Guest guest Posted July 27, 2002 Report Share Posted July 27, 2002 *** KELTOI *** Someone wrote to me: "I've seen you mention the (our) clann MacAoidh twice now...the more interested I've become in who we now are, as a result of who we mentally, emotionally, spiritually and historically were. Care to share information about the books on your shelf? Das Goravani: Firstly, I'll list the books to get that out of the way. I have read most of half of these, and it goes on each day. The Ancient Celts (Barry Cunliffe) The Druids (Jean Markale) Historical Atlas of the Celtic World Ireland, an Illustrated History Symbols of the Celts Glamoury Celtic Tree Mysteries Irish Symbols of 3500 BC Irish Mythology by Ellis The Celtic Lunar Zodiac The first two are the most important to me so far. They are also larger books. The third one is good in that it contains alot of paintings and drawings which help one grasp what they looked like culturally etc. Clann a MacAoidh's saying "With a strong hand" shows the chivalrous side strongly, as well as helpful and hard working. A strong hand is important in natural life. As owners of the Central Highlands, obviously a very strong Clann. Their plant is the arrow stalk plant known as Ngetal, the reeds that grow on lakes. Most likely the name Aoidh means "guest" in Buerla (English). Guests are well treated, by the way, in the old culture. Their tartans are all very dull only blue and green, dark, not reddish at all, none of them. Some of the most dull and simplest, very old world. I am happy for this personally. What I've Learned To attempt to convey to anyone the feelings re Keltoi that surge in me at the moment as now, when I begin to try do such a transmission, are such that they freeze me with indecision. I struggle to decide whether to begin with religion or cultural genocide. One thing rises above all others, and it does so because I know there is mostly ignorance surrounding the Keltoi's very existence, what to speak of their details. So I begin I suppose in this way, hoping that it has the maximum impact on getting the very most main points across to the reader who goes no further in their reading here: Starting around the time of Christ and winding up only 300 years ago say, there was a cultural and sometimes physical genocide of a race that covered Europe called the Celts (Kelts), and you should know that basically what happened was extremely similar to what happened when the white man began to colonize america- they "cleared" the natives off the land, one way or the other, and in doing so, ignored their indiginous cultures wonders completely, anilhilated that culture, and thus basically stole it from those of us who live in the future by burrying it in the past. There's your summary. You should hear lots of crying. Lots and lots. The pain of oppression, death, disease, total loss, forced migration, forced total abandonment of thousands of years old culture, forced changes of language, outlawing of priests, schools, music, and so much more. What came in replacement was Roman ways and Language, and Christian thought and religion and social order. What stayed was what was always in the people, just like American Indians. So are there any Celts left? In one sense, their blood is mixed all over Europe, all throughout White Peoples everywhere often. However, to generalize and make it simpler and clearer, I'll give the following. Please note that I purposefully summarize history greatly in order to show the forest. I am a forest person moreso than a tree (details) person. Celts: There are few left. Basically, only those of pure Scottish or Irish Catholic blood. Celts either have reddish hair, or in the case of the Irish Catholic Celts, it's generally blackish or a cross between red and black, which gives you auburns etc. They often have droopy eyes (like Paul MacArtney did-notice the Mac). Those who have black hair, ir you look at it in the Sunlight, you'll see the strands are reddish to the core, having a covering blackish color. There were bloodlines that got mixed into Ireland including Spanish, from mercenerys the Irish invited there, who stayed and married into... In Scotland, this was not so much the case. If you find burly reddish skin reddish hair scotsfolk, that's an ancient Celtic look. The Irish Celts therefore are a little unique. The Irish were however a part of the greater Celtic world, which in high times was centered in France. The Irish, British and Mainland Celts were one people, pre-BC. They generally had a curly wavy reddish hair. Because Ireland is small, inbreeding took place. A look and a smallness and lankiness became predominant compared to the Scots who remained larger in all respects. The black hair that I think was increased by spanish blood also spread in Ireland. A redhead therefore could be a scot or an irish, but that certain black haired irish look is unique to the irish catholics, who are of direct celtic blood, and that is the look my mother had, from her pure irish line. Some of my siblings got it more than me. My hair is not entirely black, no, but the red is obvious in the light, very obvious. The hair on my body is