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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospams@least.invalid   
      
   Akins of that Ilk wrote:   
   > On May 9, 2:20 pm, "1X2Willows" wrote:   
   >> Custos Custodum wrote:   
   >>> Akins of that Ilk  wrote   
   >>   
   >>>> it, indeed, a duty to cover their altars with the blood of captives   
   >>>> and to consult their duties through human entrails." - Tacitus,   
   >>>> Annals   
   >>   
   >>>> So, Auld Bob, you take your opinion that "nothing can be known   
   >>>> about the Druids" from the eminent British Museum which advocates   
   >>>> that anything written about them by their contemporaries in   
   >>>> ancient times should be tossed aside as unreliable?   
   >>   
   >>> Where Tacitus is concerned, then most certainly. Just look what he   
   >>> wrote about 'Calgacus'. Every bit as fanciful as your own   
   >>> scribblings.   
   >>   
   >> Where it comes to Roman accounts about the Celts in general, we   
   >> need to look no further than US-American accounts about Iraq in 2003.   
   >   
   > So Dan, you want to throw out everything that was written about the   
   > ancient Druids by their Greek and Roman contemporaries, and you want   
   > to throw out everything written down of the old Gaelic and Cymric   
   > legends because they weren't written down until the Middle Ages by the   
   > only literate people around, who happened to be Christian   
   > clerics.....so, what does that leave you with, Dan?   
      
   Something which you'll never be confided with, because you're such   
   an asshole.   
      
   Short answer.   
   Do you need me to expound?   
      
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