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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore
Druids as Celtic Shamans
Ogham consisted of twenty five strokes branching off a central line like the limbs of a tree. Each stroke corresponded to an alphabetic letter. Although similar in purpose, Ogham, as a powerful symbolic language, was distinctive from the Nordic Runes.
The Ogham glyph system was similar to a grove of trees where each tree was a knowledge and power key that corresponded to certain colors, numbers, human characteristics, stones, stars, divine qualities, animals, birds, and animals.
Like a forest of neural dendrites recording the memories of knowledge and the wisdom of experience, the Ogham served as a connectivity timebridge for storytelling, song, and restoring balance by honoring the circle of sacred traditions.
One of the primary themes of the Druid was the continual quest for soul loss retrieval and spiritual transformation through creative manifestation. As such Druids were spiritual counselors and philosophers who offered guidance about the enigmas, conundrums, and problems of daily life.
Druids viewed the body,
sexuality, relationships, community, the land, the Earth, and the universe as
sacred. The wild, nature, groves, restorative justice, creativity, artistry,
beauty, peace, crystals, story, myth, and ancestors were all lovingly revered.
Names of the Letters of Scandinavian Ogham from Book of Ballymote
The Druids honored the hills, circles, groves, and springs as sacred sites. Realizing the divinity within everything, Druids sought answers to the eternal questions revolving around the unfoldment of the flower that was the individual soul, as it endured through an eternity of lives, from dawn to dusk, and from season to season.
The Path of Druid was a wisdom visionquest that embraced life as a magical celebration and honored animal, tree, stone, and star lore.
For the Druids there was no separation between the worlds for their deities who were authentically luminal. They were an integral part of everyday living, where the fires of the heart, hearth, and home burned brightly as one flame.
Shamanic pilgrim travellers, Druids embarked on a spiritual journey, living a physical existence that was only one of many interconnected lifetimes in an eternal sea of ever evolving sacred spiraling energy.
Druidic practices were
passed on by Druids in Shamanic practices through rituals, festivals, rites of
passage, songs, storytelling, folklore, and oral traditions...
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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore Copyright © 2002-2008 Maureen Grace Burns, Blessings Cornucopia. All Rights Reserved.
Public Domain Image Names of the Letters of Scandinavian Ogham from Book of Ballymote, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ogham_futhark_ballymote.png]. Accessed December 29, 2006.
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