even more red, much more. I also freckle easily, and don't tan, which is typical of the dark haired Irish Celts. They have the whitest skin around. The English are mostly a great mix, mostly Nordic and Germanic, because of the Anglo-Saxxon and Vikings heavy input there. Hence, the straighter blonder hair is of Viking origins, and you see it up there to this day alot- very fine straight whitish blonde hair and a square face, with olive skin, not bright white skin like the Celts. Celts have bright white skin and reddish hair which is wavy or curly like, it's fine, but looks thick due to the tangle it has within it. The Celts braided this annoying hair back, and then it looks very nice. My hair, when out, increases my head temperature tremendously, as the curly thick matte holds heat well. When braided back, it's out of my face and I'm much cooler. I am always hot. On my scandinavian tour, my head sweat profusely the whole trip. Even today in Eugene I need very little clothing. I can always go out in a T-Shirt. I am, by bloode, for generations, used to a wet and cold and green climate, focused not on outdoor sport, but in the mind and heart stuff, spirituality, study, "magic/worship" etc. Even today, I only stay home, write, study, look at trees out the window, recluse. I have no desire to do the stuff of American culture. I feel isolated. People say I have no boundaries, because I'm so friendly and forward. I am like my mother was, and her mother. I can see that now. They were this way. In a sense, it's a disease, but one caused by culture and environment, not me. It's not that I'm broken, it's that I'm not getting what I need. Many are not. In this homogenized, christianized, romanized culture, there is no room for the Wild Right of the White In other words, it's not OK to be an American Indian in America unless you are one. If you're white, it's weird. When white people dress up with Mohawks and loan cloths, which you do see on the streets in Eugene, then you are definitely a weirdo. The prejudice the Romans had for the "filthy barbarian Celts" is infused into the Whites of America today, who's own ancestors, whether they were Celts, Germans, Nordics, or Russians, or whatever, usedto live like that, think like that, themselves. We have forgotten, and become bigots. And why? Because we have so much plastic and so many organized neat little arrangements for all our material needs, but wait, we don't bother to notice that it's based on a system which is not natural, and will therefore self terminate in time. So are we to judge the natural who successfully live on the Earth without changing it at all? --------- The clann's of Ireland are repeated in Scotland because the Scots were Irish originally, and sometimes the reverse happened. The two are very close and have always traded etc. 300 years ago, there was still widescale "clearing" of "Irish Natives" off the good lands in Ireland. These are my relatives. They lived like American Indians, in very simple earth based homes, and lived directly off herding, and other things. It rains alot there, there's not much to see or do. Their culture was very specifically adapted to this by being rich with another world, a world of mind, magic, belief, lore, teaching, listening to stories, and so on. They were "dirty, poory, backwards" to onlookers. To those inside, the Celts themselves, they had a very fine life and didn't want to be disturbed. But disturbed they were. I won't go into the genocides and land rip offs. Just remember American history and you got it basically. Really. When you think of Ireland, think of Poland, American Indians, Jews in Nazi Germany, Blacks in South Africa, etc. It's very similar. At certain times, the oppression was so bad that these people, all Irish Catholics only, that's the only ones this applies to, fled Ireland to America. That's who I come from directly. Did you know that millions died of starvation there during the last century for example? Picture a white version of Somalia. Picture the truth too- nobody was able to help. So they died. It was less than 100 years ago. Now in reading, I realize: I am an American Indian By this I mean, I am just like them. That is, in very recent times, say the last few centuries, my ancestors had everything taken from them by a militarily superior race, who also killed many of us, insulted us in their journals, spread amongst themselves the idea that we, our people, are extremely low class and fit to be killed or cleared only. This I share with the American Indians. We too have mostly black hair, but very Then, secondly, I share with them other traits. Both of our races are known for alchoholism and depression, lethargy. Why? Simple, the society we are being forced to live in through both opression and ignorance on our parts does not suit our bodily impulses or natures, and our natural instincts in our intellects, which are also part of our bodies or our genetic heritage. In other words, the motion of our ancestors moods is in the genes. The hunting, the nomadicness at times, the village oriented lifestyle, ie, the lifestyle where EVERYONE is ONE together on a regular basis, that