Irish kinship is a system of kinship terminology (descended from the original Celtic practices) which shows a bifurcate collateral pattern.
For Ecne to be the son of three brothers also recalls the early Celtic practice of fraternal polyandry.
They take things from a number of different sources, like Eastern religions, Celtic practices.
Examples include the Celtic practice of handfasting and fixed-term marriages in the Muslim community.
Celtic religious practice was probably sacrificial in its interactions with the gods.
In either case, many see this as a probable continuation of the ancient Celtic practice of leaving votive offerings in wells or pits.
However many elements, such as the death of his daughter being linked to a Celtic 'curse', retain magical elements, but linked to Celtic religious practices.
Celtic penitential practices consisted of confession, acceptance of satisfaction fixed by the priest, and finally in reconciliation.
Without inscriptions, as the Celtic practice was, the Redones coinage features a charioteer whose pony has a human head.
After this, the Celtic religious practices changed, and elements of Romanisation started to show.