{"id":8753,"date":"2017-04-28T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T09:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T09:58:40","slug":"vedicism-in-ancient-celtic-n-druid-traditions-2000-bce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=8753","title":{"rendered":"VEDICISM IN ANCIENT CELTIC N DRUID TRADITIONS =  2000 BCE ="},"content":{"rendered":"<hr id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_753028\" size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752298\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u00a0( taken from a third party\u00a0 e mail without verification \u00a0, views are of he author only and not that of Patriots Forum )<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3649\" class=\"thread-item-list\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3655\" class=\"thread-item expanded\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mid=\"AIeti2IAAbYnWQMKCQXnuF6vTMU\" data-action=\"select-thread\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3711\" class=\"thread-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3710\" class=\"body undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3709\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3708\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_3707\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752302\" class=\"yiv1132392220yahoo_quoted\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752301\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752300\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752719\" class=\"yiv1132392220y_msg_container\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752718\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div align=\"center\"><i><b>VEDICISM IN ANCIENT CELTIC N DRUID TRADITIONS =\u00a0 2000 BCE =<br \/>\n<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><i><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752717\" align=\"center\"><span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752716\"><i id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752715\"><b id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752714\"><span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752713\"><span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752712\">THE GREAT CELTIC-DRUID CIVILIZATION WAS <\/span>AKIN TO VEDIC TRADITION N CULTURE\u00a0 NOW MODERN IRISH , MANX, SCOTS, WELSH , CORNISH N BRETONS<\/span><\/b><\/i><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">once great Celtic civilization is today represented only by the modern Irish, Manx and Scots, and the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons.<\/div>\n<form class=\"yiv1132392220mailster-form-3 yiv1132392220mailster-form yiv1132392220mailster-form-submit yiv1132392220mailster-ajax-form\" action=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/mailster\/subscribe\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\">\n<div class=\"yiv1132392220mailster-form-fields\">\n<div class=\"yiv1132392220mailster-wrapper yiv1132392220mailster-email-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p><label><input tabindex=\"-1\" autocomplete=\"OFF\" name=\"n_c3b06e3560_email\" type=\"text\" \/><\/label><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4050\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The Celtic people spread from their homeland in what is now Germany across Europe in the first millennium bce. Iron tools and weapons rendered them superior to their neighbors. They were also skilled farmers, road builders, traders and inventors of a fast two-wheeled chariot. They declined in the face of Roman, Germanic and Slavic ascendency by the second century bce.<\/div>\n<div>Here Peter Berresford Ellis, one of Europe\u2019s foremost experts of the Celts, explains how modern research has revealed the amazing similarities between ancient Celt and Vedic culture. The Celt\u2019s priestly caste, the Druids, has become a part of modern folklore. Their identity is claimed by New Age enthusiasts likely to appear at annual solstice gatherings around the ancient megaliths of northwest Europe. While sincerely motivated by a desire to resurrect Europe\u2019s ancient spiritual ways, Ellis says these modern Druids draw more upon fanciful reconstructions of the 18th century than actual scholarship.<\/div>\n<div>The Druids of the ancient Celtic world have a startling kinship with the Brahmins of the Hindu religion and were, indeed, a parallel development from their common Indo-European cultural root which began to branch out probably five thousand years ago. It has been only in recent decades that Celtic scholars have begun to reveal the full extent of the parallels and cognates between ancient Celtic society and Vedic culture.<\/div>\n<div>The Celts were the first civilization north of the European Alps to emerge into recorded history. At the time of their greatest expansion, in the 3rd century bce, the Celts stretched from Ireland in the west, through to the central plain of Turkey in the east; north from Belgium, down to Cadiz in southern Spain and across the Alps into the Po Valley of Italy. They even impinged on areas of Poland and the Ukraine and, if the amazing recent discoveries of mummies in China\u2019s province of Xinjiang are linked with the Tocharian texts, they even moved as far east as the area north of Tibet.