Job as Leviathan). Notably, in order to defeat his formidable opponent, the thunder deity must lose the initial struggle and descend to the underworld (i.e. die), emerging again transformed to win the rematch and become “king of the gods”. In Irish mytholgy, this first round of the struggle seems to be depicted in the tale The Death of the Sons of Tuireann, where Lugh vengefully brings about the deaths of Tuireann and his sons. The statue suggests the possible existence of a lost tale in which Taranis rises again to overthrow and kill his opponent. It would also suggest a connection between Lugus and the serpent gods. Interestingly enough, comparative mythology has also shown that Lugh/Lugus was initially identified with the trickster god and rose to prominence among Celtic and Germanic peoples at a late stage in their history (see this). Indeed, even at that late stage, a minority of Celtic tribes had retained other deities as their principal geniuses without confusion of identities (i.e. the sun deity Belenus was the main god of the Gallic Kingdom of Noricum, while the war god Caturix remained the patron deity of the Swiss Helvetii). Others —like the Cantabrians and Asturians in Iberia— seem to have retained an even more ancient cosmology, having the sky and thunder god as their principal deity. This more ancient ordering of the pantheon is of course, visible in the Greco-Roman world with Zeus/Jupiter taking main stage. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Severan Invasion of Scotland; AD 208-211. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚔️🏳️ In the year AD 208, a Roman emperor of Phoenician descent named Septimius Severus invaded Scotland at the head of a massive army. Severus was fed up with the constant raids and defiance of two Pictish tribes: The Caledonii (located in Atholl & Gowrie) and Maeatae (located about Stirling and Strathearn), and was determined to crush them once and for all. His huge army re-occupied forts and camps built over a century earlier by a previous invader, Gnaeus Iulius Agricola, destroyed every farm and settlement they could find, and penetrated to the far north of the island. The outnumbered locals fought asymmetrically with scorched earth tactics and guerrilla-style ambushes, fleeing to the wilderness, removing food, and picking off smaller detachments of legionaries. According to Dio Cassius, the Romans suffered 50,000 deaths due to cold, starvation, disease, and other perils. Severus at length was able to force the Picts to negotiate and cede some territory they’d apparently conquered. But as soon as the emperor had returned to his headquarters in Eburacum (York), the Picts violated the treaty and renewed the fighting. An ailing Severus ordered his son Antoninus (the future emperor Caracalla) to take the army back north and commit genocide, even specifying that he should slaughter women and babies. But Antoninus was more eager to claim the imperial throne than to fight the Picts. For that reason, he aborted the campaign almost as soon as he’d begun it, after receiving news that his father had died. The Picts were left undefeated, as Antoninus concluded a new and hasty peace that was advantageous to them rather than to the Romans. By steadfastly enduring and resisting against a much more powerful opponent, the Picts were able to defeat a hegemonic empire. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Lusitanian warriors prepare an ambush; art by Angus McBride. 🇪🇸🇵🇹⚔️🏳️ The year (149 B.C.) following his genocidal campaign against the Hispanic Vaccaei people, Roman general L. Licinius Lucullus got involved in a war against the Lusitanians. The latter had been raiding Roman-controlled Baetica. His army rampaged through Lusitania targeting civilians; killing men, women, and children. The praetor of Hispania Ulterior province, Servius Sulpicius Galba, led another army in a different direction doing the same. The cruel slaughter forced the Lusitanians to send envoys asking for peace. Galba and Lucullus instructed the Lusitanians to gather at a certain location and date for the Romans to resettle them. When large numbers of them came as agreed, the Roman generals unleashed their army upon them, committing another perfidious massacre: Men, women, and children were murdered in cold blood and many also taken to be sold as slaves. However, a large number of people were able to escape into the wilderness, including a shepherd of the Celtici people named Viriathus. The attempted genocide prompted the Lusitanians to renew the war. An initial defeat of a Lusitanian raiding band by praetor Gaius Vetilius almost led to their surrender. But Viriathus reminded his comrades of previous Roman treachery and helped them escape a Roman encirclement. He thus became the leader of the Lusitanian resistance, and by the following year had defeated, captured, and killed Vetilius at the Battle of Tribola. The ensuing “War of Fire” (148-140 B.C.), saw the Romans suffer some of the most humiliating defeats in their history (like the ones mentioned here and here). Viriathus also incited the Celtiberians of Numantia to revolt again, opening a second front where Rome suffered another string of stinging humiliations. The conflict ended with Viriathus imposing a treaty —favorable to the Lusitanians— on Roman consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus, after completely defeating his army and forcing him to surrender via a spectacular shinobi-style infiltration and surprise-attack at the Battle of Erisana. Viriathus hadn’t just won some battles; he’d won the war. The humiliated Romans seethed with impotent rage for about a year, but ultimately renewed the war without provocation and in violation of the treaty. Rather than risk further humiliations, they resorted to cowardice, and bribed three of Viriathus’ associates to murder him in his sleep. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

