Celtic legacies
Art
Mythology
- Celtic mythology of Celtic polytheism, the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure
- Although the Celtic world at its height covered much of western and central Europe, it was not politically unified nor was there any substantial central source of cultural influence of homogeneity; as a result, there was a great deal of variation in local practice of Celtic religion
Music
- Celtic music is a broad of grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe
- Celtic music means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the peoples identifying themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the musics of the Celtic Nations
- Deductions about the music of the ancient Celts of the La Tene period rely primarily of Greek and Roman sources, as well as on archaeological finds and interpretations including the reconstruction of the Celts' ancient instruments.
- The most important Celtic instrument of its time was the carnyx