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Britannia Rules: Goddess-Worship in Ancient Anglo-Celtic Society
Britannia Rules GoddessWorship in Ancient AngloCeltic Society Author:Lochlainn Seabrook This unique and captivating book celebrates a seldom discussed, yet long and noble English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish tradition; one that dates back to the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles: female-based religion. In "Britannia Rules" the author Lochlainn Seabrook overturns the long-standing notion that the first Britons and Celts were... more » "patriarchal" and that they worshiped a male "Heavenly Father." Using the latest archaeological, anthropological, etymological, onomastic, historical, and mythological evidence, he shows that both the Anglo-Saxons and the Celts were actually matriarchal peoples who venerated the Supreme Being in female form. This "Heavenly Mother" of the early Celto-Britons was none other than the universal "Great Goddess," venerated around the ancient world under a myriad of names, and who manifested in ancient Egypt as Isis, in Judaism as Asherah, in Islam as Allat, in Hinduism as Kali Ma, in Gnostic Christianity as Sophia, in orthodox Christianity as Mary, and in Buddhism as Mara. In light of the overwhelming worldwide reemergence of feminine spirituality, the advent of the Goddess Reclamation Movement, the recent resurgence of British and American interest in traditional Anglo-Celtic culture, and the new found interest in the real relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, this is a topical work; one that will be read with keen interest, not only by those readers who are of English and Celtic heritage, but by people of all nationalities and faiths. Lochlainn Seabrook, the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the fortieth great-grandson of the British Queen Boudicca, is the author of over thirty adult and children's books. Often compared to English writer and poet Robert Graves (1895-1985), Seabrook is a seventh generation Kentuckian of Anglo-Celtic Appalachian heritage, with a twenty-five year background in thealogy (female-based religion), etymology, anthropology, and comparative religion and mythology.« less