BRITANNIA RULES: GODDESS-WORSHIP IN ANCIENT ANGLO-CELTIC SOCIETY
REVIEW: “Brilliant in its simplicity, Britannia Rules uses the structure of a brief etymological treatise to give a quick but enlightening and thoroughly engaging overview of ancient matriarchal-goddess society and its eventual repression and sublimation into the patriarchal religious culture of today. Wow. This is a fascinating and under-reported corner of thealogical studies, and Southern advocate Colonel Lochlann Seabrook (who clearly writes on a diversity of topics) does a good job, all by his lonesome, of covering the subject from various angles with this and his other fine books on the subject.”- KRISTOFER UPJOHN
AUTHOR: Lochlainn Seabrook
CONTENT: adult nonfiction
SUBJECTS: thealogy (female-based religion), European spirituality, matricentirc religion, Old World religion
ILLUSTRATED: yes (b/w)
SIZE: 5.5” x 8.5”
LENGTH: 204 pages
COVER: paperback/perfect bound/matte finish; hardcover/case laminate/matte finish
PUBLISHER: Sea Raven Press
ISBN: 978-0-9827700-2-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-943737-91-8 (hardcover)
In this fascinating work the author, scholar Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, overturns the long-standing notion that the first Britons and Celts were “patriarchal” and that they worshiped a male “Heavenly Father.” Using the latest archaeological, anthropological, etymological, onomastic, historical, and mythological evidence, he shows that both the Anglo-Saxons and the Celts were matriarchal peoples who venerated the Supreme Being in female form.
This “Heavenly Mother” of the early Celto-Britons was none other than the universal “Great Goddess,” venerated around the ancient world under a myriad of names, and who manifested in ancient Egypt as Isis, in Judaism as Asherah, in Hinduism as Kali Ma, in Gnostic Christianity as Sophia, in orthodox Christianity as Mary, in Buddhism as Mara, and in the British Isles as Britannia.
In light of the overwhelming worldwide reemergence of feminine spirituality, the advent of the Goddess Reclamation Movement, the recent resurgence of British and American interest in traditional Anglo-Celtic culture, and the new found interest in the real relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Britannia Rules is a topical work; one that will be read with keen interest, not only by those readers who are of English and Celtic heritage, but by people of all nationalities and faiths.
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