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Latest revision as of 15:47, 2 May 2011
The expression Neo-Celtic refers to a subculture, a particular way of interpreting the bible, a group of planets, and an ethnic variation.
First, and simplest to describe, is the region of space: the United Celtic Fringe. This is a group of 8 worlds within which the neo-celtic culture flourishes, and their language and faith is considered the norm.
Neo-Celtic Ethnicity
Some have speculated that a particular combination of genes gives an advantage here, explaining how certain normally-recessive characteristics continue to be unusually prevalent within the fringe worlds. Most people of celtic descent seem to be quite fair, with tan-brown skin, almond-coloured hair and blue-green eyes. They are also usually quite slim, with a slightly faster than average metabolism.
The Culture
The Language
(See also: Eternal use only)
The Faith
The celtic faith is not considered a cult, although it has most of the characteristics of one. Most people on the fringe worlds, and many of celtic descent elsewhere, follow a slightly unorthadox interpretation of the bible. For the most part, they are quite observant of the minutiae of the laws, and follow even the relatively obscure directives from the bible quite strictly.
Their main deviance from the standard interpretation is in the reading of Esdras/10:0x24-28: "Know ye not, that the power of the church / is contained in every silk, in every inch of timber / in every stone. / Know then that the power of the glorious church is enshrined here / and that in every chapel is a fragment of that power." The orthodox church takes this to mean that the once a chapel is consecrated, its stones are as holy as those of a cathedral, and that the chapel building should be considered sacred even when not in use.
The celtic churches, however, read this passage to mean that the construction of a chapel, or indeed any act of prayer, sanctifies the rock itself - that the entirety of every planet touched by the church should be considered hallowed ground. They go on to interpret the rest of the bible in a way that assumes the settled worlds and the church are in fact one and the same; a strange kind of catholic pantheism.
