“History’s lessons, if you’ll read ‘em, Will impart this truth to thee, Knowledge is the price of freedom; Know yourself, and you are free.”
Thomas Mooney, History of Ireland, 1845
Cover art is G. Bramati
We have established that the various nations that employed druids were not one united people but rather simply shared much of their culture through trade and possibly a shared mutual understanding of one another. The first identifiable ‘Celtic’ culture from an archaeological and language perspective speculatively evolved out of the late Bronze Age in Europe, near France, Austria, Germany and the Atlantic seaboard. The artifacts available to us through the Hallstatt and La Tene burial sites in particular allow anthropologists and archaeologists to establish a makeshift beginning to the culture although the framework for these beliefs were undoubtedly older and continuously evolving slowly over many millennia and likely very unique and based on place and the landscape.
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Isla Skye
Isla Skye is an American Celtic scholar, teacher, author and herbalist that splits her time between the States and Ireland. She has studied the druids and related practices for over 20 years. She is a published author of children’s books as well as other folkloric literature and is currently working through an M.A. in Celtic Studies. Her hobbies are family time, camping, hiking, reading, writing and research.
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