What we so soon forget under the Druid's Tree

I will be using a 1809 Published work by one of my favorite Welsh scholars, Dear Edward "Celtic" Davies.

The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids. In which I have find great wisdom and keen insight by dear Edward.

We must keep in mind that most if not all Druid or Pagan related Public Published Works from the thirteenth to nineteenth century authors was funding from sucking on the religious tit of Christian Church, Christian Crown or Christian Landed Nobility or Christian Schools   In  lands were Pagans were illegal and those accused could lose Livelihood Land and even Life its self.

So it is up to the astute reader to peel back the Faux Gold leaf of Abramic Religious that so often encased these works of wisdom on our Druid / Pagan past.

While we now have much religious Freedoms today, if not in the Public's eye or Purse. We as Neo-Pagans and Neo-Druids   and I feel we all are by the fact that we live in these current times.

Seem to spend much time and energy defining redefining and Denigrating our own past. By first pretending to want to know it yet failing to accept what records we do have as history handed down it truth if not full understanding and technical details. But as mere children's fanciful fairy tales from forgotten Walt Disney's of the Ice Stone and early Iron ages.

So the first thing I want to address from even the Cover page of the book is how we have corrupted and tried to redefine common works and terms to mean new but pretending often to be old things.

Today few will call Druid / Celtic beliefs Heathen or Heathenism , yet here we find the term Heathenism
on the cover page and yes an "ism" too.

What else were we rediscover as we turn the leafs lost in in the past.


Note this blog will be an ongoing project and updated often (I hope).

The year is 1809 and a view of ancient British Druids is ?


Heathen
Heathism
Was ancient British Druids considered Heathens ? A term now craved out of both Druid and Pagan identifications by ND's  (Neo Druids) .
Yes > Cover page.

ism  Druidism
Was ancient British Druid believes considered  an "ism" , something so many ND's  (Neo Druids) deny today?
Yes >  , (vii, Bards who were professed votaries of Druidism),

Druidical: Use of this term.
Yes  > , vii

Druidism a philosophy only:
Many Christians in oaken robes and refugees from Christianity that wish not to ire other Christians or keep a secret "get out of Christian Hell Card"  Make this claim as do many Neo-Pagans.
No  >  ix, (Taliesin a Bard perhaps a Druid but converted from "Druidical  Idolatry to Christianity") does this sound like Druidism was considered just a sweet Tree Hugging Natural Philosophy only?


Pagans:
Were ancient British Druids  considered  Pagan Britons?
Yes >  page a 3


Religion:
Was the "Mythology and Rites of the British Druids" considered to be or to define a Religion  practiced by the ancient Druids and Bards?
Yes pages , vi,

I doubt if this blog will allow me to record all the points I find of interest in this 661 page work but at least I will lay claim to how Druids were viewed in the past by other wiser minds than mine and perhaps besides Awen why I still view them and myself this way.

TDK / The Druid King

And yes lady Jane I am aware of the irony of blogs lead picture.  Lol 

(c) George King 2014