Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone

Every spiritual tradition has a complex history, and the histories of minority movements such as modem paganism are more complex than most. Rather than defining Druidry in mythic terms as a primal tradition of the distant past – to be investigated purely by means of historical research, and thus distanced from the present – it makes more sense to t

Love of History and Reverence for the Ancestors Druidry recognises the forming power of the past.

More information on this subject can be found in Nimue Brown’s excellent book Druidry and the Ancestors.

Druidry celebrates the natural world, and rather than focusing on how to transcend our physical existence, it focuses on celebrating our life on earth and on encouraging our creativity, helping the Bard within us to sing the song of our hearts and souls.

Now we can understand how the Ovates were able to conceive of time-travel. The realm of the ancestors was not the realm of people dead-and-gone – it was the repository of tribal wisdom – the realm in which the ancestors lived whilst awaiting reincarnation and to which the Ovate could turn for guidance and inspiration on behalf of the tribe.