They should put Zelensky in wicker man. Dressed in high heals along with Kolemouski

@@uncatila Now, can you make an intelligent comment about actual video content as opposed to your antediluvian political views?

@@uncatila - Who committed the coup d'etat of Ukraine which installed Zelensky as a puppet? USA/Israel. Ukraine is US territory in this proxy war of greed and savagery.

Probably. I think the southern Britons might have practiced this rite, or similar customs, due to their kinship connections with Gaul. Pliny writes: ‘Magic certainly found a home in the two Gallic provinces, and that down to living memory. For the principate of Tiberius Caesar did away with their Druids and this tribe of seers and medicine men. But why should I speak of these things when the craft has even crossed the Ocean and reached the empty voids of Nature? Even today Britain practises magic in awe, with such grand ritual that it might seem that she gave it to the Persians. So universal is the cult of magic throughout the world. although its nations disagree or are unknown to each other. It is beyond calculation how great is the debt owed to the Romans, who swept away the monstrous rites, in which to kill a man was the highest religious duty and for him to be eaten a passport to health’ (Pliny, 'Natural History', book 30, passage 30.4). Perhaps Pliny was recognising distant Indo-European connections from the deep past?

Some academics dismiss the Wicker Man ceremony as there is no archaeological evidence. But what would that evidence look like? - especially if the ceremony were a rare and extreme occurrence? Perhaps it was only performed when tribes and clans were uniting. If each community contributed an offering - then this would explain the multiple sacrifices. Archaeologists found that the High Mound at Navan was composed of different soil types. As though peoples from different regions had brought ‘contributions’ of earth to bury the giant ‘Solar Wheel’ temple. The temple is contemporary with reconstructed border defences at the Dorsey. So, the burning ceremony at Navan might have been a collective response to external threat. I might follow your lead and film my own video-documentary at the site! :-)

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 Southern Britons, highly likely. Irish, more doubtful.

​@@drraoulmclaughlin7423even looking for evidence in soil would be difficult. The effigy burnt, the bones literally whisked away and made into potions and powders, the dirt scooped into leather pouches for spells and protection by hundreds of hands. What would you have to look for? I'd suggest that the most telling evidence is in stories and legends and specifically stories about treatment of cases of albinism....who would've either been raised to high rank in sorcery or been hunted for sacrifice, as noted happens today in some cultures. There are many stories of albino families in hiding specifically because of this time period.

Somebody needed to say it and you did.

Exactly the methods of sacrifice has changed over time. But the end goal has not.

They do work when done in the right way and at the right time

History does tend to repeat itself.

History has a tendency to repeat itself.

Blackrock city!

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@@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4gl It's a Samhain thing. You wouldn't understand. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Just make sure your new rockery isn't wheel shaped. You might bat-signal a Celtic deity. Happy Samhain :-)

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423, @ArchEnema 67 Happy Samhain!

@@drraoulmclaughlin7423 The old brood don't concern me too much. It's the little ones tucked in the shadowy corners that I'm keeping my eye out for. The ones that are always around, not just today, because they don't have to worry about The Veil. Harder to get rid of than cockroaches, and less sanitary, as well.🔎🧚‍♂️🏹

One can only hope

Caesar was a politician first and foremost. The Gallic Wars was a piece of self promotion. I don't think Caesar purposefully invented stories but he had a political agenda. The Romans feared the Celts so salacious details about their alleged barbarism would have served his purposes. He never witnessed a wicker man and never claimed to have done so. He wrote what he had heard from an older source which may or may not have been reliable and which cannot be tested because it is lost. The logistics of building a wicker man containing multiple human sacrifices would have been impractical. Even one person contained in a giant effigy of wicker would have been impractical. Giant wicker effigies without human sacrifices would seem more likely but I haven't seen that proposed.

I feel like there's more propaganda going on NOW about this than there ever was by Caesar or Strabo. They were not pagans, so they just spoke about things as they experienced them without embellishment.

​@@johnedmundson7547from what we've been taught of magic, would the actual person even have to be in the idol? Couldn't it be a voodoo doll or similar likeness and the event cause a later passing? This may be why certain cultures feared photographs would steal their souls...grant power over them by their enemies?