<\/div>\n<div>The once great Celtic civilization is today represented only by the modern Irish, Manx and Scots, and the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons. Today on the northwest fringes of Europe cling the survivors of centuries of attempted conquest and \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d by Rome and its imperial descendants. But of the sixteen million people who make up those populations, only 2.5 million now speak a Celtic language as their mother tongue.<\/div>\n<div>The Druids were not simply a priesthood. They were the intellectual caste of ancient Celtic society, incorporating all the professions: judges, lawyers, medical doctors, ambassadors, historians and so forth, just as does the brahmin caste. In fact, other names designate the specific role of the \u201cpriests.\u201d Only Roman and later Christian propaganda turned them into \u201cshamans,\u201d \u201cwizards\u201d and \u201cmagicians.\u201d The scholars of the Greek Alexandrian school clearly described them as a parallel caste to the brahmins of Vedic society.<\/div>\n<div><a id=\"yiv1132392220LPlnk571509\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"yiv1132392220aligncenter yiv1132392220size-full yiv1132392220wp-image-7291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The very name Druid is composed of two Celtic word roots which have parallels in Sanskrit. Indeed, the root vid for knowledge, which also emerges in the Sanskrit word Veda, demonstrates the similarity. The Celtic root dru which means \u201cimmersion\u201d also appears in Sanskrit. So a Druid was one \u201cimmersed in knowledge.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Because Ireland was one of the few areas of the Celtic world that was not conquered by Rome and therefore not influenced by Latin culture until the time of its Christianization in the 5th century ce, its ancient Irish culture has retained the most clear and startling parallels to Hindu society.<\/div>\n<div>Professor Calvert Watkins of Harvard, one of the leading linguistic experts in his field, has pointed out that of all the Celtic linguistic remains, Old Irish represents an extraordinarily archaic and conservative tradition within the Indo-European family. Its nominal and verbal systems are a far truer reflection of the hypothesized parent tongue, from which all Indo-European languages developed, than are Classical Greek or Latin. The structure of Old Irish, says Professor Watkins, can be compared only with that of Vedic Sanskrit or Hittite of the Old Kingdom.<\/div>\n<div>The vocabulary is amazingly similar. The following are just a few examples:<\/div>\n<div>Old Irish \u2013 arya (freeman),Sanskrit \u2013 aire (noble)<\/div>\n<div>Old Irish \u2013 naib (good), Sanskrit \u2013 noeib (holy)<\/div>\n<div>Old Irish \u2013 badhira (deaf), Sanskrit \u2013 bodhar (deaf)<\/div>\n<div>Old Irish \u2013 names (respect), Sanskrit \u2013 nemed (respect)<\/div>\n<div>Old Irish \u2013 righ (king), Sanskrit \u2013 raja (king)<\/div>\n<div>This applies not only in the field of linguistics but in law and social custom, in mythology, in folk custom and in traditional musical form. The ancient Irish law system, the Laws of the F\u00e9nechus, is closely parallel to the Laws of Manu. Many surviving Irish myths, and some Welsh ones, show remarkable resemblances to the themes, stories and even names in the sagas of the Indian Vedas.<\/div>\n<div><a id=\"yiv1132392220LPlnk572898\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"yiv1132392220aligncenter yiv1132392220size-full yiv1132392220wp-image-7293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"579\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Comparisons are almost endless. Among the ancient Celts, Danu was regarded as the \u201cMother Goddess.\u201d The Irish Gods and Goddesses were the Tuatha De Danaan (\u201cChildren of Danu\u201d). Danu was the \u201cdivine waters\u201d falling from heaven and nurturing B\u00edle, the sacred oak from whose acorns their children sprang. Moreover, the waters of Danu went on to create the great Celtic sacred river\u2013Danuvius, today called the Danube. Many European rivers bear the name of Danu\u2013the Rh\u00f4ne (ro-Dhanu, \u201cGreat Danu\u201d) and several rivers called Don. Rivers were sacred in the Celtic world, and places where votive offerings were deposited and burials often conducted. The Thames, which flows through London, still bears its Celtic name, from Tamesis, the dark river, which is the same name as Tamesa, a tributary of the Ganges.<\/div>\n<div>Not only is the story of Danu and the Danube a parallel to that of Ganga and the Ganges but a Hindu Danu appears in the Vedic story \u201cThe Churning of the Oceans,\u201d a story with parallels in Irish and Welsh mytholgy. Danu in Sanskrit also means \u201cdivine waters\u201d and \u201cmoisture.