Archeologists Investigate New Evidence About The Druids

Archeologists Investigate New Evidence About The Druids

Central Europe in the last centuries before Christ an ancient priest cast with secret teachings governed the land they also sacrificed humans to their de brut4l rits they were builders astronomers healers and they could look into the future druid the spirit elite of They could and write Greek and Latin, but they didn’t leave anything written behind us they are inspirational source for my  and spirituality to this day.

But what is true and what is just legend? dans la civilisation vraiment au cœur à la tête  Druid the ceremony of many rits

They have political power, they have education, they work as lawyers, they work, so to speak, as academic teachers.  And this combination of everything makes them an important part of Celtic society.  Europe and later was culture developed in around 600 BC in Ireland the offsots lasted until the early middle ages and there is no other country with as many still practicing By, the head of the order of bards, oves, and

the largest neod community with more than 25,000 members worldwide  We welcome the ancestors of our light, our bl00dline and our traditions. Vaah. come from the north, the west, the east and the south to celebrate  ceremony.  The con deep breaths what we do is we follow the seasons and the landscape as a metaphor for our lives.

So we have our own inner world  and then there’s the outer landscape.  So when our inner landscape and the outer landscape are in ha.rmony and balance then we have that with ourselves. Druids have been for over 2000 years irish envy only 19th century  irritic there no teachings ane it doesn’t unit all checks inlues and luncists div into eight divided the year druids celebrated sun

and moon festivals thousands of years This isn’t scientific but my sense is you can be in a place and you go this is a really old place you can almost sense the ancestors there and I know the come to me I get it from the forest and woods I can get it from some sacred sites but personally it happens here in places like this in my own grove my gene what isorical about envy and what isant The Irish National Mum in Dublin archon Kelly research here are expertise bog bies this corpse was found by the Crogan Hillb that’s why called old Crogan

some between 25 and 40 gruesome way to end up so the dismembering of his body the injuries inflicted on him this was not done to  These actions were to cause him pain or to torture him done for religious reasons not for other reasons. becing the man never did man labor and maned the privilege of kings In the case of a different king, his head remained intact.

a possible k1lling a crisis during his poss in christian society in irel if such things happen the king was he was h personally responsible and if it was felt that the king could not undo these calamities that faced society through his influence with the other Helling was cr by them ch for their k1lling because they are really close to the gods of the underw Bogsed to be entrance to the other if you’re looking to the other is place to

do that. The man met his fate in around 350 BC. From analyzing the stomach contents, Kelly could even find out what his last meal was.  A porridge made from wheat and buttermilk. Think how proud he must have been on the day he was  made king and then it all went wrong.  And he ends up down here.

And the last thing he sees is the sight of his former glory.  And he knows what’s going to happen to him here.  When he’s taken out on this bog probably by a party of  he knows he’s going to d1e. Around000 is the GL in Hess. The druids left their traces here as well. Archologists found a burial mound at the foot of a 2500yeold round with two deepes in front of it.

Archologist Axel can even see their extension ditches longer. What we have here is a trench system approximately 350 m long consisting of two parallel trenches.  We know from excavations that these ditches were originally about 5 m deep and about 15 m wide.  It’s truly a monumental complex that must have greatly impressed people back then.

Initiators of structural mustronomy experts. If we imagine  that something happens on the horizon here every 18.6 years , that this great southern lunar standstill can be observed, then that means that a group of people existed here who observed this over several generations and buried it in the ground.

And that ‘s not an everyday occurrence. The first druids, the University Library in Tubingen theologist Bernard Meer does his research here.  He has written several books about the  and their priests. One question that heally focuses on is where do our ideas about Druid stem from  today?   I think we see the father here .

This is an illustration from a book from 1676. It’s about ancient Britain, and Druids were to be depicted there as well .  And because no one knows what a druid looks like, the artist had to come up with something and based his design on an early Christian wandering monk. Overall, we know very little about the Druids because everything, or almost everything, that we know or think we know goes back to a few ancient authors.

