Talk:Celts and human sacrifice
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[edit] A few things
- This is an OK article, but it defiantly needs to be expanded and improved.
- A few issues though, in this sentence "This dovetails with the three-fold death detailed in medieval texts." What does "dovetails" mean?
- I presume this must be some American expression, but I've certainly never heard of it before, so it's not very good as a word that has to be internationally understood, can someone come up with a better term here.
- One more thing is Tollund Man, he was killed in Denmark, and thus may not have been a Celt (more likely Germanic), so he may not belong here.
- --Hibernian 17:52, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I removed this part from the article... "The Celts had three gods: Taranis, the god of thunder, Esus, the god of the underworld and Toutatis, the god of the tribe. Each god demanded a different sacrifice." As it sounds very suspect and unhistorical and was contributed by an anonymous user.--Hibernian 17:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines "to dovetail" as "to fit together easily or conveniently,"[1] and says nothing about it being an americanism. Wikipedia can't be expected to define every term on the site- that's what Wiktionary is for. ;-) Regards, Confiteordeo 14:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
This article should make it even clearer that human sacrifice by the celts its very contested. For one I remember doing history at school and many of Julius Caesar's writings have been disproved or proven exaggerated so how can you take the man seriously about the celts. Recent articles by national geographic contest that many "sacrifice" victims received many injuries after death those found in bogs would of been crushed by bogs so therfore broken bones etc are most likely caused by that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.75.157 (talk) 05:19, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
