Who Are The Druids Druids were the height of the Celtic, European, and perhaps even philosophical world around them. Druids in history were responsible for teaching some of the greatest minds of their times. Plato himself was taught by a Druid mentor named Abaris. Socrates and Aristotle regularly invited Druid people of learning to their university. Druids were the voice of reason and enlightenment in a land that did not know a written language and was by many standards barbaric. Life was hard and the consequences of ones actions often received hard judgment and punishment. Thus the Druids were the voice of law and sometimes were the final authority between life and death. They were the reason why most of the Celtic world was very nearly able to stand up to the Roman Empire when Caesar invaded the land. What tore them apart was time, there wasn't enough time for the Druids to join the forces of all the Celtic tribes together. This was possibly the greatest project of the ancient world. But through politics, negotiations and hard work, they had started to unite the peoples of the Isle. Their failure isn't due to their lack of skill or knowledge, but merely running out of time due to the invasions of their land. The Druids were the Guardians of the vaults of knowledge of the Past, Present, and Future. They and their descendants, the Filidh, kept the Ancients alive in their songs and poems. As part of their process to unite the tribes, they began to introduce 'Major Deities' amongst the Celts, Esus, Taranis, and Teutates. Of the 400 deities that the Celts worshiped there were about 30 that everyone seemed to pay attention to no matter what. The interesting thing is that they did not have them originally. Each tribe had a certain deity that would protect them, and only them. The Druids had the awesome responsibility of being everything to the Celtic peoples and they failed the Celts in the end. They failed because the independence of the tribes would not allow them to cooperate fully. The Romans and then the Christians were able to insert themselves between first one set of tribes and then another. In the end, there were no tribes left. The Germanic and the Saxon tribes overran every one of the bastions of Celtic society. In the end of times; the last Druids and the Witches may have worked together to preserve what little remained of Celtic culture. In some written texts, Morgana is referred to as "Morgana le Fay- Queen of Witches". If this is an accurate label, there is just the possibility that the Druids did just that. If the story of the last days of Merlin are even partially true, he taught the first of a new breed of Witches in the 5th century C.E. This is potentially the biggest reason, the Druids and Witches have been so closely associated for centuries. found on the pagan path |
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