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> On The Complex Nature of the Druid, With an intro by Warren Ellis
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post Mar 11 2005, 04:04 AM
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Favorite Merlins in film: Nicol Williamson in Excalibur and Stephen Dillane in King Arthur (although I disliked the movie).
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post Mar 12 2005, 09:50 AM
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Another cool thing to think about - Samhain, spelled Samain in Old Irish, is most often linked etymologically to "summer", which seems off, except that when heros go to the Otherworld around then, they often bring back "the fruits of summer" (toirthe samraid) because the seasons are opposite in the otherworld: when it's winter here, it's summer there, etc. So, alternatively, you could do it opposite. When the Path followers aren't getting their bonus for it being their cool power-day and all that, they could go to these places at the other end of the year and still get a good boost to their magical abilities.

So they go to Oz
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post Mar 12 2005, 10:43 AM
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One of the things I was really surprised about is that they apparently beleived in reincarnation (as far as anyone can tell). Just not something I really associated with Druids before I studied anything about them. Kinda makes all that Path of the Wheel stuff look like it actually has roots somewhere.


Most Pagans back then, and nowadays have same belief in Reincarnation, self included.

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Causing an astral gateway on Samhain (Day of the Dead, when the two worlds are closest) just sounds neat though.


another shared belief is that this kinda does occur during Samhain ( pronounced by most but not all as Sow Win ) or as most americans know it as Halloween, All Hallow's Eve.

At first when I read the reply when "my new years eve" was brought up I was a bit confused, until finally
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the seasons are opposite in the otherworld: when it's winter here, it's summer there,
clicked in my head. yeah that sounds about right. It's set at the end of our Warm days and beginning of our Cold. so yeah, that does make a bit of sense.
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post Mar 16 2005, 06:38 PM
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of course is could be wrong about my beliefs... but I won't realize it until shortly after the last second. :dead:
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