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I highly recommend “The Secret of the Stones” on Netflix to give you a super fascinating look into the real history of Ireland. They’ve used new technology to make important discoveries, giving us accurate history. There is crossover here with the Maya carving our human history in stone also.

Irish Central Staff
@IrishCentral
Dec 19, 2022

Maya tribes 13 and 14 are Red Skywalker time travelers and prophets, and White Wizard are goddess shaman, healers. The magic is in sync with the Druids and that late time period after humans arrived on earth to evolve again after the Tiamat/Mars blowup.

Our modern understanding of Irish and Celtic Druids is derived from four major periods of history. Who were the Druids? Their legacy is the most enduring and most mysterious.

• Today, the word “druid” conjures thoughts of magic. It also makes us think of wizardry and spiritualism. However, in ancient times, the definition of Druid was much broader.
• During the Iron Age, the Druids made up the higher-educated tier of Celtic society, including poets, doctors, and spiritual leaders. The legacy of this last group is the most enduring and the most mysterious.
• 25,000-year history of rebirth. Evidence of the Druid spiritual tradition dates back 25,000 years. This evidence is found in European caves. Examples include the Pinhole caves in Derbyshire, England. There are also Chauvet or Lascaux caves in France. The Altamira in Spain is another example. These caves feature paintings of wild animals on their walls. Candidates for initiation would crawl into the caves to be reborn in the light of day.  This theme of death and rebirth remains a continuing thread in the spiritual practice of Druidry throughout the centuries. This practice of seeking rebirth within the Earth is evident around 3000 BC. At that time, people built great mounds where initiates would sit in darkness. They waited to be “reborn” with the light. An example is Ireland’s Newgrange in Co Meath. A shaft is oriented to the winter solstice sunrise there. It fills the chamber with light at dawn. This spiritual tradition persisted for four and a half thousand years. It continued into the sixteenth century, when Christian clerics transcribed the key text of Druid spirituality from oral tradition. The text describes the spiritual and magical training of a Druid. He is eaten by a Goddess and enters her belly. Then, he is reborn as the greatest poet in the land.
• Origins of the term “druid”. The word “Druid” derives from the Latin “druidae” and from Gaulish “druides.” It is also thought to stem from a Celtic compound of “dru-wid.” “Dru” means tree, and “wid” means to know. This reflects the importance of trees in Celtic spirituality and symbols. The Old Irish form was “drui,” and in Modern Irish and Gaelic, the word is “draoi” or “druadh” (magician, sorcerer).

Educated ancient leaders

Druidry.org marks four major periods of history.

The prehistoric period saw tribes from Europe moving westwards towards Britain and Ireland. This movement occurred as the Ice Age retreated. These people had considerable knowledge of astronomy and mathematics and great engineering skills. The megalith building culture developed at this time. This period saw the rise of great mounds like Newgrange and circles of stone like Stonehenge.

Next came the period of documented history, when classical writers left behind written works about the Celts and Druids. The Celts had a highly sophisticated religious system. There were three types of Druids. The Bards knew the songs and stories of the tribe. The Ovate were the healers and seers. The Druids were the philosophers, judges, and teachers.

The third period, which lasted for a thousand years, began with the coming of Christianity. During this time, Christian clerics preserved Celtic and Druid spirituality. They recorded many of the old stories and myths conveyed by the Druids. Most Druids converted to Christianity. St Patrick recorded all of the old Druid laws of Ireland. This preservation maintained information on the ethics and social structure of the pre-Christian Celtic culture.

The fourth and final period started in the sixteenth century. European scholars “rediscovered” the Druids and their Celtic heritage. Scholars not only translated classical Druid texts, but they also printed them. They recognized that their ancestors were not the savages the Church portrayed them to be. During this period of “Druid Revival,” groups and societies were established to study Druidry and Celticism. Cultural festivals celebrating their languages and traditions sprang up throughout Europe. This period of revival has grown into a renaissance that continues to this day.

* Originally published in 2014. Updated in 2022.

Juxtaposed with the Maya

The ‘Mayan’ third age lasted from 7,000 BC to 3100 BC. They left the forest and rebuilt their world. They were farmers and ate tzinlocoacoc that is similar to almond paste as distinct to the wild fruits of the previous age. This was the age of fire.

The Mayan Prophecies tells us that the third age ended about 3,100 BC or (5,100 years ago) when excessive UV was hitting the earth, consequently threatening human survival. The survivors of the third age then moved to the high plateau at Teotihuacan.

The third age ended when an increase in solar radiation led to a loss of fertility in people. The Irish Quartz age (our final passage cairn building age) ended about 5,000 or 5,500 years ago. When we study with this as a filter, we can see the various effects of UV in different zones.

The Mayan Prophecies by Maurice Cotteral and Adrian Gilbert show the UV burn zone as 20 degrees north and south of the equator. Ireland is at 50 degrees north of the equator, over thirty degrees above the burn zone. The effect at Ireland’s latitude was dense cloud cover, permanent rain, flooding, and deluge. The transpiration cycle, the cycle of rain and rainmaking, tells us of an equal and opposite reaction with the sun on the sea making hot ‘steam’ and then the cold and heavy clouds falling as rain only to start all over again.

When the burn zone was hot, there were very wet conditions elsewhere. This is when Ireland’s bogs began to expand and grow at an alarming rate, and at this time, the ancient Irish lived and farmed and had their temples on top of mountains. It just got too wet.

Permanent rain! Imagine it! When we examine the known dwellings of that time, we quickly see that they were laid out compactly but not lived in all day by a family as today.