Ancient Celtic Druids were the intellectual elite of their society, serving as judges, doctors, and mystical advisors, but they absolutely refused to write anything down because they thought it weakened the memory.

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Ancient Celtic Druids were the intellectual elite of their society, serving as judges, doctors, and mystical advisors, but they absolutely refused to write anything down because they thought it weakened the memory. Because of this stubborn commitment to an oral tradition, almost everything we know about them comes from Julius Caesar, the guy who was actively trying to conquer and destroy them. Relying on a Roman general for accurate information about Celtic mystics is like asking a tech CEO to write a fair and balanced history of the labor union currently striking outside his office. Centuries later, during the Romantic era, quirky British aristocrats essentially invented Neo-Druidism from scratch, dressing up in white robes and conducting fake mystical rituals at Stonehenge just for fun. Today, modern druids gather at the summer solstice to honor nature, completely unbothered by the fact that their entire spiritual framework is based on vague historical guesses and cosplay