Fire from the Mouth !

Verily Dragons,
Our ancient druids often 'spoke in a riddle', leaving it to the recipient to work out the received wisdom.

Traces of the Druidic oral lore, as rediscovered by us in an Irish-speaking Gaeltacht locality, refers to An Fuinneamh, The Energy, meaning the telluric force of earth energies. this earth energy is not uni-directional, but pulses back and forth along the ley lines in a similar way to alternating current (it's at right angles to the Earth's magnetic field), although it has a much slower frequency, of days.

The Irish word Neamh crops up regularly too. The best title for a student Druid was Nem, the stem of Neamh, which can mean 'Nothing' or 'Nothingness' on the one hand, or 'Heaven' on the other. From Nemed we have the Nemedians, a caste of high magical Druids. The student is entering in from the 'Nothingness' of the outer world to be initiated in stages. 'Ar n-athair ata ar Neamh' begins the Lord's Prayer in Irish - the early translators certainly knew their Druidry !

In English we have Beltane, which is a major Druidic festival, given different meanings up to now. here at, at last, I give the real meaning of this festival, it's real significance in the sacred Druidic year of the adepts, lying behind and energising the old pastoral year. Beltane is the English language corruption of Bealtaine, most know that.

Beal-Taine = Mouth Fire, Beal-Taine = Mouth Saga !

Of course ! A double initiation when under the first quarter of the moon the student was initiated. He or she was given the fire in the mouth to intone the magical words in divination and consecrated as a Faidh (pronounced Fawee and meaning a Diviner-Druid or Seer-Prophetess).
'Beal' means 'mouth' in Irish. Druidry has never had anything to do with the Canaanite god Baal. No matter - most latter-day Druids are probably monotheist.

From Bealtaine onwards the newly initiated Faidh was busy in preparation for the great solar festival of the Summer Solstice, Midsummer Day, when that great festival and council was held (not, as today, on Tara, as Tara is a Samhain celebratory site) . The newly consecrated Faidh had to train for a further nine years (3 x 3) to become a Druid.

Again, we see that the festival of Imbolg was always held on the sixth day of the new moon (1x2x3). The aspirant was initiated as a Neamh into the Order of Druids at Imbolg, which had degenerated into a peasant's festival, being ignored by the Irish Druids around 200 A.D.

The Great Festival of Samhain was held under the last quarter of a waning moon. It was not the end of the Irish Druidic Year. That happened and was precisely measured by the old Watchers of the Skies at Newgrange at Midwinter Solstice, the death and rebirth of the sun. This is the time when the greatest of Druids were consecrated as Masters. There was no fixed amount of years to achieve the grade of master Druid, but it generally took a total of thirty years in the Order, the period of one complete orbit of Saturn around the sun. There is reference to the Druidic times of nineteen, based on the Metonic Cycle of 18.6 years of the moon, and the Saturn Orbit respectively - The Druid was consecrated after one Saturn Return in the Order.

We know of several ways in which the Druids were able to utilise the telluric force of earth energy. Many tons of different stones, including the British stones that went into Newgrange, and in return the Irish stones that went into Stonehenge, were moved hundreds of miles, even across rivers, lakes and seas. The Druids were the engineers at either end of the major ley lines, supervising the high points, from Valentia Island (home of Mogruith !) to the Isle of Mona, their Holy Island of Holyhead. The stones moved along these major ley lines at the exact planetary times, when the forces were right, according to the relative forces of the solar wind and the planets as they moved into a precise pattern. The Druids intoned the magical words of command and the stones moved along the ley lines smoothly to their destinations - unscratched ! As one line ended, say at Mona, there was a 'junction' where another ley line took over the task. These stones did not touch the ground. They hovered across land and sea. The words of command are inherent in words in the Irish language.

They came into the Land of Ireland, went on to Britain and Gaul, spread throughout Europe on an earlier Druidic mission of advancing civilisation. They went into the Land of Isis and there wrought and raised the wondrous Pyramids. they shone across the Land of Sumer and made great astronomers along the Tigris, the Euphrates, as far as Ur of the Chaldees.

"Yes, the divine ones were here and they are gone ! "

Thus spake Zarathustra.