why worship the devil!? the devil wants to drag as many souls down to hell with him as he can. there will be weeping, wailling and gnashing of teeth. hell is eternal darkness, and once you're there, there is no way out. Repent! Give your life to Jesus and he will save you! Seek him and he will reveal himself to you!!
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Oh great! Ye Gods! Let me guess, a cult?!
Or even better - a group of idiodic teens who spend their nights around a cemetery misusing a Ouija board!
I do know of many magic societies and groups whose practitioners take an oath of secrecy, which is fine with me (though impractical in my religion), but I'm almost 100% sure you aren't one of them. Again, there is NO 'blood magic' in Paganism - only in satanism and the like.
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Believe me, it will harm you. Please have someone do a proper ritualistic exorcism. Magic is NOT to be tampered with in negative matters, or consequences will follow. I have one word for you: Karma.
@celticbattleaxe Blood is used in some Traditional paths of Witchcraft, in Hoodoo, in Palo Mayombe, Voodoo and other African Traditions. It was also used in some Greek/Roman and Native American Traditions...
@GayWitch313 Not in Trad-Craft as far as I know, anyways.
Yes, that may be true, but I don't think it wasn't used for a negative purpose (I can be wrong, but I don't know). But in modern magic, it has no place.
@GayWitch313 Not in Trad-Craft as far as I know, anyways.
Yes, that may be true, but I don't think it wasn't used for a negative purpose (I can be wrong, but I don't know). But in modern magic, it has no place.
@KNIGHTOFSCOT The Astral Plane is not in any way 'evil'. Are there some negative forces on parts of the Astral Plane? Yes, in lower levels, but not the Underworld. The Underworld has no relation to any form of "hell".
It is best to CLOSE the doorway so that no negative spirits can enter the physical world and cause harm.
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Well, what's so bad about that? Mediums do it all the time, and there is no harm in it so long as the person closes the Astral doorway. There is nothing to fear about death and people who have died. Nothing. Death is just another path, one that we all must take - it is not an end, but a beginning. For those of us who are psychic, necromancy is a part of our life.
Druid, sacred oak cultists. The druid groves of old europe practiced rites similar to the orgies of Samothrace. Also called Dryadism, oracle priestesses to Artemis or Themis. Originally the Druids were women and a goddess based religon.
@MrRjmac Paganism is a both gender based religion. Druidism is MAINLY males in the ancient times.High priestesses and female pagans where not druids as it was only a male order, "Back in the day"
@CelticSpiritWolf I beg to differ. There were no "only male" orders in the Celtic world. Everything was open to women, and men highly respected them. This is why the Brehon Laws were created (with the Hwyel Dda Laws in Wales), stemming from Druidic teaching that gave women more rights and opportunities than America does.
@MrRjmac Quite possible, though I personally think that they recognized both God and Goddess. It is Wicca that seems to hold the Goddess in a greater respect than the God, which is fine. For me, there needs to be equal balance.
@SarahLikesRamen101 You can't really blame them for trying to show us (those attacked by a variety of christians) that not everbody of their faith is so close-minded though.
@IrishCelticPrincess The druids are allowed there (in limited numbers) by special arrangement. As to there still being druids, there are probably more of us now than there were in ancient times.
I'm tired of going to every pagan video and seeing someone say " hey i'm a christian but i like this stuff" i dont care dude! no one cares! you dont have to mention your faith to us.
The English returned to the beliefs of their ancestors Britons! This is the renaissance of Celtic culture in England! So after more than a millennium of acculturation since the arrival of Germanic invaders, the descendants of the Britons show that contrary to what was said by official propaganda, they had not been exterminated and cons unexpectedly decide to live the culture of their ancestors as this one it was in their genes.
not germanic.you had a choice to stay in the woods in the east,but yet you came to Britain,fucked a lot of things and now you are taking Celtic culture and turning it into your own?
don't want to insult you in any way..but this have nothing to do with being English.
@MirLjudima Although the celts lived across europe, I still think of them as living on the british isles. When I said "english", I meant the actual place of england.
I am part ethnically english, but I am also ethnically scottish, which means I have some celtic blood.
@epona1982 Stop sobbing into your keyboard....Your beautiful...Go and grab it all...(may I suggest you start your trip by youtubing Egyptian Tomb by Mighty Baby?? Best Wishes.
It was the Roman Empire that supressed the Druids because they inspired resistance against them, not because of their religious beliefs. They were long gone by the time the Catholic church came to power...and they worshipped in sacred oak groves, not at Stonehenge. What you see today is a nineteenth century invention.
Then of course the bible has the odd fact of having a piscean born at winter solstice 2000 years ago to mark the start of that portion of procession, the age of pisces, which as we all know was part of the Mayan belief system, one which also saw the anti christ, the opposition to that age, the changing of the ages to Aquarius, at the time 2000 approx time.Funny how idiots stand in the way of fact. Like Romans stealing pagan beliefs and wqriting them in their holy book.. haha You have to laugh!
@kubicam Many symbols and practices associated with Christmas are of Pagan origin: holly, ivy, mistletoe, yule log, the giving of gifts, decorated evergreen tree, magical reindeer, etc.
read the Samhain Overview section on Wiki. Masks, pumpkin carving (once turnips instead), and the connection to spirits for your all saints day.
There is a distinct relationship between the Spring Equinox and Easter. Eggs and rabbits are its symbols, signifying birth and rebirth.
