The Druids in the newspaper "le Monde"

I found on saturday 29 th August in the Newspaper "Le Monde" an article with the title " The Druid and the pilosophy" based on a work from
a historian Jean-Louis Brunaux . He writes the philosophy of the druids could be compared with the philosophy of the Greeks, he mentioned that the Druids ruled the Celts from V to II centuries Before Christ. The greatest problem to know the culture of the Druids is the lack of texts.

So the two authors who spoke over the Druids were Ceasar in his " the war of Gauls" and Poseidonios. But the texts of Poseidonios were lost so Jean-louis Brunaux must go further with Ceasar.

Ceasar observed and compared the philosophic schools which ruled the Greek cities and the Druid's authority over the Gauls. He Wondered why the Druids stayed twenty years in school to learn the basis of their religion .He considered that it was because the Druids were very suspicious that they transmitted their sacred texts only orally.

I must say that it was not the first time that I read these ideas (thank-you Laura) In her book The secret history of the World Page 119, she explained why the Druids didn't write their Druidic initiation It was and i Citeer " that their pupils shouldn't neglect the training of their memories, i.e the Frontal Cortex, by relying on written texts.

For Ceasar , the druids were intellectual , they studied the Astronomy and the Mathematics, Jean-Louis Brunaux asks himself if it isn't the Druids who inspired his philosophy to Pythagoras.

At the end of the article Jean-Louis Brunaux mentions a Caldon of Gundestrup from Denemark . Three scientists ( P Verdier, J.M Le Conte C.Goudineau ) found that the bottom of the Caldron could be the representation of a conjonction of constellations . :)
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