Celtic mythology. Wow. What a topic. I thought this one was going to break me a few times.

From the Greeks to the Egyptians to the Vikings, we have jumped into this pond before.

And today we're jumping back in and maybe to the deepest part where the water is the merchist.

Mythology plays a fundamental role in any given society and generally rotates around narratives involving gods and goddesses,

great heroes, the forces of evil, and sometimes also fairies.

Celtic mythology is vast and strange and stretches back for many, many centuries.

The Celts have some of the most bizarre myths that we've sucked so far.

Easily some of the hardest to pronounce names, Galic seems like it's closer to Klingon than to English.

I thought Icelandic was my least favorite language to try and figure out.

Now it has a very strong competitor. I'm going to try my best with it today.

And I'll try my best to explain this complicated mythology. It's extra tricky because

Celtic mythology was documented and preserved only through word of mouth by the Celts themselves.

All the written accounts come from their enemies, conquerors, and Christian missionaries.

And they all had agendas other than just recording descriptions of the Celts and their beliefs at face value.

We don't know how honest early chroniclers were when it came to describing old Celtic gods,

creatures, and origin stories, but we're pretty confident they were definitely not totally honest.

However, at least they did record some of what the ancient Celts were up to.

And later they didn't toss out all the Celtic records into the fire.

So we at least know a little bit about this ancient vast and mysterious culture.

So let's get mystical today, Meatsecks, on an ancient deep dive on creatures,

gods, goddesses, druids, naked warriors, and so much more addition of Time Suck.

This is Michael McDonald and you're listening to Time Suck.

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