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9. Alexander Carmichael (ed.), Carmina Gadelica, Scottish Academic Press, 1972.
10. See Stuart Piggott, The Druids, Thames & Hudson, 1985.
11. Jean-Pierre Mohen, The World of Megaliths, Cassell, 1989.
12. Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language – the Puzzle of Indo-European Origins, Penguin, 1989.
13. Sylvain Levi, quoted in M. Dillon, ‘The Archaism of Irish Tradition’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 33 (1947). For a comprehensive survey of the similarities and connections between Indian and Celtic traditions, see Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees, Celtic Heritage, Thames & Hudson, 1989.
14. Cited in Philip Carr-Gomm, Druidcraft – the Magic of Wicca and Druidry, Thorsons, 2002.
15. See Peter Beresford Ellis, The Druids, Constable, 1995.
16. Piggott, The Druids.
17. See the Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh, L. Bieler, 1979. Quoted in C. Oakley, ‘Druids and Witches’, in P. Carr-Gomm (ed.), The Druid Renaissance, Thorsons, 1996.
18. Merry, The Flaming Door.
19. See T. Freke and P. Gandy, The Jesus Mysteries, Thorsons, 1999.
20. Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber, 1961.
21. From The Penitential of Burchard of Worms.
22. Quotations on this page are cited in Piggott, The Druids, Chapter 4.
23. An illustration of the ‘Archdruidess of Kew’ can be found in R. Nichols, The Book of Druidry, Thorsons, 1990.
24. For the official website of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, see: http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk
25. J. M. Greer, Awen – A Book of Druid Lore, in preparation.
26. Jay Ramsay (ed. and intro.), Prophet, Priest and King – The Poetry of Philip Ross Nichols, The Oak Tree Press, 2001.
27. A section on the relationship between naturism and Druidry, including articles, quotations and archive photographs, can be seen at http://druidry.org
28. Republished as John Michell, The New View Over Atlantis, Thames & Hudson, 1983.
29. John Lilly, The Centre of the Cyclone, Paladin, 1973.
30. Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman, Harper & Row, 1980.
31. See John Purser, Scotland’s Music, Mainstream Publishing, 1992. Recordings of prehistoric instruments can be heard on The Kilmartin CD, copies of which are available from the OBOD Bookshop at http://druidry.org
32. See Beresford Ellis, The Druids, p. 176.
33. R. J. Stewart, The Prophetic Vision of Merlin, Arkana, 1986.
34. See A. Allen, A Dictionary of Sussex Folk Medicine, Countryside Books, 1995.
35. For more information on Nwyfre, see Carr-Gomm, Druidcraft – the Magic of Wicca and Druidry.
36. For a comparison of Maori and Brehon laws, see Jim Consedine, Restorative Justice, Plough Shed Publications (New Zealand), 1999.
37. A web search under ‘Brehon laws’ will reveal a number of good summaries.
38. Matthews, Elements of the Celtic Tradition.
39. E. Hull, The Folklore of the British Isles, n.p., 1928, pp 272–3.
40. The complete text of this ritual is given in Nichols, The Book of Druidry.
41. See Carr-Gomm, Druidcraft – the Magic of Wicca and Druidry.
42. See R. Hutton, Stations of the Sun – The History of the Ritual Year in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1996.
43. Examples of naming, wedding and funeral rites can be found in Philip Carr-Gomm, The Druid Way, Element Books, 1993. See also E. Restall Orr, Ritual, Thorsons, 2000.
44. Translated by Caitlin Matthews in Matthews, Elements of the Celtic Tradition.
45. See Tom Graves, Needles of Stone Revisited, Gothic Image, 1986.
46. The results of this research are summarised in Paul Devereux, Places of Power, Blandford, 1990, and Earthlights Revelation, Blandford, 1989.
47. See D. Robbins, ‘The Dragon Project and the Talking Stones’, New Scientist, 21 October 1982.
48. Alexander Thom, Megalithic Sites in Britain, Oxford University Press, 1967.
49. See H. Paterson, The Celtic Lunar Zodiac, Rider, 1992, and The Handbook of Celtic Astrology : The 13-Sign Lunar Zodiac of the Ancient Druids, Llewellyn, 1994.
50. See K. Critchlow, Time Stands Still, Gordon Fraser, 1979.
51. See Paul Devereux, Stone Age Soundtracks, The Acoustic Archaeology of Ancient Sites, Vega, 2002.
52. This is a quotation from Carr-Gomm, The Druid Way. For a guide to contemporary stone circle building see R. L. Roy, Stone Circles – A Modem Builders Guide to the Megalithic Revival, Chelsea Green, 1999.
53. See Richard St Barbe Baker, My Life, My Trees, Ecology, 1985.
54. See Caitlin and John Matthews, The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom, Rider, 2001, Chapter 2; K. Ogham Naddair, Koelbren and Runic (2 vols), Edinburgh, Keltia Publications, 1986–7; S. Ogam O’Boyle, The Poet’s Secret, Gilbert Dalton, 1980; Graves, The White Goddess.
55. See J. M. Paterson, Tree Wisdom, Thorsons, 1996.
56. See Eligio Stephen Gallegos, Personal Totem Pole: Animal Imagery, The Chakras and Psychotherapy, Moon Bear Press, 1990.
57. For an exploration of this subject, see Carr-Gomm, Druidcraft – the Magic of Wicca and Druidry.
58. Ibid., Preface.
59. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, Sierra Club Books, 1990.
60. See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing, Bear & Co., 1989.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The core of this book was originally published in 1991 as The Elements of the Druid Tradition. Although Druid Mysteries is developed from this core, much material has been added, deleted or rewritten, so that it is almost a completely different book. More than a decade after the first book appeared, it became clear to me that a major revision was needed: Druidry as a way of life or spiritual practice had experienced such an extraordinary flowering and evolution since then, so much new material and scholarship had been published in this field, and I had learned so much more about the subject during this time.
The acknowledgements that I cited in the first book still apply. I am deeply grateful to the following friends, without whose inspiration or help I could not have written it: Stephanie Carr-Gomm, Douglas Lyne, Alice Wilcox, Susan Mears, Simon Seligman, Vera Chapman, Jay Ramsay, Michael Brookman, Glynn Morris, Chauncey Catto, Nicholas Spicer, Bede Johnson, Colin and Liz Murray, John and Caitlin Matthews, and the many members of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids whose promptings, gatherings, wisdom and encouragement led to its writing.
In addition, for this new version of the book, I would like to thank Ronald Hutton, whose comments as an historian have proved invaluable, Cairistiona Worthington for the inspired wording given in the excerpt from the Druid wedding ceremony, Sue Lascelles, whose perceptive suggestions as an editor have helped to make this a better book, and the management and residents of Spielplatz who provided such an idyllic atmosphere in which I could finish work on the manuscript.
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