A complete and full answer to this question is beyond the scope of this fact sheet, but perhaps an outline of some of the important points will suffice. The poetic tradition in Druidism comes from the method the Celts used to trace their lineage and history. Written records were distrusted for the most part, and though a runic writing system called Ogham did exist, (see Ogham #12) it wasn't used for much beyond burial monuments and landmarks.

The most honest answer to this question is "nobody really knows." According to the very sparse surviving sources, they were a sacred caste among the Celtic tribes of Britain, Ireland, and Gaul (modern France) in ancient times. Some sources call them philosophers, others call them wizards; nobody actually calls them priests, though this is the most popular interpretation among scholars nowadays.

No, and we have our doubts about any group that claims a direct connection to the original Druids; the evidence simply doesn't support such claims. The AODA was originally chartered in 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts, as the American branch of the Ancient and Archaeological Order of Druids, which was founded in 1874 in London by Robert Wentworth Little.

This depends on the nation you look at. Ireland had different gods than Wales, who had further different gods than Gaul. Another point to consider is not only were gods known by different names, but many of the names were deemed too holy to pronounce aloud. (thus the common oath: "I swear by the god my tribe swears by".) The Tuatha de Danann (Tribe of the Goddess Danu) was the name of the Irish pantheon, for the Gods were descended from Her.

The ancient Egyptians included images of people making and eating food in their art, described food in their texts, and even buried items of food in tombs with the deceased. Thus we have a fairly good idea of what they ate. The staples of the average person’s diet were bread—made in many different shapes—beer, and vegetables. Bread and beer are the first two items mentioned in standard offering formulas for the deceased. (Learn more about offerings.

I decided to start Ancient Stones, originally called Border Stones, after finding that there was very little information about the standing stones, stones circles and other ancient stones in my local area either on the Internet or in printed form. There were plenty of web sites and books about the more popular stone circles of the British Isles but next to nothing about the smaller, less obvious local sites of the Scottish Borders and surrounding regions.

The great pyramid and other monuments may have orientations to constellations and the precessional cycle according to the "Orion Mystery" by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbet. How long does a millennia last and how does that compare to the length of a great age? A millennia lasts for 1000 years while a great age lasts for about 2,160 years, so a great age lasts a little over 2 millennia.

All languages, both modern and historical, have (had) regional varieties and so-called dialects. Different varieties of speech and languages are often mentioned by authors in historical records.

The main thing that can be said about the Druids is th atthey were members of a professional class in their culture, the Celtic Nations of Western Europe and the British Isles. (The Druids were not anethnic group; their culture, the Celtic culture, was.

No. That is a fallacy that started well after the war. H G Wells wrote a book in 1914 called "The war that will end war". It is one of his lesser works and apart from the name is almost forgotten. Wells soon turned his attention to inflammatory and often contradictory politics.

No. Another fallacy. It is possible (even probable) that the first blokes to join the AIF did so with little understanding of what was to follow and did so with a false impression of quick victory and glory for all. However it is impossible to believe that the later recruits, who having read the casualty lists from Gallipoli, Fromelles and other early battles could have been under any mis-apprehension about the serious nature of the task. They knew what the difficulties were, and the risks.

The Romans recorded that the Druids sacrificed condemned criminals. Judicial executions were no different elsewhere in Europe, including Saxony. The Romans wrote that such victims were tied into huge wicker man-shaped effigies and burned alive. The archeological record does reveal a number of sacrificial deaths, such as "triple-deaths" where the victim was drowned, stoned, and impaled on a spear simultaneously.

A: NO!!! Certainly, Neo-Druids DO NOT conduct ritual sacrifice of people or animals. Although there are many stories about the Druids and their ritual sacrifices, most of them can be traced back to the writings of Julius Caesar, who at the time was at war with the Celts. This was just propaganda. There is no archeological evidence to support the supposed sacrifices. The druids held all life as sacred, so it is hard to believe that they did conduct ritual sacrifices.

Yes and no. They called their priests, priestesses, and other people who fulfilled an official religious role by a variety of titles, in the languages and dialects spoken in their particular time and region. “Druid” is an English translation of the Irish draoí and the equivalent from other Celtic cultures. But the druids were also in large part the intellectual class in Celtic societies.

I recall that it was moved and that through a series of amendments, individuals tried to delay the approval of that, of the biology curriculum.

Yes. The next morning the paper reported that she had recommended firing the teachers. And she immediately contacted me and told me that that was obviously not what she had said, and I agreed with her, and she did two things. One, she sent me an e-mail explaining her position and asked me to forward that throughout all the teachers stating on her behalf that -- or, in her words, that that was not what she had intended and, in fact, that she had liked all the teachers and supported the teachers.