The Age of Celtic Myth and Legends

The Age of Celtic Myth and Legend is a quantity that I believe has been significantly underestimated. It is the common belief that traditions such as those recorded in the Gebor Labala Erin are relatively young traditions. Roughly within the last two millennia because the Gebor Lebaka was recorded in the last thousand years.

However, there are a number of clues that contradict this belief.

First is logic. The Celtic people’s (and I am using the term ‘Celtic’ very generally to refer to the people’s of Ireland and Mainland Europe) have a well-doxumented history of scholarship, the keeping of myths, legends, and knowledge as an institution: the druids.

They were known from ancient history, mentioned by the Romans. We can assume that they existed both before and after their time. The point is that it seems unreasonable — not to mention unlikely — that the druids just disappeared. That they didn’t do everything in their power to preserve the traditions that their predecessors had held sacred, and remember, for literally thousands of years.

In short, it is hard to believe that the knowledge preserved by the druids was lost in its entirety.

Secondly, there are mythological, cultural, and linguistic connections that indicate great age for certain Celtic myths. This is true in spite of the age that we know they were committed to writing.

The Celtic-Vedic Connection

The Celtic-Vedic Connection is the most convincing evidence for the great antiquity of certain elements

Let us not forget that there are significantly more mythological, religious, and cultural connections between the Celtic and Vedic people in the deep past — not to mention linguistic, ethnic, and genetic continuities.