@slithas You're confusing the Hallmark and Coca-Cola versions of these days with the actual Christian feast days. Although the notion of adopting pagan "symbols and practices", cleansing them of their pagan elements, and using them as a legitimate means of worship wouldn't prove anything anyways. You're going have to do better than that :/
Still - holly, ivy, reindeer, pumpkins, and the Easter bunny are all cultural colloquialisms turned marketing tools. They're not religious symbols.
Candlemas is a Christianized holiday celebrated annually on February 2, the presentation of the child Jesus; and celebrates the Virgin Mary’s purification.
The older Pagan names were Imbolc and Oimelc. Imbolc means, literally, “in the belly” (of the Mother). Mother Earth, at the beginning of spring
they are celebrated in basically identical ways. Just a few examples here.
@slithas Haha well that first connection is hopelessly weak. I'm convinced that people just like to use it because the words "sun" and "son" are similar in English. However, once you get to combos like ciel/fils or even ήλιο/γιος, your line would start to make less sense. But yes, converted pagans had a special celebration on that day that was illegitimate so it's likely that some early Christians chose that day to discourage pagan worship.
@kubicam hopelessly weak? They're fact, no question to it. I don't care if you think they're weak, the evidence supports that christian festivals and holidays are taken from Pagan ones, mostly in the attempt to try and make it easier to convert pagans way back when.
I wasn't actually talking about 'sun' and 'son', but the fact it is celebration of the birth of a god. Historians have figured that jesus would have been born in fall, yet the celebration was moved to mid-winter.
If only hatcher hadn't evoked the biggest movement of police since the 2nd wold war to stop a few pagans worshipping at stonehenge for the 200th year in a row. Then we would have had a rigth, not gift, to have a ceromony by law there every year!! But no they saw to it no one got there that year!!!
@PrincePloppy I'm sure I've heard that there's an ancient law that says if a festival/ritual/whatever you want to call it runs for 13 years straight then it becomes set in stone and as 1985 was the thirteenth year that's one of the reasons they put a stop to it.
@PrincePloppy .The summer solstice is open to everyone over a space of about 12 hrs; you can also go in at the winter solstice and equinoxes for an hour or 2.The Beanfield was not about paganism per se but about travellers on private land. Most weren't there to worship but to party! Stonehenge should never have been regarded as a place for a free-for-all; it is too fragile archaeologically,and there's no evidence huge groups of people ever went inside in ancient times.
I was raised in Catholic Church, all of the things they do were taken from the pagan ritulas............I left the church in 2005 and have been much happier. The Goddess/God are within us all.............
@FaerieMom1 Although it's fashionable to make that claim, you clearly lack a basic understanding of Christian history. Start with a book called The Didache. Or maybe even The Bible. You didn't leave the Catholic Church, but what you thought to be the Catholic Church. Peace.
@FaerieMom1 So, some people refused to answer you - it doesn't follow from that that there are't any answers. If you really want answers to those questions, there are lots of places to look.
I would think most of the rituals would be the same...afterall, we're human. We can't do much more than read, sing, talk, and dance. But the 98% figure is disingenuous. Just to give an example, a Byzantine Divine Liturgy looks absolutely nothing like a march around Stonehenge.
im going to start soon with my druidic school thingie!
it is a lot of cash btw, does anyone have a better and most of all cheaper way to learn the arts? because i am willingly to pay the money, but just a personal teacher would work beter for me. if anyone has suggestions please reply.
i went to stonehenge a week before this year 2010 summer soltice and it was a wounderfull suprise my parents taking me. But i did get to spend the summer soltice in the new forest not far from burley so it was still a wounderfull experience,
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If the stories are true about the origins of Halloween then Druids are very evil people. Winston Churchill was a druid and he and his father were evil. Churchill's father is rumoured to be Jack the ripper.
all pagans are going to hell... just kidding, but seriously stop arguing about religous beliefs and starting up arguments on these videos. i dont expect you to listen to me but i just have to say it
Absolutely, but it's turned into an organised religion with splinter groups and societies, with spokespersons, authorities and their own charlatans. To a certain extent you are even required to tow the line. Heck they even dress the same. Where's the individuality in this?
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im intrested in druids and celtic culture and history but i have to say,that what they doing is fuckin stupid,they know nothing about his history and culture also its typical for retarded english and irish people.
@IsCumaFut2 - Druids ARE Pagans. All religions before the 3 Abrahamic Religions are considered Pagan. All worship in Idols, Nature, Cosmology and Human Sacrifice is Pagan belief. Hinduism is one existing example.
@BoyBangla thank you for reply yes you are correct but paganis, hindu and druid are seperate blief systems like catholic and protestant, jew and islam.. they all stem from the smae source the whole lotta them but they are different to each other.. its only now21st C that druidry pagaism and hindi are being classed as teh same as they have become lost in time. druidryis wordof mouth and so is hindu but pagans write their stuff down. thank yu for comment.. much apprecited. slán go fóilll
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Well, I've never seen any pagans dressed as bronze agers or neolithic people! I'd love to once though.
They tend to favour pseudo-medieval dress, sporting medieval pentagrams & reciting sometimes beautiful, but incredibly bogus, chants & hastily scripted incantations. A lot of modern ritual is borrowed from Gerald Gardner, founder of modern witchcraft & the scant documentary evidence (mostly from the Iron Age) plus writers generally not of those peoples, i.e Roman sources.
I wanna go! I'm Catholic, but hey man, I wanna go! lol Looks like a lot of fun and they are not hurting anyone, just worshiping and giving thanks to nature. Nothing wrong with that.
@Goddess167989 Do you know that you are the first Catholic to say that? I converted to Paganism because of disagreements with Christianity, but you are the first Christian with kind words about us.
