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Druids (2001)

In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness the passing of a comet and interpret it as the sign of the coming of a king for their country Gaul, which has not had a king for a long time. Guttuart goes to Gergovia, the capital of the Arvenes tribe, to attend a meeting of Gallic tribal chieftains. The young boy Vercingetorix, along with his friend the young girl Eponia, sneak into a large cavern where Celtill, Vercingetorix's father and chieftain of the Arvenes, hosts the meeting of chieftains with the intention of proclaiming himself king of all Gauls. When Celtill shows off the crown once worn by the old kings of Gaul, an arrow from two Roman spies (dressed as Gauls) hits Celtill in the back.

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Connect Paranormal 5d ago

The ancient Celtic spiritual tradition features a profound relationship between druids and faeries. #druids #fairies https://connectparanormal.net/2025/05/22/exploring-the-mystical-connection-between-druids-and-faeries/

Exploring the Mystical Connection Between Druids and Faeries

Explore the intriguing relationship between druids and faeries in ancient Celtic spirituality and folklore.

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Connect Paranormal 6d ago

Explores the role of druids in ancient Celtic society, particularly their expertise in dream interpretation as a means of connecting the physical and spiritual worlds. #druids #dreams https://connectparanormal.net/2025/05/22/ancient-celtic-dreams-druid-practices-and-insights/

Ancient Celtic Dreams: Druid Practices and Insights

Explore the connection between Druids and dreams in ancient Celtic society. Discover their interpretations of nighttime visions.

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🐦‍⬛May 9

The people of the Reach are basically ancient Celts, just Elder Scrollsified.

Lorkh is Lugh, eventually becoming something akin to the spirit of the land who dies in the fall and is reborn every spring--roaming the land indefinitely and coming back to fight for it in times of great need.

Galen is Gwyion, and the Yffre is the Nuifre. The cauldron is the cauldron of nature itself (Kyne), and the Awen is so far not present in his tale from what I've seen, although the description of Yffre's personality is very bardic, as a poet and storyteller. Maybe the life force and the inspiration force are united as one.

Nocturnal/Azurah/Namira are aspects of/first born of the void, representing a maiden, mother, crone situation like the Morrigan.

Kyne gave up her fleshy form to guide mortals as they move through life and face mortality. I suspect that she, as mother of man and beast, is the woman embracing Lorkh in the sculpture commonly thought to depict Lorkh and Mara. The spirit of the land and the spirit of natural life--it's just right. The green man making love to the earth.

In a sense I'd say she is analogous to Ceridwen at times.

Anyway, interesting stuff.

Lorkh is born with a heart of darkness, and his sister Azura recognizes that his heart is Namira and rips it out, casting it into the sea. His body is burned.

I suspect that the hag ravens are witches who have made to deal with nocturnal, to be able to broker better deals with the other daedra. Sort of...professional contractors. When the hagraven shows up to offer Faolan a briar heart --to me, it reads like this was Nocturnal's way of remembering and grieving Lorkh perhaps, by giving his Namira-filled heart back to his people symbolically, granting Faolan the power to fight off the Empire that would take the Reach's freedom, aka Roman invasion.

Just some thoughts I've been having.
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Books of My Heart May 6

ICYMI:🎧The Long-Forgotten Winter King by Annette Marie
#BookReview #4Hearts #AudioBookReview #Druids #Fae
https://booksofmyheart.net/2022/03/27/%f0%9f%8e%a7the-long-forgotten-winter-king-by-annette-marie/?fsp_sid=3834

🎧The Long-Forgotten Winter King by Annette Marie - Books of My Heart

Guild Codex Unveiled series is a different aspect of the Guild Codex Spellbound world. I thought this was going to be Zak’s story but really it is his and Saber’s stories. I have read all of the Spellbound and Warped series. I would say you can read Unveiled without Spellbound and Warped first but I […]

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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻May 5

#MythologyMonday: Why were all the mirrors in Emain Macha once covered?
`In Lough Rudraige the king of #Ulster, #Fergus mac Léti, encountered a water monster called a #Muirdris, which frightened him so much that his head turned around to face his back. He survived, but his #druids faced the difficult question of whether this change made him a blemished king and therefore unfit to reign. Through some loophole of interpretation, they determined that having one’s head on backward was not a blemish, but to keep Fergus from knowing what had happened, they covered all the mirrors in Emain Macha, the great royal residence of Ulster. And so Fergus lived happily enough for seven years, until a woman he had mistreated revealed the truth. Fergus returned to Loch Rudraige and killed the muirdris, but fell dead of exhaustion afterward, his head still facing backward.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Apr 29

#FairyTaleTuesday: `What Patrick lit was a #Bealtaine blaze – not only an affront to the king’s power but as a threat to the sacred order that assured the land’s fertility. Not wonder the #druids were mad. After Patrick’s usurpation, the Church substituted Christ for the milky animal-mother and diverted celebration of life springing from death to Easter. But Bealtaine was not to be extinguished.` #Celtic
Source: Patricia Monaghan `The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog`
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Apr 29

#FairyTaleTuesday: `The festival was certainly connected with fertility of the land, the crops, and the people; the rituals were about protection and purification.
The bonfires were constructed from wood held sacred, such as rowan, apple, dogwood, juniper, pine, holly and oak, startet with gorse wood and kindled by #druids with great ceremony. Cattle were then driven between the fires and through the smoke, thus cleansing, blessing and protecting their health and milk yield.
People would also pass between the fires, some even leaping the flames. All household fires would have been extinguished, and embers from the Bealtaine fire carefully carried home to relight the hearth, and heart of the house, thus bringing the blessing and protection over all who lived there.
It is also thought that flames from these bonfires could have been ceremonially applied to the fields, as a quick way of clearing and preparing them for spring planting, a method which has been used until fairly recently.` #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

Connect Paranormal Apr 25

The ancient Druids were the spiritual and intellectual leaders of Celtic civilization, deeply connected to nature. They practiced divination to connect with supernatural forces. #Druids #divination https://connectparanormal.net/2025/04/24/the-role-of-druids-and-divination-in-ancient-societies/

The Role of Druids and Divination in Ancient Societies

Explore the mystical connection between Druids and divination, revealing their role in Celtic spirituality and knowledge.

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Zoey 🏳️‍⚧️☀️Apr 11

Could anyone recommend some resources where I can learn more about #druidry and #paganism? My wife is getting more interested in the religion/practice, and I want to learn more so I can be supportive

#druid #druids #pagan #witchcraft #tarot