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>In ancient Ireland, as in ancient Hindu society, there was a class of poets who acted as charioteers to the warriors They were also their intimates and friends. In Irish sagas these charioteers extolled the prowess of the warriors. The Sanskrit Satapatha Brahmana says that on the evening of the first day of the horse sacrifice (and horse sacrifice was known in ancient Irish kingship rituals, recorded as late as the 12th century) the poets had to chant a praise poem in honor of the king or his warriors, usually extolling their genealogy and deeds.<\/div>\n<div>Such praise poems are found in the Rig Veda and are called narasamsi. The earliest surviving poems in old Irish are also praise poems, called fursundud, which trace back the genealogy of the kings of Ireland to Golamh or Mile Easpain, whose sons landed in Ireland at the end of the second millennium bce. When Amairgen, Golamh\u2019s son, who later traditions hail as the \u201cfirst Druid,\u201d set foot in Ireland, he cried out an extraordinary incantation that could have come from the Bhagavad Gita, subsuming all things into his being [see sidebar right].<\/div>\n<div>Celtic cosmology is a parallel to Vedic cosmology. Ancient Celtic astrologers used a similar system based on twenty-seven lunar mansions, called nakshatras in Vedic Sanskrit. Like the Hindu Soma, King Ailill of Connacht, Ireland, had a circular palace constructed with twenty-seven windows through which he could gaze on his twenty-seven \u201cstar wives.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>There survives the famous first century bce Celtic calendar (the Coligny Calendar) which, as soon as it was first discovered in 1897, was seen to have parallels to Vedic calendrical computations. In the most recent study of it, Dr. Garret Olmsted, an astronomer as well as Celtic scholar, points out the startling fact that while the surviving calendar was manufactured in the first century bce, astronomical calculus shows that it must have been computed in 1100 bce.<\/div>\n<div><a id=\"yiv1132392220LPlnk968099\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"yiv1132392220aligncenter yiv1132392220size-full yiv1132392220wp-image-7294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/celtic-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"880\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>One fascinating parallel is that the ancient Irish and Hindus used the name Budh for the planet Mercury. The stem budh appears in all the Celtic languages, as it does in Sanskrit, as meaning \u201call victorious,\u201d \u201cgift of teaching,\u201d \u201caccomplished,\u201d \u201cenlightened,\u201d \u201cexalted\u201d and so on. The names of the famous Celtic queen Boudicca, of ancient Britain (1st century ce), and of Jim Bowie (1796-1836), of the Texas Alamo fame, contain the same root. Buddha is the past participle of the same Sanskrit word\u2013\u201cone who is enlightened.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>For Celtic scholars, the world of the Druids of reality is far more revealing and exciting, and showing of the amazingly close common bond with its sister Vedic culture, than the inventions of those who have now taken on the mantle of modern \u201cDruids,\u201d even when done so with great sincerity.<\/div>\n<div>If we are all truly wedded to living in harmony with one another, with nature, and seeking to protect endangered species of animal and plant life, let us remember that language and culture can also be in ecological danger. The Celtic languages and cultures today stand on the verge of extinction. That is no natural phenomenon but the result of centuries of politically directed ethnocide. What price a \u201cspiritual awareness\u201d with the ancient Celts when their culture is in the process of being destroyed or reinvented? Far better we seek to understand and preserve intact the Celt\u2019s ancient wisdom. In this, Hindus may prove good allies.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv1132392220headingz\">The Song of Amairgen the Druid:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>I am the wind that blows across the sea; I am the wave of the ocean;<\/div>\n<div>I am the murmur of the billows; I am the bull of the seven combats;<\/div>\n<div>I am the vulture on the rock; I am a ray of the sun; I am the fairest of flowers;<\/div>\n<div>I am a wild boar in valor; I am a salmon in the pool; I am a lake on the plain;<\/div>\n<div>I am the skill of the craftsman; I am a word of science;<\/div>\n<div>I am the spearpoint that gives battle;<\/div>\n<div>I am the God who creates in the head of man the fire of thought.<\/div>\n<div>Who is it that enlightens the assembly upon the mountain, if not I?<\/div>\n<div>Who tells the ages of the moon, if not I?<\/div>\n<div>Who shows the place where the sun goes to rest, if not I?<\/div>\n<div>Who is the God that fashions enchantments\u2013<\/div>\n<div>The enchantment of battle and the wind of change?