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• Browse over 20000 Recipes from all over the world
• Learn about the Gods of the Celts
• Repair your mobiles with the mobile phone disassembly guides
• Find out about Thanksgiving Recipes
• Europe's oldest recipe book: Apicius' De Re Coquinaria
• Submit articles to the Celtnet Articles Directory
• Ask questions and meet people in the forums

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Celtnet Celtic Gods Information

Information and descriptions of the Celtic gods plus texts and translations of ancient Welsh texts.

Newest Recipes

Go directly to the newest recipes published on this site (usually 20 a day are added).

Celtnet WebInfo eZine

Learn how to monetize your site with our popular weekly eZine.

I hope you like the site's new design! I've thought long and hard about doing this, but over the past two years the site has grown enormously and the Celtic gods and my translations of Ancient Welsh porse and poetry, whilst still an important part of the site are no longer its focus.

The site is now effectively divided into four parts: Celtnet Celtic Pages where all the Celtic and Celtic-associated pages reside (this is where you will find information about Celtic gods, Celtic tribes, legends and folk tales and my translations of the Ancient Welsh texts). There is also Celtnet Recipes which includes recipes of the ancient and modern worlds as well as information on cooking ingredients and histries. But the site is growing and I'm proud to introduce two new sectons. The first of these is Celtnet Medicine which contains information about a range of common diseases as well as cancers and issues such as obesity. Finally there's the new Celtnet Information regon of the site which includes information about the internet, about internet marketing about building and maintaining PCs and about the dangers of the internet.

I'm proud to announce that Celtnet Recipes has now passed the 20000+ recipe mark! Many of these are African Recipes (1100+) with a growing section of British recipes in the Recipes from the British Isles section as well as a growing section on Recipes with Wild Foods. Have a browse, or use the newly-enhanced Recipe Search facility to see just what's available now. The recipes are sorted by Meal Type, Main Ingredients, Cooking Method and Country of Origin, just go to the Main Recipes Page to browse these sections.

After much cajoling I've now finally added various discussion forums to this site. The three current fora are: Celtnet Celtic Forums for discussion of general Celtic matters, Celtic gods, Celtic legends and Celtic texts. Next is the Celtnet Recipes Discussion Forum for general recipe discussion, African recipe discussion and discussion of Ancient Recipes. You can make comments and recipe requests here. Finally there's the Celtnet Information Forum in which you will find discussion areas for Internet Marketing, website optimization and SEO as well as a mobile phone-associated discussion forum and an Affiliate Marketing related forum.

This site is individualistic in that it's written, designed and put together by one single person ... me. I'm a Celt, a Celticist, a Medical Researcher, cook, humanitarian, Web Geek and software developer all rolled into one person. The various parts of this website reflect these various aspects of my character and I use my various areas of expertise to bring you useful content.

I spend hours every day crating content and though the site has ads and other income generatig strategies I do not take any money for myself. All the profits go to supporting my One Million People Campaign (and you can help by buying recipe eBooks).

My aim is to bring you world-class information and world-class content which will be both useful and entertaining for you.

Some of the topics covered include:

• Recipes from all around the world
• Information on the Celtic gods
• Legends, recipes and anceint texts of Wales
• Mobile phones
• Medical conditions
• How to make money on the web
• eZines, artices and tools to help you make money
• Build your own PC

... And anything else that I decide is interesting and useful.

All this takes a lot of effort and you can help by linking to this site. Just copy the following code and paste it on one of your own web pages:

<a href="http://www.celtnet.org.uk/">Celtnet — recipes, celtic gods, technology, articles, poetry, medicine</a> and so much more...

Your support encoruages me to add more and better content to this site!

The Celtnet site relies partly on donations and on-site advertisements for its continued existence (and to help make a range of old and ancient texts available here for free). Please consider a donation via PayPal to help us remain on the Internet.

Initially created as a hobby site to share my passion for the gods, myths and legends of the Celts but this led to my putting a whole host of Welsh Recipes on the site and this soon grew to a large Recipes Section now with over 12000 recipes covering all cooking techniques and all corners of the globe. We now have a large Victorian recipes section, including Mrs Beeton history and recipes pages.

The image on the right shows a silver oak tree and the name of the site 'Nemeton' is that of the druids' sacred grove. This reflects the site's original entirely Celtic nature. But the oak, in Welsh myth is also home to all the sciences and disciplines of knowledge. As this site aims to freely impart knowldge I think it's a good symbol.

celtnet.org.uk is managed by Dyfed Lloyd Evans ... who is always on the look-out for new projects.

These pages are dedicated to the gods, legends and folk-tales of the Brythonic Celts. As such they focus on the deities represented and recorded by the P-Celtic speaking peoples of Britain. The Bryhthon who were the pre-Roman ancestors of the modern Welsh (Cymric), Cornish and Breton. Unless there are parallels or links the Irish deities are omitted from this list as they are adequately covered on many other websites.

There is also the question of what constitutes a Celtic god in that the Celtic belief system evolved from animism to maternalism and paternalism. As a result many Celtic deities are deities of place. Intimately tied to the place or the site of their worship. Many of the gods in the lists supplied here are also local deities. Tied to the tribes and peoples who worshipped them. Few Celtic deities are global gods worshipped in a pan-Celtic fashion. As such the idea of what constitutes a Celtic deity is a complex one. Made all the more confusing in that the evidence fore their existence and worship is fragmentary at best.

The Celtic gods are also not like their Classical counterparts and it is wrong to make an equivalence between a Celtic god and a Roman or Greek one. Indeed many of the major celtic deities were triple-gods. Each single deity merely an aspect of a gestalt of three gods. Also, gods with similar properties may be worshipped in different regions under different names. It is impossible to say whether these are aspects of the same deity or merely reflect a convergence of belief systems.

In generating this website I have attempted to gather as much information about the deity together as is possible. Most of the deities are illustrated with my own interpretation of their aspect. Which, in and of itself, could be considered an affectation as it was only relatively late that the Celts began to create stylized humaniform representations of their deities.

Of course, in any analysis of Celtic deities it is impossible to ignore the original source material. As a result I have collected as many of the original Cymric sources as are available and I present them in the original form as well as with accompanying translations in modern Cymric and English. These texts can be found in the 'Texts and Translations' section of the navigation bar. I have also begun to put-together a collection of folk tales and reconstructions of some of the 'Lost' tales of the Cymry. These can be found in the 'Legends and Folk-Tales' section.

Below are links to regions of the site that are either new, or have been recently updated. These are grouped according to the main regions of the site:

Recipes:

Ancient and Historic Recipe Books : Complete Versions of the Texts

Thanksgiving Recipes : Thanksgiving Recipes

Liberian Recipes : Recipes from Liberia, West Africa

Biscuit/Cookie Recipes : Recipes for Biscuits/Cookies

Pizza Recipes : Pizza Recipes

Meat-based Recipes : Meat-based Recipes

Cake Recipes : Cake Recipes

Cheesecake Recipes : Cheesecake Recipes

Victorian Recipes : Victorian Recipes

Francatelli Recipes : Francatelli Recipes

Mrs Beeton Recipes : Mrs Beeton Recipes

Celtic:

Celtic gods and information Portal : The new home for all the Celtic pages on this site

Information:

Build or Update your PC : The guide to building and updating your PC updated

Medicine:

Breast Cancer Information : Breast Cancer Information pages expanded

Others:

Mobile Phone Disassembly Guides : How to disassemble and repair your mobile (cellular) phone