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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospam@this.addy   
      
   Akins of that Ilk wrote:   
   > On May 11, 12:17 pm, "1X2Willows" wrote:   
   >> conwaycaine wrote:   
   >>> "An Coibhi Drui" wrote   
   >>   
   >>> Yeah, the Druids looked on as the pre-Christians built Newgrange!   
   >>   
   >>> **And Stonehenge was built long before the first Mistletoe bough was   
   >>> ever cut with a golden sickle   
   >>   
   >> Trivia interlude: Loranthus Europaeus is not even native to the   
   >> British Isles and gold certainly too soft to cut it. Said famous   
   >> historical account refers to the Continent and most likely sickles   
   >> of highly polished bronze. Viscum Alba, while related, doesn't   
   >> possess those legendary healing powers which are being utilized   
   >> in modern cancer treatment among other uses. And yes, there weren't   
   >> any Druids by this name around when Stonehenge was built and far   
   >> less at the time of construction of Newgrange and other structures   
   >> erected by the Bell-Beaker culture.   
   >   
   > Do you know what the priests of the religion practiced by the builders   
   > of Stonehenge were called? How do you know that they weren't Druids?   
      
   Those are already loaded questions, by sheer application of modern   
   terminology and mindset. What evidence is there for any kind of priests   
   of any sort of organized religion at all? The short answer is: None.   
      
   The principle of Occam's Razor suggests a local variation of the sort of   
   nature-spiritual cosmology which we'll find across the globe at the time.   
   This means before any kind of gods in anthropomorphic form.   
      
      
   > Druidism was said by contemporary sources from the B.C. era to have   
   > originated in Britain, and to have spread from Britain into Gaul.   
      
   Gaius Iulius?  Bah!   
      
   Might as well believe the former president when he claims Al Kaida is   
   spreading from Iraq and we better send our armies over there to clean   
   house, or else.   
      
   Oh wait...   
      
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