halloween

[patricia1]

Hello there,

After reading many peoples ideas on druidism and halloween i decided to bring some awareness to light. It seems some have parts, but do not see all, which makes us assume things that may or not be true.

the druids were one of many polytheistic celtic tribes.

They were considered to be noble men who were teachers, philosophers, scientists, counselors arbitrarors magistrates and doctors or healers as called back then.

They existed in the western world, britain and Ireland moving to galatia.

The first seen written word of them was from greece writings of the 2nd century.

Their original name was Keltoi and names became different in relationship to the language of the century.

They were also considered guardians of unwritten law and were feared due to excommunication as was their main form of judgement executed

The word DERU- means solid and steadfast. WEID- means wisdom and knowledge, seers

Modern irish translate the word to Magi or magician not unlike the magi who followed the star to find Jesus

They stargazed and watch the moons for that is how they told time.

FOUR MAIN CELEBRATIONS; IMBLOG winter solstice full moon to spring

BELTANE spring>summer firstfruits

LUGHNASADH summer>autumn firstfruits ripening

SAMHAIM winter end of harvesting

The julian calender changed Imbolc to Groundhog day

Beltane to Easter

sanhain became halloween which actually started Nov. 1st

The territory of Galatia had changed so many times but when Paul landed in Lystra the people were speaking a mixture of celti/greek and I cannot remember the name of that language. There they wanted to worship paul . The Greeks had a altar to the unknown god just in case they missed a god.

TODAYS MODERNISM:

The newagers and witches decided to celebrate their you know what on dec.31 The practice of masks come from those who believed the dead arose and hoped the mask will make them undentifiable from spirits.

Thanksgiving in the late 1890's from what I understood from my grandmother who is now deceased, told me people were poor and dressed up going to house to house in hopes for a potatoe or bread to eat so they may have a decent meal for thanksgiving.( Hey, they gave thier children away at times to keep them from starving.) Somehow the two became intermingled.

Now we know that some of us of old, (sorry) that town boundries change, certain religious beliefs have change and even today our younger kids celebrate all presidents day and at some time they will not know lincholns birthday, washingtons birthday or whatever.

Our countries nationwide no longer have the same names and we lost one of our planets as being a planet,

I also want to keep it simple and decided not to go into alexandria...ceaser..delphi in connection with celti druidism. But I hope this helps those who have a little bit of knowledge. I also decided to leave out the vikings and nordics.

I am glad I did not live back than cos I have the classic green eyes and red hair of a druid. (and the only one in my family too) patricia1

P.S. they also believed in the soul of man being indestructable and in irish writings during the time of druids, who were watching the skies ,is recorded their sky growing dark and a mighty earthquake occuring sybolizing a horrible happening yet some were unaware of Christ being on the cross at the time but there was a knowing of God turning Away.

[EricH]

What are you hoping people will do with this? I am not clear on the purpose of this post

[OneLight]

What are you hoping people will do with this? I am not clear on the purpose of this post

I see that she is trying to bring a deeper understanding as to what a Druid was/is.

[EricH]

What are you hoping people will do with this? I am not clear on the purpose of this post

I see that she is trying to bring a deeper understanding as to what a Druid was/is.

For what purpose. its not like I run into Druids every day or even every decade

[Agape_CTL]

Druids, I had a friend in high school that claimed to be a druid. I have no problem expanding knowledge of a group of people as long as the goal is to help you to reach those people for Christ. Do not reguard them as wise though for the wisdom of man is foolishness to the Lord. Love them yes. Be their friends if you can, so they can come to know Christ. But don't mix their belifes with Christian belifes. The fact that they keeped a record of strange weather on the day of Christ on the cross is wonderful, the historical world is full of proof of Christ.

But be careful the devil has had a lot of time to twist the worlds information and man's wisdom. This goes for Halloween, and all other holidays as well.

[nebula]

She explained it here:

Hello there,

After reading many peoples ideas on druidism and halloween i decided to bring some awareness to light. It seems some have parts, but do not see all, which makes us assume things that may or not be true.

Personally, I find it educational.

I live in an area where people are into Wicca or Neo-Paganism or other variations of the like. Druidism - or a modern variation of the religion - is one of these. So it does me good to understand the kinds of things I am dealing with in the people around me.

[patricia1]

She explained it here:

Hello there,

After reading many peoples ideas on druidism and halloween i decided to bring some awareness to light. It seems some have parts, but do not see all, which makes us assume things that may or not be true.

Personally, I find it educational.

I live in an area where people are into Wicca or Neo-Paganism or other variations of the like. Druidism - or a modern variation of the religion - is one of these. So it does me good to understand the kinds of things I am dealing with in the people around me.

hello there...I am back...actually it is a new keyboard that has been intoduced, my old one decided to retire. since I am not computer savvy it took be a while to get here.

Erich... I just mentioned this information due to other posts I was reading where info was... hmmm not quite correct and could have been misconstrued... thats all.

[P_Joseph]

I learned somthing new. yours in Christ joe

[agiopolem]

It certainly helps to have background, especially in dealing with subjects like Halloween. It may seem harmless to go out and "trick or treat," but think about why you're doing it and what the holiday is really centered around.

[busdriver72]

While many point out the pagan elements in our other holidays like Christmas and Easter, there is at least something Christian about them.

There is nothing Christian about Halloween or any elements associated with it.

It can be traced back and associated with demonic spirits and child sacrifice.

While the population at large is oblivious to this, and simply view it as a time of fun, Christians should be aware of its history.

We did not "celebrate" halloween, but we didn't throw rocks at those who did. If people asked us why, we told them.

They are often shocked to learn the truth behind "trick or treat" and bonfires.

But I reallt don't think this results in "guilt by association."

The little guy at my door dressed like a ghost with his plastic pumpkin to hold candy isn't aware of anything except that he's having fun and getting some goodies.

It's an excellent time of year to reach out. Gospel tracts with candy.