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Tasnaki1990 t1_j1ipw7b wrote
18th century fantasy as far as we know. We actually know very little about the druids and what we do know is from Roman and Greek sources and those are to be taken with a grain, if not a bag of salt.
neerwil t1_j1j7r3b wrote
A good example of how little we know is the misconception of how widespread the druids were. Many imagine them as a European religious sect when the truth is the best evidence we have for them is in Wales and there didn't seem to other groups organized the way the Welsh priests were in other parts of Europe.
ConradBHart42 t1_j1kmyhu wrote
Ten guys in some dank forest do some crazy shit and we're still hearing about it 300 years later.
darth_nadoma OP t1_j1low9y wrote
That was Pliny the Elder who said that. And that documentary I watched had archeologists confirm that it was probably true.
They showed a druid statue in Germany with a Mistletoe hat, and a Danish gold cauldron similar to the one in Obelix story, actually it inspired a lot of the comics.
Tasnaki1990 t1_j1n8bb5 wrote
Like I said, grain of salt. Pliny the Elder also wrote of monstrous races, the Cynocephali or Dog-Heads, the Sciapodae, whose single foot could act as a sunshade, the mouthless Astomi, who lived on scents as being true living beings on the edge of the world.
What statue is it? And is it a druid or probably a druid or mythological figure? And yes cauldrons were important items in Celtic mythology.
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