Abstract
PROF. RHŶS has made an important contribution in this volume, if not to the development of religion in general, at all events to the study of Indo-European mythology. Almost for the first time, the religious legends of the Kelts have been subjected to scientific treatment, and the resources of scientific philology have been called in to explain them. The Keltic languages and mythology have long been a happy hunting-ground for the untrained theorist and charlatan: in the Hibbert Lectures for 1887 we find at last etymologies which can be trusted, and a method of investigation which alone can lead to sound results.
The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic Heathendom. The Hibbert Lectures for 1887.
By J. Rhŷs. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1888.)
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SAYCE, A. Celtic Heathendom . Nature 38, 361–362 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038361a0
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