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I bought a sewing machine yesterday (which has many more ravings attached *here*) and am so excited! I am looking forward to being able to make my own ritual clothes, though I am not sure which style to go with or material to use. Weather-wise I'll probably make more than one thing- but what to start with? I think there is sometimes a thin line between ritual and anachronistic and I don't want to step too heavily on the side of anachronism.
Yes yes, MORE on The Druids by Stuart Piggot:
I have been taking this book with me everywhere, which has been nice- especially on the MAX. I keep finding connections that Stuart (we're close now, I'll call him Stewie) doesn't mention. Perhaps I'd be a better conspiracy theorist, I don't know. Anyhow- here they are:
1) The Horse & Rider Cult
[Under Shrines & Temples pg. 40]
"At two sites, Mouriés (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Saint-Blaise (Alpes-Maritimes), fragments of earlier stone-built shrines had been incorporated into Gallo-Greek structures of the fourth century BC: at the former, stelae and a lintel were decorated with stylized figures of horses and riders in a convention that could be earlier than the fifth century, and at the latter was a jamb-stone with niches cut in it which, from the evidence of other sites, would have held skulls or severed heads."
Later [pg. 47-48]
"A few miles away, at Brigstock, were a polygonal and a circular shrine of third-fourth century A.D. date, the former overlying a pennanular ditch, presumptively pre-Roman, and the latter apparently connected with some Romano-Celtic horse-and-rider cult."
2) Egyptian Influence?
[Under 2. The Celtic World of the Druids: The Sources pg. 22]
"From the classical writers we have not only the location of a large number of named tribal groups but knowledge of the movements of the Celts from the time of the raids into Italy at the beginning of the fourth century B.C. - the marauding war-bands that thrust through the Balkans to Delphi, and eventually established the Galatian settlements in Asia Minor in 279-78 B.C. are a case in point. Celtic mercinaries served in the Greek forces, as in Sicily in 368 B.C. and in Egypt in 274."
Later [ Under Funerary Ritual pg. 47-48]
"From the seventh century B.C. to the point of Romanization such tombs occur in a Celtic context, the men's graves often provided with a four-wheeled or two-wheeled vehicle as well as martial equipment, with the inescapable implication that an otherworld is thought of as one where earthly status is recognized and prolonged to eternity. In a group of graves in immediately pre-Roman Belgic Britain - Welwyn, Stanfordbury, Mount Bures and others - there is provision not only for the chieftan's feast beyond the tomb, but for a guest, with twin double fire-dogs and wine in amphorae totalling some seven dozen bottles apiece in modern terms."
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