Thankyou for your kind words in a world of chaos and corruption.
@oldescot You're welcome :) I wish more people would be open minded to different religions than their own. I find your religion beautiful with how much respect you have for nature :)
@Goddess167989 Nothing wrong with giving thanks to the created things rather than the Creator? Ha! God made you. Jesus is the Word. Jesus became flesh. Jesus is God. He died for you. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
@Goddess167989 Worshiping creation over the Creator...seems a little inane, no? That's like choosing a picture of your kids over the real thing. So I'd say they ARE hurting someone; namely, themselves.
@kubicam whats your problem? The christian celebrations are all taken from pagan ones. Christmas is Yule, Easter is Beltline, Halloween is Samhain. They just took it and changed it to christian teachings so it would be easier for them to try and convert the pagans.
and no, not insane, you're missing a part of it. The creator gave us creation to enjoy. Thats like admiring a picture of your kids that has been given to you. The creator is in the creation, so it is ultimately worship for the creator
@slithas Christmas isn't Yule, although the same date was chosen to discourage pagan worship. Beltline? No, Easter is based around Passover. And Halloween is a secular celebration with pagan roots, so I'm not sure what you're getting at - All Saints' Day doesn't even remotely resemble it.
Haha you've just said "A gave us B, but A is in B so we can just worship B." I've never seen such a succinct example of a non sequitur. Well done! But it's still a fallacious argument.
@Goddess167989 Sure, just don't tell them you are a Catholic because it was Catholics who claimed they are evil and oppressed them over the centuries. Both Christmas and Easter are really pagan festival periods and the church made them theirs in their effort to destroy pagans.
@Sectoid100 fuck christianity, for stealing pagan's holidays, I will never step foot in a church again for how evil they are towards other religions. Hatefull bastards.
@Goddess167989 No longer possible, some Jewish cunt blockaded it with a Fence to both protect it from "Evil Devil worshippers" and make money off of it.....-_-
Look at the loony cast from The Wicker Man! No-one knows who they were or what they were doing! Druids contemporaneous with Stonehenge! Yeah, sure, and I've just found a fossilised rabbit in the Precambrian! Hang on, I think I'll just 'choose' to worship at Watford Gap Service Station and anyone who dares to question my beliefs is a complete fascist!
What is it to you how people choose to live? It is real for them, and they are not hurting anyone as opposed to extremist religions popular today. Go harp criticism where it may actually benefit people.
Ooh, look at all the Nazi reversed psychology Schizzo's desperate for a Scapegoat to blame for their sin's! It's John of the Sumer day today, and that mean's it's jeannette's Day in Welsh-Gaelic, not Father's Day when adult male's don't have the Spirit of any Black Rose called Mohammed/Baphomet!
I was at Stonehenge today (1st May) and the Druids were there having a ceremony. I had never seen anything like it before but it made the trip all exciting and memorable.
permission is only granted to a few select druid groves, not just anyone can turn up unfortunately. There are still other great sites that are open though, such as avebury and thousands more around the country- not much good to you over there though!!
you can't usually walk between the stones, only around them on the path. They are roped off and only these druid groves are allowed in at such close quarters and only at the solstice- haven't you been there?
You are quite wrong. Everyone can apply to go inside the circle most of the year via Special Access, granted to small numbers, and providing it is booked in advance, Solstice is open to everyone, not just pagans or druids. Yes, this group is one of those who regularly come and have an understanding with English Heritage, who safeguard the monument. In business hours mind, everyone is restricted to standing outside of the stones. It's not possible to enter without permission.
Thanks son of herne, I just meant that most people will just pass by on a holiday or whatever and it's not easy if it has to be booked...might see you there sometime in that case, though!!
You're right there. 80% of visitors just come because they've heard of it and it's something to tick off of a list of things they have done. It's sad really, because many only spend 20mins there. More concern for getting their souvenirs! Lol Arguably, for the person who is really interested in the stones, they already know about special access. It tends to get booked up a lot now with meditation & tour groups, but anytime outside of the summer months is fairly easy to get on.
@jimbob230789 It was a great ceremony wasn't it? I wish I could go and see them this year, but I can't. I'll have to wait for someone to post a youtube video of them, lol.
Who ever heard of bringing a baby stroller to a pagan ritual? The baby should be strapped to the mother's back with some strips of cured hide of oxen.
hehe just cuz were wiccans dont mean we have to hurt our mothers backs, with old style baby carriers :D i think its sweet that they bring the kids along ^_^
I remember watching on TV during 1999 solar eclipse the procession they had there. The entire monument (if thats the word to use) was surrounded. There were 2 women about to give birth in England and the anticipaton of a birth at the moment of the eclipse flooded into their ritual. And to those who missed it..still none born at this moment since Merlin.
When Im in the UK I mark the Equinoxes at Castle Rigg standing stones, up in the hills behind Keswick. Summer solstice (2008) at Castle Rigg is on YT, you'll see Damage and sunbird and some of my other mates.
I went to stonhenge on a college trip a year ago, looking around the stones was amazing.first time I had ever actually been that close. I would love to go there during one of the festivals.
Shame the video was so short
ModernWizards 1 month ago
I'm pretty sure they're about to sacrifice Nicolas Cage for bees or honey or something
jaykos666 1 month ago
REALMENTE SABEN LO QUE HICIERON LOS DRUIDAS A QUINES NO LES DABAN COSAS POR SACRIFICIOS?
ELLOS TOMABAN A LOS NIÑOS !
SI NO TENIAS NADA PARA DARLES!
bnejaforever 1 month ago
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maybealover 2 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS 'An accident gone wrong'.
