Druid
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A druid was a member of the learned class of the ancient Celtic peoples of Gaul and Britain, described by Greek and Roman writers as a priest, teacher, judge and custodian of religious and legal tradi
Julius Caesar, whose Commentarii de Bello Gallico is the earliest detailed account of the druids.
Roman troops attacking the druids on Anglesey, as described by Tacitus. A 19th-century imagining of the scene.
'An Arch Druid in His Judicial Habit', an imaginative illustration from S. R. Meyrick and C. H. Smith, The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands (1815). The gold collar copies a Bronze Age Irish gorget.
The oak and mistletoe ritual depicted by Henri-Paul Motte (1900)
Druidry (modern)
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Druidry, sometimes termed Druidism, is a modern movement of spirituality or religion that promotes the cultivation of honorable relationships with the physical landscapes, flora, fauna, and diverse pe
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…philosophers of Renaissance humanism, the supposed builders of Stonehenge, bards of the Romantic imagination, and, in the present day, figures of a modern Druidry and Celtic neo-paganism that has no genuine continuity with the ancient priesthood. Modern scholarship accepts the druids as a real priestly and learned…
Bryn Celli Ddu Summer Solstice Sunrise
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The Druid Order Ceremony at Tower Hill, London on the Spring Equinox of 2010