🏳️⚔️🇪🇸 In the year 150 B.C; the Roman consul Lucius Licinus Lucullus came with an army to the city of Cauca in central Spain (modern Coca, Segovia; images include 15th century castle). At the time, the town belonged to the Vaccaei, although it seems to have alternated between belonging to them and to the neighboring Vettones. Lucullus had been sent to Spain to fight the Celtiberians of the city of Numantia, against whom the Roman Republic had been suffering a string of humiliating defeats. But finding that his predecessor had made peace with them, he attacked the Vaccaei without provocation. After a brief engagement outside the walls, the defeated inhabitants were persuaded to surrender and allow a Roman garrison into the city. Lucullus then had them treacherously massacred; men, women, and children. After this atrocity, he marched against the city of Intercatia (Aguilar de Campos, Valladolid). The inhabitants skirmished with the Romans but eventually submitted, being treated more magnanimously. Flushed with success, Lucullus marched to Pallantia (modern Palencia), against the advice of his peers, who noted that the Palentines were the most truculent among the Vaccaei. The siege of Pallantia was a debacle, as the Roman foragers were continually harassed by a flying column of cavalry that cut off their supply routes and reduced them to starvation. Defeated, Lucullus withdrew into winter quarters in southern Spain. Lucullus was never called to account for his illegal war or the genocide of the Caucaei, not even for staining Roman prestige with the humiliation of defeat at Pallantia.

The providential survival of the west; part 1: Rome. 🏳️ When studying the history of ancient Rome, it can be hard to sympathize with what was without question an arrogant, slave-mongering, and genocidal evil empire (particularly true of the Republic and early Empire, less and less so of the later Empire). But there is a strange irony we’re then faced with: Europe survived because of Rome. You see, Rome bequeathed its astonishing civilization on Europe, a civilization that was far larger in scale and more advanced than any other. Only ancient Greece had something comparable, which —as we know— heavily influenced the Etruscan and Roman civilizations. One reason Europe survived subsequent crises was that the “barbarian” peoples —not merely Germanic invaders, but also including Celts such as the Gauls, Bretons, Asturians, Cantabrians, and Gallaecians— had inherited Roman civilization. Roman farming, mining, forestry, and other forms of wealth and resource extraction enabled the maintenance of larger populations and thus, larger armies. Roman architecture made larger and more durable cities possible and created impregnable fortresses. Greco-Roman technological achievement continued to expand military and other capabilities, even enabling European civilization to spread to unknown continents. Without these and many of the other trappings of Roman civilization, the peoples of Europe would almost certainly not have survived hordes of Arab, Turkic and Mongol invaders, or achieved the future-altering feats that they did. As the science of genetics advances and many people become aware that they are descended more from the “barbarians” and less —or not at all— from the Greeks and Romans, it might seem tempting to become antagonistic to their Mediterranean neighbors. But this would be a mistake. Not just because the people of today didn’t commit long-ago deeds, but because of the long-term providential outcome. Providence is a strange thing; everything happens for a reason. What Jünger said was filled with wisdom:

What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger and what kills me… makes me incredibly strong.

Portrait of Viriathus; artist unknown. 🇵🇹🇪🇸 More about Viriathus here, here, here, and here. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

🇳🇱🇪🇺 Eva Vlaardingerbroek: Save Europe; Ausländer Raus. Also… justice for Stephen Ogilvie and Henry Nowak (and all the other innocent victims). 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Ducarius beheads Flaminius at the Battle of Lake Trasimene; 217 B.C. 🏳️ Art by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. The Battle of Lake Trasimene ocurred during the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.) between the Roman Republic and Carthage. An army led by the Phoenician general Hannibal Barca invaded Italy to take the fight directly to the Romans. The greater part of Hannibal’s army were Celtic allies and mercenaries, including large numbers of Spanish peoples such as Asturians, Gallaecians, Vettonians and Celtiberians, and a large contingent of Gauls from northern Italy who joined Hannibal upon completing his passage across the Alps. After outmaneuvering the Romans and defeating them in several battles, Hannibal crossed the Appenines en route to Rome. A large Roman army commanded by consul Gaius Flaminius was hot on his heels when Hannibal suddenly stopped and prepared an ambush on the north shore of Lake Trasimeno in Umbria. In poor visibility due to mist, the Roman army walked right into the trap and was cut to pieces, losing 15,000 KIA. The Gauls did most of the hard fighting and destroyed the largest part of the Roman army, where Flaminius himself was killed by the Insubrian Gaul Ducarius. Some 10,000 Romans managed to break through Hannibal’s poorly trained African units, but they were pursued and about 6,000 of them captured a few days later. Hannibals losses amounted to around 1,500 men, mostly Gallic allies. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

