[Download PDF] The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature Writen By Jean Markale
The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature
A comprehensive and revealing look at the druids and their fundamental role in Celtic society that dispels many of the misconceptions about these important religious figures and their doctrine ? Written by the world's leading authority on Celtic culture Druidism was one of the greatest and most exalting adventures of the human spirit, attempting to reconcile the unreconcilable, the individual and the collective, creator and created, good and evil, day and night, past and future, and life and death. Because of the oral nature of Celtic civilization our understanding of its spiritual truths and rituals is necessarily incomplete. Yet evidence exists that can provide the modern reader with a better understanding of the doctrine that took druidic apprentices 20 years to learn in the remote forests of the British Isles and Gaul. Using the descriptions of the druids and their beliefs provided by the historians and chroniclers of classic antiquity--as well as those recorded by the insular
Product details: The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature
Author : Jean Markale
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Inner Traditions
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ISBN-10 : 0892817038
ISBN-13 : 9780892817030
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