Who Were the Druids?

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Who were the Druids?
Sources:
Druids A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J.A. Macculloch
Who were the Druids? by Ben Johnson www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...
Music:
Carpe Diem and Angevin by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Celtic Atmosphere and Nordur by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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[@TheGeneralistPapers]

CORRECTION: @ 7:25 the timeline shows 400 ad being when druids came on the scene. That is wrong. It was around 400 bc. Thank you to those who pointed this out.

[@biosaari]

I was wondering if they were around for only some 300 years. Thank you.

[@ilovecamels4889]

Druids were there much before. Already 800 bc in Central Europe

[@houseofshuffles449]

"In ancient times, Hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people, the Druids..."

[@lexx2645]

Amazing video like always! Thank you so much for all the hard work you put towards your fascinating and highly informative videos, I'm a huge fan!

[@stevenrowlands7731]

As a Welshman living in an area with strong celtic ties I see some minor inaccuracies and misinformation but as a whole this was a very good and educational video

[@sBrCj]

Can you point out a few I'm really interested to hear what you have to say!

[@stevethecross2727]

No one knows proper Celtic history all you know is 4th or 5th hand accounts at best. In fact it's all anybody can know.

[@jerrichilcott4861]

as someone who just finished tracing family history back to almost 4000bc I'm inclined to agree

[@jerrichilcott4861]

@@sBrCj druids actually date back to somewhere around 1400 bc

[@gratefulkm]

@@stevethecross2727 incorrect the Druids message is eternally repeating in your cortex They passed down the truth VERBALLY and its passed to you You just don't know it because "you cant see past the end of your nose" That's "straight from the horses mouth" meaning the nomads if you listen really hard you can hear them laughing at the Roman Slavers who failed to wipe the knowledge out "humpty dumpty sat on a wall Humpty dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty together again" The truth is in plain sight in your cortex, you just need to learn to decode it And follow the trail of breadcrumbs left to guide you home the Roman Slaver's put a spell on us all

[@chagildoi]

This channel is going to explode as more people find it

[@arkiu-himikoi]

I enjoyed the video quite a lot, especially since you speak at a slow pace, which allows me to absorb the ideas mentioned

[@shishirupreti481]

Finally new video thanks!

[@serviustullus7204]

The experts on the Coligny Calendar (a Gallic one) date its conception as based around 1000 bce. Celtic culture stretches back into the Bronze Age. That suggests older than 400 bce.

[@alunevans380]

The druids where based in Wales in Anglesey where they battled the Romans it's called Holyhead today.

[@user-ry6fg7xc9s]

Druids existed. "True and Tree" and "Dru =Wood + Tru=Brains(in GheG Albanian ) makes sence. Gheg Albanian is considered as the oldest language spoken in Europe dating over 2000 years before the Hittites according to Leipzig University

[@michaelmayen6240]

Excelent video. My last name is a deformation of Latin Magen, Druids. The best video ever for my family and me. None of us being smart guys, of course

[@matthewwriter9539]

0:30 "Which of these is correct?" Me: "Why not both?"

[@Alasdair37448]

We do have writings from the Celts in both Greek and Phoenician script problem is the druids specifically forbid any of their secrets to be written down they were after all a very secretive order the writings we do have from the Celts are largely financial in nature for example a transfer of land from one person to another was found either in Spain or in Marseille.

[@YorkyOne]

We have no such information.

[@morganophelia5963]

I think they knew about the body snatchers too

[@however-yh2jy]

These aren't the druids you're looking for.

[@robertholt6444]

Another great video. Although if I remember correctly you played a druid in wow years ago so you might be a little biase towards them. Your French is getting better too. Can't wait till the next one.

[@blubberinweasel1772]

Do the traveling teachers of Ireland during the occupation have their roots in the druridic legacy?

[@neilz.]

Should've called Detective Halligan, he's an expert in droods

[@dreyri2736]

For some reason. Videos on druids attract the strangest people

[@kurtbogle2973]

The Universe remembers everything. When proprely connected all information is available through your conciousness. No need to write it down.

[@FrankJoseph-tp2jz]

What better way to get rid of a malcontent or criminal than to call it a sacrifice to the Gods ?

[@johnnydynamite6460]

the celts do not exist today more in Ireland, Scotland any more than in the rest of europe, these are just the areas where celtic culture wasn't romanized, so by the time the roman empire fell, they still had their celtic culture, unlike the rest of france or belgium. the different european languages are for most of them the "child" of an era of latin and the local celtic language, latinization happened in different waves, so each of these celtic languages got diluted in a different version of latin, producing the similar but different languages such as various italien, french or spanish dialects ( none of which being at the time exactly the unfified french spanish or italian we know today). Breton and gaelic outlived the empire in their "pure" form, like euskari in the basque country in the Pyrennes. The assciation of Brittany with this celtic conjunction comes from 2 mass migration waves of celts from england, first was under roman rule that relocated celtic legions from england to brittany to defend it against Gaels (irish celts) and Picts (scottish celts) piracy raids. Second wave was after the fall of the empire, celts from england fleeing germanic anglo-saxon invasion of their island. And this celt identity of brittany slowly died out until XIXth century romanticism in France, that created this fantasized image of brittany as a land of lore and legend bathed in mist, where magical creatures roamed among the stones. these are areas where the celtic culture was most preserved, but as a people they aren't anymore celtic than the rest of what used to be the celtic world as a whole. And I say this as half Irish, half Breton, and very proud of my celtic heritage, it's just that it's not accurate to think of myself as more celt than someone elsewhere in France, I'm just from the parts where latin didn't have the time to take over before the roman empire fell

