Celts in Greek Mythology

[beloitpiper]

Celtine, daughter of Bretannus, fell in love with the son of Heracles and hid away his kine (the cattle of Geryon) refusing to give them back to him unless he would first content her. From Celtus 1 (their offspring) the Celtic race derived their name.

I saw this and thought I'd share. Any Greek myth buffs that can confirm or refute it?

[Dreadbelly]

Cool...

It was the dreadlocked Celts that gave rise to the tales of the Gorgon.

[GMan]

Cannot say either way whether true or false. However I have heard a rumor that it is true.

[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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[Warhoover]

Didn't they unearth some Nordic or Celtic mummies in the desert in Northern China up near Mongolia? I thought I saw something in National Geographic or the History Channel about them.

[Dreadbelly]

Yes they did. With red hair and fair skin. (Well, some had red hair)

Those mummies also caused a hell of a lot of controversy because they are over 10,000 years old. Or so the claim. I don't have a clue how old they really are.

Speaking of 10,000 year old objects, the pyramids are a lot older than previously thought. There are three star gazing holes in the sides of one of the pyramids at Giza that they just found not to long ago. These three holes should align with Orion's belt in the sky, but the earth has shifted orbit and the African plate has drifted a bit, so the alignment is no longer perfect. The alignment would have been perfect about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Human beings and civilisations are much older than we realise. We are a species with severe amnesia, there is a massive chunk of time and high civilisation that we can't seem to account for, a period where we fell backwards, and then the long slow climb back to civilisation bringing us to where we are now.

Those mummies found in China are another piece of the puzzle. There are things about them that just don't fit in, and items they had that were far more advanced than what they should have.