Description
Contents: List of illustrations (ix); Abbreviations (xi); Preface (xiii); Guide to pronunciation (xxi); PART ONE: 1. Hidden beginnings: from cult to conversion (3); 2. Earthly gods: pagan deities, Christian meanings (30); 3. divine culture: exemplary gods and the Mythological Cycle (72); 4. New mythologies: pseudohistory and the lore of poets (128); 5. Vulnerability and grace: the Finn Cycle (194); 6. Damaged gods: the late Middle Ages (248); PART TWO: 7. The imagination of the country: towards a national pantheon (277); 8. Danaan mysteries: occult nationalism and the divine forms (310); 9. Highland divinities: the Celtic revival in Scotland (361); 10. Coherence and canon: the fairy faith and the East (406); 11. Gods of the gap: a world mythology (434); 12. Art gods (489); Acknowledgements (503); Glossary of technical terms (507); Conspectus of medieval sources (511); Works cited (517); Index (557).