[@biosaari]

Wait. How do you describe the common misconceptions of druids without once referring to Asterix?!? That is the ONLY conception of druids for most of the English-speaking world.

[@sarah.kfoury]

yes, it was my only conception!

[@CREDLACE]

Whatcha yappin' 'bout, Getafix is the codifier for Druids in media!

[@MrGeo-EmitFodrol]

I think of The Undertaker haha why idk. Or Dumbledore.

[@kurtbogle2973]

The Roman's hunted down and murdered every Druid they could find. Do you expact those criminals to tell the truth?

[@serviustullus7204]

Druids were nobles, but not knights. We have three main sources on them: Greco-Roman, Irish, Welsh. The descriptions are incomplete and the testimonies cannot be taken at their face value.

[@dalecarpenter8828]

the roman's also cannibalized some of the gladiators ,funny how that part gets lost in the propaganda ?

[@FrankJoseph-tp2jz]

I'm going to have some globalist stew with whirled peas soon

[@redwolf6036]

It means you didn't kill all of us. I am still alive.

[@sirsmokey710]

Also most human sacrifices were done to those who were extremely sick and on death bed or also ingored severely in battle

[@YorkyOne]

How do we know this?

[@sirsmokey710]

Roman scholars

[@sirsmokey710]

Roman writers also stated that the Druids offered human sacrifices for those who were gravely sick or in danger of death in battle. Huge wickerwork images were filled with living men and then burned; although the Druids preferred to sacrifice criminals, they would choose innocent victims if necessary..... Britannica they did it to all sorts mostly criminals as you can see but also sick and wounded and yes se innocent but the innocent still suffer today.

[@melanoidmarkus]

👍🏾👌🏾

[@ilovecamels4889]

Would be misguided to believe the Druids just "ended". We are still around, just got absorbed into the regular population. Lot of us still end up in fields related to our Druid roots such as natural healing, herbalism, protecting nature and the environment, spirituality, astrology, forestry and so forth. Not too long ago the government in Austria even consulted Druids for road safety project.

[@dreyri2736]

Do you still do blood sacrifices to appease the gods?

[@bakedjustice123]

​​@@dreyri2736wow, great job, you're a "clever" person lol

[@dreyri2736]

@@bakedjustice123 libations are important. How else to feed the dead? Let them starve and invite their spirits to cause disease and bad luck?

[@marshalmcdonald7476]

aren't you just so original...@@dreyri2736

[@HDR_America]

Druid’s never came to an end, they just moved into secret like into secret societies and they were pagans and they merged “married into” the Roman Catholic Church during the pregames church age in 312 AD.

[@ilovecamels4889]

Thank you! Finally someone pointing this out. As a Druid myself, we did not "die out", we just assimilated.

[@marshalmcdonald7476]

Exactly.

[@YorkyOne]

​@@ilovecamels4889 Evidence? You may be a 'Druid' but of the 'neo' kind. There is no unbroken Druidic continuity stretching back 2000 years.

[@dobisPR780]

Lol Diodorus “stickulus”?

[@ga3acid220]

1:17 ada Indonesia coyy😅

[@redwolf6036]

They didn't kill all of us. Some of us survived.

[@YorkyOne]

'Us'? Please explain.

[@pseudonymous9153]

"Druid"=Getafix

[@Chicago_Cabbie]

I just watched a video by a lass who claims to be a historian who says the Celts and Druids were 2 different peoples. The Druids were there first. Later the Celts came. So who the heck knows what's the truth !

[@lonewolfaspie475]

The Druids were a distinct social class within ancient Celtic society. In other words; all Druids were Celts, but not all Celts were Druids.

[@dreamknight7009]

At the end of the video, you state that the influence of the Fili lasted into the 1700's, then immediately after, state that their influence died out during the Renaissance... that's a 300 year gap... can you please clarify?

[@J-md2ko]

We where illiterate at the time because the romans knew to form an empire you need reading and writing, they burned loads of our holy grounds

[@archival3154]

Hang on a second. The Romans left Britain in 400-410 AD and on the timeline 7:25 you are saying that druids only show up around 400 AD? This does not seem right, as this would suggest that they are a Roman invention, which is clearly not the case. Please clarify

[@MayerLW]

Seems he meant 400 bc. Fits the two millennium timeframe also.

