CELTIC. Power, diffusion of, in Mid-Europe, 26; placenames in Europe, 27; artwork relics, story told by, 28; Germanic words, Celtic element in, 32; empire, downfall of, 34; weak policy of peoples, 44; religion, the, 46, 47; High Kings, traditional burial-places of, 69; doctrine of immortality, origin of so-called “Celtic,” 75, 76; ideas of immortality, 78-87; deities, names and attributes of, 86-88; conception of death, the, 89; culture, five factors in ancient, 89, 90; the present-day populations, 91, 92; cosmogony, the, 94, 95; things, “Barddas” a work not unworthy the student of, 333 CELTICA. Never inhabited by a single pure and homogeneous race, 18; Greek type of civilisation preserved by, 22; art of enamelling originated in, 30; the Druids formed the sovran power in, 46; Brigit (Dana) most widely worshipped goddess in, 126 CELTS. Term first found in Hecatæus; equivalent, Hyperboreans, 17; Herodotus and dwelling-place of, 17; Aristotle and, 17; Hellanicus of Lesbos and, 17; Ephorus and, 17; Plato and, 17; their attack on Rome, a landmark of ancient history, 18; described by Dr. T. Rice Holmes, 18, 19; dominion of, over Mid-Europe, Gaul, Spain, and the British Isles, 20; their place among these races, 20; Giraldus Cambrensis and, 21; Spain conquered from the Carthaginians by, 21; Northern Italy conquered from the Etruscans by, 21; Vergil and, 21; conquer the Illyrians, 21; alliance with the Greeks, 22; conquests of, in valleys of Danube and Po, 23; Alexander makes compact with, 23; national oath of, 24; welded into unity by Ambicatus, 25; defeat Romans, 26; Germanic peoples and, 26, 33; decorative motives derived from Greek art, 29; art of enamelling learnt by classical nations from, 30; burial rites practised by, 33; character, elements comprising, 36; Strabo’s description of, 39; love of splendour and methods of warfare, 40; Polybius’ description of warriors in battle of Clastidium, 41; their influence on European literature and philosophy, 49, 50; the Religion of the, 51-93; ranges of the Balkans and Carpathians earliest home of mountain, 57; musical services of, described by Hecatæus, 58; Switzerland, Burgundy, the Palatinate, Northern France, parts of Britain, &c., occupied by mountain, 58; origin of doctrine of immortality, 75; idea of immortality and doctrine of transmigration, 80, 81; the present-day, 91, 92; no non-Christian conception of origin of things, 94; victories at the Alba and at Delphi attributed to Brenos (Brian), 126; true worship of, paid to elemental forces represented by actual natural phenomena, 147 CENCHOS. Otherwise The Footless; related to Vitra, the God of Evil in Vedantic mythology, 97 CER´IDWEN. Wife of Tegid, 413; sets Gwion Bach and Morda to attend to the magic cauldron, 413