The Druids - History, Philosophy, Religion (Full Documentary)

Gaelic Is pronounced "gal-ick" not gay lick".

The Tuatha, G. W. Atkinson supposes, must be the highly intellectual race that
imported into Ireland our Oghams, round towers, architecture, metal work, and, above
all, the exquisite art which has come down to us in our wonderful illuminated Irish
manuscripts. The polished Tuatha were certainly contrasted with the rude Celts. Arthur
Clive declares that civilization came in with an earlier race than the Celts, and retired
with their conquest by the latter - James Bonwick (Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions)

The Tuatha de Danann were the ancient inhabitants of Ireland who were forced to give
way to the Gaels and to become the gods of Celtic imagination, the lords of the
subterranean world. There is no doubt that the name Tuatha de Danann was given to
the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland and that it must have been they who built the
megaliths. Their uncertain origins combined with their curious stone constructions give
them a cloak of mystery...If the Celts drove out the megalithic peoples of Ireland, there
is no reason why the same thing should not have happened on the continent, where
much of the region occupied by the Celts still bears traces of megalithic monuments -
Jean Markale (The Celts)

The first authority to dispense with the term ―Celtic and to point out its spuriousness, was the great historian and linguist Professor Laurence Austine Waddell. Strangely, lthough they probably were, and are,familiar with Professor Waddell‘s writings and theories, most historians (alternative and orthodox) have continued to employ the term ―Celtic‖ even when it is liable to engender and perpetuate misunderstandings. In our work we adhere to Professor Waddell‘s sound counsel regarding this unfortunate but widely used term.

Did the islanders really call themselves Celts?...It is extremely doubtful the inhabitants of Ireland ever gave themselves a name of the kind - M. R. Dobie (The Rise of the Celts) However, there is one thing that the Romans, modern archaeologists and the Iron Age islanders themselves would all agree on: they were not Celts. This was an invention of
the 18th century; the name was not used earlier. The idea came from the discovery
around 1700 that the non-English island tongues relate to that of the ancient
continental Gauls, who really were called Celts. This ancient continental ethnic label
was applied to the wider family of languages. But 'Celtic' was soon extended to
describe insular monuments, art, culture and peoples, ancient and modern: island
'Celtic' identity was born, like Britishness, in the 18th century – Dr. Simon James (The
Peoples of Britain)

The term ―Gaelic (referring to later Celtic arrivals, the ―Goidels) is an acceptable term for the language spoken in Ireland from a remote period, influenced by later visitors, and radically modified after the colonization of Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans. We
hesitate to use the term to designate the primordial inhabitants of Ireland. The
Gaels, or Goidels, were another branch of the Celtic groups from Europe who
allegedly crossed to Ireland around the fourth, fifth, or sixth centuries BC
(depending on which officially posited theory one believes). These Goidels
were known by the Irish mythographers as the ―Milesians‖ or ―Children of Mil.‖
They were descendants of the Scythian ―Celts‖ who had visited Egypt and
returned to their Western homelands after the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaton.
Among their number was Scota, the daughter of the Atonist pharaoh and his
consort Nefertiti.

"Celt" is now a term that skeptics consider so corrupted in the archaeological and
popular literature that it is worthless - Stephen Oppenheimer (The Origins of the British: A
Genetic Detective Story)

The so-called Celtic Question, than which no greater stumbling block in the way of
clear thinking exists…there is practically today a complete unanimity of opinion among
physical anthropologists that the term Celt, if used at all, belongs to the brachycephalic
(round-headed) darkish population of the Alpine (Swiss) highlands…totally lacking in
the British Isles - W. Z. Ripley (Races of Europe)

After its introduction by Edward Lluyd in 1707, the use of the word "Celtic" as an
umbrella term for the pre-Roman peoples of Britain gained considerable popularity in
the nineteenth century, and remains in common usage. However its historical basis is
now seen as dubious by many historians and archaeologists, and this usage has been
called into question. Simon James, formerly of the British Museum…makes the point
that the Romans never used the term "Celtic‖...in reference to the peoples of Britain
and Ireland, and points out that the modern term "Celt" was coined as a useful umbrella
term in the early 18th century to distinguish the non-English inhabitants of the
archipelago when England united with Scotland in 1707 to create the Kingdom of Great
Britain and the later union of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom in 1800.
Nationalists in Scotland, Ireland and Wales looked for a way to differentiate themselves
from England and assert their right to independence. James then argues that, despite
the obvious linguistic connections, archaeology does not suggest a united Celtic
culture and that the term is misleading, no more (or less) meaningful than "Western" -
(Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia)

sad to see this with so many views as it is putting forth the same old incorrect information. druids were never celtic. too bad he is just repeating bs from rome.

Absolutely Amazing! You do our Ancestors proud! (From a Fellow Celtic Descended Man)

Thanks!

omg you make this all sound sooo booooooring.

That the weakest beings sexually have taken power, is a shame. males/Men🤦🏾‍♀️.

Trying to listen to this when falling to sleep but get interrupted by high volume commercial every 5 min. It’s just not doable.

Read the Oera Linda Bok, then you will know where they came from. This book is the Frisian Bible. Frisians and Kelts , Dani, Saksmanna ….are among the Post Atlantians (Plato). Atlantians where the megalith builders of North West Europe….

Excellent! 🔊🎥

So are the Jesuits the modern-day Druids

Oh boy, can't wait to learn the mystery of the droods!

I would love to know what are life would look like today had we the strength to resist the dirty, devil, dessert religions forceful and cruel Christian domination
Also I thought the pagan Roman’s let everyone keep their gods, as long as they paid tribute (a low fee compared to today) so its funny only christianised rome crushed every last Druid, all their writings and temples etc