#keltic

[astrafangs]

MYTHICAL MAMMIES🤩🍀🍀🍀🌿🌿🌿☘️☘️☘️

#secrets of the kells #wolfwalkers #song of the sea #cartoon saloon #running with the wolves #shapeshifters #paganism #pagan #keltic #ireland

[neobase]

#relex #keltic #Youtube

[ladywaterfall]

I bought a Christmas advent book and December 6th had a recipe for spiced warm wine that “will warm even the most secret parts of the body” so I snapped it to my 3 friends in the medical field to find out what our most secret parts in fact are. stay tuned

#vote now what is the most secret parts of the body #the spleen?? #it’s a neat book btw it talks about old Scandinavian Christmas traditions and how they’re mostly made of German Keltic or saami traditions #just learned about the Christmas king who seems very cool

[chicagosavant]

…yezzzz pleazzzz…

#Music #Celtic fusion #writing scene inspire #Thrawn #Rhyanon ferch Garowen #Rhyanon’s brother-Talhiairn-a bard (and pilot of the Keltic fleet) #performs at pub on some planet one night in the Empire of the Hand #Karyn Faro #Inspiration for Talhiairn’s flirtatious courting of Faro #EXACTLY LIKE TORMUND AND BRIANNE OF TARTH #tormund/Talhaiarn and Brianne/KarynFaro #crossover AU #ThrawnTrilogy/Keltiad/Firefly-Serenity #Youtube

[0junemeatcleaver0]

This post is the first in a series where I attempt to untangle the most mysterious aspects of Marius's mortal life.

Here I attempt to tackle the question of his political life in Rome.

DISCLAIMER: I would like to preface this by acknowledging the obvious, which is that I doubt Anne actually put this much thought into Marius’s back story. Additionally, when I hit post on this, I will be done thinking about the topic. Meaning: my mind is largely made up on this particular matter. I've done as much research as I want to do, and I've done the amount of arguing that I want to do--which is none. None arguing. This is more or less just a very researched headcanon, ignore if you like.

We of course are introduced to Marius in The Vampire Lestat. TVL is where we get the most insight into Marius’s life as a mortal--more so than we get in even his own book, Blood and Gold. We also gain additional information from Pandora’s story.

Here is what we learn about mortal Marius:

He was the illegitimate child of a wealthy Roman man and a Keltic slave woman

In B&G, he claims to have been high ranking in one of the legions, though he never saw battle

He claims to have later been a Senator, which means his father would had to have been of the Patrician class or a plebeian who became so rich he was promoted to Senatorial class

He never married

This is where we run into our first inconsistency in Marius’s back story.

In Blood and Gold, when Thorne asks if Marius was a soldier, this is how Marius responds:

Marius shook his head. “A Senator,” he said, “a maker of laws, something of a philosopher. I went to war, yes, for some time because my family wished it, and I had a high place in one of the legions, but my time wasn’t very long and I was home and back in my library. […] I never really knew battle. (B&G, p. 28-29)

Meanwhile, in Pandora, Lydia pleads for her father to allow her to marry Marius. He shoots her down, saying:

[…] But believe you me, the Emperor himself would not approve of you marrying such a mad wandering historian as Marius! He has never served in the military, he cannot enter the Senate, it is quite impossible. When you marry, you will marry well.” (Pandora, p. 55)

As previously stated, it is impossible to know if this is just Anne’s love of unreliable narrators at play, or if this is a lack of her remembering what she’d stated in previous books. But for our purposes, we will treat this as being purely a matter of unreliable narrators being at play.

So what’s the truth?

We can figure out who is telling the truth by looking at Roman laws of the time. The question is “Was Marius ever actually a Senator?”. There are three avenues that could lead us to the conclusion that he was; but if he isn’t seen to meet any of these requirements, it is safe to assume he is lying to Thorne.

Fortunately, we have enough clues about which avenue(s) would be most plausible (if any) just from the information provided by Marius himself.

The oldest male of a Patrician family (or the eldest son, if the father were infirm) could become a Senator

The same could happen for the son of a plebeian family if his father had become wealthy enough to jump to Senatorial class

So from what we know of how he was treated by his father (taken under his control--IE: adopted--and given an education and unlimited resources for his travels, etc.), he was seen as being equal to his legitimate brothers.

The Institutes of Gaius also detail several ways that Marius could have become a Roman citizen even if his mother had not been freed.

So with the problem of his parentage and his related rights out of the way, we are left to ask: Was Marius the eldest son?

