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Jean Markale

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born

May 23, 1928 in France

died

November 23, 2008

gender

male

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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Books by Jean Markale

Average rating: 3.54 · 564 ratings · 31 reviews · 92 distinct works

	The Celts: Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Culture 3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Women of the Celts 3.67 avg rating — 64 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature by Jean Markale, Jon Graham (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars by Jean Markale, Jon Graham (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	King of the Celts: Arthurian Legends and Celtic Tradition 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Church of Mary Magdalene: The Sacred Feminine and the Treasure of Rennes-Le-Chateau by Jean Markale, Jon Graham (Translator) 3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Epics of Celtic Ireland: Ancient Tales of Mystery and Magic 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Merlin: Priest of Nature 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the Present 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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Series by Jean Markale

Le cycle du graal (8 books)
by Jean Markale

3.24 avg rating — 71 ratings

Quotes by Jean Markale

“. . .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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