This thread is for the discussion of Celtic Druidry. Please refrain from the following:
>Referring to yourself as pagan
>Dualistic thinking
>Spreading misinformation
>Claiming to have "esoteric" knowledge
People who should not post here:
>Wiccucks
>(((eclectic))) "pagans"
>Asatru LARPers
>Kabballistic Jew puppets
>Hermeticucks
>Anyone who draws their beliefs directly from biblical or gnostic ideologies
Recommended Reading List:
>A Brief History of the Druids, by Peter Berrisford Ellis
>The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales, by John T. Koch (Editor)
>In Search of the Indo-Europeans, by J.P. Mallory (essential text book study)
>The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future, by
Cynthia Eller
>Travels Through Middle Earth, by Alaric Albertsson (English)
>The Mabinogi, and Other Medieval Welsh Tales, by Patrick K. Ford (Welsh)
>The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge, by Thomas Kinsella, Trans. (essential Ulster cycle reading. Irish)
>Druids, by Morgan Llywelyn (for fun)
Examples of what to discuss:
>Herbalism
>Ritual order
>Divination techniques
>How the jews are controlling polytheism by "muddying the waters"
>And so forth.
Please remember it is your sacred duty to educate yourself in the ways of diplomacy, history, survival, ritual, botany, etc.
If you are curious about Druidry, please check out these sites:
https://www.adf.org (a more scholarly Druid organization)
http://www.druidry.org (OBOD main website. A less scholarly organization. boarderline LARPing)