Gilbert Cleveland's List: Druidic Resources

• • ovates, who wear green robes,
   
  • bards, who wear blue robes, and
   
  • druids, who wear white robes^[6].

  • The "traditional" color associations may have been completely invented by the Gorsedd.

• Clothing for the early Irish of all ages and sexes consisted of a linen or in some cases silk tunic (the leine) and a four-cornered or oval cloak (the'brat') worn over it

• The brat was an  outer garment that was attached to the breast by a  brooch
• While descriptions of the brat vary most agree  that it was a multicoloured piece of rectangular  cloth, very similar to a short cape that dropped to  mid-thigh
• the upper right corner of the plaidie is  grasped and pulled over to the left shoulder where it  is pinned by a brooch, pin, or penannular clasp; an  alternative version is that both of the upper corners  would be attached together and then pinned to the  shoulder. The remaining plaidie would then be allowed  to drape naturally off the left shoulder.
• The garment that is worn ‘under’ the plaidie is  the leine (lain-uh) which is of Irish origin. The  leine goes to mid-thigh and has long wide sleeves;  there is a variant of the leine that has a flared  bottom, with the flaring starting from around the  waist or hips.
• Given the Celts love of colour one can  assume that the borders of the leine would be brightly  coloured with Celtic interlace knotwork around the  bottom hem, the cuffs and around the neck.

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• The Mound of the   Hostages
• The   passage at the Mound of the Hostages is short, and is aligned on   the cross-quarter days of November 8 and February 4, the ancient   Celtic festivals   of Samhain and Imbolc

• PHRASE: Gra, Dilseacht, Cairdeas  PRONOUNCED: graw, deel-shockt, korr-djass MEANING: Love, Loyalty, Friendship

  • May want to use this for the DO.
• PHRASE: Athbhliain faoi mhaise dhuit! PRONOUNCED: ought-bleen fwee may-sheh dwit MEANING: A prosperous new year to you!

  • May want to put this on printed Coligny Callendar.

• Now when at intervals of thirty years the star of Cronus, which we call 'Splendent' but they, our author said, call 'Night-watchman', enters the sign of the Bull, they, having spent a long time in preparation for the sacrifice and the expedition, choose by lot and send forth a sufficient number of envoys in a correspondingly sufficient number of ships ... while those who have served the god together for the stint of thirty years are allowed to sail off home
• That the Celts used the first-quarter moon as the first day of their months explains why their period of the day extends from successive sunsets: on the first day of the Celtic month the moon is directly overhead split into dual sunlit and dark halves, a precise astronomical observation
• In 503BC a spectacular Pleiades rising was visible across Europe, with Saturn rising in Taurus, accompanied by Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, and with Mars close by in Aries. Co-incident with the start of a Celtic thirty year cycle, this planetary alignment brought all the visible planets together on the eastern horizon. It was about 500BC that the Celtic La Tène archaeological period opened, the flourish of Celtic culture.
• "they compute the divisions of every season, not by the number of days, but of nights; they keep birthdays and the beginnings of months and years in such an order that the day follows the night

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• about 50 A.D
• 1.48   metres long X .90 metres high
• The inscribed region of the plaque was divided up into 16 equidistant vertical   columns and 8 box segments within each of those columns. This provided a total   of 128 boxes in which writing, numbers, day-marks or symbols of notation occurred.   A space beneath the top perimeter frame contained no inscribing throughout the   top horizontal length of the plaque to a depth of almost 6 cm
• In theory there should have been   1830 of these small peg holes across the calendar. A total of 1770 holes would   have indicated phases of the moon through 60 lunar months (1770-days = 354 X   5...the lunar year is 354.375-days)
• The fully titled months of the calendar plaque   were, split into biweekly sections. Six of the months were composed of a total   of 30-days. The other six months were composed of 15-days in the first biweekly   section and 14-days in their seconf biweekly section.The double spaced CIALLOS   regions (occupying space generally allotted to four months) number up to XV   or 15-days, with another 15-days allotted to their ATENOVX appendages.
• It appears obvious that the   holes were used for inserting pegs
• By this method, the positions   of upcoming events or fests could be marked out well ahead of time

• This is how the two sections are now thought   to have been in their heading titles:

   

  DACAMONOS BUIS [First]   period of adjustment.
    SONNOCINGOS [The march of the sun] [by addition of one]...Sonno [sun]...Cingos   [march].
    MID XIII [thirteenth month complete] [carrying].
    MATUS CCC LXXXV LATES [the duration of 385   days].

   

  The title at the top of   the second CIALLOS section is composed of five lines of text, as opposed   to the first CIALLOS, which has only four. This one (with some reconstruction)   says:

   

  CIALLOS B[U]IS   [Second] period of adjustment.
    SONNOCINGOS [The march of the sun].
    AMMAN.M.M XIII [Duration of 13 months complete].
    LAT CCC LXXXV [Day 385]
    [AM]BANTARAN M [month between the two].

• SAMON (MAT), DVMAN   (ANM), RIVROS (MAT), ANAGAN (ANM), OGRONN (MAT),   CVTIOS (MAT), GIAMONI (AMN), SIMIVIS (MAT), EQVOS (AMN),   ELEMIV (AMN) EDRINI (MAT), CANTLOS (AMN) = 354 days (the lunar   year is 354.375-days).
    Each of the above titles is preceded by the letter M.

   

  The first SAMON month   has a special designation, MID SAM.

   

  Each of these months is   split into two parts with the word ATENOVX inserted between the biweekly   periods.

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• Later in about the 3rd century AD, a new alphabet developed in Ireland called Ogam