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Druidry Druid Druidic Treelore
Ogham Storytelling and Oral Traditions
Teachers of the oral traditions, ritual guides between the worlds, inspiration bridges between Awen and Earth, fluidic learned loremasters, and custodians of the knowledge keys, the Druids sang the universal lines of connectivity, of circularity, of cyclical change, and of creative inspiration down through the ages.
Warders of the ancestral rites of the seasonal round and of the sacredness of the land, sea, and sky, their soul fingers strummed the strings of balanced bonding with magical precision until note after note, word after word, spiraled outward in impassioned song lines that wove multicolored leaves of unity that entwined the sanctity of all life onto the World Tree.
The Celts believed so strongly in relying solely on the oral traditions of poetry, song, and storytelling for passing on knowledge that their Druids chose not to write down their myths and stories even though the Druids could read and write in Latin and Greek. Instead, they memorized all the knowledge and wisdom of their oral sacred texts and learned the stories and songs of their wisdom teachings by heart.
Steadfastly adhering to the oral tradition of knowledge and wisdom sharing to maintain the purity of the information for future generations, the Druids were the clan elders, the advisors, astronomers, diviners, judges, healers, historians, musicians, philosophers, and shamans of the Celtic communal tribal groups.
One version of the roots
of the word Druid was that it was derived from the Indo-European words, "drú"
meaning strong and "wyd" meaning knowledge. Keepers of special metaphysical
knowledge, the Druidic Celts safeguarded wisdom and sacred mysteries over the
years by encoding it in their art, mythology, songs, and stories.
Ogham Glyphs Similar to Knowledge Keys Grove of Trees
They also encrypted it in their DNA and cellular structures until the cycles once again turned to a time for awakening and revival. Ogham was a method of communication used by the Druids and for remembrance of lore. The Ogham characters were written on wooden staves or inscribed on stones.
Ogham consisted of twenty five strokes branching off a central line like the limbs of a tree. Each stroke corresponded to an alphabetic letter. The Ogham glyph system was similar to a grove of trees where each tree is a knowledge and power key that corresponds 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 serves as a connectivity timebridge for storytelling, song, and restoring balance by honoring the circle of sacred traditions.
The ancient Celts were foremost pilgrim travellers embarked on a spiritual journey living a physical existence (one of many interconnected lifetimes) in an eternal sea of ever evolving sacred spiraling energy. To them the veils between the realms, worlds, and dimensions were gossamer thin, dancing about with the winds of cyclical change and the poetic rhythms of divinity.
The Druids, who travelled
widely among the Celtic tribes, were also the keepers of the Celtic Calendar
which corresponded the months with both the Celtic Tree Alphabet and the vowels
of the Ogham. Over the millenia the Celts passed on their Druidry through
rituals, festivals, rites of passage, songs, storytelling, folklore, and oral
traditions... Go back
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Glossary Terminology,
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Megaliths and Sacred Mounds,
Ogham Storytelling and Oral Traditions,
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Spiritual Beliefs of Druids,
Sacred Wheel of Seasons,
Sun Talismans and Holy Wells,
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