I don't want to know.
celticbattleaxe 2 months ago
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why worship the devil!? the devil wants to drag as many souls down to hell with him as he can. there will be weeping, wailling and gnashing of teeth. hell is eternal darkness, and once you're there, there is no way out. Repent! Give your life to Jesus and he will save you! Seek him and he will reveal himself to you!!
SmokyStormy1 2 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Oh great! Ye Gods! Let me guess, a cult?!
Or even better - a group of idiodic teens who spend their nights around a cemetery misusing a Ouija board!
I do know of many magic societies and groups whose practitioners take an oath of secrecy, which is fine with me (though impractical in my religion), but I'm almost 100% sure you aren't one of them. Again, there is NO 'blood magic' in Paganism - only in satanism and the like.
celticbattleaxe 2 months ago
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silviompge 3 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS There is no 'blood magic' in necromancy. There's only 'blood magic' in satanism. 'Advanced necromancy' does not involve this at all.
Screaming?
If I were you, I wouldn't do this - this is not necromancy. Don't get into things you cannot control.
Now, I must ask (if you don't mind)...what on Earth is your religion?
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Believe me, it will harm you. Please have someone do a proper ritualistic exorcism. Magic is NOT to be tampered with in negative matters, or consequences will follow. I have one word for you: Karma.
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Myrddin's beard! >:O
WHY?!!
There are NO blood sacrifices or summoning of evil in the Craft or an other branch of Paganism that I know of, and it isn't tolerated.
The negative crap is for satanists and has NO place is sympathetic magic, Wicca, Druidry, Shamanism, Witchcraft, etc.
You cannot control and evil entity! They do not follow anyone, but they target the weak-willed and weak-minded.
What on Earth is wrong with you?!
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
@celticbattleaxe Blood is used in some Traditional paths of Witchcraft, in Hoodoo, in Palo Mayombe, Voodoo and other African Traditions. It was also used in some Greek/Roman and Native American Traditions...
GayWitch313 2 weeks ago
@GayWitch313 Not in Trad-Craft as far as I know, anyways.
Yes, that may be true, but I don't think it wasn't used for a negative purpose (I can be wrong, but I don't know). But in modern magic, it has no place.
celticbattleaxe 2 weeks ago
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@GayWitch313 Not in Trad-Craft as far as I know, anyways.
Yes, that may be true, but I don't think it wasn't used for a negative purpose (I can be wrong, but I don't know). But in modern magic, it has no place.
celticbattleaxe 2 weeks ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Oh my Goddess - you SUMMONED evil? No wonder! Let me guess, a Ouija board?! Ye gods!!!
*sigh*
WHY did you EVER do that?
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOT The Astral Plane is not in any way 'evil'. Are there some negative forces on parts of the Astral Plane? Yes, in lower levels, but not the Underworld. The Underworld has no relation to any form of "hell".
It is best to CLOSE the doorway so that no negative spirits can enter the physical world and cause harm.
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
@KNIGHTOFSCOTS Well, what's so bad about that? Mediums do it all the time, and there is no harm in it so long as the person closes the Astral doorway. There is nothing to fear about death and people who have died. Nothing. Death is just another path, one that we all must take - it is not an end, but a beginning. For those of us who are psychic, necromancy is a part of our life.
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
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silviompge 3 months ago
@MrIamheretostay1 What branch of Paganism?
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
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silviompge 3 months ago
Paganism is not just a religion - it's a way of life
celticbattleaxe 4 months ago
Merry Meet Why should we hide who we are?? i say let the world know who and what we are. i will not hide who i am never ever
PaganWitchGirl 4 months ago 2
Ah, hello fellow druids! I've been searching on some videos about this but I couldn't find many.
Nice to finally find one.
TheBuddhaLight 6 months ago 5
Druid, sacred oak cultists. The druid groves of old europe practiced rites similar to the orgies of Samothrace. Also called Dryadism, oracle priestesses to Artemis or Themis. Originally the Druids were women and a goddess based religon.
MrRjmac 6 months ago
@MrRjmac Paganism is a both gender based religion. Druidism is MAINLY males in the ancient times.High priestesses and female pagans where not druids as it was only a male order, "Back in the day"
CelticSpiritWolf 4 months ago
@CelticSpiritWolf I beg to differ. There were no "only male" orders in the Celtic world. Everything was open to women, and men highly respected them. This is why the Brehon Laws were created (with the Hwyel Dda Laws in Wales), stemming from Druidic teaching that gave women more rights and opportunities than America does.
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
@MrRjmac Quite possible, though I personally think that they recognized both God and Goddess. It is Wicca that seems to hold the Goddess in a greater respect than the God, which is fine. For me, there needs to be equal balance.
celticbattleaxe 3 months ago
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Achilles1389 7 months ago
@SarahLikesRamen101 You can't really blame them for trying to show us (those attacked by a variety of christians) that not everbody of their faith is so close-minded though.
InvaderxxFreak 7 months ago
@IrishCelticPrincess The druids are allowed there (in limited numbers) by special arrangement. As to there still being druids, there are probably more of us now than there were in ancient times.
Steeleperfect 7 months ago
Oh stonehenge, how I long to visit thee... Sigh.
ofthefaeries 8 months ago
@IrishCelticPrincess hahaha i'm glad to see soo much happiness from one person. Blessings!
SarahLikesRamen101 9 months ago
@IrishCelticPrincess yeah there are plenty of druids haha
SarahLikesRamen101 9 months ago
I'm tired of going to every pagan video and seeing someone say " hey i'm a christian but i like this stuff" i dont care dude! no one cares! you dont have to mention your faith to us.
