😭🤍

Thank you very much!

Have you read Dreaming the Eagle? It's all about the Iceni tribe and Boudica's life. Fascinating and it's on Audible 🤍🙏🏼that's all I know about Norfolk during the Celtic period.

@@stellamariehere It's on my list! (might be bumped up the list now you have inspired me!)

His / her story is a tale of hope, deception, tragedy, triumphant love, remembering salvation, forgiving failure, marching mothers, sensitive fathers

If you're based in Norfolk, there are lots of great local resources and I'd recommend having a chat to the guys who run the Norwich Pagan Moot. The Norwich Goddess Temple work with Andraste who is supposed the warrior goddess that Boudicca worshipped so may also be of some help. I don't know if you've been into Inannas Festival (the shop on Norwich) but they also stock a lot of books written by local authors, talking about their experience connecting to the land and may have more suggestions about resources you could try 😊

You’re probably just Anglo-Saxon like the majority of us…

I've got a podcast all about Pretanni coming soon! ❤

My grandparents are from the Philippines and immigrated to the United States so that statement really resonated with me I think animism played a bigger part in Filipino spirituality before bigger religions like Catholics and Islam came to the islands

It likely did play a role! Seems to be a baseline belief for all humans

More to come! Thank you 🌀🤩

You're doing the work bro! Truly connected to the land around you more than most people I know. X

This is happening in many countries now.

Well said

It's awful isn't it! So many holiday homes

We're returning to a sense of belonging 🤍

@@stellamariehere Your ancestors from Cymru and mine from Eire originally came from the Pontic steppes and swept across Europe into Ireland and the British. Replacing the Early European Farmers who had most likely built the stone circles of the Isles and Europe. They in turn had replaced the Western Hunter Gathers and both had out competed into extinction the Neanderthal and Denisovans. When our steppe herder ancestors got to the Isles there was an almost complete replacement of the Early European Farmers genes. Two Theories are that A: the animal husbandry practiced by the steppe headers and their horses had left them immune to the diseases they carried and inadvertently brought a terrible plague upon the EEF people who were relatively isolated and had no natural immunity. Theory B: is that they killed nearly all the EEF in a couple generations including most of the women. My long-winded point is that colonization has been going on since there were other species of humans walking the planet and the only place humans are indigenous to is Africa. Cultural appropriation isn't always evil, for instance I am glad we stole Arabic numerals, that Roman system of numbers is crap. If you really dig into the history of any "indigenous" people, you will find they would conquer their neighbor whenever they thought they could. Humanity is a sad wretch fairly often. Getting caught up into much neo-Marxism about colonizers and indigenous people isn't good for anybody. It wasn't designed to bring people together, but to drive them apart. It is also known as the "Conflict Perspective" of sociology and is meant to separate people. Ironically once the far left causes enough chaos in society, they take over and get rid of everyone's culture anyways. They can't have those old ideas around anymore. You probably think I have a million hateful reasons to say this and that I am a reactionary, but I just hate seeing intelligent young people not consider another way of viewing the world. You can hate on me if you want, but I still like your channel and wish you luck!

Me too! I've shared a story with her via email

That would be awesome, perhaps we can all celebrate together at a site one day... thanks for the comment ✨ Happy Full Moon 🌝

OOO tell me more about this Salvia Divanoram, I wonder if I can grow it here...

@@stellamariehere probably it's a sage plant ..will get back to you

I've wanted to get ahold of some. It's literally "illegal" to have and grow in some US states... 🙄🙄🙄

It was a lot easier to see this energy when I was younger, and during my time with the mushrooms here. I have read The Celestine Prophecy, such a beautiful story and I recommend everyone read it ❤

I'd love to know more about what you said about 'this was taught by the druids'

My pleasure!

My pleasure x

May the light always be with you to friend. Thanks for sharing 😊🙏🏼

Welcome aboard!