lifestyle which includes DAILY live music with dancing, where spirit and body intertwine wonderfully, where nudity is accepted, where connection with nature is implicit and honorary, where magic is believed in, astrology, worship of natural gods and planets as well as the one supreme god, and so much more. Other places also contain modern peoples of still Celtic blood, especially Brittany, or Briton, on the Coast of France. This place is very special to the Celts today. The culture there still exists but in modernized form, Christianized too. But at least there's lots of the mood and imagery, music, etc., left, as there is in Ireland and Scotland. But everyone should know that most of the "Celticstuff" you see and can buy, is post christianity, which means, it's not really Celtic, in fact it's offensive, to some of us. So forget about "The Celtic Cross" if you really want to understand Celts or Druids (the priestly class and their teachings). That's something brought onto them, forced onto them by history. It's of opressionary origin, not Celtic origin. I personally have had a hard time in life in some ways, and I can trace this back to an inner nature which is rather constantly feeling stifled in the culture in which I live. I feel things in me that do not at all match the cultural norms. Like American Indians, you find true Irish therefore gathering together sometimes and just chatting, drinking, and going down. It doesn't work for them. I watched this in all my known ancestors on my mothers side. Alchoholism, intense smoking, depression, reclusiveness, intense religious beliefs, a manic depressive mood too. All of this is due to being a caged animal, so to speak. Animal. Hmmm. Were we? Well, when you take apart the art and learn what all those little symbols mean, and listen to Druidic teaching, and listen to Celtic Music, and realize that the oldest astronomically correct archaeological evidence is in Ireland, that the oldest known road in the Western world is in Ireland, not Rome as was thought previously, I think you can conclude we were not animals. There are stone carvings of the zodiac with appropriate timing devices and all, enscribed in large stones, dating to the time of Krishna and Pandavas. When I read the Keltic stories or lore, I hear India. It's so similar, with magical weapons granted by Gods, a hero who has to kill his own grandfather, stories of heroes travelling between higher and lower worlds, the visitations of Gods, shape shifting, sacrifices, shared words like Dhanu and Bhag, meaning same things, many examples of that, very similar spiritual concepts in some places, and so much more. No, we were not animals, we were a sophisticated natural culture who had existed there for a very long time. It was our place, and we were radically invaded, over and over, always outnumbered or overpowered. Our only success was in 1922, the year my mother was born, when Ireland got to rule itself, except for that part in the North which is still protestant and still connected moreso to England therefore. Now, the sad thing is, like American Indians, not everyone has the full knowledge of the culture, only the class that keeps it alive through oral training which is extensive. So as you shut up and close down those druidic schools, the masses easily fall to Christianity, not knowing better, and plus, under so much oppression from England, at times, the Catholic priests and monks, became their refuge. The conversion of Ireland was bloodless. But, the sad thing is that the Christian culture doesn't match the Celtic Irish blood at all. From the start Ireland was always different, producing either radical priests or difficult priests with their own ideas, usually including something pagan or Celtic. Since I converted to a culture that's alot like the Celtic willingly 23 years ago, as I read about Celtic now, I do not have the problems others have with the symbols, beliefs, and practices. A Hindu and a Celt can be pretty darn close friends actually, with only the difference being that the Celt would have to be allowed to be himself, which in India would put them in an odd type of outcaste, in the old days, but these days, no problem. Celts act out. Celts like movement, passion, interraction, song, dance, friendliness, merriment, deep spiritual belief, stories, and fun. There is no concept of sin in Druidic belief. There is another concept. It's similar in Hinduism really. You are creating good or bad for yourself, but it's not like Christianity, where they have lists of different types of sins. Basically, Christianity, an extension of Judaism, forced itself on the old world mostly through Paul, and became the worldwide defacto powerful standard religion of all white people from Ireland to Siberia, and all over the world too. These powerful European races continued with their powerful outreach mode, and conquered the whole world. Today, no part of the world can stand up to the Whites combined. They are simply still being the same warrior type race they always were, whether Germanic, Celtic, or Nordic, there was alot of conquest and fight in these old races. They continued on up