The Druids, May 22, 2014
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madlyn fafard (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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I love history and the mysteries of history. The mysterious Druids who are alive in the folklore of Western Europe came into reality suddenly, as I spent a week or two in their world,engrossed in this book. Did the Roman conquerors try to paint the Celts and Druids as barbarians, when in truth they had a high civilization? Scholars still debate what is the truth, since the written records, are sparse. The Celts/ Druids memorized their learning over a period of 20 years and a life time. So the discovery of evidence of their civilization is often 5 centuries or more too old to really know the truth!
According to this book, the Druids put a religious prohibition on committing any knowledge to writing, since they did not want it to fall into the wrong hands.The author suggests Druid ties in music and in parellel caste to Indian society and the Brahmins of the Hindu culture. Kings could be Druids, but not all Kings were Druids.
As a result of the ban on writing down knowledge, when the Celtic beliefs were overcome by Christianity there was an outpouring of literature about the Celts ,(the hidden people). Irish became the third written European language. Our author recounts the many hospitals that grew up in Ireland, as a result of the repository of knowledge that had been recounted and written down by people wanting to share the ancient knowledge of the Druids. He even suggests an area of study made possible thru a treasure trove of information in the British Museum on medicine. Perhaps even some cures long forgotten might be found in this repository. Just the right bait for a doctoral student, or author?
The intellectual life of Europe, its development and its mystery are laid out for you to think about as you read, what we had little knowledge of in the past. This ties in with the other book I was reading at the same timeThe Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts I longed for shared conversation, with other readers, but alas, if you are reading this, there are few of us, aren't there?
According to this book, the Druids put a religious prohibition on committing any knowledge to writing, since they did not want it to fall into the wrong hands.The author suggests Druid ties in music and in parellel caste to Indian society and the Brahmins of the Hindu culture. Kings could be Druids, but not all Kings were Druids.
As a result of the ban on writing down knowledge, when the Celtic beliefs were overcome by Christianity there was an outpouring of literature about the Celts ,(the hidden people). Irish became the third written European language. Our author recounts the many hospitals that grew up in Ireland, as a result of the repository of knowledge that had been recounted and written down by people wanting to share the ancient knowledge of the Druids. He even suggests an area of study made possible thru a treasure trove of information in the British Museum on medicine. Perhaps even some cures long forgotten might be found in this repository. Just the right bait for a doctoral student, or author?
The intellectual life of Europe, its development and its mystery are laid out for you to think about as you read, what we had little knowledge of in the past. This ties in with the other book I was reading at the same timeThe Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts I longed for shared conversation, with other readers, but alas, if you are reading this, there are few of us, aren't there?
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