Druid Staves, Redes and Strong Trees

There are a few things that I say should be a must for any Druii:

The close study of what Religions do and how they are used or affect society is one of them.

"The Druid's Rede" is another one.

The Druid's Religious Rights to help the Helpless

The Trunks:
A Forest or Grove needs Strong Trees. The Grove of Druidism needs Trees with Wise and Strong Trunks. I think of these as the Trunk, we shall strive to find Three or Nine of them that we need in Today's World. Here is one of the first that comes to mind.

The Trunk of Herbalism:
I Truly believe that Herbalism, from both a scientific study, a Psychic Synergy with Gaia, plus a needed and useful resource you can offer you Tribe and community in times of need. Maybe one today's most needed Druidic Skills.

The Trunk of Tolerance:
When looking at other peoples Cauldrons be kind and remember.  "One person's Charlatan is another person's Religious Authority." TDK

The Trunk Signs:
"A good Weatherman reads the sky's signs and if in Pagan Woods smells for smoke.
Then she/he tells it like it is to the Toutas (Their Tribe, Clan, Hood, or Nation) that they may prepare for what will come.
Druids were at one time very good Weatherman."

We will seek out other Druidic Trunks as Time and Awen permit and add them here.


A few of many References and Resources and Musing:

1) "The Druid's Rede"

2) The Colloquy of Two Sages:

3) Celtic Values:

This is a collection of short posts from the IMBAS mailing list dealing with the values that were important in Pagan Celtic cultures. These posts were written by scholar Alexei Kondratiev and explore the values using comparative linguistics. 

4) The ABC's of Druidism:|

5) DRUIDS AND DRUIDISM, a list of references (1920)

6) Fate Karma and more:

7) Past Life Awen, Knowledge Renew.
8) The Cauldron of Poesy
9) Nine Noble Virtues of ASATRU

TDK

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A bit of dialog on the Abramic Books (Bibles)

From "How to be a Druid Group"

Brandon Michael Keys

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(''Here Is The Author Who Wrote The Bible'') The Bible is ''Roman Emperor, King Constantine's'' creation as well as Many Other's who Helped him Write it 2000 Years ago that is how Old the Bible is ''From Genesis to Revelations''. All of The Books of the Bible is ''At Least 2000 Years Old'' and was made up and Fabricated for ''Political Reasons'' to Gain more Power in the Region of ''Northwestern Europe''. The ''1ST Council of Nicaea'' was Created by the Early ''Christian Cult Leaders'' of the time and that these Early ''Christian Cult Leaders'' were all coming together in order to Replace ''REAL HISTORICAL HISTORY'' for a Fabricated Story that is no Older then at Least 2000 Years old.

For me I don't Believe anything that comes from the Bible because all of the Names and People in it were Made Up and Fabricated in order to Create this ''False Story'' that People have Believed In for over 2000 Years since the Advent of the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. The Bible came from ROME it was a Roman Creation from out of the ''1ST Council of Nicaea'' and out of ''Roman Emperor, King Constantine'' who Formulated the Final Books that would go in to the Book known as the Bible the word Bible means ''Bibliography''.

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  Ossia Sylva I don't even know where to begin talking, or if it's worth it at all. Wow.

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  Ossia Sylva Okay. I firstly offer my apologies for my initial writing, which I spoke out of outrage. Just a lot of things going on here, and in the light of education, I'd like to posit a few points (if I may).
  
  1) If you are trying to say that the Bible, as we know it, was edited in the First Council of Nicea, then what you say is true. The Council had to determine which books would enter the canon, and they omitted the pieces of what is known today as the Apocrypha, which includes writings on the teenage years of Jesus Christ and a powerful female prophet, as well as stronger writings on Mary Magdalene. It is true, too, that many reasons (including political) fueled this editing and it is, in a way, a work that does not resemble what it used to be, before the First Council. Many things you say are true, but they were said in a way that I don't believe is right, which brings me to my next point.
  