Hello. I made these earrings and they are a Celtic Mandala mixed with The Flower of Life x

I have English in my family. I feel we should connect to our bioregion and what's local, and explore whatever we are drawn to in terms of heritage ~ nothing is wrong, but it's important to avoid culturally appropriating if we're exploring something new, even if it's our own heritage! Hope this makes sense?x

@@stellamariehere it does make sense. i think ppl of english heritage (i have some but have other lineages too!) should be relating to the bio region in a way that’s infused with traditions that have been lost yes? such as language, holy days, recipes (with regional alterations), etc. i guess what i’m asking is if you would consider the english part of you anglo-saxon, or pretani - and if the latter, what that could look for anyone wanting to honour that specific part of themselves 💗

yes brother Ahimsa, 🙏 I am wondering what your cultural or spiritual background is since you know this word. But of course you are welcome not to answer, this is the internet after all.

I have gathered insights from many spiritual teachings. Advaita Vedanta guides me most. Sarvapriyananda and Tadatmananda are my most revered teachers. I really can’t take any one seriously who talks about spirituality and advocates eating meat. Basing our decisions today on what we believe our ancestors did is silly. Druids were the elite class among a caste system where the lower castes were lesser and even Used as sacrifice. So glorifying people we know little about and dressing like them is very silly. Romanticizing the past will get us nowhere fast.

Unfortunately even through eating vegetables, animals are slaughtered. An entire eco system of rabbits, insects, birds, moles, thousands of plants and trees, and more are destroyed to plant just one crop. Unfortunately life and death are of nature

I believe in Ahimsa though. My family owned a vegan health food shop for a decade. Blessings be with you 🙏🏼

@@stellamariehereYes, This is why I don't judge people who eat meat and animals but try and carefully consider how any purchase I make, any food I eat, and any decision I make, contributes to suffering. That to me is the true meaning of ahimsa. Their is no benefit in judging or criticizing others no matter how deplorable we find their actions or attitudes to be, It is their attitude that is harmful not the person themselves. Judging them only hurts us, it doesn't mean we cannot think critically, but if we hold disdain torwards other sentient beings this erodes at our compassion and leads to ignorance and Ill will. another thing that I am directing more so torwards the author of this video is that you may focus on recency, but their is not a single culture or people or individual that has not suffered from ancestral trauma. In fact the most violently expansionist culture groups we're often coming off the backs of a recent history of violent subjugation. The mongols for example we're slaughtered and enslaved by the chinese for hundreds of years before the rise of Ghengis Khan. friends I wish you all peace and wellbeing, but above all I hope you seek to awaken the true heart or compassion within yourselves Gassho 🙏

Heya! This hoodie is from Toonzshop. Although I'll be honest, I didn't realise it wasn't cotton when I bought it. They have lot's of lovely clothes but I usually opt for natural materials. x

Heya! It is by Toonzshop, but I didn't realise it wasn't a natural material when I bought it. I'm looking for one similar but in a natural material :)

​@@stellamariehereThank you! I hope you do manage to find a natural material one that you like. Lovely videos too, keep it up 👍

In what ever way feels right! I'm personally called to study and teach about the Welsh culture due to this being the land I grew up on, so telling the stories and speaking the words that my ancestors spoke. Who knows, I might dive into Germanic traditions one day.

@@stellamariehere Thanks for your reply! Lots to think about

No such thing as native British. The first arrivals onto Britain were completely outcompeted by an offshoot branch of the bell beaker culture who are what we would consider as “celts” i.e a wider Gaulish culture, so those more closely living in Belgium, Netherlands, Spain etc. Then they were mostly outcompeted by mass migration from the Anglo-Saxons which is what majority of us are; it’s impossible to find somebody who is not mixed with Anglo-Saxon-Jutes in Britain and Ireland. All these “Celts” are assimilated to varying percentages, even in wales and Scotland. Even the west coast of Scotland was later inhabited by Viking Raiders who eventually settled and also east coasts of Ireland as well as later inhabitation by the Anglo populations. Unless you go to a specific place in Spain, you cannot find a majority Celtic person anymore. It’s a safe bet to assume you’re Anglo-Saxon with a high chance of Norman DNA (Romanised Gael with Scandinavian) if you’re from Norfolk.

