05.03.07
the Celts and the Indo-Europeans
In my new study of Druidry, I have been struck by the “Indo-European” theory. Basically, the theory is this: as far back as we can see, on the fringes of prehistoric peoples, many of the earliest cultures we know likely come from the same proto-culture, called the Indo-European culture.
One example, and the one that is most resonant with me at the moment, is that the Celtic culture and the Hindu culture both contain the same 4 castes in their culture: Clergy, Warriors, Producers, and common Laborers. There are many other similarities.
The theory goes that the Druids were the intelligentsia of Celtic culture: the storytellers, the bards, the philosophers, the historians, the priests, the shamans, the judges, the scholars. They fulfilled the Clergy caste, much in the same way as the brahmins of India.