Cruachan - A Celtic Mourning - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Notes: Being a fearless warrior is the ideal life for the Celts. They showed little fear, for they believed that death was only a change of location and that life continued in all its forms in another world. They believed in the constant exchange that occurs between our world and the other world: living souls go to this world, and we give our dead to the other world. Greeks such as Aristotle and Solon argued that their own doctrine of immortality was borrowed from the continental Celts. Not only were they not afraid of death, but they even celebrated it. The dead were obviously mourned, but, as in modern Ireland, people celebrated the beginning of the deceased's journey to the other world. The Celts had a natural understanding that living beings were able to easily move from the physical world to the otherworldly, since for the most part there were no barriers between them. They had so little fear of death that they sometimes threw off their armor and clothing and went into battle naked. The Roman Polybius told how at the Battle of Telamon in 325 BC. Gaesates' troops threw off their clothes and attacked the Roman troops, the same incident happened at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC.