Dragons Celts and Druids

There is a certain cosmic sensibility to the mythsforce of the mystic energies which the Celts
and legends of the Celtic peoples. A sense ofbelieved permeated their lands. They would
things being bigger than they seem. Power flowspinpoint the best places to till the soil or carve
beneath the skin of the world to the Celtic mind,stone or build a home, and show their people the
accessible along the path of dragons and theplaces to best avoid. Too, they had a strange
mouth of stones. It was the Druids who couldrelationship with the concept of the dragon.
see it, interpret it for their brother-Celts, followDragons, while commonly thought of as
the lines of power and show them where to buildfire-breathing marauders, were, to the Celts,
their villages and sanctified places.indicators of places of great power. Where
A Mysterydragons trod, mystic energy flowed, and where
The Celts are a mystery even now. They oncethey laired where invariably places of great
ranged across the width and breadth of Europe,sanctity and mystical harmony. While dragons
from the forests of Germany to the hills ofwere dangerous, they were also indicators of
Northern Italy. Their greatest concentration wasfertility, of life. 'The Path of the Dragon' was the
perhaps in Scotland, Ireland and England. The CeltsCeltic term for ley lines. And ley lines, for the
of Great Britain are what many modern peopleuninitiated, were the stretches of mystic power
think of when they hear the word 'Celt'. But inwhich criss-crossed the land. Druids hunted these
truth, they were a people who spread from onelines, and made a ley lines map for their people,
end of ancient Europe to the other, and they leftinstructing them to build their temples and homes
their mark stamped upon the face of thealong the lines in order to harvest the energies.
continent, though they themselves are gone now,Dragons, Druids and Celts are all inextricably linked
for the most part.by these bands of power. For the Celt, dragons,
Druids and Dragonsthough deadly, and frightening, represented the
Druids and Celtic dragons, on the other hand, arecontinuation of life and health. They were omens
more familiar to the modern mind. What do youof a good harvest, of a year of plenty. And the
think of, when you hear the term 'druid'? A robedDruids were the ones who found the dragons and
figure, mistletoe in one hand, a scythe in theinterpreted their meaning for a given group of
other, standing over a stone slab and a screamingCelts. For these ancient peoples, everything
victim. Horror films have a lot to answer for inhummed and sparked with the lightning of the
terms of our familiarity with the concept of thegods. Where dragons walked, the lightning was
Druid. In reality, druids were the priests and seersvisible, and where Druids indicated, the lightning
of the Celts. Druids engaged the cosmic on a dailywas controllable for the good of the Celtic people.
basis, pitting their knowledge against the raw