  2) I understand that there is a lot of rage and anger towards Christianity, and the abhorrent crimes that it has committed against many cultures and many religions. I myself share this outrage especially with the cult of Cernunnos, which we know close to nothing about, and the complete eliminations of the records of Lithuanian polytheist. I get it - they've done some really bad things. But that is absolutely NO reason to call the Bible a "fabricated story." I understand that you might be speaking of "fabrication" in the context of editing the books, but if you are speaking from the perspective of the validity of Christianity, I will stop you right there. God/YHWH/Jehovah, Jesus, and Christianity are as valid as Druidry, and it should be worked with, understood, accepted. If you're calling Christ and God false, then what does that mean about your beliefs, and your god/s (if any)?
  
  Be very careful with what you say and the research you put into it, and even more careful with how you approach writing it.

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  Janice Scott-Reeder King Ossa, you are half right. There are way more books than are contained in the Apocrypha which were omitted. Any reference to reincarnation was omitted as it conflicted with the economically viable theory of sacrifice now and get paid after death they were promoting. It also cut into the revenue of the Church they were creating which had no source of revenue and needed to convince people to pay for salvation rather than it being a DYI project. Oddly, up until the mid 80's, the Catholic church taught Astrology to their priests as one of my friends and an astrologer was an ex-priest. When I asked him where he learned astrology since there was only one school in Miami at the time, he told me in seminary. The Bible is based on oral stories handed down generations before the actual "book" was written by Constantine. So, put five people in a line and have the first person read a short sentence, whisper it to the next person and so forth. Then have the last person tell you the sentence. I am not kidding. Give it a try. This is also like having 5 witnesses to an accident all give you different versions of what happened but differing stories are totally believed as truth by each one. The Bible is not a fabrication but a rehash of ancient Sumerian through Egyptian and Greek stories of THEIR gods. Sumer was Egypt and the Jewish Leader originated in Egypt, took a trip to Caucasus Mountains where he not only got the ridiculous idea for circumcision but returned wearing those stupid heavy clothes, hat and for women; veils to the desert to reclaim his empire which was ruled by the true king, his brother. Hence, the birth of Judaism. The first books of the Bible are the Old Testament which just happen to be the books of the Judaic Bible, though theirs is a tad more accurate. You have to keep in mind that rather than a religious testament, the Jews consider the old Testament to be a HISTORY of their people. The Torah is the actual religious document detailing the rules for living. The Old Testament was never intended to be a lifestyle guide. As I said before, Jesus was their made-up hero to quell the rebellion in the ranks... hey, it's a desert there is just so long you can convince men to cut on their winkie and women to wear ridiculously hot clothes... and hence they need the "savior" they had been promising for many generations. With a life expectancy of less than 30, you can see how people were getting a little restless over a few hundred years. That's around 7-8 generations every 100 years. You can also see how anything reported orally would have one whopping margin of error. The New Testament is the highly questionable work detailing the life of this mythical Jesus as written by guys who knew someone who said they knew him close to a hundred generations later. If they had had Facebook, we would probably have photoshopped pictures to go with it. So, Constantine hijacked the old Testament because he couldn't get the Jews to convert unless he gave them something and to give the New Testament his scribes were busily concocting from old legends a basis in reality. If you want to sell fiction, you have to add some fact and then elaborate or embellish. Now 600 years later comes a man named Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim who united the Arabic (they were Jews) population under a single religion called Islam because he felt the Jews were not following the Torah and the Christians were just waaaaaay too liberal with everything. He proceeds to write the Koran as dictated by an angel as would John Smith around 1,200 years later. The similarities between Mormonism and Islam have been well explored and one can't help but wonder who got left out at the 600 year mark in 1200 AD.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2647707/posts The 1200 AD period contains a lot of contendors including Genghis Khan who invades China, captures Peking (1214), conquers Persia (1218), invades Russia (1223), dies (1227) and loads of new Christian leaders breaking from the Catholic church but never attaining any note. This was also the period of Crusades whose leaders were each trying to out do the other one in destroying a very scientifically advanced culture in the Middle East in addition to robbing it blind. The next possible leader would arrive in 2400 so we have a while. But back to the Bible which was rewritten by King James to reflect what he needed for economic and political power and bears not so much resemblance to the original. The first version by Constantine was designed to create a new economic model of the world ruled by a royal class ordained and descended from God (divine right), a peasant class who would owe their existence to the Royals who owned them, a priest caste the Royals could use to control the peasants with a con job of everything will be fine as soon as you die is you obey God's representatives and kin on earth: the Kings, and a Merchant class to carry goods between countries which were of course the territories of Divine Kingship. If they left the protection of their castle, the kind next door, that pious descendant of God might kill them and take over their lands and peasants and you all know, he who dies with the most slaves, is still pretty dead. You might want to note that only the Priests and the royal scribes would read and write in the end and the royal scribes were taught by the priests, hence the Church controlled what history was recorded. The Kings tend to forget that. The system depended on a uneducated lower class of workers that would follow what they were told God dictated in the Bible, not what was actually written which was mostly misinterpreted to start with to reflect what they needed at the moment...... History appears to be repeating itself.
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

