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The Dun Ailline Druid Brotherhood (Hermandad Druida Dun Ailline in Spanish) is a pagan organization for followers of the Celtic Neopaganism based on Spain in 2010 which supports the practice of a type of Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism called Druidism, centered on the Celtic culture of Ireland, and whose principal deities are known as the ...
Celtic paganism, as practised by the ancient Celts, is a descendant of Proto-Celtic paganism, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European paganism.Many deities in Celtic mythologies have cognates in other Indo-European mythologies, such as Celtic Brigantia with Roman Aurora, Vedic Ushas, and Norse Aurvandill; Welsh Arianrhod with Greek Selene, Baltic Mėnuo, and Slavic Myesyats; and Irish Danu ...
In the wake of the Celtic revival during the 18th and 19th centuries, fraternal and neopagan groups were founded based on ideas about the ancient druids, a movement known as Neo-Druidism. Many popular notions about druids, based on misconceptions of 18th-century scholars, have been largely superseded by more recent study. [7]
Her area of focus is ancient Celtic culture and religion, particularly Druidism and the cult of the head. She was considered one of Britain's leading Celtic scholars. [1] Her book Pagan Celtic Britain is a central text in Romano-British studies, and was popular among "hippies and freethinkers in the 1960s" who were interested in Celtic pagan ...
Druidry is also known as Druidism and Neodruidism. The Ancient Order of Druids in America was founded in 1912 as the American branch of the Ancient and Archaeological Order of Druids. [21] Coming from the Druid cultural revivals in the UK in the 18th and 19th centuries, Neodruidry in the U.S. has a long history.
Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (1980s) Neo-druidism or neodruidry, or druidism or druidry Dynion Mwyn (1950s/60s) Reformed Druids of North America (1963) Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (1964) Monastic Order of Avallon (1970) Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983)
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From Celtic–Germanic *b h od h wo- ('battle, fight'). [6] [5] Name of a war divinity. Also attested as a personal name in Gaulish Boduos. A term common to Celtic and Germanic, where a war-goddess is known as Badu-henna. The meaning 'crow', a bird symbolizing the carnage in battle, emerged later in Celtic languages.