The effigy used by the Celts was built of a wooden frame, in the shape of a man, that was intertwined by wicker reeds. The effigy used at the Burning Man festival is the same way. It is built of a wooden frame, in the shape of a man. Same idea. Both effigies, the one used by the Celts and the one at the festival, are ultimately set on fire. 🔥

Might want to ask why it's called Blackrock city

Thanks for the support. The object is a Celtic 'Ritual Cart' from Strettweg in Austria. The central deity supporting the sacrificial bowl is believed to be a goddess. In front of the mounted warriors a girl holds the horns of a stag while an attendant stands ready with an axe. Is this a sacrificial scene?

I would recommend Aedeen Cremin, 'The Celts' (pages 129-130). It is a small book, but its full of artefact photos and illustrations.

Thank you Dr. Raoul McLaughlin for the book recommendation. I ordered it for only $10 from Amazon.😊

Some strange accounts of burnings exist in early Irish myths. In 'The Destruction of Da Derga Hostel', supernatural forces arrive to pursue and kill the doomed Irish High King Conaire. Conaire takes refuge in the giant wooden dwelling of Da Derga (The 'Red God') where he is defended by his champions who manage to put out the fires until - - -

- - - here is the ancient text celt.ucc.ie/published/T301017A.html

Meshack, shadrack and abendego. Refused to worship king of babylons Nebuchadnezzar’s idol. I think of himself? Their fate was to be burned alive. God had other plans. In book of Daniel

Yea, that's good advice. Ignore the founder of one of the greatest civilizations in recorded history and take the word of some anonymous person with a very CELTIC sounding screen name.

Why is this so unbelievable to you? I mean, 300-400 years ago they were burning witches too.

@@oriraykai3610 Roman civilisation was hundreds of years old before Julius Caesar was born. To call him "the founder of one of the greatest civilizations in recorded history" does a disservice to all those Romans who had built the republic over those preceding centuries. JC had political ambitions, as did any Roman who led an army into neighbouring territory in the hope of achieving a triumph. I think his 'Gallic Wars' is a vital historical document, but as with *any* historical document, it must be evaluated for its purpose, its function, its potential agenda. And it can be many things - an historical document that attempts to be accurate and a political propaganda piece at the same time.

Shit😂colonizers inflated the actual human sacrifices. So not surprised this the reason why I’m looking at other groups

Britons were not celts

Script is ready. Just have to illustrate the new data. Meanwhile, here's a link to the full 2020 report from the Oxford Journal of Archaeology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ojoa.12198

Ay

Why would this be in that game 🤔

Cobblers! The Celts, Britons, Gauls and Ivernians never heard of Ball and Moloch!

Ud be surprised what they used to do. This is just a teaser

You might want to rethink that statement... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNphetKBuMC7nWg.html

Ud be surprised what they used to do.

Human sacrifice has taken place in most places throughout history in pagan societies. Its not self hate its taking accountability for our ancestors heinous actions and making a change for the future

​@Arginne only someone who lives without the redeeming power of Jesus's blood takes accountability for their ancestor's actions.

​@ajacobs100 where in the Bible does it ever say a person without christ bears the sins of their ancestors? No where? Right..

All early peoples sacrificed human beings! The more centrally located civ's progressed faster simply do to exposure with others & exchange of ideas. Romans had already outlawed human sacrifice nearly 500BC & instituted this law across all their provinces, including Britannia & Gaul. Yet it was Christianity itself, through Pope Lucius III with the Inquisition; root out all heretics in the convert of die mantra with all the atrocities it entailed. Call it what you will I guess to continue your holier than thou charade. Obviously it's just ignorance, on both fronts.

that's right, my ancestors did sacrifice the Romans. The Romans deserved what they got. Celts shall forever rule, Christianity will not overthrow us.

How ironic.

Which is even worse than a human sacrifice, if you think about it. Your religion is literally based on a god-sacrifice and you're absolutely fine with it but for some reason you find the idea of human sacrifices horrible. How strange.

@@Armdfg For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18