Lebor Druidic's Moral Druidic

Unless one is inhuman or born a Psychopath, a Mirror for Princes seems like it should not be needed. Yet so many seem to want and yes need one.

So please enjoy the Redes Laws and Moral guides so many of Pagan ways have  in the past used or do use today.  TDK

The Druid's Ley Way Codes Morals and Virtues series:

The Druid's Rede

This is a Rede of of our Druidism / Druidry's faith and worship and Rule of SummerLands Druid Oak and Ley. 

TDK / The Druid King, Druidic (Keeper/Host Druii) of "How to be a Druid Virtual Church and Grove"


The Druid's Rede

We are Druids.

We are the caretakers of the Earth.

We feed the hungry, heal the sick or injured and aid the despondent.

Whether Human,  Animal, Insect, Reptile, Bird, Fish or Plant.

This is the Mandate, our purpose.

We are the nexus of all living and non-living beings.

By the will of the Earth we exist.

By our will the Earth flourishes.


by Druidess Janice Scott-Reeder King  Druidic of  "How to be a Druid Virtual Church and Grove" April 20,2015http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-druids-rede.html

The Ten plus Four Noble Virtues of the Druid GodsThe Druid's Ley Way Codes Morals and Virtues series:

As proclaimed by our Ancient Truatha De Danann.

The Ten.

1) Order

2) Learning

3)Wisdom

4) Skill

5) Technology

6) Industry

7) Strength

8) Courage

9) Productivity

10) Fertility

And the Four.

1) Light

2) Warmth

3) Progress

4) Beauty


May they also be yours!

Moon Rising

TDK / The Druid King
http://howtobeadruid.blogspot.com/2014/07/dlw-cmvs-001-ten-plus-four-noble.html

DLW-CMVs-002 The Ten plus Four Ignoble Virtues of the Drui Gods Enemy the Fomors or Giants


As proclaimed by our Ancient Truatha De Danann.

It is interesting how the Giants see to be the enemies of the Gods in more than one Pantheon.



The Ten.

1) Stinginess

2) Oppression

3) Rudeness

4) Cowardice

5) Ignorance

6) Vulgarity

7) Poverity

8) Crudity

9) Darkness

10) Stagnation

And the Four.

1) Ugliness

2) Brutality

3) Sickness

4) Disorder


My have they reincarnated as the GOP and Tea Baggers of America???

Moon Rising

TDK / The Druid King

http://howtobeadruid.blogspot.com/2014/07/dlw-cmvs-002-ten-plus-four-ignoble.html

The Nine Noble Virtues:
http://hoodoo-vodou-druido-grove.blogspot.com/2014/08/nine-noble-virtues-of-asatru.html   

The Æsirian Code of Nine
http://holynationofodin.org/education/codeof9.html


14 Codes of the Aryan Ethic
http://holynationofodin.org/education/14codes.html


The Rede of Honor for Odinism 
http://holynationofodin.org/education/redeofhonor.html


The Instructions of King Cormac http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/cormac3.html


Mirrors for princes
As there were so many Mirrors for Princes, I leave it to the reader to pick which ones are of value to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrors_for_princes

THE COLLOQUY OF THE TWO SAGES a most important work.
http://thedruidpath.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-colloquy-of-two-sages.html

DLW resources Old Irish Celtic Chakra System
http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2014/07/old-irish-celtic-chakra-system.html 

Symbols of Druid Identity and their History

(A work in progress)

While there are many symbols sacred to many cultures and toutas in our Sinnsreachd and of possible amulet or use in Draíocht . I will be trying to keep adding to this blog  so that it becomes a chapter in Lebor Druidic.

Ref.http://hoodoo-vodou-druido-grove.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-irish-terms-i-have-used.html

I will use some from dear departed Isaac Bonewits web site to start off.

http://www.neopagan.net/DruidSymbols.html

And then as time allows add historic links to their use if I can find them.



A::

Acorn:

Adder:

Anguinum; glain y nidir; mân macal

The Druid's Egg (also “glain,” “serpent's egg,” or “snake stone”)

anguinum > Ref. > Pliny's Natural History, XXIX.52.:

Awen:

by Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) 1747-1826 From the Lebors "Barddas  1862 and 1874"

Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) 1747-1826
 Much could be said here but that is not our purpose now.




