druids became monks

Author: * Walensis Volcae - 1 Post on this thread out of 64 Posts sitewide.
Date: May 25, 2004 - 02:04

I think that if you read a celtic christian work, ei. (the book of Kells) you would find it painfully obvious that people with a pagan background were involved in the writing. They differ quite significantly to the usual accepted version of the time from the continent. Besides the art being magnificant, the text has a peculiar pagan flavour.

As for women not being druids. I think what we have to remember is the word was most likely associated with "oak knowledge", so whether we're talking about men or women, they in all probability had totally different roles in society, but they would both have been titled as druids, for they both had the knowledge of the oak. But on the flip side, the oak was a male god and phallic symbol, which posses the question, was there a word for a female druid that history has over looked or someone has misinterpreted. The oak is suppose to have a female equivalent; a partner, so to speak, but i cant remember what it is. If we look at wiccan and neo-druidism there are diferent parts to ritual and ceremony that can only be performed by the man or the woman, even if both are male or both are female, one of them will be playing the other gender, simply because nothing living on earth can live without the participation of the other. Even in hermaphodites, they cant exist without the function of the other half of lifes cycle, whether they do it themselves or not, its still a dual process. Nothing, and I mean, nothing is of "immaculate conception"!