SarahLikesRamen101 9 months ago
Such picturesque staffs, all curly and pseudo-Romantic.
Naiant 10 months ago
it's bloody cold up there, you have to wear thermals under your robes.
kharndog 10 months ago
The English returned to the beliefs of their ancestors Britons! This is the renaissance of Celtic culture in England! So after more than a millennium of acculturation since the arrival of Germanic invaders, the descendants of the Britons show that contrary to what was said by official propaganda, they had not been exterminated and cons unexpectedly decide to live the culture of their ancestors as this one it was in their genes.
espoire1757 11 months ago
Totally digging the outfits over here.
bulletproofpunk 11 months ago
This makes me proud to be English
aaa333ify 11 months ago
@aaa333ify why?
it's celtic thing.
not germanic.you had a choice to stay in the woods in the east,but yet you came to Britain,fucked a lot of things and now you are taking Celtic culture and turning it into your own?
don't want to insult you in any way..but this have nothing to do with being English.
MirLjudima 11 months ago
@MirLjudima Although the celts lived across europe, I still think of them as living on the british isles. When I said "english", I meant the actual place of england.
I am part ethnically english, but I am also ethnically scottish, which means I have some celtic blood.
aaa333ify 11 months ago
@aaa333ify next time you write that it makes you proud to be part celtic :)
MirLjudima 11 months ago
@MirLjudima I will :)
aaa333ify 11 months ago
i wish i was there for this shame i anit married to one i would have lots of fun xx
epona1982 1 year ago
@epona1982 Stop sobbing into your keyboard....Your beautiful...Go and grab it all...(may I suggest you start your trip by youtubing Egyptian Tomb by Mighty Baby?? Best Wishes.
hydfawr 11 months ago
I wanna go!!
AnalieSkywind 1 year ago
@Goddess167989.
It was the Roman Empire that supressed the Druids because they inspired resistance against them, not because of their religious beliefs. They were long gone by the time the Catholic church came to power...and they worshipped in sacred oak groves, not at Stonehenge. What you see today is a nineteenth century invention.
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Achilles1389 1 year ago
i love the outfits some of them r wearing
TiredOfCaring 1 year ago
I.........................LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
Zonemer 1 year ago
...Y hay quienes dicen que los magos solo están en las peliculas...
...AGUANTE LA MAGIA!!!
Zonemer 1 year ago
Then of course the bible has the odd fact of having a piscean born at winter solstice 2000 years ago to mark the start of that portion of procession, the age of pisces, which as we all know was part of the Mayan belief system, one which also saw the anti christ, the opposition to that age, the changing of the ages to Aquarius, at the time 2000 approx time.Funny how idiots stand in the way of fact. Like Romans stealing pagan beliefs and wqriting them in their holy book.. haha You have to laugh!
PrincePloppy 1 year ago
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Deception in the last days..!! Jesus Christ is the only way to Salvation - truth
crossdaily1 1 year ago
@kubicam Many symbols and practices associated with Christmas are of Pagan origin: holly, ivy, mistletoe, yule log, the giving of gifts, decorated evergreen tree, magical reindeer, etc.
read the Samhain Overview section on Wiki. Masks, pumpkin carving (once turnips instead), and the connection to spirits for your all saints day.
There is a distinct relationship between the Spring Equinox and Easter. Eggs and rabbits are its symbols, signifying birth and rebirth.
slithas 1 year ago
@slithas You're confusing the Hallmark and Coca-Cola versions of these days with the actual Christian feast days. Although the notion of adopting pagan "symbols and practices", cleansing them of their pagan elements, and using them as a legitimate means of worship wouldn't prove anything anyways. You're going have to do better than that :/
Still - holly, ivy, reindeer, pumpkins, and the Easter bunny are all cultural colloquialisms turned marketing tools. They're not religious symbols.
kubicam 1 year ago
@kubicam alright then;
Yule, celebrating the birth of the sun god
chistmas, celebrating the birth of the son of god
Candlemas is a Christianized holiday celebrated annually on February 2, the presentation of the child Jesus; and celebrates the Virgin Mary’s purification.
The older Pagan names were Imbolc and Oimelc. Imbolc means, literally, “in the belly” (of the Mother). Mother Earth, at the beginning of spring
they are celebrated in basically identical ways. Just a few examples here.
slithas 1 year ago
@slithas Haha well that first connection is hopelessly weak. I'm convinced that people just like to use it because the words "sun" and "son" are similar in English. However, once you get to combos like ciel/fils or even ήλιο/γιος, your line would start to make less sense. But yes, converted pagans had a special celebration on that day that was illegitimate so it's likely that some early Christians chose that day to discourage pagan worship.
kubicam 1 year ago
@slithas Besides, all sorts of people are born (read: everyone) - I'd be surprised if we found a religion that didn't use that imagery.
I meant it when I said these commonly used examples were hopelessly weak.
kubicam 1 year ago
@kubicam hopelessly weak? They're fact, no question to it. I don't care if you think they're weak, the evidence supports that christian festivals and holidays are taken from Pagan ones, mostly in the attempt to try and make it easier to convert pagans way back when.
I wasn't actually talking about 'sun' and 'son', but the fact it is celebration of the birth of a god. Historians have figured that jesus would have been born in fall, yet the celebration was moved to mid-winter.
slithas 1 year ago
i think if people gave more thanks to nature she would be more Merciful to us
Joeyal123 1 year ago
muahahaha i live in this land
fartsam08 1 year ago
The pushchair doesn't look very pagan!
whitbyjet65 1 year ago
If only hatcher hadn't evoked the biggest movement of police since the 2nd wold war to stop a few pagans worshipping at stonehenge for the 200th year in a row. Then we would have had a rigth, not gift, to have a ceromony by law there every year!! But no they saw to it no one got there that year!!!
