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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1400272" data-attributes="member: 2205">Nope, the Cimmerians were supposed to be Celtic.&nbsp; Howard wrote in an essay once, discussing the various Hyborian nations, that the Cimmerians were supposedly the antecedents of &quot;the Gaels.&quot;&nbsp; He was also operating under the prevailing belief of the time that the historical Cimmerians were somehow Celtic in nature (they're actually unknown, but widely assumed to be &quot;Scythian&quot; or Iranian in nature.)&nbsp; Cimmerian characters (referred to; Conan is the only one ever seen on screen) tend to have Irish names, as do the gods (other than Crom) who are mentioned from time to time.&nbsp; Conan himself bears an Irish name.&nbsp; That doesn't mean the Cimmerians were really supposed to be Celtic, but their culture does bear some superficial similarities to a mythic Celtic culture; kinda a Slaine-like Celtic &quot;Golden Age.&quot;What's also kinda interesting is that that same essay calls the Cimmerians the descendents of the Atlanteans, of whom King Kull was a member.&nbsp; He also had the extremely strange notion that the Cimmerians had &quot;devolved&quot; to the level of ape-men, and then &quot;re-evolved&quot; into the Cimmerians we know from the Conan stories.&nbsp; That concept was a little weird, even for Hyboria, IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1400272, member: 2205"] Nope, the Cimmerians were supposed to be Celtic. Howard wrote in an essay once, discussing the various Hyborian nations, that the Cimmerians were supposedly the antecedents of "the Gaels." He was also operating under the prevailing belief of the time that the historical Cimmerians were somehow Celtic in nature (they're actually unknown, but widely assumed to be "Scythian" or Iranian in nature.) Cimmerian characters (referred to; Conan is the only one ever seen on screen) tend to have Irish names, as do the gods (other than Crom) who are mentioned from time to time. Conan himself bears an Irish name. That doesn't mean the Cimmerians were really supposed to [i]be[/i] Celtic, but their culture does bear some superficial similarities to a mythic Celtic culture; kinda a Slaine-like Celtic "Golden Age." What's also kinda interesting is that that same essay calls the Cimmerians the descendents of the Atlanteans, of whom King Kull was a member. He also had the extremely strange notion that the Cimmerians had "devolved" to the level of ape-men, and then "re-evolved" into the Cimmerians we know from the Conan stories. [i]That[/i] concept was a little weird, even for Hyboria, IMO. [/QUOTE]

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