Celtic Women

In Celtic history there is considerable evidence that women were powerful in both church and state. There were female druids, warriors, bards, rulers and so forth. As the frontier of Christianity spread across Ireland during the fifth century, however, the prestige of the Celtic woman was altogether censured. Christian monks could not pay tribute to the gender held responsible in their own religion for the fall of man. Though they could not erase her entirely, they blanketed her with the characteristics of their biblical character of Eve. The finished product was a Celtic woman driven by the same things as was Eve; by desire.