Ēostre - Everyone's Pagan Goddess for a day For all intents and purposes, in North America, this Full Blue Moon will occur on "Friday night." I suppose that it will be perhaps just as full on Friday and Saturday evenings. Technically it occurs at 8:37 AM est. It works out perfectly since it overlaps with the April 1st Pagan New Year, or "Easter" after the Teutonic goddess Ēostre (Ostara) and with all of the rich Pagan symbolism. Of course the Ostara seasonal celebration was March 19-22, so both dates would objectively work and are tied to our ancient past. I would like to think that the hollidays/festivals of Carnival, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Ostara, and finally Easter---all rooted in ancient Pagan traditions---are something of a five-week countdown to the "Pagan New Year."
Cueva de los Murciélagos (Cave of Bats) Within this
Neolithic burial chamber in Spain was discovered a seated female
skeleton surrounded by twelve others in a neat semicircle: 12+1=13
Externsteine Rocks Neolithic Astronomical Observatory By Martin Gray - WorldReviewer.com Located in the Teutoburg district, the sacred heartland of Germany, the Externsteine rocks were known as a place of pilgrimage in prehistoric, Celtic and early Saxon times. Pagan rituals were performed here until the 8th century AD, when Charles the Great cut down the sacred Irmensul tree, the German tree of life and symbol of the old religion. The earliest historical mention of Externsteine comes from the 12th century when the site came under the control of a nearby Benedictine monastery. A series of artificial caves, which had been carved into the base of the sandstone spires in ancient times, were enlarged and used as dwellings for Christian hermits and monks.
Atop the tallest rock spire are the well preserved remains of an
enigmatic prehistoric temple. Different theories have been suggested
concerning the identity of the temple's builders and the use to which it
was put. Some have described the shrine as a Mithraeum, or sanctuary
for Roman soldiers adhering to the Persian cult of Mithras, while other
scholars believe that such deities as the Germanic Teut, the Nordic
Wodan, or the Bructerian prophetess Veleda were worshipped in the
sanctuary. What is known with certainty however, is that the temple was
constructed according to astronomical orientations. The round
window-like opening shown in the photograph has been demonstrated to
have significant celestial alignments, including a view of the moon at
its northern extreme and the sun at sunrise on the summer solstice.
Externsteine was once the reputed former haunt of the prophetess Veleda. John Denver - Annie's Song Jstfmceh .
Manly P. Hall - Serpents and Druids (Eire, Arya, Iran) Culain ruled by Venus A compilation I made of clips, chiefly following the ancient Irish/Aryan/Iranian trails, from Hall's "The Atlantean Hypothesis" lecture series. ************ Manly P. Hall discusses a possible Atlantean origin for the Druids coming from the west, as well as the ancient Mediterranean and Teutonic migrations from the east. He also makes distinctions between them and the proto-Europeans (ex. Basques).. In terms of ancient knowledge and occultism, nobody in modern history was as learned as Hall.
Saturn, the Druids, the Phoenecians, and the Wicker Man Tim Hayes Follow this weird, Saturnian line of descent from the ancient Phoenecians and the Celtic druids (who both practiced the sacrificial rites of Moloch/Saturn/EL) down to some of its modern incarnations in the Cremation of Care Ceremony and the Burning Man Festival. ************ The second video, from the Saturnian-themed Tim Hayes YouTube channel, follows a different hypothesis of a Phoenician origin of the Druids. The ancient Phoenicians were on the same cultural level as the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; but have been relegated to an occultic role by the powers that be. Could this possible connection explain the reason that Phoenician and Druidic are seemingly combined as one by the Bohemian Club? We know that they traveled far and wide, including the British Isles. .
Even though this is part of English history, I still thought it very applicable since Boudicca was an ancient "Celtic Briton," and apparently fiercely pagan (the Druidic tradition). She was a woman, a leader, a Celt, a warrior, and a pagan to remember.
I don't know much about Neo-Druidry, but I have found it interesting to look at the activity of groups throughout the world. Much of it seems rather informal, at least in the past. In some places in the South, which was settled largely by Scots and Scotch-Irish long ago, I have at least heard that there has been Neo-Druidic gatherings going back to at least the 70s. It was interesting to listen to some old accounts of this from a couple of YouTubers, especially since this was nothing that one would see on Wikipedia. Maybe it's just me, but the image of loosely associated Neo-Druids gathering in a heavy wood and brush area during the Summers in the 70s is an interesting visual. Perhaps something from genetic memory comes alive in people.
Not a lot is actually known about the actual practices of the pre-Roman Druids, so there is more of a need to distinguish between Druidry and Neo-Druidry. I have gotten the impression that it may have began thousands of years ago, and was something of a fusion of early native magical traditions mixing with Odinic traditions from early incoming Teutonic tribal groups in Western Europe. Druids were mainly in what is today the British Isles, France, and Germany. I don't know if the German Druids were from the ancient Celtic south, or perhaps from an eastward spiritual migration. It's possible that there may have been some elements of Druidism in what is today the Netherlands, Belgium, Northern Spain, and Northern Italy, but there doesn't seem to be much proof of that. The first attempts at reconstructionism were in Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Some Freemason Lodges there developed a Druidic style to them apparently. Winston Churchill was a Neo-Druid, which perhaps came via this type of "Druidic-Freemasonry." At one point all of the British Isles were more culturally if not ethnically unified, and heavily Druidic. One of the greatest women in history, Boudicca, must have been a Druid. I found one very interesting website from the UK called The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. I love podcasts, and they have a lot of them, which you can see the link at the bottom of the page. I've only listened to the first three. There are interviews, music, story-telling, and more. It's been awhile since I listened. There are also links to apparently connected Neo-Druid groups in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Portugal, and Italy; and it appears that there will be ones in Spain and Russia. There could have been some Druidic elements in all of those places, except Russia I think. But, there were Celts in Poland, so who knows. The Italian group is called L'Ordine dei Bardi, Ovati e Druidi. YouTube is a great place to get a perspective of both Druidry and Neo-Druidry.
4-15-13 NOTE: Upon further study, Druidism was apparently also present in a few places in Scandinavia; although the center seems to have been the British Isles and northern Gaul. .
Ēostre - Everyone's Pagan Goddess for a day
"Ye shall assemble in some desert place,