That’s a small number of writers overall, and also a small number of texts, often very short texts.  And one difficulty is that we often don’t know where this information comes from. In 100 BC, the capital of the tribe of archaeologist Sabina excavated a part of it and discovered clues about its activities.

The most meaningful finding was a stone. The Druids must have had incredible knowledge, otherwise they would not have been able to construct this basin.  This requires geometric knowledge, which is ultimately based on the Pythagorean theorem.  So A² + B² C².  And the Druids were so educated that they not only developed their own teachings over centuries , as these probably date back to the third century BC , but they also acquired knowledge from others.

It is fairly well documented that they acquired, for example, geographical knowledge from the Greeks. Vincent is theor here what the world looked like century BC when CSP items show  the premier object qu’on va considérer c’est un style à écrire c’était un objet en fer en l’occurrence qui était utilisé donc sur une tablette on écrivait dans la cire et on pouvait effacer.

Donc c’est un object qui vient du monde méditerranéen et qui était accessible donc évidemment au membres de la société celtique qui vait un levé d’éducation élevé.  Donc this is typical of the type of instrument that can be used for the drues in the late period  from the Romanization of the Prier siècle avant Jésusch.

But they only pa.ssed on their full knowledge verbally. This position of the glands is based on the fact that, firstly, they act as priests , leading all public ceremonies, but secondly,   they also have the final say in disputes, i.e., in crimes.  And the third thing is, they train young people.

That is to say, one could say that the glands are church, court and university, all in one. 600 BC today forest in theans. Aliff up here to become early Celtic sacrificial sirkuser primarily found women’s jewel here.  I imagine that the women here actually brought something precious, like these traditional costume items.  Bronze was a very valuable material during this time and relatively rare.

and that the women entrusted these things to the earth , perhaps to this special place, this gateway to another world, to make contact, to give something to the deities, the powers beyond, the supernatural powers , perhaps also the subterranean powers.  They played a major role in Celtic times. I believe that there was already a limit here locally, and an organization in place to ensure that these things, which have now been sacrificed here to the gods, remained here, and that no one enriched themselves here.  That was precious property

for women back then, and of course you need an organization to ensure that this doesn’t happen and that sanctions are perhaps imposed if someone is caught doing it. Theur on the er reaches of the dan here  the largest one of the 5000 peopleed on the mountain and below a  society with longance tradeations from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean  The women’s graves are therefore on equal footing

with the men, so to speak, and this naturally raises the question of who held the power?  Who was in charge here? And what role did women play in politics, in business, but also in religion?   There is no doubt about that.  We only have evidence that you wear jewelry in your body because we discovered an amber brooch and delicate gold beads, so it is more likely that these are jewelry items that were worn by women.  So it has to go on there.

Three women were buried a priest, her daughter and servant. Nicoleinger discovered that they were in around 500 ATBC.  Music is always like puzzle pieces that you see at first, so you ca n’t grasp the whole picture.  Of course, today, when I sit in front of the skull, I know much more.  I know it’s a woman between 30 and 40 years old.

She was buried in the Danube plain, had wonderful grave goods with her, and now a picture of this personality is slowly emerging.   It is thought that women, when they are given a lavish burial, are essentially an appendage of the man, a woman who only represents him.  Of course, the gold smuggling we see here clearly shows that it also has a representative function, but because of these magical stones, as we call them, we a.ssume that a priestess or healer was enshrined in the burial chamber.

to have been important. women does conn much with dominated god theath n her about schoories and biology it’s  not that truth but it has a resonance with me so it makes sense to me we’re dealing with spirituality and spiritual beliefs which are not necessarily based in  fact resonance made up may for knowledge and learning

appreciates that about and also the love of which also shares Hochdorf near Stuttgart.  A man was buried in this burial mound in around 550 BC clearly an important individual. The reconstruction of his burial chamber the de@d lies on a valuable lounger made of bronze already a status symbol when he was alive.

