Before the coming of Christianity, the ancient Celts of Ireland practiced a nature based religion and worshipped many gods and goddesses, with different tribes showing preferences for different deities. Because of religious taboos on writing, most knowledge was passed down by word of mouth, so much information about the beliefs of the pre Christian Celt has bee lost. We do know that erudite druids formed the priestly class of the ancient Celtic people. In addition to officiating at rituals, they acted as physicians, lawyers, judges, and keepers of the oral traditions, or historian. They may have studied for as long as twenty years to memorize the myths, histories and incantations verbatim. Patrick would bring the spiritual hegemony of to druids in Ireland to an end.
Before the coming of Christianity, the ancient Celts of Ireland practiced a nature based religion and worshipped many gods and goddesses, with different tribes showing preferences for different deities. Because of religious taboos on writing, most knowledge was passed down by word of mouth, so much information about the beliefs of the pre Christian Celt has bee lost. We do know that erudite druids formed the priestly class of the ancient Celtic people. In addition to officiating at rituals, they acted as physicians, lawyers, judges, and keepers of the oral traditions, or historian. They may have studied for as long as twenty years to memorize the myths, histories and incantations verbatim. Patrick would bring the spiritual hegemony of to druids in Ireland to an end.
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