[RightWhale]

Is this the complete story? Didn't the Sea People wander out of the Black Sea, with metallurgy and chariots? Those were Celts.

[SunkenCiv]

It is almost entirely made up, which makes it a complete story. :')

Oh, those awful patriarchal societies just arose from nowhere (after 100s of 1000s of years of human prehistory) and oppressed the kindly, peaceful Great Goddess worshippers, who then, regretfully, had to arm themselves in self defense.

IOW, what a load of manure.

[blam]

"This account would have the Gaels, then inhabiting the area known as Scythia, who left the northern shores of the Black Sea around 1760 BC and headed south into the Aegean and Mediterranean. They joined with others to form part of the Hyksos invasion of Egypt. They returned to Scythia for a while, then migrated again and for a few centuries became part of the Sea Peoples, who were so destructive at the close of the Bronze Age, devastating the Palace States of the Aegean around 1200 BC. Eventually they settled near what was later the site of Carthage, remaining there for almost three centuries, before invading and occupying northwest Spain. The last move from Spain to Ireland took place about 960 BC."

The Origin Of The Celts