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This great Celtic oath calls
the very elements to witness.
Celts held a
panentheistic or
primal holistic concept
of deity.
"Elements" are
powerful manifestations of gods, not to be trifled with.
This great Celtic oath is a most
solemn pledge to the elements to destroy those who do not keep their word and
repay their debts.
The state of the land is always
a reflection of the kingly rule.
Omens in the sky,
the soil no longer
growing crops, the
rains coming at the wrong times, unseasonable cold and hot waves,
all pointed to poor stewardship
on the part of the king who directed the activities of the people.
Or did
these omens point to bad advice ?
"Good is his
reign. Since he assumed the kingship, no cloud has veiled the sun for the space
of a day from the middle of spring to the middle of autumn. Not a dewdrop has
fallen from grass till midday."
The word druid
(Irish drui, Welsh derwydd) is derived from the Sanskrit: veda -
to see or know, combined with the word for oak: Gaulish dervo, Irish
dour, Welsh derw.
The words for wood and wisdom are very
close: Irish fid and fios mean tree and knowledge; Welsh
gwydd and gwyddon mean tree and
knowledgeable.
This
close connection suggests a druid is 'a knower of the tree' or 'tree-sage',
give a closer feel of what the druid really was -
a seer of great
knowledge, whose closeness to the natural world put him or her in the
position as a Walker
of the Thinspace between the
collective
subconscious of mankind and
the unseen collective consciousness of
Nature.
The druids, sons and
daughters of the Oak, were distinct by reason of the
gift of reading
natural patterns.
Male and female druids were gifted people who
exhibited excellence in various arts (talents or skills) while
maintaining shamanic roles.
Druids were the repositories of
Oral Tradition
wisdom/knowledge.
Druids, who
searched for deeper
understanding in the patterns revealed throughout Nature, used that
wisdom/knowledge to note the right time for spring sowing, autumn harvest or
the prognosis of an
injured limb.
Some druids specialized in
Branches of Nature,
becoming seers or
fáithi,
teachers,
poets,
satirists and
battle strategists as
well as advisers to
kings.
A druid is a person with natural wisdom whose advice is
sought on matters of daily life; one who perhaps also
practices a craft;
one who married and had a family;
one who brought people
together for common celebrations.
In the druid we see the earliest
form of tribal
leadership - which was spiritual
rather than temporal.
Distinctions between king and druid are
blurred in Celtic mythology.
Although the king is the assumed leader,
the druid rules through omen.
Rome banned the Druidic arts after
sacking Anglesey in AD 64.
The
function of the seer or fáithi, to divine the course of human
affairs through a
close observation of human nature, is still associated with people of
Celtic extraction, many of whom possess 'the second sight'.
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