The Traditional Laws, Customs, and Wisdoms of The Pre-Christian Celtic People Of What Is Now Known As Scotland, Wales, And Ireland
Volume 1 by John F. Wright Adopted as the Wisdom and Laws the Grove of Danu, Pagan Church of Alberta
"Those who study the myriad peoples known collectively as the Celts, must at sometime recognize the importance that the number '3' held for them. From the most mundane to the most arcane, the significance of there being three parts cannot be missed. Even the laws and wisdom's of Celtic peoples were expressed in a tripartite form. This form of verse is called triadic, a verse of this form is known as a Triad. It may have been only a literary convention; or, as is believed by this author, it may belie another form of logic, trinary logic. I shall save that for later.
The following is a body of traditional laws, customs, and wisdoms held by our Celtic ancestors. They come from both the Gael and the Cymry, though the Gaelic has been especially searched for. A great many of these verses were compiled by W. Faraday in the book titled DRUIDIC TRIADS-The Wisdom of the Cymry , published by Sure Fire Press; these were however in their Christianized form. To those that were compiled in that book , many , many more have been added. These others come from a variety of places. Some of them are known works of great antiquity , such as the Welsh Triads ; another set came from a book on Iris poetry, yet another set came from the College of the Welsh Bards1 , a few were reconstructed from the writings of researchers2.
The purpose of this work is to re-establish a comprehensive body of the verses called Triads. Furthermore, it is intended to provide a medium through which to work out an accurate methodology for taking the triads back into relaying the worldviews and way of our pre-Christian forebearers. Lastly it is to provide a means of transmitting these verses, which contain the wisdom of millennia of human experience, to future generations of Gael. "
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