The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids places the Awen inside a set of three circles (right), representing Iolo’s three “stages of existence.” Again influence from the "Barddas Lebors"

B::Bell Branch
Lets not forget the Bard's Bell Branch or that of the Moot's too.

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Cauldrons:"The Cauldron of Poesy" Here we have both internal Cauldrons and again the number three.
http://www.ancientmusic.co.uk/files/cauldron_of_poesy.pdf
Celtic knots: are a variety of knots and stylizedgraphical representations of knots used for decoration, used extensively in the Celtic style of Insular art. These knots are most known for their adaptation for use in the ornamentation of Christian monuments and manuscripts, such as the 8th-century St. Teilo Gospels, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Most are endless knots, and many are varieties of basket weave knots.

Almost all of the folios of the Book of Kells contain small illuminations like this decorated initial.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_knot)

Stone Celtic crosses, such as this, are a major source of knowledge regarding Celtic knot design.

D::

The Druid Sigils

Often used by the "RDNA Reformed Druids North America"

ADF "Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship" Sigal

Merlins-Sigil

Keltria, a Neopagan Druid organization that branched off from ADF, has kept the Druid Sigil as a wreath and added the Awen in the cente.

E::

Egg:
Anguinum; glain y nidir; mân macal

The Druid's Egg (also “glain,” “serpent's egg,” or “snake stone”)

anguinum > Ref. > Pliny's Natural History, XXIX.52.:

 
F::

Foot:

The Druids Foot or Drudden Fuss

A serpentine stone with a hole in it is also called a Druid's Foot.

Also in Hanover: A church with a pentagram

Some also call a Pentacle a Druid's Foot.

Ref. see: Penta Pentacle Pentagram
http://hoodoo-vodou-druidogrove.blogspot.com/2014/05/penta-pentacle-pentagram.html
Ref. Drudden Fuss:

A dissertation upon the Druids

by M. Esaias Pufendorff, of Chemnitz. Translated from the Latin by Edmund Goldsmid 

Publication Date: 1650; this translation published in 1886.

H::

Hazel Nuts and Trees:Celtic Irish myth of the Well of Segais (Well of Wisdom), a well or pool surrounded by nine hazel trees. These hazel trees dropped their nuts into the water and the water sustained the trees. In turn the Salmon of Knowledge ate the nuts that fell into the water,and to eat the salmon meant that the person was granted knowledge and poetic inspiration.  

O::

Oak Trees:

P::

Pine-tree : symbolic of responsibility, valour, protection of the tribe and the social order.

S::

Salmon:Bradán Feasa > Irish The Salmon of Knowledge.
Celtic Irish myth of the Well of Segais (Well of Wisdom), a well or pool surrounded by nine hazel trees.
These hazel trees dropped their nuts into the water and the water sustained the trees.
In turn the Salmon of Knowledge ate the nuts that fell into the water,and to eat the salmon
meant that the person was granted knowledge and poetic inspiration.  

Snakes:

There are many references to Snakes and old Celtic Gods and Goddesses, also Druids having a special relationship with them. I will only go into one here that I often use. As it seems many Neo Druids still have the Christian phobia of snakes even as they walk the Druid's Woods.

In a poem of Taliessin, translated by Davies, in his Appendix No. 6, is the following enumeration of a Druid's

"I am a Druid; I am an architect; I am a prophet; I am a serpent" (Gnadr).From the word "Gnadr" is derived "adder," the name of a species of snake. Gnadr was probably pronounced like "adder" with a nasal aspirate.

“Ophiolatreia” is a interesting read and has a section on Druids and their special relationships to snakes.

