The Druids - Eden Saga

Magicians, wise men, teachers, healers, Gallic Druids still haunt our imagination. From Galicia to Scotland, from Ireland to Britanny, the image of white-robed Druid is registered in the sapwood of oaks.

All French people know the druid Panoramix. But Goscinny, the father of Asterix, does not show the sacred place the druid got in the Gallic life. He was both a teacher, a priest, a healer, or a strategist chief warrior, and above all a magician. His wizard hat makes him dangerous, his science makes him fascinating.

The Druidic Universities

In the tale Táin Bó Cúailnge, the druid Cathbad causes the death of an envoy who spoke without permission, because “No one spoke before the king, but the king did not speak before his druid.” His teacher hat gives to the Druid countless students from all over Europe.

In Gaul, the druidic universities were as deeme as those of Egypt … if not more.

The Druids were the most learned men of the world.
Pythagoras

Many young Greeks came there to study astronomy, natural sciences and mathematics, always according to the oral tradition. That is why we have no written text by the Gauls themselves, because druids disdained writing, convinced that the written word is dead and therefore can not give life to anything healthy. (source)Wikipedia

As in Koranic schools, the transmission of knowledge was oral and students knew by heart thousands of verses and natural laws. The only sources are in Latin, mainly the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar. But on the subject, Caesar is not trustworthy at all. For military and diplomatic reasons, he had to justify his massacres in the eyes of the senate, so he lowered the degree of civilization of the Gauls.

There are also late sources, as the Welsh and Irish texts, dating from the Middle Ages, but reliable for some authors.

The Druid and the Oak Tree

Since the Romans, the word Druid was associated with the oak, because of the druidic rites on this tree. Philologists have shown that this specifically Celtic term, druid, present in both the texts of Julius Caesar and those of the Middle Ages, came from “dru-wid-es” which means “very knowledgeable.”

Note, however, that oak is said derw in Breton, dervo in Gaul, daur, dar in Irish. In Welsh, oak is said derw and druid, derwydd.

Although evident, this link is denyed by Guyonvarc’h and Le Roux. For these old style experts of Celticness, there is no immediate possibility to connect the Celtic name of druids to that of oak. They are free to believe.

As I am free to believe that Druidism was a religion – or wisdom – long before the Celts. It started with Ram the Enchanter, healer who became famous by eradicating pulmonary consumption that decimated the Hyperboreans.

With what has he struck this infection? With mistletoe gathered on an oak … The mistletoe is the plant of election of the Druids. Its power, they say, is boundless.

“Every mistletoe on the oak is regarded as sent from heaven, and the Druids think it is a sign of God’s election of the tree. It is necessary that the crop be the sixth day of the moon, the day which is the beginning of their month, their years, and their ages, which last for thirty years, To which the moon, without being in the middle of its course, is already in all its strength.” (source)Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XVI – XCV

Druid Rama

Up to infer that Ram was a druid, there is only a small step quickly taken. He was the heir of the all-powerful Druidesses, and undoubtedly the very first male Druid, the ancestor of all the Celtic druids. Just as in Tibet, at the end of his life, he became the very first Lama and the true founder of Buddhism.

The character of Sakyamuni Gautama, the so-called historical Buddha, is a perfect invention. Buddhism was born in Tibet, under the impetus of Rama or Ram, who is therefore the founder of Druidism, Lamaism or Tibetan Buddhism, and Mithraism, because Mithras and Ram are one, or at least duplicate. When we know that Christianity is the heir of Mithraism, we see the planetary importance of the character of Rama.

The Functional Tripartition

One finds this old latin description of the Druidic religion – a comment which, surprisingly, is not Caesar’s : “Among all the Gallic peoples, without exception, are found three classes of men who are the subject of special honors, ie the Bards, the Vates and the Druids. The Bards are sacred singers, the Vates are diviners who preside sacrifices and question nature, and finally the Druids, who, regardless of physiology or natural philosophy, profess ethics or moral philosophy.” (source)Strabo, Geography, IV, 4

These three functions represent the three poles of shamanic societies: the art of sacred song for the Bard, the gift of vision for the Vate, and the power to initiate for the Druid. In truth, it is a distortion due to the Celts. They had inherited the ancient Druidic religion of the Hyperboreans who organized society into four castes or colleges. The Celts, obsessed by the triad have brought the four colleges to three.

The Functional Quadripartition

In truth, it is a deformation due to the Celts. They had inherited the ancient druidic religion of the Hyperboreans. These organized society into four castes or colleges. The Celts, obsessed with the triad, reduced the four colleges to three. Hence the famous thesis of Georges Dumézil on the functional tripartition of our societies. I had the opportunity to state my disagreement. Originally, all human societies are based on the model that the astronauts gods gave us and that was taught to us by Rama: functional quadripartition. In fact, among the Celts, the druid has a dual function: it is mage warrior in battle and wise healer after the fight. Just as Merlin, Gandalf and later the Knights Templars or the Shao Lin monks.

