Celtic sacred landscapes.

Celtic sacred landscapes. NIGEL PENNICK Nigel Campbell Pennick, born 1946 in Guildford, Surrey, England in the United Kingdom, an author publishing on Occultism, or Odinic Runosophy, Magick and Natural Magic.He is a writer on marine species and illustrator as well as an occultist and astrologer.. . Celtic sacred landscapes. 224 pages, b&wfigures. 2000. London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-28201-3 paperback 9.95[pounds sterling]. Dr DOWDEN has collated literary evidence for Classical, Celtic andGermanic religion. He cogently distinguishes sites or zones in thelandscape: water features, rocks and trees, hills, caves and islands,meadows and groves. He proceeds to review the evidence for statues andtemples and then the patterns of ritual, including sacrifices,periodicity periodicity/pe��ri��o��dic��i��ty/ (per?e-ah-dis��i-te) recurrence at regular intervals of time. pe��ri��o��dic��i��tyn.1. and priesthoods. Emerging through the review are principlesof contrast and continuity with Christianity. It is a large task doneconcisely but with vision: `Incas ... renewed time through ...sacrifices ... Our ancestors, too ... believed that ... the ... variousconstituent limbs of the nation must return together to their place ofcreation ... The catalyst was the human sacrifice ...' (p. 290).There is little reference to archaeology but Dr DOWDEN sets out a seriesof implications. Mr PENNICK makes a similar typology typology/ty��pol��o��gy/ (ti-pol��ah-je) the study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. typologythe study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. , but he emphasizesChristianity less, concentrates more on the British Isles, and doesprovide an annotated list of sites (the fort at Hardknott Pass, welearn, was a court of the Fairy King). He is not concerned to supporthis assertions with argument or sources of evidence.