The Druid and Celt Religion and Culture

The Druids were the Magi or philosopher-magicians of the early Celtic civilization. Druid history dates back to the migration of the Indo-European-speaking people in the second millennium B.C. (approximately 4000 years ago) when nomadic tribes who occupied the area around the Caspian Sea in southern Russia began to migrate southeast-ward into the Indus Valley (India) and westward into Asia Minor the Balkans and the European plain. Around the tenth century B.C. a people recognizably Celtic began to emerge from Bohemia (in western Czechoslovakia). In the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. they began to migrate down into Italy and Spain and further west into France and Belgium and eventually into the British Isles.

These people were generally tall and skilled horsemen, metalworkers, and warriors. The Welsh Triads or "Traditional Chronicles" hold that Hu Gadarn or "Hu the Mighty" who was a descendant of the patriarch Abraham led a party of settlers from Asia Minor to the British Isles and established a religious practice among the Celts that we now refer to as Druidism. Several meanings are offered for the word Druid including: "a servant of truth" "all knowing or wise man" "an oak" or "equal in honor." Generally a Druid is considered one with gnosis or spiritual awareness.

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