Peta Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara)

Peta Oakes, writing under the pen name Gaelic Mac Dubhdara, is an independent researcher, mythologist, poet, and classical enthusiast whose work explores mythology, sacred cosmology, ancient history, symbolic tradition, and the enduring intellectual legacy of the ancient world. Drawing upon comparative mythology, Greco Roman philosophy, Near Eastern religion, Celtic tradition, and the initiatory systems of the ancient mystery schools, her writing bridges historical inquiry with mythic imagination.

Her published works span mythology, cosmology, sacred kingship, classical civilisation, and ancient religious traditions, with particular focus on how ancient cultures understood the cosmos as an ordered and meaningful structure shaped by ritual, divine symbolism, astronomy, memory, and political power. Through both poetic and historical writing, she examines the ways myth informed identity, governance, initiation, sacred architecture, and cultural continuity across antiquity.

Peta is the author of the five book Celestial Chronicles series, including Tales of the Cosmos, Soulful Sonnets: Echoes of Love, Mythical Odes Across the Ages, Hymns of the Mesopotamian Skies, and Journey Through Myths and Shadows. Her wider catalogue also includes works from The Ancient Worlds and Sacred Cosmologies series, The Celtic and Mythic Realms series, and the Powerful Female Rulers of Antiquity series, exploring subjects ranging from planetary gods, Egyptian cosmology, and the ancient mystery traditions to Celtic mythology, sacred landscapes, and the women sovereigns of the classical world.

Her research incorporates archaeology, ancient literature, classical philosophy, biblical traditions, and the symbolic systems of the Eleusinian, Dionysian, Orphic, Isis, and Mithraic mysteries. She approaches mythology not merely as folklore, but as a sophisticated intellectual and symbolic framework through which ancient peoples understood law, kingship, ritual practice, cosmology, and human identity.

As part of her ongoing historical research, Peta has travelled to regions connected to the ancient civilisations central to her studies, including Iraq and the landscapes of ancient Mesopotamia during her research into the Seven Wonders of the Hellenistic world. Her forthcoming research journey to Egypt will continue her exploration of sacred architecture, initiation traditions, and the enduring intellectual legacy associated with the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, and the ancient Library of Alexandria.

Through her writing as Gaelic Mac Dubhdara, Peta Oakes invites readers into a world where mythology, history, sacred symbolism, and collective memory converge, allowing the ancient world to speak again with depth, clarity, and renewed relevance.