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attempted a translation of the inscription. The first word seemed to be the name of a god or gods – the Lugoves. It was a Celtic name, similar to ‘Lugh’ in the Irish pantheon and ‘Lleu’ in Welsh. So the inscription began by invoking the Lugoves of the Neri tribe. Then, ‘araiai kalte’ could mean something about ploughed land and a grove – which refe
... See moreAlice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
Johann Jacob Diesbach
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
He concluded that they were probably used by the Druids.
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century
Anaxagoras declared that the Sun was not the god Helios but was rather an incandescent stone larger than the Peloponnese, and that the Moon was composed of an earthy substance which received its light from the Sun.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
Myth System
Creation Agents
Cosmic Medium
Humanity’s Origin
Transmission of Order
Edfu (Egyptian)
Primeval gods / Builders
Waters of Nun, Speech
Symbolic rise from mound
Ma’at via priesthood
Sumerian
Anu, Enki, Ninhursag
Clay, divine blood
Humans created to serve gods
Kingship, ritual
Vedic (Hindu)
Brahma, Prajapati
Purusha sacrifice
Humans part of cosmic body
Dh
... See moreThe suggestion that we are looking at the documentation of an early fourteenth-century BC voyage from Egypt to the Aegean, rather than a record of Mycenaeans and Minoans coming to Egypt, seems plausible for the following fascinating reason. There are a number of objects with the cartouche (royal name) of either Amenhotep III or his wife Queen Tiyi
... See moreEric H. Cline • 1177 B.C.
Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
. Lokobo niirabo to araiai kalte lokon ane narke kak isiinkolobo ii te-ro-bare be tasiioonii.’
Alice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
THE REBIRTH OF Druidry in the modern world can be traced to the time of the Renaissance, when the forgotten classical texts of Tacitus, Julius Caesar, Diogenes Laertius and others dealing with the Druids were rediscovered and eventually printed.