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  The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies are both undeniable and well-documented. It is only due to extreme the extreme religious bias that pervades our world today that people rarely get exposed to this information.
  https://danielmiessler.com/essays/bible_fiction/

Druidism or Abramic Faiths or can you be both?

Some thoughts and Blogs on this subject:

Well as most of you know I do not take a stand on who or what can wear Druid's Robes and Chains (or call themselves a Pagan, Heathen, Druid or a Celt).

Yet the subject of hybrid Abramic and Pagan faiths does keep popping up.

So I will try and put a few shareable Blog links and ideas of my own here.

What is a Pagan? A Druid's View:
http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-is-pagan-druids-view.html

The One Principle that Unites Pagans, Heathens and Druids:
http://thedruidking.blogspot.com/2011/08/one-principle-that-unites-pagans.html

Druid Christians ?:  (Note this blog may be expanded as time permits )

http://howtobeadruid.blogspot.com/2015/06/druid-christians.html

A few more thoughts from "How to be a Druid" F.B. group.

• (M) >> WHAT WHERE DID JESUS COME INTO THE DRUID RELIGION ? DONT THINBK SO WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT SANTA CLAUSE AND THE EASTER BUNNY NEXT !! MARK IF YOU WANNA BE A CHRISTIAN SON THEN SO BE IT BUT GO TO THE JESUS SIGHTS WE ARE ALL CELTIC DRUID HERE AND PROUD !!<<

  
  
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  George King M, hi (TDK here) a Un-Reformed Druid which means I do not whitewash or apologize for how our {mine and all others} ancient Druid selves Cared for the Tribes)..
  
  And this rely is really for others here. While I resonate to your feeling and never whitewash the evils done in the name of religious of the last few thousand years or today. I also try and show that while follows of Abramic religions seem to other like to pick and chose bits from "The Book" they claim as inspired by their deity and all true.
  
  And few renounce the Evils commanded in it or done in its name, nor seem willing to accept how easy using it, it is to do great evil on humanity in the Name of their gods will.. Or the seemly lack of that deities positive influence on its followers .
  
  There are many many views of Druidism and of course what was shared with each tribe varied as needed both from there local gods / goddesses to what their main food sources where .
  
  Added to that so much history was written by those that (we assume to survive and thrive adopted the new religion and its Political and Social orders.
  
  So it easy to see how many can come to Drudic points of view as they study in ancient Christian works. And while it is much easier to focus on what ones sees as Love and not Insanity or Psychopathic god ego.
  
  There are a great number of Hybrid Druids and I try to not ask them to justify the Christian or other faiths some perhaps to our lost past) the they have, except when the inject them into the concepts of Druidism.
  
  Also many for reasons of lack of personal Psychic experiences, past lives, and many other reasons ignore what histories we do have , all of which show a strong religious and use of super natural powers or psychic side. Choosing the Meso-Druid concepts of it just as a Philosophy for living .
  
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  Which is of course a major part of any Druidic way of life.
  
  So here here we try to creat a place where we can share many different resources and views of "The Oak's Acorn" and help every plant and grow there own tree of life.
  
  Sorry to be so long winded but this is a very contentious yet very important area of Druidism today as Religions once again are at the forefront of Politics Laws and Wars while true freedom of or from and religious believe and how you can force it onto the actions of others often through your econic power (jobs etc) .
  
