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There is a network of mentors, [19] many using email, to support the students’ progress through the grades of Bard, Ovate and Druid. Members meet at camps, [20] at workshops and assemblies in various parts of the world, and a network of groves and seedgroups also exists.
Some British Druid orders divide membership into three grades, referred to as "bards", "ovates", and then "Druids". [73] This three-tier system mirrors the three degrees found in British Traditional Wicca. [74] Other groups eschew any division into bard, ovate, and druid. [75]
In modern English, the nouns vates (/ ˈ v eɪ t iː z /) and ovate (UK: / ˈ ɒ v ə t, ˈ oʊ v eɪ t /, US: / ˈ oʊ v eɪ t /), are used as technical terms for ancient Celtic bards, prophets and philosophers. The terms correspond to a Proto-Celtic word which can be reconstructed as *wātis. [1]
Shallcrass has created a series of distance learning courses on Druidry for the British Druid Order covering all three grades of Bard, Ovate and Druid as a series of monthly booklets. The course comes with recommendations from prominent figures including Professor Ronald Hutton and Robin Williamson. [11]
Bard 1st degree (after candidacy/initiation) title used by the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids that is primarily centered on song, spoken word, memory, tradition, and poetry. [10] Ovate 2nd degree used by the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. It is the centered on healing, divination, and herbalism. [11] Druid
The March 1909 edition of The Druid, the magazine published by the Ancient Order of Druids. The success of the group that met at the King’s Arms, which came to be called Lodge No. 1, spawned the creation of a number of other lodges of the Order being founded elsewhere by new initiates, with Lodge No. 2 being inaugurated on 21 August 1783 and meeting at Rose Tavern, along the Ratcliffe ...
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Barddas - Title page. Barddas is a book of material compiled and written by the Welsh writer Iolo Morganwg.Dressed as an authentic compilation of ancient Welsh bardic and druidic theology and lore.