Celtic mythology

Okay, so let's unpack this because we need to start with the very foundation.

I feel like we need to define our terms first because honestly, even calling this deep dive Celtic mythology feels like a trap.

It is a trap.

Right, because the word Celtic is thrown around to describe, I mean, everything from ninth century Irish illuminated manuscripts to modern Scottish folk music to Iron Age Gaulish hill forts in France.

The gods have an afterlife.

We'll start with the academic synthesis.

Pranties Macana's 1968 book, Celtic Mythology.

It's a short, classic guide, and he doesn't try to mash the archeology and the literature into one timeline.

Other scholars connect it to ancient words for the sun.

The Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology notes the possible root connection to the Latin sol, meaning sun, and the Irish suio, meaning eye, so depending which linguist you ask, Solas's name means something close to the sun or something close to the seeing one.

Personally, I don't think we need to pick.

She is a goddess of a boiling spring that never freezes, never goes dark, and pours up out of the underworld looking almost like liquid fire.