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Ancient Druids: Why Were the Romans So Afraid of Them?
21st Century Wire asks…
Why were the Druids of the British Isles
such a threat to their Roman occupiers?
From the time of pre-Roman Britain, the Druids were regarded as the educated, priestly class among the Iron Age Celtic civilisations of Gaul (France), Britain, and Ireland. They best known as spiritual leaders, mystics, medicine men, and scholars of natural law. The Druids were also regarded as adepts and sires in their day, and among their prophesies was the prediction of the coming of Saint Patrick.
Little is known about the Druids of old as they left behind very little in terms of written or visual records because of the dominance of the oral traditions, but their legend lived on through story tellers who passed down their history over generations, and there is some representations that can be derived from stone carvings and other pagan relics. There were some accounts of Druids left behind by Greek and Roman artists and authors and later from medieval writers. Some archaeological have uncovered evidence of their pagan the religious practices and possible reports of human sacrifice. Other cultures regarded them as heretics, accusing Druids of practicing pagan witchcraft and the occult.
Their legend can be seen today’s Britain, where you have a Council of British Druid Orders. The former Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Rowan Williams, was himself inducted as an honorary white druid during a blue-hooded, open-air ceremony of the Gorsedd of Bards, in Wales.
, dismissing suggestions that he was dabbling in paganism, joined blue-hooded druids ranked behind a golden harp to be admitted into the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards.
The Druid presence in Britain can be traced back to at least 200 BC, but because of Roman prohibition and persecution their numbers tailed off to near extinction. The ancient story of Vortigern, recounts one possible surviving Druids in Britain after the Roman conquest. The remaining Druids survived into 700-800 AD, at which time Christianity emerged as the dominant institution in the British Isles – sealing the fate of Druids for almost 1,000 years.
INSPIRED BY ANCIENTS: Druid revival continues to this day with ceremony at Stonehenge (Photo: Ian Jones).
Centuries later in the 1800′s, the Druid tradition experienced a revival of sorts as Britain’s Druidic revival began in earnest.
Archeology Review explains how the revival came about: “The modern Druidic order arose out of the same two forces (and in many cases was driven by the same people) as created the Society of Antiquaries or The Royal Society: the post-Act-of-Union enterprise to create a British (as distinct from English, Scottish or Welsh) national identity, and the Georgian love affair with the club (of which, according to the main historian of this phenomenon, there were some 25,000 in the English speaking world during the 18th century).
“The quest for a shared heritage to represent a single United Kingdom of Great Britain led back to the wise and cultured Druids, who were idealised as our common ancestors – intellectuals, scientists, philosophers and theologians, respected as judges and as teachers (Caesar records that Britain was a place of unusual learning, where would-be Druids from Gaul went to study), yet also fiercely patriotic, rallying resistance to foreign invaders (Tacitus describes the ‘druidae, raising their hands to the sky and shouting dreadful curses, which terrified our soldiers who had never seen such a thing before’).”
Will the Druids return to the mainstream again, only to be forced underground again?
Why did Romans view them as a threat during their occupations of Gaul and Britain? Perhaps Rome saw the Druidic version of paganism as competition to its own cultural and spiritual hegemony. That trend surely intensified as Rome transitioned into to Christianity across the Empire…
History has seen many twists and turns over the centuries, but the legend of the Druids is still a captivating story…
Who were they and why were the Romans feel so threatened by them?
In this fascinating documentary, archaeologist Francis Pryor takes us on a journey into Britain’s ancient Druid past.
When they were wiped out by the Romans, we lost the only link to their fascinating religion and culture, and we are left with many puzzles to unravel.
The destruction of the Druids has played out over and over again throughout history: warlike, imperial cultures strong-arm less powerful ones for resources and, if threatened, destroy them. It has become increasingly obvious that what the world has lost in connection to nature and the earth as a result is not worth the material gain of this method and mindset. Watch…
SEE MORE ANCIENT HISTORY AT: 21st Century Wire Ancient History Files
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heck i live next store to ‘um..if’n they ain’t,, their aliens..
‘wiped out’ , ‘took underground’ ‘absorbed’ , same difference according to history.
Secret Order of Druids, Still Exist. It’s Secret that’s all you get.
The Roman Army was fearful of England as a whole. It was known as the land of enternal mist and monsters. The Druids were feared by the Roman soldiers for their brutality to captured Roman troops which included sacrifice, torture and other barbaric acts. That is why the Roman Military hunted them down and killed them without quarter. The Druids may have rose again, but not until after the Romans left Britain around 410 AD and they were never the same as those Druids of old.
Ancient Druids: Why Were the Romans So Afraid of Them?”
Because They were the Last Remnants of the Dying Body of Christ!
Britains ancient history is tied in with Troy as per described in Homers Iliad. The entire pre Roman invasion British history was scrapped in the 40′s, because they couldn’t find Troy they assumed it was myth. Shame they can’t re-establish it now Troy has been found. Britain has no historical connection with Judea, especially with Roman versions of Greek pagan religions that didn’t exist for another 600 years after the Druids were destroyed.
That also is why all Child rapercultures fear Whites. Now because of the Skincolor but because they mistake the Skincolor for the Light of Life We Carried. The slave spirit of the Child rapercultures were afriad because that reminded them of the taboo they lifed in for eons against Light Love and God by their Slavemasters and abusers who again feared the Words and Truths as criminals abusers usualy do.
At base even quite simple why God was slaughtered and All Who Went With God also got slaugtered and raped because They Life in Truth and GOD where crimes rape abuse violence evil is a Blasfemy. Also Who Went With GOD Had/Have a Loving Caring Hive Mind in Opposite to the evil/criminal intent opportunist collaborations of the Child rapercultures full of shame and feelings of guilt what makes em double Life treatening..and thÁt ´s why they everywhere they came they did put the Light …o.u.t!
Also the Slave trading part of these evil cultures had benefit by breaking and killing all Love and Bond between the People and Their Children so slave trading beame easier when no One Loved Each Other any more.
This evil of murdering All Love even today is still practiced by Pedofile by Homofile persecutions by whore makings by massrapes ans slander against Love and God by enforcing All Love and Freedom anihilating religions politics wars racial hate crimes and hate on us!
At same time let all rapists go loose and even protect them to push and prosper rapists and massrapes even by deragatoring Women in general by religions laws media etc to have them easier raped and broken to be whores and slaves where the general seedings of chronic Poorness also is a big force on the block to can rape and abuse to enslave Children and Women…and Men of course.
“Ancient Druids: Why Were the Romans So Afraid of Them?”
The Romans were no more afraid of the Druids than the Christian immigrants were of the native Americans. They were wiped out in and utterly destroyed, their last stand was on the isle of Anglesey, Wales. While the Roman legions were wiping out the remaining Druids in Anglesey, Queen Boudicca (East Anglia) massacred every pro Roman village and town she came across, including London. And after her defeat the Romans slaughtered any non pro Roman supporters. Britain went from a population more or less the size it is today to less than a million.
There is an error in the video, he is claiming the weather when the monuments were built in Orkney was cold and windy like it is today, but it was much warmer than it is today. Back then it would have been more like south England/North France is today. The extended c5’000 years warm period ended c1’000 BCE and overall it’s been cooling ever since. That’s the trouble with single subject specialists, they can’t see the bigger picture.