Your Druidic Vestments

Robes and Chains of Ancient of Druid Office and Priest. Yes if a Druii you are a Priest of our Leys and Ways.

Carrier of the Ancient  Staff and Chains of Service, even if one serves no Toutas by Name, Vows or Blood. For both Summerland and Gaia are in our Care and Code,

So how do we know what the vestments of our ancient selves were?

From Greco-Roman writing and medieval Irish and Scottish traditions.

And even as I so often use the term Robe it seems to be a somewhat modern misconception.

From Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus  AD 23 – August 25, AD 79)

 He mentions "candida vesta" (white garments) worn when gathering mistletoe. But did not say robes.

Where in Irish - Scottish folklore or seanchas we see them in white tunics that in early Erin were knee-length.  Also most likely a cloak with the badge of office of a rod or scepter of straight white wood gilded with metal.

A nice Bardic Green Tunic of about the right length.
Bardic Green (must relocate reference from Edward (Celtic) Davies

Irish tradition speaks of the bird feathered cloaks of the fididh. Cloaks of gray or white bull-hide for the Druids. Who often nicknamed Mael (old Irish for bald). Was this Druidic tonsure, something the later Irish Christian clerics did even in defiance of (Holy) Rome.  

While the Bards (perhaps younger) wore plaited or braided hair. Dreadlocks anybody?

Shoes: As there is a good reference that both Celtic Women and Men wore shoes of rough hide, it would seem reasonable that the Druids did also.

Irish Tonsure: is made by shaving the hair from ear to ear, along the front hairline. Giving the appearance of a receding hairline or a very High Forehead much like the tonsure of the Indian Brahmans.

References:

1) (Free)  Ecclesiastical vestments: their development and history (1896)
Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (8 July 1870 – 26 April 1950) was an Irish archaeologist.

2) The Truth about The Druids, by Tadhg MacCrossan.




Old or odd terms I sometimes use.

NOTE I do hope to add much more to this as I reread the old books and can get the right references.

TDK

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