Addendum: From Syncretism to Sacred Continuity — Lessons from Shinto and Buddhism for the Development of ArdNemeton na Tuatha
The historical relationship between Shinto and Buddhism offers a particularly illuminating model for considering the future development of ArdNemeton na Tuatha. It invites us to examine how a tradition rooted in the sacred life of a people can encounter an extensive religious philosophy, incorporate elements of its teaching, and develop a richer expression of its…
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Shinto and Druidry: Two Expressions of an Ancient Sacred Order?
There is a striking parallel between Shinto, the indigenous religious tradition of Japan, and the ancient religious world of the Celtic peoples. The more closely one examines their respective understandings of divinity, sovereignty, nature, and communal obligation, the more compelling the comparison becomes. Perhaps we might even entertain the conjecture that Shinto and Druidry represent…
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Podcast Episode: Celtic Tradition And Sacred Continuity
Pip: ArdNemeton na Tuatha — a Canadian Druidic Orthodox tradition that somehow managed to be ancient, Christian, and thoroughly its own thing all at once. Mara: arddraoi9 has been laying out the full architecture of this tradition: what it believes about identity and inheritance, how it understands the divine, and how those convictions take shape…
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ArdNemeton na Tuatha: A Canadian Tradition of Druidic Orthodoxy
ArdNemeton na Tuatha, the High Grove of the Northern Peoples, is a Canadian tradition of Gaelic-derived Druid-based Orthodox Christianity: independent in its religious authority, rooted in the surviving inheritance of the Gaelic peoples, nourished by the living Gaelic culture of Canada, and open to the continuing revelation of the divine. We are neither Scottish Druidism…
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An Dàn Mòr air Fhàs : The Great Lay of Becoming
1. Ro thoiseach gach toiseachaidh cha robh nì ann ach an Fharsaingeachd Mhòr, do-thuigsinneach do inntinnean dhaoine bàsmhoir. Ro’n t-Solas agus ro’n Dhorchadas, cha robh Bith no Neo-Bhith ann. Cha robh Àrd no Ìosal ann, fuaim no sàmhchair. Cha robh ann ach an Neo-Chrìochnach, gun chruth, gun dealachadh, agus gun fhianais. Before the beginning of…
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Podcast Episode: Celtic Faith And Sacred Tradition
Pip: ArdNemeton na Tuatha — where the sacred grove has WiFi and the liturgy cites Brehon law, Mahler, and the Gospel of Thomas before lunch. Mara: arddraoi9 has been busy. The posts we're covering today range from the ethics of sacred landscapes and the structure of Druidic heritage, to devotional practice and chaplets, to some…
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Roots and Revelation : Continuity and Adaptation in the Celtic Tradition
ArdNemeton na Tuatha takes its name from one of the oldest sacred concepts of the Celtic world: the nemeton, the consecrated place where the human and the divine meet. In antiquity, a nemeton might be a grove of trees, a hilltop, a spring, or a gathering place set apart from ordinary life. It was not…
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Podcast Episode: Celtic Faith And Tradition
Pip: ArdNemeton na Tuatha — the High Grove of the Peoples — is the kind of place where you can walk in asking about a prayer bead and walk out three hours later having reconsidered the entire ontological status of sacred groves, Brehon law, and the modern billionaire. Mara: arddraoi9 has been busy. This episode…
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