05.11.07
Posted in Bardic Arts, Paleopagan Druidry at 10:28 pm by JWL
I started writing Ogham script today with my daughter. She loves secret codes, and handed her an Ogham/English key and a short message (a sentence or two) on an index card. She returned with her own Ogham script on a card within a few minutes, so tonight I wrote out two pages, in Ogham, describing some basic facts about Ogham and about Druidry in general.
Too much fun. Like any language, though, it is slow going at first. And I find slowing down my writing to be frustrating, though this is still on the fun side of tedious rather than on the frustrating side.
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05.03.07
Posted in Paleopagan Druidry at 11:15 am by JWL
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.
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