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CELTIC BURIAL. 25I ' And, Conall, I shall go into the grave, For weak is my strength as I am ; Place my mouth 'gainst mouth of Cu, For meet it is I should with him go." A similar request to that of Emer's—the laying her in the grave beside her love, and mouth to mouth is made by three other heroines of Gaelic tragic story. Deirdre requests to be laid beside Naois, while the three hounds and the three shields of the three heroic brothers are also to be put in the grave, and their three swords above them. Similarly Grainne wishes to be buried with Diarmid, while Dargo's wife expressed her love for her husband when the connected story of his death was brought to her, the effects of which killed her, in these words " Chi mi 'n seobhag, chi mi 'n cu Leis an d'roinn mo run an t-sealg, 'S o na b'ionmhuinn leis an triuir, Cairear sinn 'san uir le Dearg." I see the hawk, I see the hound, With which my love performed the chase, And as the three to him were bound, Let us in earth with Dearg have place. The conclusion to which we come is that the Celts, when they practised inhumation, as they universally did in the British Isles immediately before Christianity was introduced, buried their dead at full length, generally placing some weapons by or upon the body, and not rarely killing favourite animals and burying them along with their master. The grave was called in old Gaelic a fert, and it was dug ; then a mound
252 CELTIC MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION. was raised over it, and after the introduction of Ogam writing, a pillar-stone was placed in or on the mound with the person's name in Ogams. There is no mention of any coffin, but the " Lay of the Heads " evidently points to the body being at times boxed in with stones. One thing appears to be certain : the small box graves, three feet by two, made of flagstones, where the body is cramped up—knees to chin, and lying on its side as a rulej are not " Celtic " graves at all. They do not suit the literary references to burial among the Gael, nor do they correspond with the finds in Celtic tumuli in France and Britain. These burials must therefore be attributed to the earlier race or races which the Celts found in these islands when they first came here from mid Europe.
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CAUSE OF MYTH. 17 And this being th
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CAUSE OF MYTH. 23 of his feelings,
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CAUSE OF MYTH. 2$ Hug na stuaidh mu
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ARYAN MYTHS. 39 may be seen chewing
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ARYAN MYTHS. 41 ( Gaelic popular st
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RESULTS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 45 Elton an
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THE CELTS. 49 ated above shows the
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DRUIDISM. 69 DRUIDISM. One feature
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