It’s not stated explicitly where in birth order Marius falls, but I suspect he is not the eldest son due to this line:

And her people had been giants, it seemed. At a very young age, I towered over my father and my brothers. (TVL, p. 397)

Towering over your younger siblings isn’t so remarkable as to need making a point of. And so it stands to reason these brothers Marius talks about are older than him.

The third path to becoming a Senator is the longer path, and it begins with serving in the legions and then rising slowly through the ranks of the lower offices.

It certainly seems as though Marius is implying that he took the last of these routes to becoming a Senator. Which would be rising through the ranks of the Cursus Honorum.

But perhaps the most damning evidence that Marius is lying here is time itself. Marius simply did not have enough time to climb the ranks of the Cursus Honorum before he was turned at the age of 40. 

Here are the facts: 

The first time Pandora sees Marius, she is 10 and guesses him to be 25 years of age. 

We know he was not serving in the military at this time because of two laws: The one prohibiting soldiers to marry, and the Lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus requiring all male Roman citizens between the ages of 25 and 60 under the rule of Augustus to marry. 

On page 51 of Pandora, Marius attempts to ask for Lydia’s hand via her father. On page 52, he explains to her: 

“Well, that sort of wanderer and dreamer likes nothing better than to betroth himself to a young girl of ten because it means she is not old enough to marry and he has years of freedom, without the censure of the Emperor. They do it all the time.”

If Marius were already enlisted, he’d be too early into the required ten year service to be worried about securing a wife. But if he weren’t serving, the matter of marriage would become more pressing, as an unmarried man of his age would be expected to pay extra in taxes for continuing to be single. 

Ten years in the military was mandatory for securing political office (though some wiggle room was given there). 

When we next see Marius, Lydia is 15 and so Marius would have been 30. 

As previously stated, Lydia’s father says on page 55 of Pandora that still at this time, Marius has never served in the military and thus cannot enter the Senate. 

And while it is possible that her father was lying just because he didn’t like Marius, Pandora’s reaction to his proclamations lead me to believe that he wasn’t, as does this passage: 

“[...] why don’t you marry me to Marius? I don’t understand it. I’m rich. He’s rich. I now his Mother was a wild Keltoi princess, but his Father has adopted him.’

My Father said witheringly, ‘Where have you learned all this?’ [...] ‘I don’t know; it’s common knowledge.’” –Pandora, page 55

It makes sense–the Patrician class was a small group in comparison to the plebians. And people have always been the same IE: gossips. It would make sense that the basics of Marius’s background, his station in life, and how he’s been biding his time would all be known to Pandora in at least the vaguest way. She doesn’t refute her father’s claims about Marius’s life as a loafer because she knows it to be true already. 

And this is a Marius of 30 years of age. If he completed the required 10 years of service, he’d be 40. If he were allowed the wiggle room others were afforded, he could have ended his service as early as 37 years of age. 

And it still wouldn’t matter. 

Because under Augustus (the Emperor who ruled from the time Marius was 3-4 years old until about four years after he was turned), freedmen could not run for office, nor could they be made part of the senatorial class. 

Marius describes himself as “illegitimate” several times and even tells Lestat that his mother died when he was born–implying she died in childbirth (page 397 of The Vampire Lestat).

It is not a huge leap in logic to assume Marius’s mother never received formal manumission, as Marius claims all he knows of her is that she was once a Celtic princess and a slave. It stands to reason that if Marius's father ever freed his mother, he would know about it–especially since his mother being freed at his time of birth would have made Marius optimo jure, thus giving him full rights as a Roman citizen. 

Because all children born to slave women were considered slaves, it also stands to reason that Marius’s father adopted him via manumission, and since the freedman in that situation would take on his former master’s nomen gentilicium and then enter into a pseudo-paternal relationship with him, it stands to reason that Marius’s father would treat him as a son and give him freedom, money, property, etc. 

But he would still not be eligible to become a Senator. 

And it is for those reasons, I believe Marius was never a Senator, and indeed never served in the military, either. 

Sources:

#my meta stuff #the vampire chronicles #tvc #vampire chronicles #marius de romanus

[murshili-ii]

St. David’s Day Special: The Dragon Prophecy

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Welcome to Celtic Month! For the entire month of March, the Spring Vignettes series will be dedicated entirely to Celtic homage vignettes. Non-Celtic pieces will resume in April.

Quick clarification: It’s pronounced Keltic, unless it’s a sports team; and even then, any linguists in the room will cringe if you pronounce it Seltic.

