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Jean Markale

Born

in France

May 23, 1928

Died

November 23, 2008

Genre

History, Poetry

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Jean Markale is the pen name of Jean Bertrand, a French writer, poet, radio show host, lecturer, and retired Paris high school French teacher.

He has published numerous books about Celtic civilisation and the Arthurian cycle. His particular specialties are the place of women in the Celtic world and the Grail cycle.

His many works have dealt with subjects as varied as summations of various myths, the relationships of same with occult subjects like the Templars, Cathars, the Rennes le Château mystery, Atlantis, the megalith building civilisations, druidism and so on, up to and including a biography of Saint Columba.

While Markale presents himself as being very widely read on the subjects about which he writes, he is nonetheless surrounded by co ...more

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	Women of the Celts 3.84 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celts: Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Culture 3.72 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature 3.83 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year 3.49 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the Present 3.84 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montségur and the Mystery of the Cathars 3.79 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1986 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King of the Celts: Arthurian Legends and Celtic Tradition 3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Merlin: Priest of Nature 3.79 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La naissance du roi Arthur (Le Cycle du Graal, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 69 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cathedral of the Black Madonna: The Druids and the Mysteries of Chartres 3.80 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Le Cycle du Graal (8 books)
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A Grande Epopeia dos Celtas (3 books)
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Jorge Chichorro Rodrigues (Translator)

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“. . .legends, which in the etymological sense are what one should pass on, are only the symbols of a tradional truth transported from one generation to the next.”
― Jean Markale, The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year

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