Posted on 12/21/2019 7:55:36 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
No one actually knows what the Druidic rites actually entailed! Except perhaps human sacrifice which might today be frowned upon. What little information we have comes from hostile (Greek & Roman) secondary & tertiary sources.
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“Except perhaps human sacrifice which might today be frowned upon.”
I have read that the human sacrifice part is way overdone.
How did I know about what these people look like sans checking the pics? I checked. Removed all superficial doubt.
I like that!
May I use it!
LOL! I love that response, too! From the movie, ‘Billy Madison’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c
What little we DO know about the Druids is apparently they practiced human sacrifice.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/3/druids-sacrifice-cannibalism/
I get the romanticism about Druids.
I also am a realist and the fact is these people existed in a time when superstitions abounded.
These modern day Druids would not even be recognized by ancient Druids and if you brought back the ancient Druids and taught them a thing or two I wonder if they themselves would not give up their superstitions and move forward with reality.
The ‘modern Druids’ are really not Druids at all.
In before the Spinal Tap.
Amen!
There are 2000 collective ‘mythologies’, of which your’s, though differently titled than mine, are part of. Marie Laveau, for all that she has been historic, was a staunch Catholic!
The image of the horrified Blutarsky when the keg & booze were dumped is now in my mind!
Attention All Druids: There will be a bingo game following the Wednesday night Oak Worship Service.
“May I use it!’’. Sure, go right ahead.
There may be many mythologies but there is only one God.
When I was out “Left” and visited Sequoia Nat’l Park, I got another of them “Nature feelings” and had an inkling of the spirituality of Native Americans.
Nothing wrong with appreciating what God has wrought, but I only worship the most ancient of the Gods - the one that existed before time...and when I’m out adoring Nature, I thank Him for His many gifts.
Nobody has ever said in writing anywhere, at any time in written history, either Occidental or Oriental, that “the other gods” have retired and gone to live in a retirement home with weather of their choosing!
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