Our first Celtic Month piece celebrates St. David’s Day, on March 1st, the national day of Wales. Have some cheese toast! Pet a dragon! Kiss a Welshman, if you can find one.

Before you read what the piece means to me, share what it means to _you_. I’m just the artist; you’re the beholder.

Leave a comment.

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The Welsh are the survivors of the Celtic Britons, who were the inhabitants of all southern Britain before the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded and established what became England. “Welsh” is an Anglo-Saxon term; it means “other people” or “foreigners”, which is ironic, considering the Germanic-speaking peoples were the foreigners in the native lands of the Britons.

There is certainly no more famous Welshman than King Arthur Pendragon, a legendary king of yore who supposedly ruled Britain between the retreat of the Romans and the invasion of the Saxons. His legend, much-developed over the centuries, became well-known throughout Europe in later times.

A notable legend tells of the building of Dinas Emrys, a castle on a hill by the Glaslyn river. By some accounts, it was built by Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur; by other accounts, it was Vortigern, the same foolish king of the Britons who later invited the Saxons into Britain as mercenaries to defend the Britons from the Picts.

After the king had chosen the hill on which the castle would stand, his builders went to work; but every day, they built up the walls, only for them to topple overnight. No progress could be made. At length, the king asked his wisemen to find the cause and the solution to the problem.

His wisemen told him that for the building to succeed, a sacrifice would be necessary; and the sacrifice must be a boy not sired by mortal man. Such a boy existed; a young boy named Merlin, or Ambrosius, the baptized son of a devil, who would go on to be known for his abilities in the magic arts.

(Foundation sacrifices were once an incredibly widespread custom; we know from archaeological evidence that the burying of a human victim under the foundation of an important building was practiced in ancient Ireland. Similar legends are told in Romania, Greece, Japan, and elsewhere. Animals were later buried under foundations after human sacrifices ceased.)

The boy was brought to the hill; and the king’s wisemen told the king to sacrifice him to appease the heathen gods so that the castle could be build. But the boy laughed at their advice, and told the king he knew much better. He told the king that if a hole were dug, there would be found a deep, dark pool; and in that pool, there would be found two dragons, one red, one white; and it was the fighting of these dragons that shook the hill each night and made the walls collapse. The king had a deep hole dug; and indeed, there was found a deep, dark pool; and from that pool indeed emerged two dragons, one red, one white.

Freed from their imprisonment, the dragons fought viciously, until, despite being the lesser of the dragons, the red dragon defeated the white dragon, and drove it out of the land across the sea.

The boy then prophesied that, just as the red dragon triumphed over the white dragon, so the Britons would triumph over the invading Saxons.

And they did; until the death of King Arthur at the hands of his son Mordred, whereafter, the Saxons finally defeated the Britons, and drove them into the western mountains.

The great Welsh sagas, the Mabinogion, tell about how the two dragons originally became trapped under the site of Dinas Emrys, when an ancient Welsh king intoxicated them with a cauldron of ale and buried them to silence their deafening shrieking.

#st_davids_day #wales #welsh #dragons #uther #vortigern #merlin #dinas_emrys #arthurian #celts #celtic #spring #springholidays #digitalart #vector #mosaic #collage #inkscape

[can-it-dumbo]

Meine Characters

I’ll find some drawings of the chosen one and do a new drawing of them :]

#wingsoffire #wof fanart #pencil art #dragon art #leafwing #sandwing #wof rainwing #silkwing #dragon #drawing #concept art #dragon drawing #wof oc #oc #oc art #my art #my ocs #tumblr polls #warrior cats #warriors oc #cat art

[aro-iceland]

not really a drawing request but id love to know more about your ocs??? from what you’ve posted they look amazing??

Thank you VERY much!!! i forgot how much i love to talk about them

(sorry for the old art or picrews, i am too excited to not talk about them and simultaneously not patient enough to redraw them)

All picrew links: Kit + Kevín + Lilly Annalise Piper + Cecily Mikael + Claire Princeton

here's a general overview of everything that exists:

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part 1: em groups

you should at least be vaguely familiar with my em. every single au and whatever hetalia character i feel like grabbing for that day goes in there. interesting little tidbit that somehow hasn't come up so far is that in more human AUs of mine he's part irish! ~20% of icelandic males and 60% of females actually have irish/keltic ancestry!!! ireland being his mom hc is going WILD in me. he's also very magic because that headcanon singlehandedly started the ice obsession in me. how well in tune he is with it and how exactly it looks like depends on the au . i also make him closer friends with swe and fin because i can👍

