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The Celts have been warriors, yet had an strange code of ethics in comparison to Greco-Roman society. they didn't overcome for assets, or to subjugate humans, yet as an indication of prowess, and have been as prone to struggle between themselves as opposed to “outsiders. ” they didn't push their very own ideology, and in most cases integrated a lot of the parable, tradition, and knowledge of the folk they conquered into the Celtic worldview. Such absorptions, besides the inability of a written language, account for the a little bit disjointed mythos of the Celts when put next to the Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians. The Druids have been the spiritual leaders of the Celts. the widely accredited that means of the note Druid is “to recognize the oak. ” Oak timber are symbols of existence and loss of life, and the Druids had wisdom of the spirit global, magick, and nature. They performed ceremonies, recommended kings, and played therapeutic. They settled disputes, no longer sure by means of the id of person Celtic tribes. They have been either commemorated and feared for his or her position, obvious no longer as gods, yet because the sacred interpreters of the gods’ will. My first lecturers of the craft taught me that the roots of witchcraft got here from the legacy of the Druids, who have been either female and male, even though such a lot ancient debts painting them as completely male. because the Celts come from a warrior tradition, students dispute the dominance of the goddess within the Druids’ theology, seeing them as being essentially concerned about sun figures and animal lords. Many goddess myths play an immense half in surviving Celtic tradition, yet we're doubtful the place these myths got here from: the Druids themselves, or the cultures the Celts conquered. i believe the sacredness of nature, of the woodland, of existence, and of loss of life are very goddess orientated, and the Druids observed some great benefits of either facets of the divine. The darkish warrior goddesses achieve again to the center of the Celtic humans. The Celts finally dependent themselves in Gaul, which encompasses modern day France, and a few migrated to the British Isles, related to themselves with the population of the isles, the Picts. The Pict society harkened again to the Stone Age period. it's most likely that the Picts and Celts prompted one another. due to their shorter stature, the Picts are often theorized to be the genesis of the “little people,” the faery people in Celtic delusion. on the time of the Celtic payment in Gaul, the Roman Empire used to be in complete swing. Empires are just filthy rich whereas they proceed to extend, and Julius Caesar got down to overcome Gaul and the tribes dwelling there. He met resistance, yet used to be ultimately winning. the folk have been “Romanized” and the empire eventually incorporated components of england. The Romans on the time have been nonetheless polytheistic, and a common mingling of myths happened among those cultures. The witchcraft of the Romans and the Etruscans from northern Italy may have intermingled with the magick of the Druids. Caesar used to be a pupil of his time, recording his encounters with the Celtic humans and the Druids. regrettably, the few written debts of the Druidic clergymen come from Caesar.