  All Druids are or need to be Weatherman or Weatherwomen. TDK

Druid Christians ?

http://bibleofgod.org/did-god-tell-abraham-to-kill-isaac/

How is the Abramic Faiths and in focus Christianity Different from other (Pagan Heathen Druid) Religions.

1 Original Sin.

2 Accepting their Gods killing off most life on earth in anger. The Great Flood. Acceptance of this as an intentional action (if true or not) is not the issue.

3 Accepting the need of Psychopathic Gods Decide (The Need For a Gods Blood to redeem one's self).

4. Their way or Hell and using that over centuries to Kill, destroy Local Religions and Cultures (too many to list and still going on in the 20th Century).

5. Believing that Racism was ok (Old Testament) and Genocide (taking of the Promised Lands once and Zionism doing it again was their Gods will and A-OK)

. ^ Etc etc etc (Try reading history old and new).
What do Druid Christians really believe  Jesus was is etc. This may be the real issue here.

Millions of people accept the Abramic Paths, its Books or Bibles or Gospels as True Fact. Many that do not like much of the Evil done in the Three Humped Camel gods name, or claimed do by him. Do not stand up and say no this is not what I believe.

Nor addressing the very Clear Plagiarism (from other cultures histories) in the Bible and other records claimed as fact.,

Yet see the concept of Christ as a good deity, a Druid an Alien or who knows what as they Claim to be Druid Christians.

Yet ignore the Religious well document crimes against Humanity.

Some are my friends most I expect good people,(I expect and not Trolls).

Yet those of us that accept the well-documented histories that Ancient Druids were Priest of a wide-flung Celtic World and Druidism was and is a Religion.

Can only smile and wonder what to D.C.'s Druid Christians really believe or do they themselves even know.

Should a Christian also be considered or consider themselves a Druid?
Here we need to understand their Personal definitions of what a Druid should be, do, and believe and what a Christian should be, do, and Belief This makes it impossible in most cases to answer.

Yet,  I 100% support anyone's rights to define their Druidism, as they see fit and wear its Robes and Chains or Label proudly.

Facebook group: How to be a Druid Grove.
This group does not stick its collective head in the sand or dark places and pretend Political Correctness.  So if that bothers you there are many Druidish groups that do you may join as you depart our Druid Woods.

Reference:
If one is serious, this is a group worth studying, while I do not agree with its conclusions, its research is fabulous.

The Story of Jesus is an Astrological Allegory for the Sun passing through the Zodiac each year.

TDK / The Druid King 

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Pagan, Heathen or Druid Leadership

Here we will share the thoughts of others and perhaps later some of our  own one this important Druidic area.

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Expanding Circles
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2014/06/expanding-circles.html

I will keep adding material to this blog as I see it.

TDK

Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice links:

Newgrange and the Winter Solstice

http://irisharchaeology.ie/…/newgrange-and-the-winter-sols…/

Bealtaine

Bealtain Links:

Lá Bealtaine shona duit!

Mayday corresponds with the Irish festival of La Bealtaine, which officially heralded the beginning of the summer. Its name appears to derive from the Old Irish words Bel taine meaning ‘bright fire’ and it was surrounded by a large number of folk beliefs some of which had obvious pagan origins. As the name of the festival suggests bonfires played an important part in the activities and were often lit on prominent local landmarks with the Hill of Uisneach in Co. Westmeath being the most famous example.

Come along to the Usineach Fire Festival tomorrow (2nd May) for a celebration of Irish culture and heritage!

Tickets €25 - www.uisneach.ie

Read more about Bealtaine / May Day here:

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2011/05/mayday-and-bealtaine/

Brigid - Woman, Saint, Goddess?

Brigid - Woman, Saint, Goddess?

Some scholars suggest that (Christian) believers syncretised St Brigid with the pagan goddess Brighid. According to medievalist Pamela Berger, ” Christian monks took the ancient figure of the mother goddess and grafted her name and functions onto her Christian counterpart.”

http://killorglinarchives.com/?p=4050