/asatru/ - Asatru / Heathenry / Paganism

there's barely anything left of celtic paganism. feels man, but most 'celts' today are in name only. the Scots and Welsh are ethnically and culturally identical to the English; they're all Anglo Saxon. The only different group are the Irish, but even then it's barely any difference.

That six-pointed flower on the far right end of the top row, and second from the left in the second row, is also associated specifically with the Alps.

I haven't read much about modern Druid groups because what I have read indicates that terribly little of the lore has survived. The main thing pushing me away from looking more at the other Celtic groups today is the people in them. Like, if you think the Ring of Troth is universalist, wait until you read about Paganachd. Good lord, they are off the rails.

I have some ancestry that is certainly Irish and some that is apparently Orcadian so I'll have to check into the Celtic lore eventually, but I expect I'll still have plenty of Germanic exploration to do for the foreseeable future so I am not too bothered about it.

>the Scots and Welsh are ethnically and culturally identical to the English; they're all Anglo SaxonYOu have to notice that the saxon colonization of England wasnt total, it was just in the region of Northumbria, leaving the rest of the island pretty much as it was ethnically, so its not strange to see that the English and the rest of the people of the island are really similar genetically. THe point is that the saxon invasion was first a colonizaton and then became cultural; so saying England is celt because they re genetically similar to the rest of the nations of the Islands is nonesense, since culturally they are really different.

But this shouldnt be a really shocking, i mean the whole northen-western zone of Europe is genetically really similar, the most important point here is cultural.

>The main thing pushing me away from looking more at the other Celtic groups today is the people in them.

Yes, that was one of the things pushing me out of it too, thinking that i can be realted to Wiccans isnt really an amusing thought, but im not germanic, my ancestry isnt germanic and even thought there has been germanic population in my country (the Suebi), they didnt really left much behind, and also, the christianization of my land is related to them. If I have to look at some ancestros, these are the Celts.

>I have some ancestry that is certainly Irish and some that is apparently Orcadian so I'll have to check into the Celtic lore eventually,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney

read the history and the language parts, basically germanic m8, they even spoke a germanic language.

druidism=/=celtic paganism. of course, there aren't many folkish celtic pagans i could find. i still try my best to practice however.

Druidism was completely wiped out. Reconstruction is impossible.

Remember also that the Irish (and everyone on the island before them) were not celtic.

>>5797

>Remember also that the Irish (and everyone on the island before them) were not celtic.

Elaborate pls.

>>5799

Celts are european. There was never a major migration of celts onto the british isles. The current Irish are gaels, as are the scots and manx, but they were never celtic. IIRC even wikipedia will mention that celtic only came to describe ireland in the 1700s

>>5649

I used to have neighbors that were celtic-pagan. The parents were fat SJW liberals, and they had many homosexual friends that they often invited to the house. The oldest son browsed halfchan literally all day, was a self-proclaimed "chaos worshiper" and recently joined the military to serve israel. The younger son was a "Druid", who dropped his liberal shit eventually to become a brosatruar. Other than the tattoos of the parents, you couldn't tell their faith if not for once a year when they "celebrated samhain", which for them meant putting out a bowl of candy for trick-or-treaters by the door, while drinking themselves unconscious in the garage.

Modern practitioners of celtic-paganism are absolutely disgusting and wicca-tier.

I am not advising you against studying their beliefs and culture as best you can, I am just saying that you should avoid the people that practice it today.