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Druid
What is a Druid?
Modern.
A PERSON WHO HAS ACHIEVED THE GRADE OF DRUID IN AN ESOTERIC OR SPIRITUAL SOCIETY.
Some of the Revival era Druid groups adopted the grades of Bard, Ovate, and Druid from Classical sources. In this scheme, one might describe oneself as a Druid only when one has been initiated into that grade or when one has completed training for that grade. This is in some ways comparable to the "degrees" of ceremonial magic or academia.
Ancient:
The ancient Celtic Druids were:
Ritual or sacrificial leaders.
Scholars and teachers;
Advisors to kings and other leaders;
Judges and legal historians;
Druids had finnal approval on all tribal death sentices.
Seers or Diviners;
Poets;
Magicians or "Wizards".
The ancient Celtic Druids did:
Druids underwent extensive training (a course of 20 years is mentioned)?
Druids used Stonehenge as a ritual sit?
Enjoyed great prestige in Celtic society.
Animal sacrifices
Human sacrifices
The ancient Celtic Druids had:
Leaders call Arch-Druid.
There was?
Three classes of Druids: Bards, [Ovat (vate)]
Social rules, body habits etc.
Dress Robes.
Robes, Colors, Ranks
Druidic Orders Rules.
No teaching can be written down.
Special ritual tools or devices:
Golen Sickel.
Snakes egg.
Writing:
Ogam.
Greek.
Latin.
A special fondness for:
Numbers:
Three
Five
Nine
Rituals and Habits.
Sacred objects, plants, and animals:
Druidic Beliefs:
Honored Goddesses or Gods
Birth, Death, Afterlife, Ghost, ect.
Druid names know in history.
Historic authors writing about Druids and hei MMSs
Historic tales of Druids and Celts:
Proto-Druids:
WERE:
the Coalmen of the Leys.
spiritual leaders of the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Britain, Ireland, and Gaul.
the builders of the monolithic stone circles like Stonehenge.
Happened or happening:
Starting in 1717, a number of individuals began to revive the philosophy of the ancient Druids.
Many of these Druid orders are still in existence.
Druidry (is their preferred term)
Druidism (is their preferred term)
Druidic Racial issues, ideas.
Ancient.
Modern.
Hereditary Druids
Reference list for ideas of Factoids-Belieftoids
1) What is a Druid?: Defining Our Terms
ANDREW (BEAR) CAMPBELL
