hey?

[mol]

Are you people asleep in here?

[She-Arna]

I'm awake!! *waves merrily*

[mol]

Good to see you in here. :)

[Myrddyn Emrys]

kinda...
trying to recover on one day off after sixteen sixteen hour days in a row.......

not quite all here mentally (i know! how does that differ from any other day?!)

Myrddyn Emrys

[FaerySong]

*opens eye* sleep? what is this sleep you speak of? :p eh dunno. this seems to be a sleepy forum...

the Caitlinator can fix this..

*turns the lights on* =D there we go

[SylverStar]

I'm awake

really
my allergies have just taken over that's all

[mol]

Just checking on you all. There didnt seem to be a lot of chatter in here lately.

[Twig]

Bah Humbug

[JimWA]

Last time I checked, I was still breathing. Does that qualify as being alive? Sometimes no news is good news. So hey, we're all still here.

I'll let you know, Mol, when I stop breathing, ok. Gotta go get involved in some more boring non-news.

[Myrddyn Emrys]

Ah...

Mol the alarm clock...

Myrddyn Emrys

[JimWA]

You know Mol. If you wake up a bunch of sleeping druids, you're likely to get wacked upside the head, so I'd advise going gently with the wake up calls.

[Twig]

:bastard: Look at the time! I layed there in bed thinking "Dang, how am I suposed to sleep when the site god himself :fpraiseyo wants me to be awake!???" So here I sit with my fingers nervously posed on the key waiting for something...ANYTHING to happen. CMON people..... I'm ready here!!!" :needcoffe :stomp: HAAAAAhahaTHUMP!!!

:geez: Get a net!

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Flar's Freyja]

:bastard: Look at the time! I layed there in bed thinking "Dang, how am I suposed to sleep when the site god himself :fpraiseyo wants me to be awake!???" So here I sit with my fingers nervously posed on the key waiting for something...ANYTHING to happen. CMON people..... I'm ready here!!!" :needcoffe :stomp: HAAAAAhahaTHUMP!!!

:geez: Get a net!

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

Okay - I'm visiting your forum :fpraiseyo I'm embarrassed that I really couldn't definte Druidism but I figure I'd better find out - all I've found since I moved to Tahlequah is a group of Druids!

I talk to and leave offerings for the faeries, I talk to birds and hug and Reiki trees and heal stray cats and write poetry and tell stories and drum.......do you think I'll fit in? :elf:

[Twig]

Of course you will! I suggest you look back at the threads as to the belief system etc. and get the feel for what the "druids among us" do.

Then start asking questions! there are a number of folks here just chomping at the bit to help.

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Old Witch]

I thought all Druids were male............

[Fianna]

Well if they are I am in trouble in this life!

In one of my old lives I suppose I could have been a wise learned man of lore - those qualities obviously got lost in my rebirth.

I find myself thse days a scatter brained Irish redhead whose claim to fame is that I can find my way around an oil platform - if you point me North and give me some drawings.

Oh dear - I think finding my path may be more difficult than I thought

[JimWA]

Maybe all druids were male in ancient times, but we're not living in ancient times now, are we?

Some of the best books I read on modern druidism were written by females.

This thread is a fun one seeings how our sight god just started this one to see if any of us druids were awake. I wasn't asleep just taking a long walk by my river visiting my black oaks, live oaks, redwoods and Califonia laurels. Oh yeah can't forget the cottonwoods in the gullies. We'll talk more when I get back from being lost in the woods. If you're looking for a point in all this stop, this is just one of my pointless yarns. Jim

[Twig]

I thought all Druids were male............

Nope! I suggest asking Ceaser who talked of the "Dire Druids" and "Robed Furies" in the same breath among the ranks on the shore with the warriors when they (the romans) sailed up to meet them in battle.

Peace.
Twig
:elf:

[Twig]

we seem to be getting off topic here. (Hey Mol....what exactly WAS the topic???)

If someone wants to start another thread or.....(thinking).....there might be a past one. I'll look back.

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Twig]

I really don't know why not either.

I'm calling in MY experts and asking their opinion.....stay tuned.

Where is Emrrys? Can't belive he's not vocal yet. oh yeah, 16 hr. days.

