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A Gaelic Eschatological Folktale, Celtic Cosmology And Dumézil's Three Realms / John Shaw -- The Relationship Of The Chthonic World In Early Ireland To Chaos And Cosmos / Séamus Mac Mathúna -- The Cave Of Crúachain And The Otherworld / John Waddell -- The Location Of The Promised Land In Hiberno-latin Literature / Jonathan Wooding -- The Word Of God And Early Medieval Irish Cosmology Scripture And The Creating Word / Marina Smyth -- The Creation Of The World In Saltair Na Rann / Gearóid Mac Eoin -- Tara And Cashel : Manifestations Of The Centre Of The Cosmos In The North And The South / Edel Bhreathnach -- Roads And Knowledge In Togail Bruidne Da Derga / Grigory Bondarenko -- Leisure And Recreation In An Age Of Clearance : He Case Of The Hebridean Michaelmas / Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart -- Pagan Beliefs And Christian Redress In Acallam Na Senórach / Ann Dooley -- Landscape And Cosmology In The Dindshenchas / Gregory Toner. Edited By Jacqueline Borsje, Ann Dooley, Séamus Mac Mathúna And Gregory Toner ; Editorial Assistance By Nancy Mcguire, Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil, And Tino Oudesluijs. Based On The Colloquium Celtic Cosmology And The Power Of Words, Held In Coleraine, February 14-16, 2008, Organized By Members Of The Research Institute For Irish And Celtic Studies At The University Of Ulster. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [284]-311). Issued Also In Electronic Format.