Wild-Horses-Ancient-Celts-and-Europe

Ireland's great poet and symbolist, W B Yeats, described a symbol as the only possible expression of some invisible essence, 'a transparent lamp about some invisible flame.' Rather than fixing a meaning, symbols set meaning free. They resonate with our intuitive mind, letting go of logical thinking. Symbols speak the language of the soul. ~ www.rosaryworkshop.com

Celtic trace of time
Claddaugh rings of beloved
open symbol door
~22july2011~puerdycat haiku"

"Lyricalize your Inflection" and find your own Irish accent. Can you hear the Irish Brogue in that? ~ www.soyouwanna.com

Because I have Austrian heritage, and I like the Celtic traditions, I love finding Ancient Celts in the Danube Basin. The Hallstatt Culture lived in the Danube river drainage and their domain. stretched from west of the Danube Bend across Hungary, Austria, Bohemia, Slovakia, southern Germany, Switzerland and into France.
There were 28 Gallic tribes that lived along the Rhone, Saone and Seine Rivers.
See a TIME LINE of ancient Celtic Tribes: celts.etrusia.co.uk/timelines.php
Ron Griffith's on-line "The Celts of Gaul" (France) follows the Celts in France.

Kollwentz Vinters tell us about the Celts in Burgenland, whose viticulture was sustained and protected under the Romans.

"Vines were grown on the southerly slopes of the Leithagebirge already by the Celts. From that time there exist the oldest finds of Central European viticulture. The grape seeds found in Zagersdorf date back to 700 B.C.
What is now Burgenland belonged to the province Pannonia under Roman domination. Under the Romans, viticulture flourished to such an extent that Emperor Domitian prohibited further plantings in the provinces. Emperor Probus lifted that restriction."

.
image: www.clipartandcrafts.com

The Moon

is humanity's oldest calendar

When a Celtic tribe cleared new land for settlement, they always left a great tree in the middle, known in Ireland as the "crann bethadh", or Tree of Life, it embodied the security and integrity of the Celtic people. Chieftains were inaugurated at the sacred tree, for, with its roots stretching down to the lower world,and its branches reaching to the upper world, it connected him with the power of both the heavens and the worlds beneath.
~ Mara Freeman 1998

The river Volga, Mother Volga, is fed by the largest watershed in Europe. It is believed that from the lower Volga came the Proto-Indo-European civilization. Many cultures descend from this source. PIE languages are outlined below.

I'm adding some reading about very early history and the Celts. I honestly don't know the qualifications of this writer, and some of his facts differ with all that I've read before, but I find it interesting :
http://www.americeltic.net/continentalcelts.html

We don't see the Kasubian Language on the language trees above, but it would be under the Slavic languages, one of the many minor tongues.

The name Kashubian, or Cassubian, has many forms; Kaszub is one. "One of the Lechitic languages, a subgroup of the Slavic languages,
Kashubian is assumed to have evolved from Pomeranian" tribes, on northern European lowlands near the Baltic Sea, between the Vistula and Oder rivers.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian_language