This fascinating overview of Celts and their religion covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult-objects, and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoplesCovering500 BC to AD 400, and embracing the whole of the Celtic world from Ireland to Australia, this rewarding overview of the evidence for Celtic religions, beliefs, and practicesuses modern scholarship to bring an obscure, but captivating part of European history to life. First, thisitintroduces the Celts and the evidence they have left behind, and places them in their geographical and chronological context. Itthen coversthe various cults of the sun and the sky; the mother-goddesses and fertility; war, death and the underworld; water gods and healers; animals and animism; and symbolism and imagery."