Druidism was one of the greatest and most exalting adventures of
the human spirit, attempting to reconcile the unreconcilable, the
individual and the collective, creator and created, good and evil,
day and night, past and future, and life and death. Because of the
oral nature of Celtic civilization our understanding of its
spiritual truths and rituals is necessarily incomplete. Yet
evidence exists that can provide the modern reader with a better
understanding of the doctrine that took druidic apprentices 20
years to learn in the remote forests of the British Isles and Gaul.
Using the descriptions of the druids and their beliefs provided
by the historians and chroniclers of classic antiquity -- as well
as those recorded by the insular Celts themselves when compelled,
under Christianity's influence, to utilize writing to preserve
their ancestral traditions -- Jean Markale painstakingly pieces
together all that is known for certain about them. The druids were
more than simply the priests of the Celtic people; their influence
extended to all aspects of Celtic life. The Druids covers
everything concerning the Celtic religious domain, intellectual
speculations, cultural or magical practices, various beliefs, and
the so-called profane sciences that have come down from the Celtic
priesthood.
Poet, philosopher, historian, and storyteller, Jean Markale has
spent a lifetime researching Celtic civilizations. He is the author
of more than 40 books on pre-Christian societies, including The
Celts, Merlin, Women of the Celts, and King of the Celts. He lives
in the Brittany region of France.
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