Review : The Celtic Myths That Shape The Way We Think (II)

Concluding part of the review, looking at more general themes rather than specific stories. Including :
- How there are so many common themes among all the European pagan myths, including primeval wars between the gods, "All Father" figures who fight sea monsters, and common storytelling techniques that focus on detailed, specific elements of how the fantasy world works
- How the Celtic myths were told using a wide variety of different and subtle techniques, not always in a modern linear style but more aimed as instruction... yet using sophisticated methods to tell a good story
- The subtlety and egregiousness of Celtic magic, from some dude who can suck up the sea (with the unlikely name of "Suck son of Sucker") to oddly specific curses
- The outright bizarre, including one poor guy who dies of depression because he can't fit a handle to his favourite knife. Also, racist fairies

#Mythology
#Fantasy
#History

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