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Post by Lady Anastasia on Mar 29, 2007 17:33:13 GMT -5
This is probly one of the best discussions that I have seen in forever... I really wanted to share it with everyone else... This is a link to NOD... I'm not sure if you can read it without being registered... But, I'm telling you, this is sooo worth the time to register.... www.druidcircle.org/forum/index.php?topic=3395.0 |
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Post by Senbecc on Mar 29, 2007 22:40:02 GMT -5
This is probly one of the best discussions that I have seen in forever... I really wanted to share it with everyone else... This is a link to NOD... I'm not sure if you can read it without being registered... But, I'm telling you, this is sooo worth the time to register.... www.druidcircle.org/forum/index.php?topic=3395.0Well NOD has disabled registration, but I think we could get a good discussion going here too....How many people feel that Druidry is Pre-Celtic? especially seening as how some Celtic cultures (like modern day Turkey for example) didn't have Druids at all? |
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Post by ihrian on Mar 30, 2007 2:53:14 GMT -5
im a member here!!! i just forgot about it!! wow...now i must go read
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Post by ihrian on Mar 30, 2007 2:54:40 GMT -5
hang on...no i did not forget about it..gosh erin...my computer crashed so i couldnt start the course i wanted to do...i think that was this place..
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Post by ihrian on Mar 30, 2007 3:33:25 GMT -5
wow.... ok..so..oh dear...you know what? ive never come across pre celtic...its always pre christian...then again, i havnt done much reading lately...lol and everywhere i look its 'celtic druids' and 'celtic druidism'.. 'we do know that the megalithic structures were constructed long before the first reports about the Druids ever came to public attention.' i read on the other site, the person who said that it was widely accepted that the druids built stonehenge...i have to say i dont agree. i know this has little to do with the question, but im saying it anyway. i recently did an assignment/research tasky thing for ancient history at school, on which i did newgrange. on one of the sites i read it was said that although it has been believed that the celts were responsible for such structures, the artwork found on the stones which we see as 'celtic' was carved about 500 years before the celts arrived in ireland...but then, if you wanted to say that in 'pre celtic' ireland there were druids, then perhaps it was the druids, and the artwrork is...druidic and not celtic... celts, celts...who were they?if the druids were celts, then really, in saying there were pre celtic druids..how do we say that? hmmm...another thought...the celts existed before they arrived in britain...so were there druids in ireland before the celts arrived there? oh dear...see? ireland again...i have a one track mind...which other celtic cultures had druids, or similar people?  tell me if anyone understood any of that...ive just read back...oh well.. |
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Post by Senbecc on Mar 30, 2007 8:42:23 GMT -5
wow.... ok..so..oh dear...you know what? ive never come across pre celtic...its always pre christian...then again, i havnt done much reading lately...lol and everywhere i look its 'celtic druids' and 'celtic druidism'.. 'we do know that the megalithic structures were constructed long before the first reports about the Druids ever came to public attention.' i read on the other site, the person who said that it was widely accepted that the druids built stonehenge...i have to say i dont agree. i know this has little to do with the question, but im saying it anyway. i recently did an assignment/research tasky thing for ancient history at school, on which i did newgrange. on one of the sites i read it was said that although it has been believed that the celts were responsible for such structures, the artwork found on the stones which we see as 'celtic' was carved about 500 years before the celts arrived in ireland...but then, if you wanted to say that in 'pre celtic' ireland there were druids, then perhaps it was the druids, and the artwrork is...druidic and not celtic... celts, celts...who were they?if the druids were celts, then really, in saying there were pre celtic druids..how do we say that? hmmm...another thought...the celts existed before they arrived in britain...so were there druids in ireland before the celts arrived there? oh dear...see? ireland again...i have a one track mind...which other celtic cultures had druids, or similar people? tell me if anyone understood any of that...ive just read back...oh well.. I don't know if I'll have an opportunity to address all of your questions right now, but I will try to address a few of the for you Erin....Lets see, first and fore most were the Druids pre-Celtic? Well that gets to be shaky ground. We do know that in Ireland that the son's of Mildh came long after the other "invaders" and the texts give us all sorts of origins for them and their Druids...However the texts also give druidic references to peoples and objects who clearly were not meant to be druids, and a study of archaeological evidence in conjunction with literary work shows that it is quite possible that the "invaders" were actually immigrants of more ancient Celtic countries. |
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Post by Lady Anastasia on Mar 30, 2007 14:27:57 GMT -5
I think that you should try registering again... See if you can get over there and read the discussion...
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