The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans was ground-breaking in its conclusions and in the use of the comparative analysis of the structure of the deity bynames and of the deity systems themselves. The resultant reconstructed Celtic deity system was then compared to the mythology preserved in Greece, Rome, Iceland, and India to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European(PIE) religion as a whole. The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans was also the first work to analyze the Irish Sagas as a whole since Rudolf Thurneysen’s 1921 Die irischeHelden- und Königsage. As long as such works readily are available, they will always prove useful.
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The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans was ground-breaking in its conclusions and in the use of the comparative analysis of the structure of the deity bynames and of the deity systems themselves. The resultant reconstructed Celtic deity system was then compared to the mythology preserved in Greece, Rome, Iceland, and India to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European(PIE) religion as a whole. The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans was also the first work to analyze the Irish Sagas as a whole since Rudolf Thurneysen’s 1921 Die irischeHelden- und Königsage. As long as such works readily are available, they will always prove useful.