until recent times, when worldwide communication, newspapers, democracy and so forth, made it impossible for total exploitation of races to be carried out, South Africa being a recent memory, but there are so many in this very last Century, including India. Now, Christianity apparently did not improve the Celt. The "Celtus Domesticus" that was sought, to calm down Europe, to make it less blood thirsty, seems to have failed. Now Italy is in Nato with Europe and the US. The Catholic Church is still there, but weakening year by year in power over and anincreasingly scientific world with other concerns, not open to having their wool pulled over with diatribes that sound ridiculous today. I realize just lately, the Whites are not conquering, but Britain was in India until rather recently, and just returned Hong Kong, etc. Please give my pen the lenience of century spanning and generalization to move fast, thanks. So, now, the thing is this: In the Hindu teachings, it says, Krisha says, "whenever the warrior caste gets too strong, I have to appear to bring it down". There are many places in Hindu scriptures where it is mentioned that the warrior caste became too large, and thus burdensome on all. Parasaram Vishnu, an incarnation of God, is said to have chased this menacing caste out of India twenty one times, they say. At least we know this: At times the warrior caste overloaded India, causing blood and problems. This is what happened with the Celts as well. The real reason they were destroyed was all the destruction they had done to others in the name of the freedoms afforded by their reincarnation without guilt philosophy. It was only their form while in action they watched over, thinking that all is under God. So with the permission of the oneness given by astrology, and with the enthusiasm to maximize and play out the free will side to the max, in that spirit of living "totally", they did alot of "raids" on neighbors for centuries in central and southern europe, exciting rome and caesar quite a bit. Many think that the Celts were a warrior race. This is only partly true. That's what you see most, just as we always talk about our top politicians and their daily movements daily. It's as if George Bush is half the country himself, if you just look at journals. That's what archaeological viewing is like- it's always skewed. Trust me. Most Celts were farmers or herders, hunters, peaceful, not fighting anybody. Especially true in Ireland, hence the bloodless conversion. What the warrior caste earned us in reputation, the truths of what's left, the art and other things, shows the other side, the actually predominant reality, which was the magic of the rich spiritual daily life of an extremely nature based society. Lively play in greener places that is how in bygone ages children grew to kings and sages My friends, I could write so much more. I have the ability to absorb books at rapidity. I am also, I am told, of Druidic line, but whatever. Blood grows thin through generations. I've learned from India, that blood doesn't count, Guna and Karma does, your qualities, and your actions. I know what are my qualities, and my actions, and thereby I personally know my place in the knot of life we share. We all come back, and we were all here before. We have been perhaps on the sides we fight today, or perhaps the other. We cannot know. I am of Brahminical thinking, Druidic thinking. Merlin just laughs and disapears when faced with many mundane questions. The point is, I am not a racist, nor a hater, rather, I do not kill animals because I do not want to kill anything if at all possible, so I eat little, and try to keep it to that which is picked, without killing, and so on. Like all good things, this requires effort. It is in the effort towards goodness that real advancement of all things lay. The Gita and the Druids teach this. So onwards we must struggle, towards goodness. The Celts were friendly and good mostly. I think some flaws in the transmission, or the teachings, or abuse by warrior caste, or the effects of Kali Yuga, altogether, brought them down. Of course, similarly, if one judges Hinduism by seeing the worst streets in Delhi, then they will be sadly mistaken. The tricks of the Druids and Brahmins are similar, their teachings similar, and many words. I can easily see the ancient connections. Through all this, the Hindu and now Celtic studies, I am finding who I am, in so many ways, spiritually and materially. I am also gathering much to speak about in the future, regarding where we should try to strive now, as a Western society facing serious environmental and social structure issues. This paragraph is perhaps hard for some: People's genes reflect planets, the past of their race, which is planetary, and carries an attitude. Italians, in general, are going to have a different mood than the Irish. An India is not going to feel the same impulses as a Korean. Blood carries these things somewhat. That is my opinion now. Genes are not only drawing a physical body up, but an emotional one as well. Our races are the ongoing development of our consciousness, mixing of them induces mixing of ideas. A