A simple Offering Rite, worked seated at a home shrine. Presented by Ian Corrigan, in the style of Ar nDraiocht Fein’s Order of Ritual
Video Rating: 4 / 5
A simple Offering Rite, worked seated at a home shrine. Presented by Ian Corrigan, in the style of Ar nDraiocht Fein’s Order of Ritual
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Wow, where did the Gundestrup replica come from?
Wait a minute…this isn’t world of warcraft…
This is not Druidism!!! Druids are dead centuries ago!!!
druidism is dead centuries ago and the wisdom
has gone forever
Wow! This was an excellent vid! I did find your words a little wooden to begin with, but as you began to “Get in” to the ritual, the power of your words resonated within me.
hey, i know almost nothing but i’m interested in druidry. Can you tell me something about what druids can do and what druids must do?
Nicley done sir. I showed it to my girl friend, while she liked it her main complain, an mine for that matter, is the lack of explaining why with neopagan rituals.
It would be nice for another video that went into the details of why this or that is done. An the biggest question she had, but I saddly couldn’t really answer. Is what is the point of this ritual, somthing else I’d love to see explain that isn’t really covered in many neo-pagan books.
Not every group is anal about secrecy my friend.
If its still in print i think those doubtersand skeptics here should read Ians book
Druidheachd Symbols & Rites..plus the book of songs he has published which the name escapes me
slan go foill
Hey this is really informative. I actually recreated this ritual and lets say its better than the rituals I usually make. I was actually in a full on trance, not just an in-out trance thank you. I’d like to see more soon.
what does it mater what he calls it. there is no dogma in pagan beliefs.
Beautiful!
Perhaps we should have made the vid with a wife and kids doing the rite with me. I assume many of our members will use that rite as a hearth-rite with their families. But many of our members, unfortunately imo, are solitary. We don’t disallow involvement in this path due to lack of a community, but we encourage all our members to find and build community. But even those who work in groups need to know how to do a rite alone at home, at need.
As I say, kinlessness may have been mandatory for Druids. I see nothing in lore that requires that Druids be bound in kin the way warriors and farmers were, and several bits of evidence that suggest they were not. The notion that ‘celticness’ is defined by being in clann is a doctrine I doubt at its core.
Noone at all is saying you should duplicate iron age societe, only that these rituals are no more than empty forms without the traditional bonds of family and community that they have always revolved around.
“Real need trumps scholastic doctrine”. And with most evangelical new-age spiritual movements like this, your so called “real need” also trumps over the larger cultural and linguistic context of the societe that created it. I agree with you, this is geared toward the individualist mindset, and whom the ancient Celts would have referred to as “deorad” (kinless or outsider)can now refer to him/herself as druid/ess.
I think Druidic status was more likely to have been confered by one’s teachers than one’s tuath. Druidry was/is a set of skills, more than a social rank, and only the ability to demonstrate those skills would have granted the privileges. I don’t really doubt that most Druids were attached to a tribe. However, our work is creating a neopagan Druidry, not trying to duplicate the iron Age. We have lots of solitary members, so we train solitary Druids. Real need trumps scholastic doctrine…
Yes, all this reflects the high status that the various grades of Druids enjoyed. This status is *given* by the people or tuath. A “Druid” is inherently part of a (Tribe or Tribal Confederacy)to whom he/she extends certain services, in exchange for reciprocal goods and services. Druids had rights outside their own tuath the same way that poets did. Poetry was regarded as a hereditary profession so logically it would seem the same for druids.
I see little evidence that Druids were always part of a tribe, and plenty that Druids were separate from tribal structures and obligations. Druids are said to be able to pass tribal boundaries, and archeology finds Celtic holy sites placed on the boundary between tribal lands. Druidic names almost never include a patronymic – ‘mac-anyone’. We find many tales of Druids dwelling alone in the woods. There’s no reason to assume that some Druids weren’t solitary, or that modern Druids can’t be.
So I’ll ask again. How does this idea of “solitary druid” fit into a Celtic cultural view?
“Cuban Salsa” should be fine without me for the moment. But to address the previous post, sure, there will undoubtfully be “reconstruction”, but there’s a difference between reconstruction when *necessary* and eclecticism. The notion of being a “solitary” Druid for example sounds like a carry over from Wicca or CM, as it’s certainly alien to Celtic culture.
I think Yunta51 should probably just stick to his Cuban Salsa. LOL
Exactly.
And just where did I call this an ‘authentic celtic ritual’? I believe I described it as ‘in the style of Ar nDraiocht Fein’s Order of Ritual’. Our OoR is based on shcolastic inquiry into what euro-pagan and celtic ritual would have been like, mixed with what we have learned about what makes good working modern ritual. There is no single record of an ancient Druidic ritual, so everyone who tries is making it up. This is just our version.
Well, my background is in Wicca and CM, certainly. I learned my first Gaeilge words in the old ‘Celtic Traditionalist’ coven. But then ‘reconstructionism’ hadn’t been invented yet, at that point… All modern American and European Paganism is Neopaganism – there is no remaining European paleopaganism. Celtic Reconstructionism is as Neopagan as any hippie drum circle, they just like kilts better than tie-die 😉