Celts in Greek Mythology

[MacHummel]

Well
Some of my heritage is Greek I saw this and instantly remembered this as story I don't remember the names but I recall the story, I'll ask mom she knows everything.

[Big Dave]

It's a cool story either way.

[Red Lioness]

I once read a Chinese myth about a race of elves that lived in the moutains; they had strangely pale skin, large noses, vibrant red hair and brewed incredibly strong liquor. They were fierce warriors, but also fiercely loyal to friends.


Hmmmm, sound familiar?

[cloves]

Lioness, sounds more like dwarves than Scots?!

[auld argonian]

I'll tell you, one of my guilty pleasures used to be reading Robert E. Howard who wrote the original Conan the Barbarian books. The story goes that, even though he never traveled more than fifty miles from his home in Texas, REH wrote these remarkable stories about far off lands that he never visited and he managed to cook up his own early history where all of the peoples that we would recognize as distinct ethnic groups lived in their sort of specific parts of the world. He had Brythunians, Hykranians, Kushites, Vanirmen, Aquilonians and, of course, Cimmerians just to name a few...it was pretty easy to recognize which ethnic groups these folks "evolved" into. The whole thing was based on some historical and anthropological material so it was quite believable if contrived. These legends sound very much like ones that REH used to cook up his worlds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E_Howard

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AA