well mixed person may be more stable and less imbalanced than a person who has one kind of blood, from perhaps a culture that is somewhat imbalanced, prone to inbreeding, due to ancient cultural or land/travel limitations and beliefs. Thus, judgement can easily set in. Last night, I listened in horror, as a young man told me very very plainly, with the agreement of the others his age, that the "lowest 10% of the population should be rounded up and sterilized". It's important we talk alot. Naziism's like buddy could return with the blessings of "modern science", which is but one way of looking at life, one culture, one misled culture in my opinion. The ancient cultures each had their own nobility, and right to exist. The lifestyles, impulses and situations that exist today for "the lowest 10%" are a result of divine things, and historical realities. Judgement in that way expressed by that youth is wholly born of the modern situation. Centuries ago we had no such strong walls and locks as now, such separation and distrust. No, we did not. This era of mechanization, walls, locks, machinery, unlimited mixing, loss of ancient cultures, loss of beliefs, loss of connection to the Earth, causes one to start to see people in this way as he expressed. He doesn't realize it, but he is wholly under the influence of "modern scienfific rationale" which is actually the most barbaric attitude one can have, as it has no respect for anything except one's own perception of how life should be lived. It is not only not scientific, it's full of ignorance, hatred, greed, bias, bigotry, and so on. Gypsies and "bums" have a right to be that. It's karma and choice. So long as they are peaceful, they live. Period. And who says "we" are "right" in ANY WAY AT ALL. Just because we have strong buildings, space ships, DNA research and are way overweight, doesn't give us the right to think we are the judges, the best that live, the one's who know what's right. This auto-self-granted caretaker of the world status is absolutely Roman in feel. I hear Hail Caesar and Hile Hitler all over again. I am Irish. I am Celt. I am not sorry about this. I am happy. I do not kill. I love. I love God. I love You. Within the species of horses, there are many breeds, with different needs. Do not kill one because it is not as fast as another, or do not kill the fast one because it cannot til a field. Please! Live, let live. Live simply, so that others may simply live. Respect life, in all it's forms. They are all there for the same reasons- their own karmas, pasts, the will of the divine, and all are equally helpless, and have equal right to decide how to deal with this human condition, and if there choice is to stay stoned, that's their right and choice. If they choose to climb mountains, so what. If they choose to dance and sing, OK. But if they choose to cross into another country to conquer and pillage, then that's a problem. For myself, I have lived in sadness in America all my life, because it is so boring and slow. I hate the doors, walls, lack of happiness and fun, lack of dance and live music. I hate so much of it, and I realize, I am Indian, I am Irish, same thing. Give me outdoors with song and dance at night with brothren and sisters. Let the children play. Make merry. Also work. But where has gone the happiness and merriment which included so much physical excercise that the Celts were known for being utterly fit, and punished obesity (now I know why obesity really bothers me- it's an inbred cultural no no for thousands of years) Again, I remember something, like American Indians and other specific races, the Celts too, to this day, have their own special set of diseases that they alone get. These are not well known, but they exist. I won't enumerate. The fact is, not all white people are the same. In Oregon every year there's this thing called the country fair. It's massive. It's probably the largest hippie gathering in America each year, or one of them anyway. At this thing, which is on a massive private farm covered with old forest, there are like cities of booths built into the trees, out of wood. It is like an old Celtic city in a way, very much so. Hundreds of thousands of people are walking in the brood dirt roads through the trees and booths, shopping and talking, and everywhere is music and oddities to behold. It is entirely pagan. The woman, many of them, go ahead and go topless, all ages and sizes. It's not an LA sex show, not at all. Here you got the ugliest going naked, and pretty young ones, and everything inbetween. Painted people abound, winged people, masked people, weird and sweaty people, it's pretty wild. It's a pagan extravaganza. One sees many Irish people there- the black wavy hair and very white skin. It's a natural. Our recent ancestors lived in a world of intense belief and constant use of natural "magic" which is really alot like Hinduism's many little rules, like going outside and throwing food into the air to symbolize feeding the Gods or some such thing... In Ireland this got the name "magic" and "sorcery". It's really just demigod worship folks, really, and worshipping natural forces