@@andrewcoates4952 by your logic no human can be native of anywhere outside of Africa.

@@mailimcquaid6300 no that’s not what I’m saying, you missed the point (likely due to my rambling). A black and white rendition of native populations would probably be whoever reach an uninhabited bit of land first. But then what happens when the natives are completely outcompeted by another genetically different population that decides to live on that piece of land? This would be who we refer to as Celts. Then exactly the same thing happened with the migration of Anglo-Saxon-Jutes more or less apart from those Celts who became displaced to the fringes on the isles. We’ve been in this majority Anglo configuration for longer than there were any natives so…does that make us the natives? More ramblings from me, but I hope I made a better explanation of what I was trying to say earlier

@@andrewcoates4952 no I got your point, and you were incorrect that the beaker people were the celts, possibly they were the ancestors but that is debatable, so far its believed that the celts replaced the beaker people in the uk, with some notable experts who disagree, as they are want to do, but I was using reductio ad absurdum to point out that the homo sapiens replaced, and in some cases intermingled with, the Neanderthals and Denisovans who were already in Europe and Asia thereby making them "none native". Your argument is a purist one, the truth of ethnicity, culture and genetics is much more nuanced, which was my original point.

late 14c., cerymonye, "a religious observance, a solemn rite," from Old French ceremonie and directly from Medieval Latin ceremonia, from Latin caerimonia "holiness, sacredness; awe; reverent rite, sacred ceremony," an obscure word, possibly of Etruscan origin, or a reference to the ancient rites performed by the Etruscan pontiffs at Caere, near Rome. 1832, "grass yielding edible grain and cultivated for food," originally an adjective (1818) "having to do with edible grain," from French céréale (16c., "of Ceres;" 18c. in grain sense), from Latin Cerealis "of grain," originally "of Ceres," from Ceres, Italic goddess of agriculture, from PIE *ker-es-, from root *ker- (2) "to grow." The application to breakfast food cereal made from grain is American English, 1899.

I'll find where I got this information from 😌🙏🏼

Being nice isn’t hard 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I wasn't trying to be mean. I find Stella Marie's videos interesting and curious to see what else she comes up with next, BUT you have to check your sources, especially if you are going public. When I heard her say that cereal and ceremony came from the same source, it didn't quite ring true, so I checked. 🤷‍♀

@S.J.L I pity you.

@@hollyb7142 You have no meaningful critique, only daddy issues.

@@hollyb7142 You do know the Celts were major colonizers in Europe and even Anatolia don't you? Or maybe you're just another empty hat.

@@S.J.L you may not know that the inuit are not the original people to live in their arctic home, and that to be indigenous does not mean original or migratory or anything else that you imply. Plenty of indigenous peoples have been using wheels and agriculture for thousands of years. It also doesn't mean that indigenous people are immune of critique. We can still acknowledge what is harmful or oppressive about a cultural system without saying that it itself is evil, or that the people are not indigenous. Many indigenous cultures dont fit within this definition you have chosen, because to be indigenous isn't to be original, it is to be integral. To form culture around longevity from inside bounded space. To become family with earth and to mourn each soul you put to rest. This stuff is messy, and unlearning colonial culture is a generational process. its true that most white people will not be indigenous within their own lifetime, but they can do what they can to reduce the harm done to the world. To quote Robin Wall Kimmerer, an actual indigenous person, "I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts... People ask me what is one thing i would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, 'plant a garden.'" (Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer, 126 I can see into your heart farther than you can, poor soul. I can see that you carry guilt like wet blankets on your shoulders. Shame consumes you, so it is easier to carry on through life numb than to collapse under the weight of grief. But remember that grief is love held away from its source. when will you come to see that wheels, steel, war and agriculture are not the fundamental root of modern madness and destruction because generational trauma is. at the very least, please feel the pain of the people you have hurt, starting with yourself.

