Never pass up a chance to laugh at druids

I can't help but think of Spinal Tap whenever I think of druids. Remember:

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Usually modern pagans are massive "earth cookies" and they reinvent their religion (to the extent that pomo's could only dream of matching) in order to mesh with their earth cookie recipes. How shocked they would be to think about druids drinking human blood or beating goats to death against the walls of stonehenge...of course we really have very little idea what the druids believed or practiced.

And yet, these nut jobs will dress up and frolic about Stonehenge as if the religion had never really been naturally selected to die. I'll bet some Anglican priests were present as well...maybe one of these dudes preparing to sacrifice some virgins:



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Meg said…
I never see a reference to Stonehenge without thinking of the Reader's Digest cartoon I saw many, many moons ago, of a little space alien setting up his blocks -- Stonehenge -- and his mother saying, "Time to leave your blocks, dear, it's time to go home now."
2:04 PM
Huw Richardson said…
Feel free to continue making fun, but as a former Wiccan, I think you should get yer terminology correct: the guys who show up dressed in white robes at Stonehenge are generally OBOD or one of the other Victorian pseudo-Masonic orders. Properly they are not modern neo-pagans (not very scholarly) nor even historical reconstructionists (often very scholarly). They are usually no more "earth cookies" than your average Shriner. Think of them as ritual magicians who function in tune with seasonal cycles.

And, again, while you should feel free to make fun at will, were it not for having spent ten years as a neo-pagan I'd not be Orthodox (or even sacramentally minded) to-day. There are truths there that if followed will bring you here.
2:14 PM
Anonymous said…
When Rowan Williams was Archbishop of Wales there was a brouhaha in the press about him being a druid which was resurrected when he became Archbishop of Canterbury. I think it turned out he belonged to a bardic society of some sort but it made for fun reading in the papers at the time.

Lol Meg - will remember that one :)
4:01 PM
fdj said…
"yer terminology"

Not mine...the news article said these folks were self-professed "Druids" And if they so profess, then I cannot resist having a bit of fun.

There are many roads to Orthodoxy.
8:37 AM
Anonymous said…
"The problem my have been there was a Stonehendge Monument on stage that was in danger of being crushed by a Dwarf !"
9:08 AM
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