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iron age influencers who wrote nothing down and got history's most flattering fanfic.
means celtic priestly caste in ancient britain, ireland and gaul who handled law, ritual, astronomy and memorized epic amounts of oral tradition instead of writing any of it down.
from from proto-celtic druwid-, roughly oak-knower, tying them to sacred groves; nearly everything we know comes from roman writers like caesar and pliny, who had every incentive to make them look either wise or savage depending on the propaganda needed that week.
training lengthreportedly up to twenty years of oral memorization
writing banforbade recording teachings, so none survive firsthand
rome's verdictcaesar accused them of human sacrifice, conveniently
revival era18th century romantics reinvented them as nature mystics