or aligning with them, using them homeopathically to ward off other effects etc. It's like the wearing of Gems, very much like that, extremely so. Irish lived in that world, a world of Glamoury, the Green Magic, the secrets of nature and how to understand and work with nature. So a country fair in the trees with the people is pretty darn right on and normal. We used to cover our bodies with clay which was mixed with a bright blue flower. We would look sky blue. Guess who else in ancient history was blue? How about Krishna, Shiva, Durga, etc... It says in the old testament that god is blue by way of reference to the color of a blue stone as the color of God. The flower the Celts used is called "mode" by them. It's sky blue producing when mixed, then smeared on (see "Braveheart") I have recently remembered how to braid my hair properly, it came back. You take your 3 strands, 2 from front, and one from back, and braid it back, out of and off of the face, and it works great. You end up with a french braid style look, all hair back nicely, pretty, and no scrunchies used, only takes a couple minutes to do it too. It stays through showers and sleeping too. The Celts were known for having long hair braided back, men and woman. I am always alone. I wish I could dance at night with my kind, in blue clay, in the moonlight, playing drums, dancing and dancing, then laying together on the ground for warmth, sleep, get up and begin another day of joy. Who else that was blue danced in the moonlight? Corporations, sunglasses, nintendo, nuclear waste, cement, pavement, cars, airplanes... These things are not familiar to my soul and heart. I hope I am reaching some minds. There is really no point to this except to open minds to realities they may not have seen. This article has various faults. Please excuse them. Especially if I have erred in historical re-presentation or any other mistakes re facts, them especially, please forgive, and feel free to correct me. My aim is actually personal in most senses, but I share to help others who might be helped. I mean to roust no jousts. I do not mean to cause pain, hatred, or any such negative emotions. Mine is a battle of ideas. My goal, a healthier Earth and Human Race, and all species, that's all. That's something we can all agree is a good thing. I am Raige of Clann MacAoidh, who with a strong hand, rules the untouchable central highlands, we are known by Danu, the arrow, we have returned to restore the Keltoi to some dignity and self respect and self knowledge. We repesent no threat to anyone at all. It is within that this work goes on. We know our siblings were everywhere, before the great change, around 2000 years ago, when the simple Jewish religion spread over our lands. The essences of both are the same- be the best person you can be, but the original is better, for it simply is wider and more universal, more Catholic, because it includes nature, all of it, including God Supreme, the Planets, and the Earth. We love Jesus, but we think Paul was not correct in his ideas and wished he would not have done what he did, and the others like him that followed. It started so much trouble for 2 thousands of years now. When Jesus said he came only for the Jews, which he said a few times, we wished they, like Paul, would have listened. I come only for Celts really. I am trying to make certain whites take a step back in time for the sake of the Earth and themselves, their inner happiness. It is for them to listen to messages about themselves. If it inpires others, fine, but it is really a message saying, "Hey Celt, have you hugged your mother lately." (get in touch with yourself in nature sister) Now we are all in communication worldwide, now we can share our secrets that work, and help each other live the best lives possible, and because of this communication, we are no longer ignorant of each other. English has spread around the world, that is one benefit of this era, and so we are talking. So to make the best use of this, we should use it to make total peace, between all lands. That should be our goal, peace, properity, happiness, and safety for all, and the right to live the cultures they want to live on their own lands, and the right to live cultures together in safety within America, the land of all together. Each culture has something to offer, and they are all amazing when examined closely. Genocide is like extinction- they are the same. Cultural genocide means the extinction of ancient and time proven natural wisdom, which is a HUGE LOSS to everyone forever. That is to be abhored. Each side in the great epics of Europe has faults and are heroes. Every side has done rights and wrongs. I single out nobody today as any sort of responsible party. We have all reincarnated numerous times as these events went on. It is not to be blaming others, but greeting others, that we need to get on with. But feel free to find your culture, find your blood, preserve your essential culture, and be happy. Share, and listen. A big pog on the cheek, Be Happy, Om Shanti, dg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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