{"id":418,"date":"2010-11-01T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2013-11-12T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:02:41","slug":"the-rise-of-the-druids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/the-rise-of-the-druids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Druids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande';\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In honour of the season, let all of us whose ancestors were the original Druids, take a moment to honour the first organized religion that truly celebrated the power of women.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande';\"><span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I found this quote in the BBC News Online. I think organized religion could learn a lot from the Druids. Some of my family surnames come from the Druids. Hart means stag, which is the most sacred symbol of the Druids. Thus, the Harts were Druid royalty. Also, Rowan: the Rowan tree (also know as the Mountain Ash) is also very scared to the Druids. Thus the Rowans, were also high up in the Druid religion. It means my ancestors were big time Druids. I think this is where I get my passion for feminine strength.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #505050; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;\">Ronald Hutton, Professor of History at Bristol University, says Paganism is partly a reaction to a perceived discrimination against women, practiced by mainstream religions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: right; color: #505050; display: inline; float: right; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: -160px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 144px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11652512#story_continues_2\" style=\"color: #1f4f82; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; left: -5000px; line-height: 16px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; top: -5000px;\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/view\/1_3_2\/cream\/hi\/shared\/img\/story_sprite.png); background-position: 0px -188px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-indent: -500px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: -5000px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\">Start Quote<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #505050; display: inline; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\">\n<div style=\"clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;\">We&#8217;ve come to a time, after thousands of years of dogmatic religion&#8230; for human beings to take hold of their spirit and become free\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"clear: both; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\">Tony Jameson<\/span><span style=\"clear: both; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\">Druid Bard<\/span><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7yULaE40I\/AAAAAAAAEAo\/ZMmci17kFoo\/s1600\/IMG_8213.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7yULaE40I\/AAAAAAAAEAo\/ZMmci17kFoo\/s400\/IMG_8213.JPG\" width=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Me as Griselda&#8217;s sister: The Wicked Witch of the North<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;\">He says: &#8220;It&#8217;s feminist. Women have an automatic place&#8230; and in some areas of Paganism they are actually in charge. And they&#8217;re working with a goddess or goddesses who are just as powerful as gods, if not more so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM73y6B-O3I\/AAAAAAAAEBA\/fjcb4wOrpu0\/s1600\/IMG_8220.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM73y6B-O3I\/AAAAAAAAEBA\/fjcb4wOrpu0\/s640\/IMG_8220.JPG\" width=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Auntie Griselda with her broom, shouting nasty things at the neighborhood children<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7yopsdY6I\/AAAAAAAAEAs\/Aio2AJFsGiQ\/s1600\/IMG_8207.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7yopsdY6I\/AAAAAAAAEAs\/Aio2AJFsGiQ\/s640\/IMG_8207.JPG\" width=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Mistaya as Ziggy Stardust<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7y7iNe5rI\/AAAAAAAAEAw\/tepzVn3oJ_s\/s1600\/IMG_8215.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7y7iNe5rI\/AAAAAAAAEAw\/tepzVn3oJ_s\/s640\/IMG_8215.JPG\" width=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Tabitha as a fashionista bat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7zN6K5CXI\/AAAAAAAAEA0\/inAg4zboexk\/s1600\/IMG_8210.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7zN6K5CXI\/AAAAAAAAEA0\/inAg4zboexk\/s640\/IMG_8210.JPG\" width=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Pippi as a werewolf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7zrQL0BkI\/AAAAAAAAEA8\/-F9Y-MzifMU\/s1600\/IMG_8223.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/TM7zrQL0BkI\/AAAAAAAAEA8\/-F9Y-MzifMU\/s640\/IMG_8223.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Ready to trick or treat with cousins Anemone and Artemisia<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of the season, let all of us whose ancestors were the original Druids, take a moment to honour the first organized religion that truly celebrated the power of women.I found this quote in the BBC News Online. 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