“Ophiolatreia”The Rites and mysteries connected with the origin, rise, and development of serpent worship in various parts of the world, enriched with interesting traditions, and a full description of the celebrated serpent mounds & temples, the whole forming an exposition of one of the phases of phallic, or sex worship.|By (Anonymous) [1889]

!http://archive.org/details/ophiolatreiaacco00nppr

Staff and Stang:

Distaff > Weaver’s distaff.
 Stang is an Old English term for a distaff which in its earliest form was simply a forked tree branch with two or more tines. A distaff was a tool for handspinning used every day by women for at least 2000 years before it went out of fashion with the invention of the spinning wheel and its introduction to Europe in the early 13th century and then mechanical wheels during the industrial revolution. Raw carded fibre is tied to the top of the distaff which was usually taller than the spinner and the fibre was continuously pulled, twisted and spun onto a spindle.
“The so-called ‘sacred object’ held in such reverence by some witches was in fact a weaver’s distaff–and could easily be mistaken for a phallic symbol. The weaver’s distaff, bound with reeds or straw, appears frequently in rural carvings and elsewhere. It again has reference to the Craft and supreme Deity. It would appear that the witches were not in the least influenced by Freudian concepts.”

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T::

The Triskellions: (tris·kel·i·on trīˈskelēən,tri-) a noun a Celtic symbol consisting of three legs or lines radiating from a center.
We start with one the Cosmic Salamander Inc. is bringing back into public use.
Here the triple spiral or triskele is a Celtic and pre-Celtic symbol found on a number of Irish Megalithicand Neolithic sites, most notably inside theNewgrange passage tomb, on the entrance stone, and on some of the curbstones surrounding the mound. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_spiral)

So now we have some historic roots.
Triple spiral visible on entrance stone at Newgrange.



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Familiar as an ancient symbol of Sicily, the symbol dates back to when Sicily was part of Magna Graecia, the colonial extension of Greece beyond the Aegean.[8] Pliny the Elder attributes the origin of the triskelion of Sicily to the triangular form of the island, the ancient Trinacria (from the Greek tri- (three) and akra (end, limb)), which consists of three large capes equidistant from each other, pointing in their respective directions, the names of which were Pelorus, Pachynus, and Lilybæum.

The Celtic symbol of three conjoined spirals may have had triple significance similar to the imagery that lies behind the triskelion. The triple spiral motif is a Neolithic symbol in Western Europe. It is considered a Celtic symbol but is in fact a pre-Celtic symbol.[9] It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange, which was built around 3200 BC,[6] predating the Celtic arrival in Ireland but has long since been incorporated into Celtic culture.

Rhine Celts, electrum 'regenboogschoteltje' or rainbow cup with triskele


Triskel modelled after those of the Amfreville Gaulish helmet.
It appears as a heraldic emblem on warriors' shields depicted on Greek pottery.

Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age use in EuropeThe triskelion symbol appears in many early cultures, the first in Malta (4400–3600 BC) and in the astronomical calendar at the famous megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland built around 3200 BC,[6] Mycenaean vessels, on coinage in Lycia, and on staters of Pamphylia (at Aspendos, 370–333 BC) and Pisidia.

Ancient Greek beaked jug decorated with triple spirals

Auspicious carved stone from the hill-fort of Santa Tegra (A Guarda, Galicia)

A modern labeling mark (Blessed by Druids)

According to Ellen Evert Hopman of the Order of the Whiteoak (Ord Na Darach Gile), “this symbol, designed by

J. Craig Melia, is meant to function as a Druidic equivalent to the Kosher marks used in Judaism

W::

Well:Celtic Irish myth of the Well of Segais (Well of Wisdom), a well or pool surrounded by nine hazel trees.

The Numbers:

1::

2::

3::

While Three was the magic number of binding and establishing, nine symbolized completeness and wholeness.

Ref 09"The Cauldron of Poesy" Here we have both internal Cauldrons and again the number three.
http://www.ancientmusic.co.uk/files/cauldron_of_poesy.pdf

4::
Now four is interesting and has many possibilities. In the Four Treasures we see four items and four lost cities too. One could see many ways to use these.

Four magickal treasures from the four great ancient cities of the DTT xxxxx:

The Stone of Fal, from Falias;
The Spear of Lugh, from Gorias;
The Sword of Nuada, from Findias;

The Cauldron of the Dagda, from Murias.

5::

The Fairy count by five:

  While the old man smiled, and Gwyn renewed his vow, the new wife began to count by fives--one, two, three, four, five.
( http://www.zeluna.net/welsh-fairytales-theladyofthelake.html)

Mythological figures wore five-fold cloaks:

Some also call a Pentacle a Druid's Foot.