The Siege of Stralsund (1628), part of Europe’s tragic Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) was mainly an engagement between German troops of the Holy Roman Empire and a contingent of Scottish Highlanders. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪🇩🇰⚔️🇩🇪 Imperial troops commanded by the renowned Albrecht von Wallenstein besieged the city for several months after it made an alliance with Denmark and Sweden. Scottish volunteers were stationed in the town together with the mainly Danish and local defenders. Under the command of Robert Monro, the Scots distinguished themselves in repelling several assaults by the imperial army, both sides suffering heavy casualties. As the siege progressed, reinforcements arrived from Sweden, including more Scots under the command of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven. Leslie used the Highland contingent for a sudden sally out of the town that scored an impressive victory and completely demoralized the German army. With the weather deteriorating and the battlefield becoming a sea of mud, a frustrated Wallenstein lifted the siege and retreated. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Most people associate the name of ‘Cimmerians’ with a fictional people created by American comic-book author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) 🇺🇸 whose work follows the life and adventures of a Cimmerian named Conan. Conan the Barbarian eventually debuted as a movie, which launched the acting career of Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not many people know that Howard intended the Cimmerians as directly ancestral to the Britons and Gaels. He stated so himself in an essay titled The Hyborian Age:

…the Gaels, ancestors of the Irish and Highland Scots, descended from pure blooded Cimmerian clans.

Interestingly, many ancient sources also identified the Cimmerians as being ancestral to Celtic peoples. The idea is first found in the writings of Flavius Josephus (AD 37-100), where he talks about the Biblical Table of Nations found in Genesis 10. He stated that Gomer (a Hebrew name associated with the Cimmerians), son of Japheth, son of Noah was the ancestor of the Gauls (whom he refers to as “Galatians”). The identification was repeated by Jerome of Stridon (AD 345-420) and Isidore of Seville (AD 560-636). It’s possible that what they were recording was a lost tradition about the first Indo-European migrations from the Eurasian steppe into Europe. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Did the Cimmerians invade Europe and influence the cultures there? Image: Cimmerian horsemen in the Armenian Highlands; 8th century B.C. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇦🇲 Art by Evgeny Kray. The answer is probably yes. Archaeology attests large amounts of material from the Russian-Ukrainian Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk Culture in the Balkans and Pannonian Basin, mostly dating from the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. Some of the finds are burials, which are indicative of long-term sojourns or even settlements. These finds are contemporary with events recorded in the middle east in which violent invasions by Cimmerians were documented by both Assyrian and Greek records. Having been driven from their homeland by the closely related Scythians, the Cimmerians crossed the Caucasus and battled the Hurrian Kingdom of Urartu (a precursor of Armenia), the Assyrian Empire, as well as the Anatolian kingdoms of Phrygia and Lydia, the first of which they completely destroyed. They wrought massive havoc and briefly ruled Anatolia before being overcome by Scythians who’d followed their invasion route in the Middle East and allied with the Assyrians. The archaeological material in Europe is sufficient to suggest that some Cimmerian groups moved westward at the same time that their other kin went south across the Caucasus. They were likely ancestral to similar groups recorded later on in the 6th-5th centuries: The Agathyrsi in Transylvania and the Sigynnae in Hungary. These groups all had contact with the Celts in central Europe, and certain cultural traits seem to have been borrowed from them, such as the use of trousers and an even greater emphasis on horses as a means of transport and mounted combat. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Bronze razor found near Stuntney in Cambridgeshire, England; 8th or 9th century B.C. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 These (and other) types of razors —all bronze age in date— are found in abundance all throughout Europe. It seems that in remote prehistory —specifically the bronze age— elite European men practiced shaving. Long beards and moustaches only became fashionable during the iron age, perhaps as a result of cultural contact with steppe cultures such as the Scythians, Cimmerians, and Sigynnae. Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Funeral procession for a Celtiberian chieftain; art by Sandra Delgado. 🇪🇸 Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

Whoever poop reacted this: You’re a faggot.

Interesting things are happening in Europe. Recently, the EU Parliament voted to support faciliting deportations of problematic foreigners (source), while Morocco began closing an invasion route by deporting migrants before they can even cross over into Spain (source). The popular Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek has also been very active of late, collecting signatures in support of new laws to facilitate remigration (sources here and here).

La Meije, in the high Dauphiné Alps of France. ⚜️🇫🇷 Celtic Europe - channel link: https://t.me/CelticEurope

🇮🇪💩 Near the town of Moneygall in Ireland, you can find this abomination (is this what the Irish call ‘blarney’?) Barack Obama (a.k.a. “Oh bummer!”) claims to be Irish because he had one Irish ancestor that moved to the U.S. in 1850 (in that case 90% of Americans and Canadians are Irish). But many of the things Oh bummer stands for —pandering to homosexuals, race-communism, compromising and selling out to big banks and corporations— are the antithesis of everything Celtic. Oh bummer visited Ireland in 2011 and bombed the Irish with the most cringe blarney anyone could imagine; it was absolutely grotesque. 🤮 I’ve got no issue with Kennedy and the love Irish people cherish for him; but Oh bummer has no place in Ireland (or the United States for that matter; someone needs to call ICE and have him deported to Liberia). This eye-sore needs to be removed so that it’s no longer tarnishing the pristine beauty of the Emerald Isle. Thank you for your attention to this matter.