The Celts - BBC Series Ep 1 - " In the Beginning"
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Click here to watch great FREE Movies & TV: http://filmrise.com In the debut episode of the series, the program looks at how the Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture so distinctive. For 800 years, a proud, vibrant, richly imaginative warrior people swept ruthlessly across Europe. The ancient Greeks called them "Keltoi" and honored them as one of the great barbarian races. Follow their fascinating story from their earliest roots 2,500 years ago through the flowering of their unique culture and their enduring heritage today, enhanced with stunning reconstructions of iron-age villages, dramatizations of major historical events and visits to modern Celtic lands. The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture so distinctive.
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it was the celts who 1st used metal for tools and weapons. they only had 1 god that was gaia or mother earth. they didnt do sacrifices. they didnt ride horses in Albion whats now called Britian cause they didnt have any only ponies which they used to pull chariots. The celts started out in Austria and spread out over the whole world including the americas. They arrived in Albion about 10'000 BC. The british celts became traders and made the best tools weapons and pottery in the world. They invented the cross as a guide to the seasons. It symbolised the sun on the winter sultice. Through the year the sun got higher each day from the winter sulstice to the summer sulstice. on the 22nd december the sun didnt move for 3 days. behind it in the sky was the crux constelation or southern cross. on the 25th the sun started moving againg signaling longer days. thats the crucifiction and resurection portrayed in the bible. on the night of the 24th the star sirius lined up with 3 others stars known as the 3 kings and pointed to where the sun would rise on the 25th. The bible is just retelling of the celtic astrological guide. they just gave the sun the name jesus. The moon became the devil as it signified the night or dark. celts taught the greeks about democracy as the celts r a lot older than the greeks. the celts had an empire that lasted 10'000 years. most of the other civilisations that came along later were celts who broke away from the celtic traditions of living in piece and harmony with each other and gaia. Celts were made up of thousands of tribes who had the same culture and laws which unified them. Celts never settled in Ireland. the celts all spoke gailic so they could communicate. the Irish language is not gailic. its simular but not the same. The only place left in the world where gailic is still spoken is cornwall in england. welsh is a modified version of gailic. The celts didnt have noble families or kings. What they had was a rex. which in greek means king but in gailic it means leader. every 5 years each tribe would vote for who they wanted to be leader. Usualy women were voted as leader but anyone could stand. Women led the celtic armies not men. celtic armies were made up of families fighting side by side. mum dad sons and daughters fighting together against enemies. the rex did the trade deals and diplomacy. If 1 tribe was threatened by another a nuetral rex would step in to sort out the problem. if a non celt tribe went to war with a celt tribe all the celt tribes would unite to defend each other. If i knew who was the custodian of my family history i could give u every single bit of celtic history. but its forbidden under celtic law to put into writing the religoius bits. Which is why not much is known about it. But they did invent medicine and democracy and just about everything attributed to the greks and romans. Celts built the roads the romans claim they built. fact is the celts were the most advanced ppl in the world. They built multi story buildings out of stone when the romans were still living in caves. The Etrusan tribe of celts built rome after the romans fought a battle with them and lost. the Etruscans marched into rome intending to destyoy it. but when they got there they felt so sorry for the romans who couldnt even build a mut hut right the Etruscans built rome for them. When they left rome they left food and gold to help the romans. Bigest mistake they ever made. cause it allowed the most barbaric most backward tribe in europe to get strong and take over europe. Maybe if the makers of this documentray had read the book called the celtic empire and did research they might know what they r talking about. That book has the history of the celts. from its beginings their technology how they spread through the world not just europe. they didnt conquor anyone. they just passed along their beliefs to other tribes they came into contact with who then became celts if they wanted too. They were united by a common language common laws and religion. They did believe in an after life. when u died in this world ur soul was reborn in the other world. when u died there u were reborn in this world. But if u commited a crime like murder or rape they cut off ur head and burried it in a clay pot to stop u being reborn in the other world. they believed the soul was in the head. Its why their is skeletons without heads. Mostly romans as the romans were nothing more than murderes and rapists. Just about every tribe who came into contact with the romans have the same story.celt and non celt tribes. The romans were gay and prefered young boys to mem. they never got married and only had sex with women when they wanted a son to carry on the family name. What the romans did was send 1 army to pull the enemy warroirs out of the vilages then send another army to the village to kill any men left there take the women as slaves and rape all the children. The kids who survived were taken back to rome and used as sex slaves. Its why all the tribes united to defeat rome and wipe it out and end the roman empire. When the romans saw they were going to be wiped out they invented christianty and the bible to protect themselves. They made themselves imune from prosection by pretending to be religious and conned everyone into believing them. Its why there is so many priest in the roman catholic church abusing young boys. they still follow the roman way of life and use the church as cover.
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NO ITS ART IN SOUND ...ill never understand why its not more popular sounds like angels
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Music is strange and distracts from narrative. Couldn't watch.
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The evidence for human sacrifice is far from conclusive, and for centuries the christian theocracy demonized pagans with lies, violence and torture. So we have good reason to be suspicious of this story when there are others consistent with the archeological data.
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Intro music is so irritating! I can now see everyone in the comments saying the same thing. Thank God I'm not the only one.
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atrocious music choice makes it unwatchable. .l
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There are a lot of similarities between Celt's and my ancestors Illyrians in Bosnia.We share a lot of the same mythology,symbolism,cults,and so on.There are Celt inscriptions found all over Bosnia too well not Celt but Illyrian but looks similar.My ancestors believed in the same cults as Sumerians like the cult of the great mother thats found across the globe or cult of the snake,dragon,serpent,,that is still found today in Bosnia.We al share a lot of the symbolism too
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Music driving me crazy.
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Does anyone know the name of the song played around 27:34
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Right. Clear as mud. Stay calm and sod on.
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lol. Celts didn't have to copy Greeks as they were Scythians themselves. Older culture. They have lived together in the Carpathian Basin with another Scythians, the Huns. Both portraid for centuries as barbarians. However had advanced culture and they shared it with each other. That's why their believe system, mithology, folk art, patterns, archery, music, carved writings as runas, etc are very similar. They were both christians. Look at the crosses. Not judeo-christians of course. So they both are labelled as "pagans". Just because not "judeo-christians as if it was the only religion. :) I am a Hun but I know, ok, officially we are extint. So our language. Maybe that's why there is no a word about the Huns here? While the Hun Empire was one of the biggest richest and respected empire of that time. Celts migrated west after the Hun Empire collapsed. - Yet using HUNgarians in the movie riding horses. What a shame, they speak Hungarian. ) It is far from a documentary. It's just an official fairy tale. But at least I can see where our Scythian treasures has got to after Atilla's death.
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Nice to see the mix, and we (humans) have been mixing for 1000's of years. cool.
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I am SO stoked I found this, I saw it in college and loved it, the music is incredible
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Life is very shorts.
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let people be who they want to be! Barbie girls!
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6:34 what is this song???
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How do they know the celtic never know of a loin
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ok 12.02 boring as fuck, monotonous
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These goddam comments!!!!!! and the fuckin music!!!!!
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