@@HBCrigs We're all indigenous to the planet earth. That literally what the Greek word "human" means. If were going with the out of Africa theory, which I do, then everyone who left Lake Victoria in Africa colonized somewhere. So, of course, the Eskimos weren't from North America, they were the last wave of the original "colonizers" of the Americas. The Bantu, of cultural origin around Niger, colonized almost all of Sub Sahran Africa, displacing, killing or culturally integrating the previous, less advanced, cultures, essentially mirroring Steppe cultural, aka Indo European or Aryan, expansion but without horses. The Indo Europeans, A.K.A., Iranians, Indo Aryans, Arya, Persians or Scythians in the East and Center of Eurasia and Scythians, Celts, Germanics, Balto Slavics, Romans and Greeks, etc. in the West, stemming from the Proto Indo Europeans of the Pontiac Caspian Steppe, either invented wheels, the oldest ones are found in Poland, or certainly invented the first highly functional wheels and spoked wheels, chariots and other inventions related to their pioneering domestication of the horse. This innovation was as important or more important than the agricultural revolution. This technology spread via them and proxies across all of Eurasia and into North Africa. People, who for various reasons, mostly geography and a lack of horses, were not in contact with this innovation did not develop at the same rate. That includes the Bantu, who independently developed agriculture and iron working and all of the people of the Americas, including advanced civilizations like the Inca, who had only llamas to work with on rocky terrain. Those are just the facts. Understanding them helps one understand why people from Sub Saharan Africa and the Americas were less advanced by the time of the age of exploration and cross continental contact. At this point, whoever you are, you almost definitely have some Steppe ancestry and if you can read this or have ever ridden on anything then you are at least partly culturally "Indo European." Half of the world, in many distantly related major sub cultures, speaks a language related back to these Steppe "colonizers." ALL of human history is, largely, the history of cultural groups competing and cooperating for land and resources. Various Native American cultural groups were displacing different and related cultures and colonizing different places for millennia long before those magnificent Spanish bastards showed up with superior technology. The Spanish themselves had been colonized and oppressed for centuries by Muslim invaders from North Africa before they were able to reconquer their ancestral lands in, wait for it, 1492. One of the most telling stories is that Cortez had only five hundred Spaniards when he overthrew the Aztecs, the rest were armies of other Central American cultures that had been oppressed, enslaved and treated like commodities by the Aztecs for centuries. The Spanish weren't saints, because no one is, but they were a step up both materially and culturally and those people knew it. I am proud of my ancestors. At least in the past people were generally colonized and conquered by more advanced cultures with something to offer. Either that or their culture had become decadent and degraded and left itself vulnerable to surges by less sophisticated but more vital cultures or some combination of a variety of such factors. Check out a summary of J.D. Unwin's "Sex & Culture. The West is currently being colonized by inferior cultures via the direction of a corporatist managerial class that cares nothing for people or culture but simply wants total global control. It's divide and conquer, the oldest tyrants play in the book. Save the passive aggressive bullshit for your mamma and don't take your daddy issues out on the world. The world has enough problems with such infantile Oedipal shit. People either have geographical barriers, resources and a strong enough culture and society to defend itself or they get conquered and colonized, cold fact. This was the case, is the case and will be the state of reality. If you don't like that then your quarrel is not with me but with ultimate reality, "Brahman."

I would definitely learn Welsh with Say Something in Welsh for speaking and conversation!! It's advanced me in days compared to Duolingo. Duolingo is amazing for reading and writing! They both should be done together

@@stellamariehere thank you for the recommendation. I’ll look into them. I’ve really been enjoying it on Duolingo but can see it’s lacking. This is my second time and I do feel it’s a little better like maybe they updated it.