(excerpt from my em content dedicated whatsapp group with just my (non-hetalia) best friend and me: )

le is there a lot because i love him so so much. incredibly phoenix coded man

there's also monaco, gwendolyn or gwenny to me. she's a permanent resident because i support women's rights (slaying) and wrongs (gambling addictions)

a notable not fully formed character is faroe islands! petra sometimes, emma other times. i genuinely don't know where those names come from. i heard the faroe islands and iceland being referred to as "kind of like twins" and as each othere's "best friends" *somewhere* and i am VERY normal about that too. oh SO normal

part 2: mikael's world

a fusion of 2 groups put into one world, connected by one flimsy tie. it's mostly analogous to real life but no homophobia👍

Group A: Pentagon

Mikael started out as a swedish micronation oc but we don't talk about that. he has a chicken called omelette because of inside jokes during... my wattpad era... shudders. i project onto him a lot and lots of his design is just wish fullfillment. while i love my ocs suffering and angst, because i put so much of myself in him, ultimately, his story is one of healing. major point of difference between us though is that his parents abandoned him and mine... didn't.do.that. 💀👍

Claire and Piper both actually started out as minecraft skins i made for fun!! and then i made them kith:3

Cecily and Kit were added becaue i felt like something was missing to complete the friendgroup!

Group B: menace club

Kevín and Lilly are my ACNL and ACNH side accounts...... and Annalise was some pretty trans woman i drew one day there's nothing much to this

Part 3: D&D

so.. confession: i haven't actually played d&d yet! but my friends love it a lot, i love a couple ttrpg podcasts so.. yeah i have a couple concepts!

The Leighlar Pilayden, or blueberry bitchfuck as i like to call him, Half Elf sorcerer who was abandoned as a babg and raised in a cult which, in a world with multiple deities, somehow ended up believing in the *one* that doesn't exist! he's a sorcerer but they all think his powers a blessing from their god

MY BABY MY SOBBING WET CAT SON! PRINCETON INTEKONA!!!

TIEFLING BARD I might get to play as him soon... negative strength, the only reason he has such a high charisma stat is because everyone pitties him... he accidentally ended up in a criminal gang... he plays the pan flute and bagpipes... pathetic baby

Part 4: Miscellaneous

All the Characters that are alone in their worlds!

(^aesthetic wise but he definitely kins larry)

Brian is the brain cell a friend and i are sharing and also the last one we have. he's a SOO overworked office worker. he has to handle EVERYTHING he's so exhausted please give him a break. he recently got a boyfriend. good for my him

Recently re-named Ailbhe used to be Avery and is a genderless, fully white skinned(as in colour not the skin colour we associate with the word. imagine porcelaine!) and neon yellow haired fallen angel/ex-demi-god!! not much lore but... lots of potential!!

Firenze is... idk he just happened in one history lesson in 2018 and now he's here. bunny boy with lots of responsibilities around the palace!!!

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and ... phew. i THINK that's it? mostly? oh my god. if. there's anyone you wanna know more about... tell ME

#how in the actual fresh hell do i tag this? #trick question #i won't tag this! #except for this #of course

[catgriosaich]

(clickbait voice) get on celtic language speakers’ good side in five easy steps

it’s gay-lic in ireland and ga-lic in scotland

irish ppl rarely call their celtic language “gaelic” but scottish ppl always do

scots and scottish gaelic are two completely different languages

seltic is a football team, everything else is keltic

to approximate the pronunciation of cymru in english, swap the vowels

#sa bheurla #another 2021 post

[kelticangel]

Welcome here!! 

My name is KelticAngel (you can call me Kel or Keltic) and I'm an older millennial and a girl gamer living in northern Alberta, Canada 🍁 My pronouns are she/her

💜

This blog is mostly a place to interact with the fandoms I appreciate, but really serves as a collection point for my virtual mathoms

My interests are:

autumn/cottagecore aesthetic 🍂🍄🎃🏕️

the development of personality and the psychology of self 🫀🌻🪞

mcyt (especially Life Series and Hermitcraft) 💚💛❤️

character-driven writing 🖋️📔🕯️

asexual community 🖤🩶🤍💜

fairytales and epic fantasy/sci-fi 🦄👑⚔️🛸

with a smattering of angels, ducks, chickens, or cats 🪽🦆🐓🐈‍⬛

Find me places:

💜 YouTube channel 💜

💜 Author's website 💜

💜 Linktree 💜

Updated Dec 2023

#lifeseriesforfans #d&d #minecraft #canada #writers on tumblr #introducing myself #introduction #introductory post #girl gamer #pinned post

[sixofravens-reads]

FINISHED THE COPPER CROWN!

