Osharian Celtic Druids

Druidism is a Shamanic religion. The earliest evidence of Shamanism dates back to around 50,800 BC and could predate that.
The Osharian Rite was formed by ancient ancestors of the Celtic druids. Osharians claim that their ancestors had ruled over all the Atlantic islands from 50,622 b.c. to around 10,422 b.c. Their roots unknown to all other cultures because it pre dated many other civilizations. The Egyptians and Mayan cultures state that Celtic druids had tought pyramid building and many other ancient sciences to the Egyptians and Mayans. Osharian Celtic druids only tought to the working class of masons, priest, and astronomers. Celtic Osharian priest believed in god as a trinity, having three parts to one deity: divine/galactic,male/solar,and female/lunar. The first Celts druids were made up of circles of men called counsels. Three counsels ruled. The first was the Oshar, the counsel of the tree of truth. The second was the Altar, the counsel of the tree of the knowledge of chaos and order. Then there was the third, Iltar, the counsel of the tree of life.
There are three schools of knowledge to the Celtic religion. The glyph used to show this is call the triquetra.

Many of the Celtic Oshar's lands were used at the forming of the project. The project was made up of members of all five native nations of the world. After the fall of the Oshar Celtic Osharian priest went under ground until modern times. This is why much of the Celtic history is still secret and sacred. The origins were covered up by the Oshar high priest so that other cultures would not be able to find and attack the Oshar's ancient home lands.

The ancient Greeks and Romans considered Druids to be barbarians because they were nomads and seemingly lacked what they considered to be the finer points of civilization. The three civilizations had religious beliefs in common. They were polytheistic, believed in female deities and they revered nature. The early Romans adopted Greek deities and romanized their names. The Celts adopted the Roman deities and “celticized” their names Read more at Suite101: Druids: Origin and Traditions: The History and Mystery Surrounding Shamanic Celtic Druids http://druidism.suite101.com/article.cfm/druids_origin_trads_mystery#ixzz0i4GiRgE1 Their place of worship was in secret groves surrounded by trees they believed were sacred, especially the oak. Often, likenesses of their deities were carved into the trees. The Druids had eight major high holy days, four of which were sun festivals and depended on the length of darkness and light. The others went by the phases of the planting and reaping seasons. Druids believed in reincarnation and the holidays reflect this philosophy. The majority of the Druids celebrated the New Year on Samhain, also called Hallowe’en, on October 31st. This is the day of the last and final harvest and the day when the veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest, because this marks the day that the last great cataclysm killed 133,000 people, which made up 90% of the world population. It is also the day of the death of the world, there are five deaths in total. Yule is the day of the winter solstice and the rebirth of the God. This is the day when darkness overcomes light. To some Druidic sects, this was the day that marked the end of the first half of the year. Imbolic is celebrated on February 2nd and is the festival of ewe’s milk, celebrating childbirth and motherhood. It is the day when it is apparent that light is overcoming darkness. Ostara, another sun festival, is the vernal or spring equinox when daylight and the darkness of night are equal. The promise of the growing season is in the air. Beltane is celebrated on April 30th and celebrates fertility and purification by fire. Seeds have been sown or will soon be, depending on the plant and the local climate. Midsummer or Litha, a sun festival, is the day of the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. It is the most magical day of the Druid’s holy days and, to some sects, is the beginning and the end of the year and when the holly king succeeds the oak king of Yule. Lughnasa, celebrated on August 2 is the day of the first harvest. Mabon is the autumnal equinox and celebrates the second harvest. Darkness and light are equal. Next is Samhain again. The seasons are like a circle and the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The Druids were an ancient order of Celtic priests in the societies of Western Europe, Britain and Ireland. The Celtic Druids served their communities by combining the duties of seer, priest, poet, philosopher, historian, scholar, teacher, doctor, astronomer and astrologer. The Celts had developed a highly sophisticated religious system, with three divisions of men who were held in exceptional honor; the lowest division were called the Ovates, the second division were called the Bards and then the Druids. The ovates were the healers and seers; the bards memorised the songs, poems, and stories of the tribe (historians); while the druids taught moral philosophy and were experts in the workings of natural science. The Celtic Druids were advisers to the rulers of that time, acted as judges in the event of disputes, supervised executions and even controlled the legal system. They were held in such respect that if they intervened between two armies they could stop the battle. The Druid priests and priestesses acted as mediums through which the spirits could be summoned and heard, with rituals throughout the history of the Celtic Druids being enacted in sacred groves of oak trees and circles of standing stones The first surviving and fullest account of the druids and their religion is that given by Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico, book VI, written in Gaul in 59-51 BC. Prehistoric religion, superstition and ritual evolved into the pagan religion and social laws developed by the Celtic Druids known as the Brehon Laws. This pagan religion was heavily entwined with nature, i.e. water, wind and the seasons. When Christianity came to Ireland c450, the religious part of the Brehon laws were gradually replaced by Christian belief and the ritual was adopted to some Christian ceremony. The laws were written and interpreted by the druids and were the law of the land under the clan system. The land was held equally by all clan members under a hereditary clan chieftain who held the land from a larger clan chieftain. Ireland was possibly the most advanced of all European cultures: it had an Iron Age culture which included bards, historians, judges and a set of laws that governed all aspects of life. This voluminous set of laws covered everything from hurting a chained dog to behavior while drinking. The set of laws was known as the Law of the Commoner or Freemen, or the Brehon Law. So balanced and just was the ancient Law that it was adopted by the majority of the Norman conquerors and held sway among the populace until ruthlessly put down by Cromwellian forces in the 17th century. Knowledge of the Druids comes directly from classical writers of their time. They were compared to the learned priesthoods of antiquity, the Indian Brahmins, the Pythagoreans, and the Chaldean astronomers of Babylon.