He was me to have everything in the afterli weons je andpon with this heavy iron axe the de@d man obviously, we believe, k1lled defensive sacrificial animals, deer, cattle by a blow to the forehead and then this spear served to k1ll the animals.  Well, that’s quite an athletic feat, to wield the axe with the right hand and the spear with the left, and then to deliver the thrust precisely to the heart.

The objects symbolize the role of this deceased not only as a ruler, as a political ruler or as an economically wealthy person, but also as a religious functionary and dignitary, as a priest.  Um, so we have here a precursor of the Druids in a time, um, when political and religious office merged into the highest position in one person.

The power of the Druids was socially grounded in the role they played in the religion .  So, whoever controls the v1tims , whoever oversees the entire v1timhood system , can also exercise power.  And that was often the case in ancient cultures, where political power and religious functions were held by one person.

We know this from many ancient cultures, and it probably was n’t much different for the Druids . Dirk and his team want to find out more about theigion wased rits herec we have a lot of settlement remains, craft remains, it’s all here. So, uh, all forms, all remnants of daily life, of normal life.

What is missing at Heunburg, however, is a sanctuary, a temple, a spiritual, a religious center.  This has n’t been found up here before.  And of course we wondered, where was that? Around 9 km away in the southern slope of the Swabian Alps is a mountaintop the size of two fields that is completely leveled. Ma.ssive excavation work took place here at 600 BC, creating a monumental wall the size of a huge field.

Around 1300 BC,    learned master builders with a plan must have been at work, because to truly reshape such a mountain, calculate the copper temperatures and so on, and calculate the volumes, is quite an achievement, and an incredible amount of energy was invested in obtaining the plan and giving the mountain this form . Ar discovered, when a b4ttle had been won, when a distinguished person had d1ed, when the whole tribe was brought together here once a year

, that’s how I imagine it.  People would gather here, and on that occasion they might also have celebrated festivals and, um, organized horse races and chariot races. You shouldn’t imagine it as a sad thing; it was also an event, as we would say today. me place to heaven 50 away from the excavation s ar madeevation these are human bones that we found here.

They come from a shaft that lies directly beneath us here.  The shaft was 5 meters deep and at least seven human skeletons were found in it. It is unique for this region.  These are not ordinary graves, certainly not.  And in connection with this special place here, with this total work of art, with this ritual site, we believe that this involves human sacrifices, remains of human sacrifices.

come together here to celebrate human sacrifices and satisfy the godsal h years after this event the roman poet lan refers to dark groves and bl00dy v1tims under the leadership of the druids the brut4l rits of the popular for the romans but the person really sacrificed people on a large scale is debatable Bernard Druids are described in the ancient sources as the ones who oversee these human sacrifices.

These are therefore partly offerings of thanksgiving, partly offerings of supplication, especially in the case of acts of war, where pr1soners of war are sacrificed.  For example, it speaks of thrusting a dagger into the v1tim and then discerning the will of the gods from the de4th throes . What we see here is a  human figure, far larger than life, made from woven branches.

Down here you can see bundles of straw, and a fire is already being stoked.  This depicts how many people are burned alive as human sacrifices in such a structure . I consider this a scare tactic that the Romans used to tell each other.  Such gruesome stories, as were  told around 1900 during the colonial era, about missionaries in Africa being boiled in large cauldrons and then eaten.

