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An Alphabet of Druidry: D

Posted in Druidry, tagged , , on November 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

D is for Druid. The Druids were the priestly and intellectual class of the Celtic peoples in the ancient world, equivalent to the Brahmins of India and to the flamens of ancient Roman religion.  They were priests, sacrificers, poets, diviners, lawyers, judges, astrologer/astronomers, experts in every theoretical discipline.  While they may have been a kind [...]

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An Alphabet of Druidry: C

Posted in Druidry, Writers and Writing, tagged , , , , , on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

C is for Culhwch. “Culhwch and Olwen” is one of the earliest stories that concerns King Arthur, and may be the earliest which is plainly story and not history. Culhwch is a young hero whose mother gave birth to him prematurely when frightened by pigs; his name is said to mean “pig run”. [...]

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An Alphabet of Druidry: B

Posted in Druidry, memes, tagged , , , on November 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

B is for Bear. The bear is the guardian of the North, the sleepy cave-dweller whose image in the sky dances round the Pole Star.  There is some archaeological evidence that the earliest religion of humankind may have been the worship of the bear by Neanderthals living near the Arctic Circle, which evidence no doubt [...]

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An Alphabet of Druidry

Posted in Druidry, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This idea came to me from a popular meme on Livejournal: The reader offers the journaller a letter of the alphabet and accepts one in return.  Both of them write about five topics which the given letter suggests to them.
Five is not a Druidic number, so I shall endeavour to write about three topics for [...]

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