[@TheGeneralistPapers]

Thank you, you're right. I've made a pinned comment correcting the error.

[@alysononoahu8702]

He meant to say bc❤️🌿

[@brianskanes1]

Would it be incorrect to equate the role of druids to that of rabbis?

[@alysononoahu8702]

Some overlap

[@furstwilhelm7982]

Never heard of a Druid knowing Hebrew and saying the Sh'ma Ysroel upon arising and after saying "Good night, John Boy."

[@Fatelovesirony960]

Better to equate them to Brahmins

[@FrankJoseph-tp2jz]

Rabbis dropped the D and added a B

[@marshalmcdonald7476]

Similar but it seems that some druids also engaged in shamanism, the interaction with the 'non-ordinary' world. Not sure rabbis do that.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Druids reincarnate! There's no who were they to it. The cycle is 1900 years. The Druids of Ynnys Mon, and Holy Head are back. That's a are , not a were.

[@kilowhiskeyalpha6078]

How common were white bulls that thet could be sacrificed

[@kurtbogle2973]

Every people on Earth practiced Human sacrifice. At one time or another.

[@dreyri2736]

Not really.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Mistletoe is known to cure canser.

[@dreyri2736]

No it isn't

[@stelladonaconfredobutler9459]

Never have I heard that Druids supported that picture of human sacrifices

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

We had a druid in our team and he only was useful in forest adventures. He got wrecked in dungeons where he can't use his woodland spells and summon woodland creatures to help him.

[@BabishForIdiots]

Either this didn't happen or your druid friend didn't know how to play his class

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

@@BabishForIdiots It's a fucking AD&D joke. Lighten up Francis.

[@BabishForIdiots]

@@FlyingTigersKMT no. Your "joke" sucked.

[@Saber23]

Actually the celts all worshipped the same main deities they just sometimes had different names for the same concepts 🙏

[@dreyri2736]

How do you know?

[@Saber23]

@@dreyri2736 are you on drugs? It’s unanimously agreed upon by Celtic historians

[@dreyri2736]

@@Saber23 did someone piss in your cereal? Btw, can you verify this?

[@Saber23]

@@dreyri2736 what do you want me to do? Just look it up 🤣 most pagan Europeans worshipped the same Gods with either different names or slight variations in their nature, but let me ask you, why do you want this not to be the case so badly?

[@dreyri2736]

@@Saber23 you need to relax and stop assuming. The idea that europeans all worshipped the same gods is mostly due to roman interpretation. To say that for example the celts and norse gods were essentially the same is wrong and baseless. Also, you mention "slight variations in their nature" which itself is meaningless as what do you even think is a thing that differentiates two things other than their very natures?

[@danocinneide1885]

Ireland was not celtic but Gaelic...and Ireland is an Irish Isle, and not a British isle

[@fredhopratama9835]

Kengo: Druig suck

[@Mrrumblejason]

YALL KNOW WHO WAS AROUND THEN I'LL GIVE A HINT THEY HAD DARK SKIN

[@lucabernardini3975]

Do you even grammar bro

[@gregoryscott9907]

GRAB A 🍻 And HAVE A SEAT, BCUZ they where seafaring Hebrew speaking children of the 🌞 THAT came from the far WEST. Look into it especially if any of your relatives where among the 1st people of your land to migrate to the AMERIKKIKAS IIN THE LATE TO ERALY 1900's to see how they were treated by the new power structure of that time and what they were referred to as , I bet it will ring a bell

[@dreyri2736]

The celts were not black

[@dreyri2736]

​@@gregoryscott9907you need to relax and take your time when you type.

[@gregoryscott9907]

@@dreyri2736 Wow smh, this is why were a generation that don't know the truth of our mysterious mystical past you say they wasn't black, I agree and regardless of how you have let a system of indoctrination corse through your subconscious because it aligns with your separative supremacist ego drive nature, your not white, the saddest part is you don't know it. For instantance the guy on your profile pick is closer to the color of a palm just because I m more copper in appearance that would make our ancestors yea unless you are not from this realm somewhere in the (I 🙏🏾 far distant) past we share a ancestors and unless Thier somewhere in HELL mainly for sharing the same pov as you , so either research how similar druid and hehrew practices or not IDC but don't kill the Idea for personal reasons

[@Saber23]

Most people still believe in an immortal soul why? Because we do in fact have immortal souls this isn’t even really up for debate so people who deny it are just either being deluded or they’re in denial

[@spiderhands]

Theres no way of knowing that, it is not a fact. That idea just makes you feel good. There is 0 proof to what you're saying

[@Saber23]

@@spiderhands yup like I said, I’m completely and utter denial 🤣 nah bro it’s 1000% a fact although I doubt you understand what a fact even is or how we determine them

[@spiderhands]

@@Saber23yea ok dude. You being so sure is exactly what's wrong with the world.

[@spiderhands]

@@Saber23 how can immortal soul be a fact? Keep playing video games

[@spiderhands]

@@Saber23 i'm guessing you have 0 evidence and youre a man of faith