The Case for the Broken Celtic Devotional Traditional Lines of Pre-Christian Antiquity By Michel Gérald Boutet

https://www.academia.edu/38754165/The_Case_for_the_Broken_Celtic_Devotional_Traditional_Lines_of_Pre_Christian_Antiquity?nav_from=2e3b0514-3c3b-4d9c-90c5-6724875a1698 There is a silence of approximately nine to eight hundred years between the last initiated Druids of late Antiquity and the resurgent modern neo-Druids of Freemasonry and of the Welsh bardic schools. As remarked the French experts of Celtic studies, Guyonvarc’h and Le Roux, a fact rarely aforementioned in any study is the immutable character of the Celtic tradition.1 The Celts of the better known medieval manuscript period passed down less of a religious experience than that of mythological plots. This because the Christian proselytizers never tolerated the presence of the pagan philosophical schools in its proximity. No matter how intensive its conversion effort, this imperial religion could only be but an alien offshoot grafted on a larger and more rustic Indo-European cultural trunk. In other words, the persistent mythological mindset of the past permeated the newly imposed dogmatic religion. This explains why medieval literature is rather more mythic and legendary than ideological and religious.