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credoconsolans
September 19, 2008, 08:01 PM
Modern or neo-druids do not hold my interest, just like neo-pagans don't. Synthetic.
Sadly that's all that's left and the best place to find information. As far as I can remember reading, the Druids did not write down their beliefs/dogma/rituals, so all we have left is what the ancient Romans saw, experienced and interpreted before they wiped them all out and who knows if the ancient Romans got it right?
credoconsolans
September 19, 2008, 08:04 PM
"One moment in time" Snapshot of a cultural syncreticism?
Isn't the Neo-Pagan or the Traditionalists or the Reconstructivists
a snapshot way of doing it? Before the Patriarchical traditions there
could have been Mother Goddess cultures getting invaded by the
new faiths that mixed or took over.
Yep, but there's no way to know for certain.
Wars in the Bible describe that they killed all man and kept the womans
so that would most likely also have killed of most politically potent persons
who could keep the old traditions going. Despite this some traditions remained
of the old traditions. To care about Midsummer seems to be one such tradition.
Everyone in temperate regions care about Midsummer and Midwinter for obvious agricultural reasons.
To relate to Nature seems to be older than the monotheistic religions and traditions.
Yep.
To see agents behind natural phenomena seems very old.
So if one want to be really "reconstructive" or "authentic" would could sift out
or eliminate all that came later and only keep very old things.
Mother Earth would be such a symbol. Seeing each other as Brothers and Sisters
is another.
Assuming this last is something that would have been a 'natural' impulse, as opposed to seeing each other as competition - also a very 'natural' reaction.
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