Re: Druids and Brahmins
Aicerno OCathasaigh
akiernox_ocasey@hotmail.com
Tue Jun 22 23:18:58 1999
Searles wrote,*br*: I am purchasing a scholarly work by Myles Dillon that *br*: researches the similarities between Hindu and Celtic *br*: spiritual practices and beliefs.  As I become better versed *br*: in the academic viewpoint on this matter, I will be posting *br*: messages here as seedds for the forest of discussion and *br*: tthought I hope the subject creates.*br*:*br*: I know that it has long been my gut feeling that the *br*: philosophies and histories of the two cultures are bound *br*: together by historical, spiritual and philosophical events.  *br*: I've read books suggesting actual ties that were written by *br*: Wiccans and Hindus.  Dillon's book is the only one by a *br*: modern Celticist that I've seen that perhaps suggests the *br*: same.*br*:*br*: Searles*p*Well it is not outside the realm of possibility that the two are related. I have down much reading of the works of various people who claim a common ancestor for both the celts and aryans, the "Indo-European" connection. For another study which notes the connection read James Bonwick's "Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions". I had read somewhere that some Indian person was talking to a colleague from Ireland and noting the similarities between Sean Nos, and the traditional music of India. The hindu religion was established by the Aryans when they came into India from the North and northwest to justify their conquering the previous inhabitants as well as acting as a social control for those who were conquered by the Aryans. This I learned in either my religions of the world class or History of Western Europe to 1500 class.*p*But you are right, there is much in this topic to provide seeds for conversations.*p*Aicerno
Druids and Brahmins
Searles
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Tue Jun 22 08:28:46 1999