PrincePloppy 1 year ago
@PrincePloppy I'm sure I've heard that there's an ancient law that says if a festival/ritual/whatever you want to call it runs for 13 years straight then it becomes set in stone and as 1985 was the thirteenth year that's one of the reasons they put a stop to it.
dylangjones1 1 year ago
@PrincePloppy .The summer solstice is open to everyone over a space of about 12 hrs; you can also go in at the winter solstice and equinoxes for an hour or 2.The Beanfield was not about paganism per se but about travellers on private land. Most weren't there to worship but to party! Stonehenge should never have been regarded as a place for a free-for-all; it is too fragile archaeologically,and there's no evidence huge groups of people ever went inside in ancient times.
sonofherne 6 months ago
I was raised in Catholic Church, all of the things they do were taken from the pagan ritulas............I left the church in 2005 and have been much happier. The Goddess/God are within us all.............
FaerieMom1 1 year ago
@FaerieMom1 Although it's fashionable to make that claim, you clearly lack a basic understanding of Christian history. Start with a book called The Didache. Or maybe even The Bible. You didn't leave the Catholic Church, but what you thought to be the Catholic Church. Peace.
kubicam 1 year ago
@kubicam
I know all about the bible and how many contradictions there are in it as I tried to get explanations from Priests and they would not talk to me.....
I have also had many conversations with a Teacher at a University about religions who teaches the different ones
I have been to many different churches in my life and 98% have same basic rituals as pagan do...........
FaerieMom1 1 year ago
@FaerieMom1 So, some people refused to answer you - it doesn't follow from that that there are't any answers. If you really want answers to those questions, there are lots of places to look.
I would think most of the rituals would be the same...afterall, we're human. We can't do much more than read, sing, talk, and dance. But the 98% figure is disingenuous. Just to give an example, a Byzantine Divine Liturgy looks absolutely nothing like a march around Stonehenge.
kubicam 1 year ago
Religion is finished goemetry and colective human concionsness quantum physics and spirituality are the new age ideas
iannapp 1 year ago
I am going to bring up my kids like that. Not a devout Catholic becuase they ALWAYS end up bad seeds....
Just look at Carrie, her mother was a devout Bible basher and she tried to kill her daughter for having her period. what a douche :D
Blessed Be and Merry Meet/Part
FamilyofMetal 1 year ago
im going to start soon with my druidic school thingie!
it is a lot of cash btw, does anyone have a better and most of all cheaper way to learn the arts? because i am willingly to pay the money, but just a personal teacher would work beter for me. if anyone has suggestions please reply.
tyrulvsson 1 year ago
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Celticborne 1 year ago
MOONFIRE!!!!!
nevereven55 1 year ago
SUch a beautiful place it takes my breath away. I wish to visit one day.
bibbyni 1 year ago
i went to stonehenge a week before this year 2010 summer soltice and it was a wounderfull suprise my parents taking me. But i did get to spend the summer soltice in the new forest not far from burley so it was still a wounderfull experience,
moonwitch1981 1 year ago
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If the stories are true about the origins of Halloween then Druids are very evil people. Winston Churchill was a druid and he and his father were evil. Churchill's father is rumoured to be Jack the ripper.
ManFromMelbourne 1 year ago
@ManFromMelbourne
moron
BlueCrow7 1 year ago
@ManFromMelbourne It's getting harder to detect satire on the internet...
edshift 1 year ago
all pagans are going to hell... just kidding, but seriously stop arguing about religous beliefs and starting up arguments on these videos. i dont expect you to listen to me but i just have to say it
cheeseN0MN0M12345 1 year ago
very cool...rubylulu, did you make this vid? I take it you were there?
WickerWiccan 1 year ago
The irony, the vibrations of this ritual are slowly excellerating the decay of this sitel
MaesterOlorin 1 year ago
paganism should reunite people with nature and self
arktikgraywolf 1 year ago
Absolutely, but it's turned into an organised religion with splinter groups and societies, with spokespersons, authorities and their own charlatans. To a certain extent you are even required to tow the line. Heck they even dress the same. Where's the individuality in this?
sonofherne 1 year ago
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haha what a joke..lol are they gonna go tree of life form on us?
soccerpimp100 1 year ago
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im intrested in druids and celtic culture and history but i have to say,that what they doing is fuckin stupid,they know nothing about his history and culture also its typical for retarded english and irish people.
stayenkaaugiasza 1 year ago
To be blind to all truth is a shame for man kind, we all differ and who we are as ourselves is what they pick at. Lovely ritual by the way Blessed be
TheWyldCherry 2 years ago
omg guys moonfire spam
ozun2k 2 years ago
the druids are not pagans thats why julius caeser had the druids killed. they are seperate beliefs like christianity and islam. open yer eyes.
IsCumaFut2 2 years ago
@IsCumaFut2 - Druids ARE Pagans. All religions before the 3 Abrahamic Religions are considered Pagan. All worship in Idols, Nature, Cosmology and Human Sacrifice is Pagan belief. Hinduism is one existing example.