Overall, I liked it! I love Celtic myths and history, and this book certainly delivers on its promise of "celts in space." I'm not well versed enough to say whether the author did very good research, or if she's parroting a lot of hippie nonsense, or if she just made a bunch of stuff up wholecloth (I imagine it's a mix), but the worldbuilding for Keltia at least is solid and very detailed.

That said, I do wish there was a little more worldbuilding for the rest of the universe. We know very little about the Imperium, Fomori, or even Earth, except that the first two of those have had major beef with Keltia for thousands of years, which was exacerbated by the Fomori orphaning and widowing Aeron, and then Aeron...blowing up a whole random planet (also, it's wild to me how casual people are about her blowing up the planet lmao).

It very much feels like the author worldbuilt Kelita intensely, then created the Keltic characters, and finally added the rest of the universe so she could have a sci-fi plot, with the Earth ambassadors acting as audience surrogates. It's not terrible, but things are a little uneven.

My last gripe is that Haruko should not have died. There was no reason for it! Aeron was going to fight Bres to the death anyway, she didn't need Haruko's death as extra motivation, so it just seems kinda....wasted. And also ruins the pacing of the scene a bit. He didn't even really get a full character arc.

Anyway, I did enjoy this book, it's an extremely fun blend of a Celtic fantasy world mixed with sci-fi. Will definitely pick up the sequel!

#also i have to say...better prose than i expected from someone who kinda sorta married jim morrison #thinking about reading

[sunnylunacy]

Newly turned Marius running from the druids / “Keltic barbarians”:

“But the cry rang out immediately: ‘THE GOD HAS FLOWN!’ and within seconds the multitude in the clearing was screaming it over and over as thousands of mortals plunged into the trees.” (The Vampire Lestat; page 424)

“How on earth did this happen, I thought suddenly, that I’m a god, full of human blood, and running from thousands of Keltic barbarians through this damned woods!” (The Vampire Lestat; page 424)

#I'm not sure if someone already made this joke but... #Marius de Romanus #vampire chronicles #The Vampire Chronicles #shitpost

[lovelylotusf1]

lotus hii 🥰 if you would choose between living in 300 BC or 1400's what would you prefer

Hellooo Darcy❤️

Good question! I would absolutely despise both! But I'd probably rather live in the 1400's. Let me explain a bit in a certified ramble.txt:

First of all, 300 BC. I actually don't know what happened where I live? Wikipedia was also inconclusive. Some Keltic tribes chilled out and the only thing I know about it is that there was some iron to mine here. So I'm basing my answer off a the country near me.

Women in the Roman Empire? Bad time, mostly. And even if they would have been just as respected as men, this was the century of the Punic Wars. Extra bad time. Though it WOULD have been funny to personally see the chaos of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his army and some elephants. Though I would probably get trampled by the elephants, at least I would die laughing.

1400's? Women were actually pretty well off here, at least from a few historybooks I remember (if you were born in a rich family of course) Or went to live as a nun. I think that would have actually been pretty nice all things considered. Strict routine with no changes? Still being able to read and write? Hell yeah.

So my answer: In the 1400's, specifically as a nun somewhere in a monastery.

That ended up a bit too long, but thanks again for your ask :D

#lotus loves to answer #fully let out the Latin nerd in me during that answer #i would have been a great nun in another life #fantasising about all my favourite bible saints and writing fics about them or whatnot

[fabien-euskadi]

Celtic love (almost experimental)

Fabled and famed were the years with no number, long-gone they are. Belayed to the whims of the Wheel of Time, we, heirs of a purple star, Lived one thousand lives prior to the last thousand lives we have lived - Still, no gift was higher than the love we both have given and received In that Age of the Celts, when bronze was iron and iron was splendour. Arcane are the wedding vows for all - we - who have loved in grandeur: Golden rings (two) lubberly sculpted by those trembling murky hands Of the blind blacksmith, protector of all days, yesterdays and wastelands - We have descended from Time to Earth, and no blade can put us down. That very night, ours, was not one night to be: the ancient Keltic crown, Chiseled in a time when time did not matter, was lost. Besieged, the old Elliptic castle was torched to the ground. Warriors, valiant, strong, bold, Perished in hundreds (thousands?) for the beleaguered village not to fall. Just the two of us are left, left with two rings, a sword, arrows - and gall. Yes, die we will tonight, but what is death when we can live once again? Untamed, the final dyad! The last of us raised their weapons; behold: pain Reigns amongst our enemies, who fall one by one, by the hands of us two. No one lived, lived to tell our tale. No one, other than me, other than you. Heroes untold, in love bravest and bold, we’re but kings of ruins and dust: Killed two thousand times or more, live again we will, live again we must.

