Britannia Rules
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“Britannia Rules,” by award-winning author and historian Lochlainn Seabrook, is a unique and captivating book that celebrates a seldom discussed, yet long and noble English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish tradition; one that dates back to the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles: female-based religion. Here, the author 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, Seabrook 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 Islam as Allat, in Hinduism as Kali Ma, in Gnostic Christianity...