BoyBangla 1 year ago
@BoyBangla thank you for reply yes you are correct but paganis, hindu and druid are seperate blief systems like catholic and protestant, jew and islam.. they all stem from the smae source the whole lotta them but they are different to each other.. its only now21st C that druidry pagaism and hindi are being classed as teh same as they have become lost in time. druidryis wordof mouth and so is hindu but pagans write their stuff down. thank yu for comment.. much apprecited. slán go fóilll
IsCumaFut2 1 year ago
The Bible supports sacrifice and slaughter, so by definition, that makes it pagan.
Lokiar 1 year ago
You obviously have no idea what pagan means.
Lokiar 1 year ago
wtf are doin
stardollfanz 2 years ago
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Are these rituals, costumes, based on anything that is not fictional?
LazlosPlane 2 years ago
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Well, I've never seen any pagans dressed as bronze agers or neolithic people! I'd love to once though.
They tend to favour pseudo-medieval dress, sporting medieval pentagrams & reciting sometimes beautiful, but incredibly bogus, chants & hastily scripted incantations. A lot of modern ritual is borrowed from Gerald Gardner, founder of modern witchcraft & the scant documentary evidence (mostly from the Iron Age) plus writers generally not of those peoples, i.e Roman sources.
sonofherne 2 years ago
and what are you christian? You think your story isn't fiction?
It's no more fiction than any other religion, making any religion a person chooses ok.....-.-
VILeonidasV 2 years ago
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My, my, my, how enlightened we all are here.
Assholes.
LazlosPlane 2 years ago
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jesus is real becouse he appears to people in dreams
coolbrian15 2 years ago
ya that makes him real alright.
GOOSE933 2 years ago
???
scorchmyscorp101 2 years ago
...I got attacked by an army of zombie PacMen in my dreams...Does that make them real?
Briar2cute24 2 years ago
I 'd rather see this than see white people taking other peoples ways. It is wonderful to see that some of them still hold to their own roots.
9ninja 2 years ago
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what a bunch of weirdos...
corismsyn 2 years ago
I wanna go! I'm Catholic, but hey man, I wanna go! lol Looks like a lot of fun and they are not hurting anyone, just worshiping and giving thanks to nature. Nothing wrong with that.
Goddess167989 2 years ago 29
@Goddess167989 Well, there was a few people dressed normal walking with them, i'm guessing they aren't Pagan, lol.
TheEpicOtaku 1 year ago
@Goddess167989 Do you know that you are the first Catholic to say that? I converted to Paganism because of disagreements with Christianity, but you are the first Christian with kind words about us.
Thankyou for your kind words in a world of chaos and corruption.
Blessed be.
oldescot 1 year ago
@oldescot You're welcome :) I wish more people would be open minded to different religions than their own. I find your religion beautiful with how much respect you have for nature :)
Goddess167989 1 year ago
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@Goddess167989 Nothing wrong with giving thanks to the created things rather than the Creator? Ha! God made you. Jesus is the Word. Jesus became flesh. Jesus is God. He died for you. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."
julieification 1 year ago
@Goddess167989 Worshiping creation over the Creator...seems a little inane, no? That's like choosing a picture of your kids over the real thing. So I'd say they ARE hurting someone; namely, themselves.
kubicam 1 year ago
@kubicam you are kidding, right?
cyranesque1 1 year ago
@kubicam whats your problem? The christian celebrations are all taken from pagan ones. Christmas is Yule, Easter is Beltline, Halloween is Samhain. They just took it and changed it to christian teachings so it would be easier for them to try and convert the pagans.
and no, not insane, you're missing a part of it. The creator gave us creation to enjoy. Thats like admiring a picture of your kids that has been given to you. The creator is in the creation, so it is ultimately worship for the creator
slithas 1 year ago
@slithas Christmas isn't Yule, although the same date was chosen to discourage pagan worship. Beltline? No, Easter is based around Passover. And Halloween is a secular celebration with pagan roots, so I'm not sure what you're getting at - All Saints' Day doesn't even remotely resemble it.
Haha you've just said "A gave us B, but A is in B so we can just worship B." I've never seen such a succinct example of a non sequitur. Well done! But it's still a fallacious argument.
kubicam 1 year ago
@slithas And also, I said 'inane,' not 'insane.' It wasn't just a typo.
kubicam 1 year ago
@kubicam
just watch this..
/watch?v=JgLyozVG-uQ
Hanatbh 1 year ago
@Goddess167989 nothing wrong with worshiping nature.... hmmmm
zachk1983 1 year ago
@Goddess167989 Yeah no doubt!!! Someone must have forgotten me. Because i wanted to go too. Some day...some day. I WILL be there.
isgealmheiriceanachm 1 year ago
@Goddess167989 Sure, just don't tell them you are a Catholic because it was Catholics who claimed they are evil and oppressed them over the centuries. Both Christmas and Easter are really pagan festival periods and the church made them theirs in their effort to destroy pagans.
Sectoid100 1 year ago 24
@Sectoid100 fuck christianity, for stealing pagan's holidays, I will never step foot in a church again for how evil they are towards other religions. Hatefull bastards.
bluestormx4 3 months ago
@Sectoid100 I'm Catholic and I'm not evil so...