And that’s exactly how the Romans told each other such stories.   There are  special treasures in the heart of the Battle of the Summer and in the line of the front that can be developed one step at a time in this direction. Et à la fin de conflict à la fin de la guerre des sold1ers Australians on creusé une tranchée dans this direction et on traversé the temple

Si on compare la que l’on voit ici composé en très grande majorityité par des ossements humains et de chevaux, il y a quelque chose qui interpelle tout de suite,  c’est l’absence de crâne. aucun créé ici les élevés around 600 and ceremonstructings quickly became extrémit de lance on a ici des pièces de bouclier ici vous avez des des épées donc on sait que nous avons des restes humain des guerriers puisque nous avons des armes pourvu de

il s’agit d’hommes de  guerrier que l’on a réuni à un même endroit probablyment à l’ issue d’une bataille où les vainqueurs ont voulu commémorer this bataille en réunissant ses corps mais avant ça ils en ont prelevé  Hisle Frederick Ma.sser  and w3apon specialist together they analyze the bones on a vent une  trace très nice de l’entrée d’affaire de lance qu’on voit très très bien làbas.

Ouais, c’est ça.  On voit très bien, c’est très plat comme ça.  On a part of the point that is rented from the sides and the part plus large is just the same. va en premier lieu, rimabù s’est  La notion de sacrifice induit le fait que les que les personnes étaient vivantes quand on les a sacrifié.

Alors que les nous avons les preuves car les les os qui ont été qui ont fait l’objet de traitement ont été fait sur des hommes qui étai morts au combat.  Difficile de parler de sacrifice à ce momentl finding that gives clues about the religion can be found here in the national mum the cron of g.undop there is no other archological that showseltic world of gods in more detail found in a Danish bog the archologists are most puzzled about this detail a man dipping a warrior in a human sacrifice archologist fling cow has researched the motives of this cron for many years he

has arrived at a very different b4ttlefield underwit de warriors  Kelts believed in reincarnation invulnerable the comic book hero into magic potion as a child the warrior plate seems to have been inspired the one of the creators of asteric some years ago I spoke with him about the g.un and he said can only speul

may contained feckle was also creator consult miraculardian ritual described, where it is said that at a certain time, namely on the sixth day after the new moon, the druid  climbs into the pond with a golden sickle and a mistletoe there  cuts, then it is said that  This mess is caught in a white cloth.  Then bulls are brought forward and sacrificed.  This is the

most detailed descr.i.ption of such a Celtic religious ritual, and it has been known for a very long time, which is why it is so well known and has been frequently quoted and discussed . The statue was lying here in this trench where we are now standing, and was of course completely unexpected; at some point, as you dig deeper into the earth, the first stone comes out.

And if you uncover it a little further , you can already see that there are two legs.  So it must obviously be a person, a statue.  And at a certain point, the face is revealed and you are actually looking into the face of your person from two and a half  years ago. It shows the image of a man who was next to the  in theal mount, a man from the fifth century BC.

His objects revealed his social standing; he has the shield of a warrior; his gold jewelry shows that he must have been very rich. In the grave, such a wire was also found wrapped with fabric, as can be seen here, along with wood remnants and leather remnants, and from this it was reconstructed that it could have been such a leather cap.

Yes, we interpret this head covering as mistletoe.  If we look at the original statue, we can see that one side is larger than the other.  This is also quite characteristic of the two sides of a mistletoe leaf.  And when you consider what was written about droids many centuries later, where droids are always a.ssociated with mistletoe, for example in Caesar’s works, you could imagine, with a little imagination, that we are looking at a  droid’s head covering here.

Does his hat really represent? If so, this man from Glber is the first that we have an image of how the story did really harvest and also with gold sickles. He visited  a blacksmith who specialized in the forge, fire bellows, hammer   and anvil, dating back over 2000 years. But that’s not all.  Also, I don’t believe in the function

of a gold sickle because gold is simply relatively soft.  It’s simply that if you polish a copper or bronze sickle accordingly , it will have a golden character.  I could more easily imagine that it was made from this material . There are no Celtic bronze sickles; none have survived, which may of course be due to the fact that these pieces were repeatedly reworked and melted down.

