What Is A Druid, Anyway?
Author: Ellen Evert Hopman Posted: October 3rd. 2004 Times Viewed: 13,737 There are many different Druid Orders and as is the case with most Pagan groupings, no two Druids will see things in exactly the same way. To further confuse matters there is a different focus and feel to American Druid Orders and English ones. I can only speak for myself, as an American Druid of the Order of the Whiteoak (Ord Na Darach Gile). History: “Gaine daughter of pure Gumor, nurse of mead-loving Mide, surpassed all women though she was silent she was learned and a seer and a chief Druid.” (From The Metrical Dindsenchas, Gwynn translation, 1903) There is plenty of evidence that women as well as men were Druids in ancient times. Druids presided at divinations and sacrifices and praised the Gods, but the primary task of all grades of Druids was to follow an intellectual path. The Druids were the learned class of the ancient Celts, analogous to the Brahmins of India. Both Hindu and Celtic culture are derived