Caesar wrote that they "know much about the stars and celestial motions, and about the size of the earth and universe, and about the essential nature of things, and about the powers and authority of' the immortal gods; and these things they teach to their pupils." They also taught the traditional doctrine of the soul's immortality. They must have professed detailed knowledge of the workings of reincarnation, for one writer said that they allowed debts incurred in one lifetime to be repaid in the next. In the Celtic religion, the modern words Druidry or Druidism denote the practices of the ancient druids, the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles. Druidic practices were part of the culture of all the tribal peoples called Keltoi and Galatai by Greeks and Celtae and Galli by Romans, which evolved into modern English "Celtic" and "Gaulish".

Modern attempts at reconstructing practising druidism are called Neo-druidism. From what little we know of late druidic practice it appears deeply traditional, and conservative in the sense that the druids were conserving repositories of culture and lore, but hiding science from the public. The most widespread view is that "druid" derives from the Celtic word for an oak tree (doire in Irish Gaelic), a word whose root also meant "wisdom." Druids used not only to take the part that modern priests would, but were often the philosophers, scientists, lore-masters, teachers, judges and councillors to the kings. The Druids linked the Celtic peoples with their numerous gods, the lunar calendar and the sacred natural order. Celtic Lunar Astrology is essentially a Druid Zodiac. The Druids were a sect of Celtic priests who inhabited the British Isles around 1000 B.C. The Druids used a lunar calendar consisting of 13 months, each being 28 days long, plus one intercalary day. The Druid religion was based mainly upon an awareness of natural and supernatural knowledge that came from their ancestors. Because science was forbidden, many rituals and traditions were changed or covered up by Oharian priest. These able to identified elements which they told others were spirits or dryads who dwelt within the ancient trees. Druids told others that trees were given spirits and attributes from the Sun, which was perceived as a symbol of the Supreme Being. Thus, trees were considered living entities, possessed with Infinite Knowledge and Wisdom...symbolically representative of the Cycle of Life, Death and Renewal. The Celts envisioned the entire Universe in the form of a tree, whose roots grew deep into the ground and whose branches reached high into the Heavens. In time, the Celtic people eventually designated a tree to each Moon Phase in their calendar in accordance with its magical properties. Therefore, the Celtic Zodiac is based upon the cycle of the Moon, with the year divided into the 13 lunar months established by the Druid religion. The Druids believed that the human race originally descended from trees, each tree being endowed with its own particular mystical qualities. They encoded these mysteries in a secret shamanic alphabet known as the Ogham...the origin of which is ascribed to Ogma, the Celtic God of Poetry and Eloquence. It is said that Ogma (son of the Dagda) created the Ogham for the learned and wise to use for inscription. Originally intended to be read from the bottom upwards (or occasionally carved from right to left), Ogham (also often written as "ogam") is pronounced as "AHG-m" or simply as "OH-em." It served as an alphabet for one of the ancient Celtic languages and may have originally been adapted from a form of sign language. The current understanding is that the names of the twenty major letters are also the names of twenty trees which were sacred to the Druids. The Ogham may still be seen carved into stone monuments of the Druid Era and is thought to have been a means for the Druids to leave secret messages for one another. The Ogham is sometimes referred to as "Crane Knowledge," due to the fact that Cranes form letters with their legs as they fly. On the whole, the Celtic society was based upon