Gaul Tradition?

[CleftOfLight]

Is there such a thing as the gaul tradition?If so what is it like and if there are any good websites please post them.

[Mòrag Elasaid Ní Dhòmhnaill]

Pester Nantonos, he can tell you all about the Gauls. And even some stuff you don't want to know about them. :tongueout

[siannan 13]

very little is known about Gaul tradition. Gaul people didn't write and most of what is known (such as deity) comes from the Romans (Cesar writings) or the roman period, when druids were forbidden and Gaul people took roman habits, such as carving their deities pictures in stone (next to roman counterparts).
You wouldn't find such thing as a geulish ritual, but we have a few clues about practices, for exemple there were many sacred sources where people came in pilgrimage for healing. Such practices as giving a small carving of what was wrong (ex-voto) and making offerings in such places were common.

I know very little website on Gaul traditions, especially in english.
http://www.celtnet.org.uk/cgi-bin/search_cgods.pl?nmctry=Gaul

[antiquitas]

This is a major annoyance for me. Why couldn't they just have had a written alphabet!?? :smileroll

I study Iron Age Britain, particularly the Belgae tribe (in the south), which came from Gaulish Europe (somewhere in northern France, IIRC).

These people had a distinct practice that is preserved in the archaeological record, but we can only mirror these practices to Romano-British activities and anything ancient historians (including Caesar) wrote about.

There isn't any 'real' certainty, but definite 'probablies'...lol.
What I can say is that, at least the British Belgae, had a view toward horses that wasn't too far off from older Indo-European nomads except they weren't entirely domesticated and probably not ridden (but were eaten), they held feasts, they loved eating lamb and sometimes young pig, they had a thing for ravens and skulls, especially cattle and horse skulls, and practiced 'secondary burial rites' of humans and probably animals (esp horse), and often sought to destroy the physical body (exposure to elements, and possibly chopping). This last part is 'known' (deduced) by comparing the remains to known secondary burial rite-practicing cultures. Often random "loose" human bones were placed here and there, most often skulls and femora.

All of this is argued to be religious, but some say it's not at all separable from an Iron Ager's everyday life. Which could mean that one's everyday life followed certain rituals.... it's a big theoretical mess :)