The Mistery of Belicena Villca
“ On the other hand , there were certainly Druids in Ireland and Scotland , and there is no reason to doubt that the order reaches back in antiquity at least to the 1st or 2nd century B . C .; the word drai ( Druid ) can only be traced to the 8th-century Irish glosses , but there is a strong tradition current in Irish literature that the Druids and their lore ( druidecht ) were either of an aboriginal or Pictsih origin . As to Wales , apart from the existence of Druids in Anglesey there is little to be said except that the earliest of the bards ( the Cynfeirdd ) very occasionally called themselves derwyddon ".
“ The Irish Druid was a notable person , figuring in the earliest sagas as prophet teacher and magician ; he did not possess , nevertheless , the judicial powers ascribed by Caesar to the Gallic Druids , nor does he seem to have been a member of a national college an Archdruid at its head ".
“ Further , there is no mention in any of the texts of the Irish Druids presiding at sacrifices , though they are said to have conducted idolatrous worship and to have celebrated funeral and baptismal rites . They are best described as seers who were , for the most part , sycophants of princes ”.
" Origin : some confusion is avoided if a distinction is made between the origin of the Druids and the origin of druidism . Of the officials themselves , it seems most likely that their order was purely Celtic , and that it originated in Gaul , perhaps as a result of contact with the developed society of Greece ; but druidism , on the other hand , is probably in its simplest terms the pre-Celtic and aboriginal faith of Gaul and the Brithish Isles that was aposted with little modification by the migrating Celts . It is easy to understand that this faith might acquire the special distinction of antiquity in remote districts , such as Britain , and this view would explain the belief expressed by Caesar that the discipline of Druidism was of insular origin ”.
" The etymology of the word Druid is still doubtful , but the old orthodox view taking dru as a strengthening prefix and uid as meaning “ knowing ”, whereby the Druid was a very learned man , has been abandoned in favour of a derivation from an oak word . Pliny ' s derivation from Greek ( δρυς ) is , however , improbable ”.
“ A great revival of interest in the Druids , largely promulgated by the archaeological theories of Aubrey and Stukeley and by romanticism generally , took place in the XVIII and XIX centuries . One outcome of this interest was the invention of “ neodruidism ”, an extravagant mixture of helio-arkite theology and Welsh bardilore , and another result is that more than one society has professed itself as inheriting the traditional knowledge and faith of the early Druids . The United Ancient Order of Druids , however , a friendly society founded in the XVIII century , makes no such claim ”.
Uncle Kurt had handed me an article from the Encyclopedia Britannica , identical to the one Tarstein made him read in Germany in 1937 . Considering what I had learned lately about the Druids , ever since they murdered Belicena Villca , and after reading her letter and receiving the masterful explanations of Professor Ramírez , it is natural that I shared the criteria of Konrad Tarstein , in the sense that this article was too summarized and ambiguous to justify its inclusion in such a prestigious work : the first edition of the Encyclopedia British dated from 1771 , so it might be expected that in 1930 they would have gathered enough material on the Druids to compose a more extensive and complete article . But it was obvious that the English did not want to delve into the history of some ancient and forgotten Priests , that could kill today with renewed efficiency .
– On the second visit I made to Konrad Tarstein --Uncle Kurt recalled-- he approved my reasoning and assured me that what happened in the article was the most common occurrence , and that he wanted to alert me about it ; that ' s why he had given it to me : to put me on alert that an incredible European conspiracy denied the information or distorted it , in order to prevent that glances from undesirables could fall on a subject that the most powerful synarchic forces were interested in hiding . And he alerted me again about the , incomprehensible by then , circumstance that I was the prey that They would set out to hunt .
Anyway , neffe ; regarding the information it was easy to verify that Tarstein was correct and that he did not admit a simple explanation of the druidic occultation carried out in England . This will be obvious if you make an enlightening comparison . For example , read the article " Druid " of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Montaner and Simón , which is edited in Barcelona at the end of the XIX
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