The Celts: The Tree Of Life

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The Celts were also heavy in using Priests, the priests preformed many duties amongst the villages and preformed several ceremonies that were sacred to the Celtic culture. Just as the Christians have priests, the Christians use priests in everything that has to do with the church. Marrying, blessings, and other sacred duties that would require a certain priesthood to carry out. The afterlife according to the Celts that after you died, your immortal spirit passed into the next world, then you have to actually pass though the next world to be reincarnated into a new life form that is returned to earth. This isn’t like the Christian death process but the moral code the Celts created runs a long the same line the of the Christian moral code. If …show more content…
The Celts took this symbol and associated it with the creation of all things. Within the deep roots of a massive magic tree mankind was created amongst the roots. It was so sacred to the Celts, that when the Celtic farmers would clear fields for planting they would often leave a single tree in the center of the field just to pay tribute to such a sacred object. The Christian version of the tree of life went all the way back to creation, just like the Celts, but instead of the tree creating all life, it was the tree with the forbidden fruit where Eve partook of the fruit and then convinced Adam to do so as well. In doing so it banished them from the Garden of Eden forever as it says in “Genesis “, the first book in the bible. The Celtic religion is still a hard religion to study, the original Pagan version of the religion is mostly lost to the ages due to corrupt documents and the over all banning of the religion all together by the Christian church itself. The similarities between the two are still strikingly the same …show more content…
Although there were several religions that were all well known before the year 33 C.E. That is how all these religions are mixed into one religion and how the similarities between the three religions and the one big Christian religion. So in the end, Christianity being built up piece by piece from other religions, also has a strong posiblility that the world reknowned religion known as Christianity just maybe another Pagan

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