AtomicBomb79 4 days ago
@Goddess167989 Don't let faith get in the way of you having fun.
jamesdragonforce 1 year ago
@Goddess167989 No longer possible, some Jewish cunt blockaded it with a Fence to both protect it from "Evil Devil worshippers" and make money off of it.....-_-
kawaiifreak860 11 months ago
@Goddess167989 i think its more reasonable to worshiping and giving thanks the one who create the nature
pojansetan 8 months ago
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Women can't be druids
lawrencesmallman 2 years ago
what?!?! you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
daylnna1 2 years ago
The perfect accompaniment to this video would have to be "The Safety Dance" by Men WIthout Hats.
smallcrunch 2 years ago 2
Haha That dance isn't as safe as they say. Wouldn't want the stones falling on the darlings. Would we?
sonofherne 2 years ago
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Look at the loony cast from The Wicker Man! No-one knows who they were or what they were doing! Druids contemporaneous with Stonehenge! Yeah, sure, and I've just found a fossilised rabbit in the Precambrian! Hang on, I think I'll just 'choose' to worship at Watford Gap Service Station and anyone who dares to question my beliefs is a complete fascist!
TimothyAnorak 2 years ago
What is it to you how people choose to live? It is real for them, and they are not hurting anyone as opposed to extremist religions popular today. Go harp criticism where it may actually benefit people.
Valkyria121212 2 years ago 4
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Ooh, look at all the Nazi reversed psychology Schizzo's desperate for a Scapegoat to blame for their sin's! It's John of the Sumer day today, and that mean's it's jeannette's Day in Welsh-Gaelic, not Father's Day when adult male's don't have the Spirit of any Black Rose called Mohammed/Baphomet!
KaOssis 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing!
LASTINLIVE 2 years ago
I was at Stonehenge today (1st May) and the Druids were there having a ceremony. I had never seen anything like it before but it made the trip all exciting and memorable.
jimbob230789 2 years ago 13
lucky lucky, i wish i could've gone..i didn't know you were allowed to perform rituals at stonehenge. Alsoooooo, im all the way in america...shoot.
RainGoesPitterPatter 2 years ago
permission is only granted to a few select druid groves, not just anyone can turn up unfortunately. There are still other great sites that are open though, such as avebury and thousands more around the country- not much good to you over there though!!
eilismaireg 2 years ago
What are you talking about? I thought Stonehenge was open to everyone?
Insaneagram 2 years ago
you can't usually walk between the stones, only around them on the path. They are roped off and only these druid groves are allowed in at such close quarters and only at the solstice- haven't you been there?
eilismaireg 2 years ago 2
Oh ok than, nope I've never been there before.
Insaneagram 2 years ago
You are quite wrong. Everyone can apply to go inside the circle most of the year via Special Access, granted to small numbers, and providing it is booked in advance, Solstice is open to everyone, not just pagans or druids. Yes, this group is one of those who regularly come and have an understanding with English Heritage, who safeguard the monument. In business hours mind, everyone is restricted to standing outside of the stones. It's not possible to enter without permission.
sonofherne 2 years ago
Thanks son of herne, I just meant that most people will just pass by on a holiday or whatever and it's not easy if it has to be booked...might see you there sometime in that case, though!!
eilismaireg 2 years ago
You're right there. 80% of visitors just come because they've heard of it and it's something to tick off of a list of things they have done. It's sad really, because many only spend 20mins there. More concern for getting their souvenirs! Lol Arguably, for the person who is really interested in the stones, they already know about special access. It tends to get booked up a lot now with meditation & tour groups, but anytime outside of the summer months is fairly easy to get on.
See you there!
sonofherne 2 years ago
@jimbob230789 It was a great ceremony wasn't it? I wish I could go and see them this year, but I can't. I'll have to wait for someone to post a youtube video of them, lol.
TheEpicOtaku 1 year ago
@jimbob230789 Aha! You were just in time for Beltane - that is why you saw a ritual there.
oldescot 1 year ago
Beautiful, I wish I was there = <
Jugglesama 2 years ago 2
Agreed. I one day hope to make it to a ritual at Stonehenge...that would be incredible!!
nowonderitsneverland 2 years ago
Sorry but it seems a little sad in some ways almost offensive that we take from popular culture as the driving example of rite and ceremony,
still,it is a start i suppose, hope there is of a true spiritual emergance, Honor the ancestors every day in every way (^\/^)
psuedosurfer 2 years ago
Who ever heard of bringing a baby stroller to a pagan ritual? The baby should be strapped to the mother's back with some strips of cured hide of oxen.
baldevis 3 years ago
hehe just cuz were wiccans dont mean we have to hurt our mothers backs, with old style baby carriers :D i think its sweet that they bring the kids along ^_^
kcuf121 2 years ago
I thought they were Druids? Or is it just a mishmash of Neopagans?
princessannikki 2 years ago
I remember watching on TV during 1999 solar eclipse the procession they had there. The entire monument (if thats the word to use) was surrounded. There were 2 women about to give birth in England and the anticipaton of a birth at the moment of the eclipse flooded into their ritual. And to those who missed it..still none born at this moment since Merlin.
Tinyoak2 3 years ago
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Merlin! lol
princessannikki 2 years ago
When Im in the UK I mark the Equinoxes at Castle Rigg standing stones, up in the hills behind Keswick. Summer solstice (2008) at Castle Rigg is on YT, you'll see Damage and sunbird and some of my other mates.
unusualsuspect71 3 years ago
I went to stonhenge on a college trip a year ago, looking around the stones was amazing.first time I had ever actually been that close. I would love to go there during one of the festivals.
darkerthandorisday 3 years ago
bless =] i'll be there next year.
KireiKarnage 3 years ago
Oooh look, its me with the pink hair and white robe ^_^
This was a good day
~xx
morwen555 3 years ago
where was that? stonehenge name? everything lol!
guitarcriz 3 years ago
Recognise that name from somewhere ;)
StormwatchUK 2 years ago
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bburn them BURN THEM ALLL
smsnaz 3 years ago
aww those little kids are so cute in their robes!
WiccanThorn26 3 years ago 4