The powerful Celtic social class posed a threat to the Roman Empire before being subsumed by Christianity, but their origins remain shrouded in the past. Modern Druid leader Arthur Pendragon watches ...
More than priests, the Druids were philosophers, judges, and mystics whose power shaped the Celtic world. Their rituals and beliefs reveal a civilization deeply connected to nature and the unseen.
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