Women of the Celts Book

There is much misunderstanding of what Northern Europe was like before the accursed Romans came north, killed as many of the locals as they could, and destroyed their culture and society. Markale, who lived in Bretagne/Brittany, has the great advantage that he did not have to overcome the English/German hatred for the native Celts ("kelt", there are no soft C's in Gaelic) or the overwhelming influence of the Irish, who just barely managed to preserve some small library of authentic writings. And even the Irish works were heavily censored and recast by Christian monks.

In Celtic society, women were generally the equals of men at a time when the "civilized" Greeks and Romans were convinced that females were not even fully human. There were, for example, Druidesses and Queens. And of course there are the hints of the much older human understanding of woman as the Teacher and Initiator. Isn't odd that Eve, and not Adam, seeks wisdom from the Tree of Knowledge, and that it is Eve who tempts Adam, after which they suddenly realize they've always been naked? Sounds like the remnants of a very old story in which men always learned from women.

Markale was a PROLIFIC author, each of his books connecting to the others and each containing a HUGE bibliography for additional reading.

Oh, although the text is of course translated into English, it helps to know French because some of the notes remain in the orginal.