Uh, this is now based, so to speak, on a small Celtic ironworks, because for harvesting, say, herbs or mistletoe, I would rather use such a small tool. The sickle is almost ready.  Smoothed with hammer so it’s nice and sharp attached with the wooden handle.  This is exactly what a blacksmith would do. Is this the right tool to cut the symb of eternal life? A meowcha in the Swabian Alps.

Rol hobi harical. So we cut them off with a saw here in front of the mistletoe if the branches are that thick .  You can also break off the mistletoe quite easily by hand. Fabian, if you are careful to  protect the plant itself as much as possible, then the sickle makes perfect sense, because you can use it to cut off only the tips.

If you were to break off the entire plant at the base or cut it off, it would take much longer to recover and grow back. That wouldn’t necessarily be suitable for us right now , but  I’m actually surprised by the snow removal technology.  I thought it was impossible. The story of the golden sickle seems to be true.

And the man from Glow with the hat seems to have really been a druid. Only one emerges with a name from history. Divaros. The man was chief of the personal friend of trag1c figure Dieakos is a very interesting figure, because he is the only ancient druid about whom we know anything more biographical.  Zizaro writes in one of his philosophical writings that Divikakos had been a guest friend of his and that he had also once been in Rome in this capacity, so to speak on a

diplomatic mission, and that on this occasion they had, for example,  talked about prophecy based on the flight of birds. If the  Dark made appearance in his B, it was probably on this archaeologists have exposed the base of a meeting place the area 40 m. If a.ssemblies took place here , then a Drüde was also present, because the Divikerkus was simultaneously on diplomatic duty and he was a kind of high official here in how and therefore I am quite sure that if at these a.ssemblies, which always took place under the protection

of the gods, that Drü were present here. was me to convince his tribes that it was better to with the Romans inight the research center of Sabina Ref and Vincent Gisha to understand what this drew looked trousers grand person évo et qui peut trancher les conflicts.  Don’t be afraid that you have a legal right and that you’ll be able to get a diplomat.  Quelqu’un que César peut

envoyer en amba.ssador qui peut essayer de convaincre des celtiques de s’allier à Rome. So, I think the Romans perceived the Druids as a certain thre4t because they saw that this was a group of people who possessed great knowledge and were also able to  use this knowledge politically.  And they probably suspected them of spreading anti Roman ideas, and that’s probably why they were banned.

Archaon Kelly researched it. Irish kings crowned here and the legendary court gathered here.  The most knowledgeable elite group the druids. Their task advising the king about all worldly and wonderful things. was being the most sa place in the of Ireland.  This was the place that had most connectedness with the spirit world and so the king of Tara was the most important king in the whole of and of course the would have operated here would have been the preeminent in the of Ireland.

Theid could even tell the future that’s what wr in ir sa stories that’s why they alarmed the first Christian mission paved on Slain Hill across from the royal residence he started a fire on the first day of spring which was actually the privilege of the king his tells the king that he must immediately extinguish and all because if that will never exed of Irel so of course reference to Christianityant paganism and the been aware of how things are work out st patr and the beginning of the east  of fire one of many saints legends

it was written here in the scptorium Irish monasy 548 Kelly takes the report about the idea by early Christian monks seriously but there are some caviats. It’s clear that the purpose behind writing these tales down was a Christian one.  was to a certain extent to portray the dr as the bad guys and the Christian church as being the good guys and also to tell moral tales that reflected the Christian view of the world for a long time the religion and Christian exed in parallel then in approent  Irish Christian

learned cla.sses with monaster and they continued now as Christians to form a hugely important learned cla.ss and and continue to do so right down to the middle ages.  Praces of the druid religion have survived to this day. Halloween, the night before the old Celtic New Year’s festival is one example. The druids formed the spiritual and worldly elite of the Kelts for around a year.

They were on the losing side of history in their conflict with the Romans and later on during the Christianation of Ireland they appeared like a shadow from the dark recesses of history they disappeared without leaving us a word about themselves.  Oops.