Tribe of Witches Yeates Stephen James
Tribe of Witches Yeates Stephen James Until now the old religions of Britain have only been looked at in a piecemeal way. It uncovers some secrets of the old religion of Britain that have lain hidden…
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Tribe of Witches Yeates Stephen James
Until now the old religions of Britain have only been looked at in a piecemeal way. It uncovers some secrets of the old religion of Britain that have lain hidden in reams of unconnected and largely forgotten information, from a variety of sources. This book presents a detailed and focused investigation of the religion of the Dobunni and the Hwicce peoples who occupied the Severn valley and the Cotswolds immediately before and after the Roman occupation.
It explores the deities of the different areas of the Dobunnic/Hwiccan territory; identifying the goddess of the Cotswolds, and describes how the worship manifested itself. The first part of the book concerns the deification of the natural world; the second, the deities of the tribal groups. Yeates demonstrates how the deification of rivers was important and how this has led to the location of a number of ancient river shrines as well as