See Penta Pentacle Pentagram, for a deeper look at the Fives.
http://hoodoo-vodou-druidogrove.blogspot.com/2014/05/penta-pentacle-pentagram.html

6::

7::

8::

9::
Nine : while Three was the magic number of binding and establishing, nine symbolized completeness and wholeness.Celtic Irish myth of the Well of Segais (Well of Wisdom), a well or pool surrounded by nine hazel trees.

So do any or all of these symbols fit one Druidry, where, how and why?
Each of us must answer that for our selves or accept what ever Order if any we follows ideas.



Other Links, may be of value or not, you be the judge:


http://www.whats-your-sign.com/five-fold-celtic-meanings.html

http://www.symbolism.co/celtic_symbols.html

Moon Rising

TDK / The Druid King

Fola Draíocht

 Blood  Magic / Fola Draíocht

A project to trace use of Blood in Drudic Celtic and Nordic Religions and or Magick.

Meso-Freemasonry Lodges and Meso-Druid Orders

A small look at their shared beliefs.

We start with what we find at the Masonic Library.

http://masoniclibrary.com

And note it has three Celtic Druid books in in.

Freemasonry and the Druids By W. Winwood Reade
A most reveling little book. 

http://masoniclibrary.com/books/Freemasonry%20and%20The%20Druids%20-%20W%20Winwood%20Reade.pdf

The Religion of the Ancient Celts Author: J. A. MacCulloch 1911 (pdf)
http://www.ganino.com/games/Magick/The%20Religion%20of%20the%20Ancient%20Celts.pdf
Text version for analysis and notes:http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14672/pg14672.txt

Celtic Religion in pre-Christian times  by Professor Anwyl 1906 

http://masoniclibrary.com/books/Celtic%20Religion%20-%20E%20Anwyl.pdf

Then we take a look at what is in their on site Encyclopedia:

http://masonicencyclopedia.com/?r=&ct=x

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DRUIDICAL MYSTERIESThe Druids were a sacred order of priests who existed in Britain and Gaul, but whose mystical rites were practiced in most perfection in the former country, where the isle of Anglesea was considered as their principal seat. Godfrey Higgins thinks that they were also found in Germany, but against this opinion we have the positive statement of Caesar.
The meanings given to the word have been very numerous, and most of them wholly untenable. The Romans, seeing that they worshiped in groves of oak, because that tree was peculiarly sacred among them, derived their name from the Greek word, apes, drus thus absurdly seeking the etymology of a word of an older language in one comparatively modern. Their derivation would have been more reasonable had they known that in Sanskrit druma is an oak, from dru, meaning wood. It has also been traced to the Hebrew with equal incorrectness, for the Druids were not of the Semitic race. Its derivation is rather to be sought in the Celtic language. The Gaelic word Druiah signifies a holy or wise man; in a bad sense a magician; and this we may readily trace to the Aryan druh, applied to the spirit of night or darkness, whence we have the Zend dru, a magician. Druidism was a mystical profession, and in the olden time mystery and magic were always confounded. Charles Vallencey (Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, iii 503) says: "Walsh, Drud, a Druid, that is the absolver or remitter of sins; so the Irish Drui, a Druid, most certainly is from the Persic duru, meaning a good and holy man"; and Ousely (Collectanea Oriental iv, 302) adds to this the Arabic dari, which means a wise man. Bosworth (Anglo-Saxon Dictionary) gives dry, pronounced dru, as the Anglo-Saxon for a magician, sorcerer, druid. Probably with the old Celts the Druids occupied the same place as the Magi did with the old Persians. Druidism was divided into three orders or Degrees, which were, beginning with the lowest the Bards, the Prophets, and the Druids. Godfrey Higgins thinks that the prophets were the lowest order, but he admits that it is not generally allowed. The constitution of the Order was in many respects like that of the Freemasons. In every country there was an Arch-Druid in whom all authority was placed. In Britain it is said that there were under him three arch-flamens or priests, and twenty-five flamens. There was an annual assembly for the administration of justice and the making of laws, and, besides, four quarterly meetings, which took place on the days when the sun reached his equinoctial and solstitial points. The latter two would very nearly correspond at this time with the festivals of Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist. It was not lawful to commit their ceremonies or doctrines to writing, and Caesar says (Commentarii de bello Gallico vi, 14) that they used the Greek letters, which was, of course, as a cipher; but Godfrey Higgins (page 90) says that one of the Irish Ogum alphabets, which Toland calls secret writing, "was the original, sacred, and secret character of the Druids."
The places of worship, which were also places of initiation, were of various forms: circular, because a circle was an emblem of the universe; or oval, in allusion to the mundane egg, from which, according to the Egyptians, our first parents issued; or serpentine, because a serpent was a symbol of Hu, the druidical Noah; or winged, to represent the motion of the Divine Spirit; or cruciform, because a cross was the emblem of regeneration.
Their only covering was the clouded canopy, because they deemed it absurd to confine the Omnipotent beneath a roof; and they were constructed of embankments of earth, and of unhewn stones, unpolluted with a metal tool. Nor was anyone permitted to enter their sacred retreats, unless he bore a chain.
The ceremony of initiation into the Druidical Mysteries required much preliminary mental preparation and physical purification. The aspirant was clothed with the three sacred colors, white, blue, and green; white as the symbol of Light, blue of Truth, and green of Hope. When the rites of initiation were passed, the tri-colored robe was changed for one of green; in the Second Degree, the candidate was clothed in blue; and having surmounted all the dangers of the Third, and arrived at the summit of perfection, he received the red tiara and flowing mantle of purest white. The ceremonies were numerous, the physical proofs painful, and the mental trials appalling. They commenced in the First Degree, with placing the aspirant in the pastes, bed or coffin, where his symbolical death was represented, and they terminated in the Third, by his regeneration or restoration to life from the womb of the giantess Ceridwin, and the committal of the body of the newly born to the waves in a small boat, symbolical of the ark. The result was, generally, that he succeeded in reaching the safe landing-place, but if his arm was weak, or his heart failed, death was the almost inevitable consequence. If he refused the trial through timidity, he was contemptuously rejected, and declared forever ineligible to participate in the sacred rites. But if he undertook it and succeeded, he was joyously invested with all the privileges of Druidism. The doctrines of the Druids were the same as those entertained by Pythagoras. They taught the existence of one Supreme Being; a future state of rewards and punishment; the immortality of the soul, and a metempsychosis; and the object of their mystic rites was to communicate these doctrines in symbolic language, an object and a method common alike to Druidism, to the Ancient Mysteries and to Modern Freemasonry (see also Druidism, Dudley Wright, London, 1924, containing a bibliography of the subject).<<>>EAGLE

The eagle, as a symbol, is of great antiquity. In Egypt, Greece, and Persia, this bird was sacred to the sun. Among the Pagans it was an emblem of Jupiter, and with the Druids it was a symbol of their supreme god. In the Scriptures, a distinguished reference is in many instances made to the eagle; especially do we find Moses (Exodus xix, 4) representing Jehovah as saying, in allusion to the belief that this bird assists its feeble young in their flight by bearing them upon its own pinions, "Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." Not less elevated was the symbolism of the eagle among the Pagans. Thus, Cicero, speaking of the myth of Ganymede carried up to Jove on an eagle's back, says that it teaches us that the truly wise, irradiated by the shining light of virtue, become more and more like God, until by wisdom they are borne aloft and soar to Him. The heralds explain the eagle as signifying the same thing among birds as the lion does among quadrupeds. It is, they say, the most swift, strong, laborious, generous, and bold of all birds, and for this reason it has been made, both by ancients and moderns, the symbol of majesty. In the jewel of the Rose Croix Degree is found an eagle displayed at the foot of the cross; and it is there very appropriately selected as a symbol of Christ, in His Divine character, bearing the children of His adoption on His wings, teaching them with unequaled love and tenderness to poise their unfledged wings and soar from the dull corruption's of earth to a higher and holier sphere. Thus the eagle in the jewel of that Degree is significantly represented with wings displayed as if in flight. <<We can see that the Masons seem to feel a great kinship to the ancient Druids. And where is far more than just a Social club in the Temples.