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Although there were wise women and female druids, they were not called Wiccans.
Gawain the green knight, Lancelot, Queen Gwenhyfar and other characters are often
related to other Celtic mythological archetypes that offer interesting glimpses into what
Celtic religion could have been like before the influence and persecution from
Christianity.
Now all of this is a lot of fun unless you happen to be a Saxon. It seems that the Angles,
Saxons and Jutes are viewed in this mythology as a plague. They were barbarian raiders,
uncultured and outside the Roman Empire and Romano-British civilization. A fair and
just king named Arthur will rise again and wipe out the Saxon plague. So what does this
mean exactly? If king Arthur reincarnates and starts relocating the Saxons then where are
they going to go? Their original tribe-land has been taken over by other peoples. Lets say
we allow the fair and just king to commit a single case of genocide and all the Saxons are
destroyed in England. (Hey didn't we just have a war err police action in Eastern Europe
to stop this sort of thing?) This does not mean they will have their country back. Having
wiped out the Saxons is Arthur going to also kick out those who are of African or Asian
descent?
It's no fun being on the losing side. True the people of lower Germany including the
Anglo, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians did move into land occupied by Romans in Britain, but
this was 1,500 years ago. Surely they would have naturalised by now. True the English
have dominated and oppressed their Celtic neighbours but this is a different group of
people than the barbarian Saxons. Modern, white English people are a mixture of
European bloodstock. The Danes, Normans, French and Germans have all migrated there
at some time. The Celts followed exactly the same path when they migrated to the British
Isles from Gaul, Western Germany and Spain. Irish mythology tells how the Celtic
Milesians invaded Ireland from Spain, subjugating the Fir Bolg natives and previous
invaders the Tuatha de Danann. The Tuatha de Danann are a semi-mythological race,
who are often associated with the elves and the otherworld now. Fir Bolg is used to
collectively describe three races: the Fir Bolg, the Fir Dhomhnann and the Gailion. This
has been related to the Belgae, Dumnonii and the Gauls suggesting that Gallic Celts had
settled from the continent possibly even passing through Southern Britain as those Celtic
tribes were also recorded in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. If so then Spanish, Milesian
Celts invaded and took the sovereignty of Ireland away from Celts who were from Gaul
and Belgium. The Tuatha de Danann could be associated with the Danes or a tribe from
the Danube but as they are also associated with elves and Atlanteans we might be
stretching reality a bit.
The Scotti from Northern Ireland invaded and destroyed the Picts of modern Scotland.
Very little of Pictish culture remains as it has been wiped out by the Celts. They were
possibly non-Indo-European aboriginals of Britain and Ireland, being pushed into the
mountains and wild lands when the Celts arrived.
So obviously there are cracks appearing in the Celtic wall of self-righteousness. These
cracks become more prominent if we delve deeper into the mythology and history.
Who was King Arthur and what was his court like? There is no single answer to this
question as we are dealing with a cross over point between historical fact and myth.
Around the time of King Arthur, Britain was suffering after the Romans had pulled out
of Britain in 407 A.D. the Britons had lived under the umbrella of the Roman Empire for
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