“The Druids, les “tout-savants” (the ‘all-wise’), were the initiators of the first function. They wore a wide white tunic, without a belt which is the origin of the seamless shirt of Christ / (J)Esus Cernunos. It was their so-called ‘woman’s clothing’ that the Romans spoke of, they who wore pleated skirts! Their attributes were the belt and crosier called Lituus, as with the Romans. The Druids abundantly expounded on the stars and their movements, the immense expanse of the world and the earth, the nature of things, the power and the power of immortal gods and they transmitted this knowledge to the youth.” (source)Julius Caesar, How./ Gallic War, VI–XIV.

In the language of the birds, “tout-savants” may be heard “tous avant” (All before)… Which shows how much the druids were more important than all others. And all the Celtic gods know that the druids understood it in this noble language of goslings, which are the offspring of the Goose.

Pontonniers and pontiffs

“The Druids lived isolated, because they were the intermediaries, the ‘bridge’ of communication between men and the Gods – hence the name of the Pontifex in Rome, and the pontiff that is given to the Pope – the bridge also between men and the King whose councils they were. Let us recall that ‘if they spoke before the king, it was nevertheless he who decided!” (source)

In fact, among the Celts, the druid has a dual function: he is a warrior mage in battles and a wise healer after the fight. Just like Merlin, Gandalf and later the Templars, or the monks of Shao Lin. “Ideally, every power is attached to the druids and the authority of their divine science. The king is a nobleman vested with a mandate of time management over the nobility and the working classes who share the social duties: respectively the protection and the satisfaction of the needs of all.” (source)Claude Sterckx, Mythologie du monde celte, page 54, Marabout, Paris, 2009

The Druids, diviners and initiators, are also healers. “The Tuatha Dé Danaan have a god-doctor, Diancecht who is an expert in magic and medicine. He heals and restores the wounded, he resurrects the dead by immersing them in the Fountain of Health, he makes a prosthesis for King Nuada who had his arm torn off. The epics are full of these healings, where plants, incantations and magical drinks are used.” (Wikipedia)

Already a new religion showed the nose… From the 3rd century AD, the rise of Christianity pushed back the old religion of the Great Goddess, Belisama, yet firmly established among the Celts.

The Sow that Spins

Legend says that Merlin, who lived in the 6th century, both pagan and Christian, was the last druid and the first bishop. Now the first official bishop is Irenaeus of Lyon… Yet until the 11th century, even up to the Renaissance, we know that the Druids still exercised their noble art. The priests and bishops did not much like these practices with strong sulfur relent. So the druid hid. Any healer that one may be, we don’t really want to end up at the stake of the Holy Inquisition! Close to the cathedral of Chartres,, a curious sign hangs on the facade of a restaurant. We see une truie qui file.a sow that spins

Since 2011, date of the first publication of this article, this sign has disappeared from Chartres. (note from 2022)

This sign is not uncommon, it is found everywhere in France and even in Paris, rue Saint Jacques. A kind Breton legend says that a young girl turned into a sow to escape rape. More serious is Fulcanelli’s version. He said the sowin French truie means the druidin French, druid and truie sound similar by homophony. And if it filespins, it’s because the druid is file.a healer In the Irish tradition, the file is a diviner who imposes hands. Under the sign of the sow spewing, initiates or simply those familiar with the language of goslings knew that they would find a druid healer.

I take this opportunity to correct an overly common mistake. “It is well to be noted that the file is strictly Irish as its hierarchy and not Pan-Celtic.” (source)
The file does not only belong to the Irish tradition, but also to ours, which is quite French. These signs would be proof of this.

Who is Fulcanelli? A very strange character in truth. Under this name, two esoteric works on the symbolism of alchemy, The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Philosophical Mansions, were published. According to the legend, Fulcanelli would have carried out the great work, that is to say not only change the vile metal into gold, but also discover the secrets of eternal life and the philosopher’s stone, before mysteriously disappearing. It is said to have left a legacy of rare importance. That’s all we know, even if some whisper… Through the virtues of a very druidic, even alchemic magic, would Fulcanelli have given life to some creature, to some immortal golem?

Now who is Fulcanelli? Under this name, appeared two books dealing with the esoteric symbolism of alchemy, The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Philosopher’s Mansions. Legend says Fulcanelli would have come to realize the great work late in his life, i.e. to discover the secrets of eternal life and make Philosopher’s stone that gives control of life and matter.

Then he disappeared mysteriously.

Legend also says that before leaving, the master alchemist would have left somewhere a legacy of exceptional importance. By virtue of a very druidic magic called alchemy, Fulcanelli would have given life to an everlasting creature, as immortal as the old Gepetto’s wooden puppet …