Don't mind the crazy a**ed druid (as I'm affectionatly known). I not only talk but type to myself also! Hehehe

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Myrddyn Emrys]

How Python-esque, Twig...

Myrddyn Emrys

[Myrddyn Emrys]

Well, I'm still here...

Replying to some of the new posts in the "lessons".

Myrddyn Emrys

[Flar's Freyja]

I thought all Druids were male............

:jawdrop:

Now, that's one I haven't heard.........

[Old Witch]

Seriously........all the years I've been on this pagan path.......and I've always thought Druids were male......now I've got something else to study.........Who says you ever know everything?.......I guess it was my own fault, I had my own faulty beliefs and never thought to look beyond them.........So that made me not look into druidism at all..........Will start by searching threads and then the web and then the books.............. :)

[Flar's Freyja]

Seriously........all the years I've been on this pagan path.......and I've always thought Druids were male......now I've got something else to study.........Who says you ever know everything?.......I guess it was my own fault, I had my own faulty beliefs and never thought to look beyond them.........So that made me not look into druidism at all..........Will start by searching threads and then the web and then the books.............. :)

That's okay, I always thought that elves and dwarfs were little tiny people and only recently found out that they can be very, very large!

[Myrddyn Emrys]

No, it wasn't as strictly gender cast as it seems.

Granted, there was a "masculine" branch and a "feminine" branch. They balanced each other. The Druids would allow women into their ranks, and the Sisterhood did have males in their ranks. You must remember that during the peak of Ancient Druidry, the societies were VERY matriachal. One didn't always know who his father was, but most assuredly knew his mother.

To get an insight on this, I suggest a very excellent writer named Morgan Llewelyn. She does TONS of research on her books and casts several of the main characters as female Druids. Excellent works. It even gives referrences to her research in the backs of the novels.

Myrddyn Emrys

[mol]

To get an insight on this, I suggest a very excellent writer named Morgan Llewelyn. She does TONS of research on her books and casts several of the main characters as female Druids. Excellent works. It even gives referrences to her research in the backs of the novels.


You might want to travel down to the book forum. There are a few people asking about books regarding Druidism.

[JimWA]

Well Mol, are we awake enough for you now?

Another thought, ancient druidry was recorded by men. The Romans didn't teach a lot of woman to read and write. Maybe that tainted the record. Most of history has been recorded by men for the benefit of men.

Back to playing, maybe I'll just post here for no reason at all, just so Mol will know that we're AWAKE. Sleeping through our lives, writing in our dreams. But then, if this is a dream, somebody please wake me up. Either that or change the channel. I've gotten real bored with this story.

SPAM, SPAM we like SPAM
We like it on a damn
Especially if it hits the fan
Even if it means I get banned.

That wasn't me, that was Stan
He just likes to SPAM
And I can't stop him
Except to send him to the Gym.

[Twig]

SPAM, SPAM we like SPAM

OK. NO MORE COFFEE FOR THIS PERSON!
heheeheh

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Myrddyn Emrys]

Of course the Romans wouldn't have written much about Female Druids. They had a Patriarchal society.

But in the Roman account of the fall of Anglesey, their historian and chroniclier did write of black-clad women who hurled themselves into the battle right along with the Druids.

And now, ( to follow Jim's lead) for something completely different...:stomp:

How many swallows would it take to carry a coconut? And would it be North American Swallows or African ones?:nyah:

[JimWA]

How many hawks does it take to carry a 10 pound crystal ball?

Don't ask where that came from, you don't want to know.

The mention of female druids is more the exception than the rule, and the celtic society was a male warrior society. The druids didn't control the celtic society at best they could influence it. They had female warriors but usually only in time of great need. Just my opinion from years of study although the Roman society was much more patriarchal than the Celtic.

[Myrddyn Emrys]

Yes, the Celts were Matriarchal. Women in Celtic society could rule and hold land, be warriors, whatever they wanted. There was very little sexual discrimination. It was Roman influence that led to the change. They viewed women as the "weaker" sex.

As to the Python-esque side of that post;

Is that Kites or regular Falcons? What type of crystal? Quartz? Amethyst?

And where did they get the black velvet bag?

Myrddyn Emrys