What Would the Druids Do at the Summer Solstice?
Let’s see…. Well, considering the available evidence, we have virtually no idea what the ancient Druids really did for the solstices and many “Celtic Studies” sources feel quite comfortable asserting that the Celts did not even observe the solstices and equinoxes at all! In my book that’s just scholarly hokum. Too often, in good books and in bad, the Celts of archeology are confused with the Celts of Irish and Welsh folklore. There are many good reasons that the Celts probably did have solstice and other Sun rites and just because it’s not mentioned in the corpus of “Celtic” folklore, first written-down by the Irish monks one thousand years ago, tells us exactly -zero- about what the pagan Celts actually did over two thousand years ago. Thus: • A lack of evidence does not constitute evidence to the contrary. • “Celtic” or not, early medieval folklore is not an accurate view back into the pagan Iron Age. • The common assumption that the Celts had little regard for the Sun is simply wr
