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The book of druidry

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextWellingborough, UK Aquarian Press 1975Description: 319p.; ill.; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 085030900X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL910
Contents:
Stones, wood and culture. The Celto-Cymric takeover. How far underground: a study of areas and festivals in France and Britain. Nine groups of Druidic concepts. Greater sites of the Britannic Islands. Druidic wisdom. The eight-fold year-plan
Abstract: '...a comprehensive survey of the Druids from their earliest history to the current renaissance. With a foreword by the new Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, Philip Carr-Gomm, the book includes a study of the shaping of the Druids' ideas, their principal deities and myths, their learning and social organization, and examines their relationship with Arthur, Taliesin, the Grail and the mystery of the Druid Egg and the Serpent. The significance of dolmens, barrows and stone circles is explained, and Druid teachings are examined in relation to many sacred sites....A selection from the early source texts and the complete text of the Order's Beltane ritual complete this fascinating volume....'
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Foreword by Philip Carr-Gomm c1990.

Stones, wood and culture. The Celto-Cymric takeover. How far underground: a study of areas and festivals in France and Britain. Nine groups of Druidic concepts. Greater sites of the Britannic Islands. Druidic wisdom. The eight-fold year-plan

'...a comprehensive survey of the Druids from their earliest history to the current renaissance. With a foreword by the new Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, Philip Carr-Gomm, the book includes a study of the shaping of the Druids' ideas, their principal deities and myths, their learning and social organization, and examines their relationship with Arthur, Taliesin, the Grail and the mystery of the Druid Egg and the Serpent. The significance of dolmens, barrows and stone circles is explained, and Druid teachings are examined in relation to many sacred sites....A selection from the early source texts and the complete text of the Order's Beltane ritual complete this fascinating volume....'

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