FER BENN AND THE DEER CULT IN BUILE SUIBHNE

• Main Author: Boucherit, Gilles
• Other Authors: Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC Rennes), Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Elisabeth Durot-Boucé Izabella Borissova Yann Bévant
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: Buile Suibhne; Culte du cerf; Hittites; Mythologie celtique; Evenks (peuple de Sibérie); litt; hisphilso; Chadwick; Evenks
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01372649/file/LEVRFERBENNDCIBS%20%281%29.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01372649

International audience In his introduction to the 1996 reprint of the middle-Irish romance Buile Suibhne, Nagy writes that Chadwick is the first to "conjure the notion of Suibhne as shaman, of the geilt as both possessed by and possessor of supernatural inspiration and power, a practitioner of ‗archaic techniques of ecstasy', to use Mircea Eliade's phrase, comparable to similar practitioners both in and well beyond the Celtic world When examining her 1942 article "Geilt", nowhere have we found the word shaman. It is true, however, that in her 1952 book "Poetry and prophecy", Nora Chadwick studies different traditions throughout the world related to vision, but more globally, the origin of "the inspiration of the seer" which can be "derived from a variety of sources, for instance "inspiration received in a vision during a battle" as in Irish and Welsh traditions. But, as Nagy says, she does not confine herself to the Celtic world, she also explores "the most interesting figure in Norse mantic tradition of the God Othin, whose most obvious affinities are with the Siberian shamans whom he resembles in a remarkable degree5". This means that shamanistic and Geilt traditions are parallel or comparable to Siberian, Turkish, or even Polynesian ones for instance. It would be more relevant to speak of all these people in their different traditions in terms of Seers, and Nora Chadwick wonders whether these traditions were ever derived from a single one. Ce texte hébergé dans cette publication a été lu au "XIV international Congress of Celtic Studies" en 2011 à Maynooth