Celtic Mythology and Religion, by Alexander Macbain
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PREFACETHE following work, all save from page 105 to the end, appeared in the Celtic Magazine in 1883-4, and is here reprinted from the Magazine type. Hence it is that it is reproduced " with all its imperfections on its head," and the critic must be asked, before condemning details at least, to note the list of corrections appended to this preface.The intention of this series of papers was to popularise the subject of Mythology, and to apply its principles to the elucida tion of Celtic beliefs, tales, and traditions. I wished to place clearly before my Gaelic brethren the exact position which the religious beliefs of the Celts held in the European kinship, to clear up the misty subject of " Druidism," and to reconstruct, from the shattered materials to hand, the Pantheon of their Gaelic ancestors. This I undertook, knowing that in the last part of my object—the rehabilitation of the Gaelic Olympus—my results must only be tentative, for the material for reconstruction is dif ficult to deal with, and much of it is in MSS. unedited.Since these papers began to appear in print, events have travelled with more than usual rapidity both in the field of general and of Celtic Mythology. It was last year that Mr Andrew Lang delivered his lively attack against the " orthodox" school of mythologists, and it was also last year that M. D'Arbois de Jubainville's important works on Celtic Literature and Myth ology appeared. Mr Lang's attack has certainly driven the older school from several of their positions, but he has by no means overthrown either the importance of language in the development of myth, or the fact that the sun, the sky, the powers of wind and storm, and the change of day and night were the most prominent factors in the creation of the deities and powers of the ancient mythologies. Despite Mr Lang, myth ology is, nevertheless, a dramatic view of the course of nature,and a personification of its forces; and language has been a most potent force in the development of myths, because it stereotyped older epithets and expressions, which in later ages were misunder stood. Mr Lang has, however, shown that language is by no means so much the cause of myth as Max Muller and Cox be lieve, and that many of the myths claimed as Aryan are found also among barbarous and savage tribes all over the world. What Mr Lang has proved in regard to the origin and growth of myth ology does not in the least invalidate the arguments and con clusions in the following papers, for the reason that, on the whole, I followed Mr Tylor's views on Mythology, and he, like Mr Lang, is an anthropologist. But what Mr Lang has invalidated in these papers of mine is the relation in which, following Max Muller, I held myth and folk-tale. Mr Lang has made it clear in his " Custom and Myth," and better still in his introduction to Mrs Hunt's translation of " Grimm's Fairy Tales," that the old idea that the fairy or popular tale is a broken-down myth is so totally wrong, that the opposite is nearer the truth. Indeed, Mr Lang holds that the myth—the god-tale—is but a sublimated folk-tale. That, however, is not often the case. Folk-tales have been raised to myths ; the Jason myth is a case in point; but myths have often, and, indeed, with change and advance of religion, they have generally become folk-tales. Another thing that Mr Lang has done is to place the folk-tale on a proper way towards explanation. The " orthodox " belief is that the hero of the folk-tale must be the sun-god, and that many incidents, in cluding the beast-form he assumes, arose from " disease of lan guage," that is, from after ages misunderstanding the epithets applied to the sun-god and to the incidents, by a previous age. This view is untenable. Mr Lang shows that savages now believe in men being transformed into animals ; in fact, that we are kin with animals as we are with one another. Transforma tion of men into beasts is a fixed article of savage faith. It may be caused by witchcraft
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About the Author Scottish scholar and writer ALEXANDER MACBAIN (1855-1907) served as editor of Celtic Magazine and Highland Monthly. His Etymological Gaelic Dictionary (1896) is recognized as his crowning achievement.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A brief overview of Celtic beliefs By Dr. H. A. Jones Celtic Mythology and Religion by Alexander Macbain, Sterling Eneas Mackay, 1917, 256 ffThough this book is nearly a century old, the subject matter does not itself undergo changes like so many facets of our present-day world. There is more up-to-date research it is true, but a Celt steeped in these traditions himself, as is the author, is an excellent place to start any reading in the subject. Gaelic was the author's first language and he is regarded as one of the greatest Scottish Celtic scholars, specialising in philology. He qualified with a Master's Degree in philosophy and a Doctorate in Laws from Aberdeen University.After an introductory chapter by the Aberdeen and Oxford scholar Professor William J. Watson that puts Macbain into his academic background, the book begins with an exploration of the nature, cause and spread of myth. The author goes on to record and discuss what is known about the place of myth within the religions of the Aryan Nation, Celts, the Gauls and the Druids. This is an eminently readable little book and, as I too spoke only Welsh as a child before I went to an English-speaking school, and my father was a scholar of medieval Welsh poetry, the book was of a great personal interest. The author makes the stories come alive and the presentation is not at all dry and academic, though not lacking in academic rigour.Howard Jones is the author of The World as Spirit
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