\'The myth of Celtic and Roman Britain\'

[Alanus]

We can thank Nathan Ross for slipping in that kooky podcast. After all, the Incas descended from the Egyptians, who descended from the Atlantians, who descended from Conan's grandmother... and since there was an Irishman named Conan, then they all descended from a pulp fiction writer who lived in a small Texas town.

We have, in Wilson and Blackett, exactly that kind of reasoning. In other sources, perhaps conspiritorial or even Caesarish or "Tacitern," we have the recorded names of British tribes, which inexplicably are exactly the same as several Belgae ones... who may have been Celts or maybe not. We even know that after the Vercingetorix fiasco, King Commius and his family moved over to Britain, probably to avoid Roman taxes. Certainly, not all "Britons" were Celtic, and even Tacitus claims that the Silures were more like Iberians or Aquitani. Yet, on the whole, it seems that Britain had all the earmarks of Celtic traditions, as did the Irish (who once claimed they came from Spain via Israel). But Celtic is as Celtic does, and chances are the Britons were not related to the Atlantians. 8)