Creation and the Cailleach
How old exactly is the Scottish creation myth? The monkish chroniclers who first recorded so much of the mythology of the Gaelic peoples back in Early Medieval Ireland had nothing to say about the very beginning. That may not seem like a surprise: obviously they believed in the Christian creation myth, and that shaped their writing: but they were happy enough to write about a world in which the old gods were real, and explicitly called gods. And if you compare their work to
Who are you calling a Celt?
I delve into the question of what exactly "Celtic" means. The term "Celtic" is an extremely contentious one. The idea of Celticity has often been politically charged; the word gets bandied around a lot, and used very loosely, with extreme vagueness about whether it should be taken as referring to language, culture, genetics, or a combination of the above; it provokes a lot of fights, often between people who don't seem to realise that they're using different definitions, and