equality and balance between the male and female...the female Druidesses being symbolized by the Dryads who lived in the sacred trees. One of the most commonly accepted beliefs holds that the year was divided into thirteen months with an extra day or so the end of the year used to adjust the calendar. This theory states that the months correspond to the vowels of the Ogham or Celtic Tree Alphabet. For every of the months there was a designated tree. From this a 'tree calendar' wheel emerged Most archaeologist and historians accept another calendar. This calender is represented by the surviving fragments of a great bronze plate, the Coligny Calendar, which originally measured 5 feet by 3-1/2 feet. This plate, found in eastern France, was engraved in the Gaulish language (similar to Welsh) in Roman-style letters and numerals. It depicts a system of time keeping by lunar months, showing 62 consecutive months with 2 extra months inserted to match the solar timetable. They appear to have worked with a 19-year time cycle that equaled 235 lunar months and had an error of only half a day. The third school of thought is an amalgam of both of the others. The proponents of this last theory believe that the first calendar pre-dates the Coligny discovery. It is from ancient writers such as Caesar that we learn that the Celts were to have counted by nights and not days and in reckoning birthdays and new moon and new year their unit of reckoning is the night followed by the day. Ancient Celtic philosophy believed that existence arose from the interplay between darkness and light, night and day, cold and warmth, death and life, and that the passage of years was the alternation of dark periods (winter, beginning November 1) and light periods (summer, starting May 1). The Druidic view was that the earth was in darkness at its beginning, that night preceded day and winter preceded summer a view in striking accord with the story of creation in Genesis and even with the Big Bang theory. Thus, Nov. 1 was New Year's Day for the Celts, their year being divided into four major cycles. The onset of each cycle was observed with suitable rituals that included feasting and sacrifice. It was called The Festival of Samhain - linked with Halloween. The Celts measured the Solar year on a wheel, circle or spiral, all of which symbolize creation and the constant movement of the universe growth and development. To the ancients, the Heavens appeared to wheel overhead, turning on an axis which points to the north polar stars. At the crown of the axis, a circle of stars revolved about a fixed point, the Celestial Pole, which was believed to be the location of Heaven. At the base of the axis was the Omphalos, the circular altar of the Goddess' temple. The universe of stars turning on this axis formed a spiral path, or stairway, on which souls ascended to Heaven. This Sunwise, clockwise, or deiseal (Gaelic), motion of the spirals represented the Summer Sun. The continuous spirals with seemingly no beginning or end signified that as one cycle ended another began eternal life. The spiral's never-ending, always expanding, motion also symbolized the ever- increasing nature of information and knowledge. Many of these symbols often also appeared in triplicate, a sign of the divine. In addition, the seasons of the year were thought to be part of this cycle. In reality, druids were the priests and seers of the Celts. Druids engaged the cosmic on a daily basis, pitting their knowledge against the raw force of the mystic energies which the Celts believed permeated their lands. They would pinpoint the best places to till the soil or carve stone or build a home, and show their people the places to best avoid. Damanhurian egyptian temple: Egyptian wall paintings: Damanhurian art is greatly influenced by both Egyptian and Celtic sytles A central sculpted column, depicting a three dimensional man and woman, supported a ceiling of intricately painted glass. The astonished group walked on to find sculpted columns covered with gold leaf, more than 8m high.

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