About this title: A comprehensive and revealing look at the druids and their fundamental role in Celtic society that dispels man of the misconceptions about these important religious figures and their doctrine. Jean Markale, a leading authority on Celtic culture, is the author of more than 40 books on pre-Christian societies.
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Description: Good. 1999-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Rochester, Vt
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780892817030ISBN:0892817038
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xi, 276pp, index. As new copy. Presented in 4 parts: The Druids, The Beginnig Times, Initiations and Rituals & Druidic Thought. This book gives an excellent overview of the history, beliefs and practices of the Celtic Druid priests who apprenticed for 20 years to learn their craft. Using descriptions provided by historians and chroniclers of antiquity, as well as those recorded by the Celts when compelled to use writing to preserve their heritage the author pieces ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Date Published: 1999-02-01
ISBN-13:9780892817030ISBN:0892817038
Description: Very Good- Paperback in very good-condition. Shelf/edgewear to cover wraps, plastic beginning to curl at edges. Spine is uncreased, binding and text also in very good condition. read more
Edition: Us ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions International
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780892817030ISBN:0892817038
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. star stamped on pg top edges, some notes in margins, some edgewear and spinewear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: INNER TRADITIONS
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780892817030ISBN:0892817038
Description: New. Druidism was one of the greatest and most exalting adventures of the human spirit, attempting to reconcile the unreconcilable, the individual and the collective, creator and created, good and evil, day and night, past and future, and life and death. read more
"Meticulously researched with interesting speculation built on that. Markale puts the druids in their specific time, place and people, and maintains that they could only be part of that. Once their Celtic society was Romanized and Christianized there was no place for the druids, despite New Age fantasists and their white robed ceremonies at Stonehenge. The latter had no part of Celtic Druidic society, by the way, but dated from long before the Celts arrived in France, Britain and Ireland. Celtic-Druidic religion was forest-based, and their sanctuaries were in the center of forests, with no buildings or statues or stone circles. A fascinating look at a time and a people long gone, but some of whose ideas still have merit today."
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