                                                                                     Fabien Euskadi

#Celtic love (almost experimental) #Fabien Euskadi #Poem #Original poem #spilled ink #experimental poem #semi-epic poem #I am not in love with this one #dedicated to no one

[0junemeatcleaver0]

A little sneak peek at the Marius meta that's been in the works for like, six months now lmao

Mortal Marius: The Facts

We of course are introduced to Marius in The Vampire Lestat. TVL is where we get the most insight into Marius’s life as a mortal--more so than we get even in his own book, Blood and Gold. We also gain additional information from Pandora’s story. 

Here is what we learn about mortal Marius: 

Marius traveled widely in an effort to observe and document the people he encountered

He was the illegitimate child of a wealthy Roman man and a Keltic slave woman

It was obvious to observers that his mother was not Roman because of the genes he inherited from her, thus he would be easily identifiable as not being fully Roman by birth

In B&G, he claims to have been high ranking in one of the legions, though he never saw battle

He claims to have later been a Senator, which means his father would had to have been of the Patrician class or a plebeian who became so rich he was promoted to Senatorial class

He never married 

These are all very important points when painting a picture of who Marius was as a mortal, and what life would have been like for him. 

This is also where we run into our first inconsistency in Marius’s back story. 

In Blood and Gold, when Thorne asks if Marius was a soldier, this is how Marius responds:

Marius shook his head. “A Senator,” he said, “a maker of laws, something of a philosopher. I went to war, yes, for some time because my family wished it, and I had a high place in one of the legions, but my time wasn’t very long and I was home and back in my library. […] I never really knew battle. (B&G, p. 28-29)

Meanwhile, in Pandora, Lydia pleads for her father to allow her to marry Marius. He shoots her down, saying:

[…] But believe you me, the Emperor himself would not approve of you marrying such a mad wandering historian as Marius! He has never served in the military, he cannot enter the Senate, it is quite impossible. When you marry, you will marry well.” (Pandora, p. 55)

As previously stated, it is impossible to know if this is just Anne’s love of unreliable narrators at play, or if this is a lack of her remembering what she’d stated in previous books. But for our purposes, we will treat this as being purely a matter of unreliable narrators being at play. 

So what’s the truth?

[revelations2v9]

Christian Identity, also sometimes called Israel Identity, is the only true conservative Christianity. It is true because it seeks to maintain the understanding – in accordance with Scripture - that the New Covenant was made only with those same people with whom the Old Covenant was made: the House (family) of Israel and the House (family) of Judah. These Israelite people are traceable through time to the Keltic and Germanic tribes of today. None of these people are Jews. The Jews are descended from a mere remnant of the old Kingdom of Judah along with assorted Edomite and other Arabs who were mixed into the Roman province of Judaea during the Hellenic period. There are – at last count – at least sixteen detailed essays on this website which demonstrate this, and which are replete with Biblical, archaeological and historical citations.

Christian Identity is the belief that the Covenants of God are real and consistent. It professes that the people of the Old Testament were every bit as much Christian as the people of the New Testament. They were simply looking forward to the first advent of the Christ, while we today await His Second Advent. As the famous Christian bishop Ignatius said nineteen hundred years ago, Christianity did not come from Judaism: rather, Judaism is a perversion of Christianity. Christian Identity is therefore the original Christian Orthodoxy, and Christian Identity is the original catholic faith, in the true and original use of the word "catholic" by Christian writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.

Christian Identity is the belief that there is no disparity between the Word of God, His Creation, His prophecy, and world history. It is also the understanding that while Scripture was inspired by God when it was transmitted, men have certainly mistreated it since that time, and so every passage and every doctrine must be fully investigated from all of the most ancient sources possible. As it reads in the King James Version: Study to show thyself approved. - William Finck, Christogenea.org

#christian identity #who is god #stop hate #christian living #love of god #yahweh