Exploring the World of the Druids

Name: Exploring the World of the Druids
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ISBN: 9780500285718

ISBN-10: 0500285713

ISBN-13: 9780500285718

Edition: 2005

Authors: Miranda J. Green, Miranda J. Green

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In this authoritative account, Miranda Green unravels the truth about the Druids. Examining the archaeological evidence, Classical commentaries, and early Welsh and Irsh myths, she shows that the Druids were fully integrated into Celtic society and fulfilled varied and necessary roles. The Roman writers reflected the double standards of an invading society: condemning the public sacrifice of enemies by the Druids while accepting their own practice of slaughter for sport as civilized. Yet the Classical sources can be used to help reveal the real Druids, and we learn of their multiple roles as judges, teachers, healers, magicians, philosophers, religious leaders, and fomenters of rebellion.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 10/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is professor of archaeology at Cardiff University in Wales. She is the author of The World of the Druids and Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend.




Finding the Druids


How Do We Know About the Druids?


The Druids in Celtic Society


The Geography of the Celtic World


An Outline History of the Druids


The Oak and the Mistletoe


Timeline for Druidism



The Celts and the Supernatural


The Nature of Celtic Religion


The Celtic Pantheon


A God in Every Place


Druids in Context


Druidic Organization


Ceremonies and Festivals


The Farming Year



The Druids in Classical Literature


The Chroniclers


Druids and the Social Order


Healers and Magicians


The Druids and Education


Philosophers and Scientists


Immortality and Rebirth


Druids and Romans



Digging Up Druids


Priesthoods in European Prehistory


Images of the Druids


Ceremonial Regalia: Badges of Office


Gifts to the Divine Powers


Cauldrons and Holy Water


Death, Burial and the Afterlife



Sacrifice and Prophecy


The Concept of Sacrifice


Sacrifice in Action


Ritual Murder


Flesh for the Gods


Bodies in the Bog


The Danish Bog Victims


Animals as Sacrificial Victims


Divination: Telling the Future


Prophets and Oracles



The Female Druids


Women in Celtic Society


Druidesses and Wise Women


Witches and Magic


Priestess and Prophetess in Irish Myth


Virgin Priestesses



Sacred Places and Their Priests


Sacred Groves and Pools


Shrines and Temples


The Sacred Spring at Bath


Priests in Celtic Sanctuaries


The Sacred Healers


Enclosing Holy Space



Druids in Irish Myth


The Learned Class


The Early Myths


Cathbadh of Ulster


Sacral Kingship and Druidic Prophecy


Druidism and Christianity



Druids Resurrected


The Druidic Revival of the Renaissance


Stukeley and His Peers


The Stonehenge Connection


Realists and Romantics


Druids as Illustrated


Birth of a Welsh Myth


Druids, the Eisteddfod and Welsh Identity



Druids Today


Neo-Paganism and the Old Religion


Witches and Druids


Ceremony and Celebration


Modern Druid Organizations


Stonehenge Prohibited


The Modern Druid Doctrine


Guardians of the Planet


Directory of Modern Druid Organizations


Gazetteer


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index