<\/div>\n<div>Amairgen was the first Druid to arrive in Ireland. Ellis states, \u201cIn this song Amairgen subsumes everything into his own being with a philosophic outlook that parallels the declaration of Krishna in the Hindu Bhagavad-Gita.\u201d It also is quite similar in style and content to the more ancient Sri Rudra chant of the Yajur Veda.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4443\"><a id=\"yiv1132392220LPlnk96597\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/krishna-arjuna-06.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4442\" class=\"yiv1132392220aligncenter yiv1132392220size-full yiv1132392220wp-image-5823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiadivine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/krishna-arjuna-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"880\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv1132392220headingz\">Declaration of Krishna:<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4438\">I am the taste in the waters, O Son of Kunti.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4428\">I am the syllable Aum in all the Vedas.<\/div>\n<div>I am the sound in ether and manhood in men.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4417\">I am the pure fragrance in earth and brightness in fire.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4416\">I am the life in all existences and the austerity in ascetics.<\/div>\n<div>Know Me, O Partha, to be the eternal seed of all existences.<\/div>\n<div>I am the intelligence of the intelligent.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4461\">I am the splendour of the splendid.<\/div>\n<div>I am the strength of the strong, devoid of desire and passion.<\/div>\n<div>In beings I am the desire which is not contrary to dharma, O Lord of the Bharatas.<\/div>\n<div>And whatever states of being there may be, be they harmonious, passionate, slothful\u2013<\/div>\n<div>know they are all from Me alone.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4462\">I am not in them, they are in Me.<\/div>\n<div>~ Peter Berresford Ellis is one of the foremost living authorities on the Celts and author of many books on the subject, including \u201cCelt and Roman,\u201d \u201cCelt and Greek,\u201d \u201cDictionary of Celtic Mythology\u201d and \u201cCeltic Women.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"yiv1132392220headingz\">Parallels between Celtic and Vedic Cultures:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Like two rivers cascading from the same mist-shrouded mountain, Celtic and early Vedic culture share astonishing similarities. Today, knowledge of the Celt society is rather sparse, and these listed parallels are probably a small percentage of the full extent of common ground.<\/div>\n<div>1) Celtic cosmology recognizes four interrelating worlds of existence: netherworld, earth realm; heavenly realm of dead and demi-gods; white realm of supreme Deities and energy source of stars.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic cosmology perceives three interrelating worlds-physical; astral world of dead and demi-gods; causal universe of Deities, Supreme Being and primal energy; plus a fourth netherworld.<\/div>\n<div>2) Celtic: These worlds further divided into lands and cities occupied by spirits and disincarnate people of similar character. Time is slower in these realms.<\/div>\n<div>The three worlds divide into loka habitats of existence, occupied by spirits and like-minded disincarnate people. Time is dilated in the lokas.<\/div>\n<div>3) Celtic earth realm is called bitus. Celtic Gods are called deuos, meaning \u201cshining one\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic earth world is called bhu. Gods of Vedas are invoked as deva, meaning \u201cshining one\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>4) Celtic: Departed souls dwelled in refined or hellish lands until their next reincarnation as a human or animal.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic: At death, souls continue existence in subtle or hellish realms until entry into the next human or animal body.<\/div>\n<div>5) Celtic priests taught that human souls were indestructible, but the universe ends and rebuilds through fire and water in a repeating cycle.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic: The universe existence span-called kalpa-ends in a repeating creation\/destruction cycle through fire and water, symbolic of primal light and sound.<\/div>\n<div>6) Celtic deities included Gods who actualized nature forces, promulgated ethics, justice, knowledge, speech, arts, crafts, medicine, harvests, gave war courage and battled forces of darkness, and Goddesses of land, rivers and motherhood. Gods often did multiple functions.<\/div>\n<div>The early Vedic pantheon included deities of fire, solar, atmospheric and nature forces, ritual stimulants, speech, crafts, arts, harvests, medicine, justice, ethical\/ecological order, war, battlers of malevolent beings, river Goddesses. Gods often had overlapping functions.<\/div>\n<div>7) Celtic God of thunder was Taranus who carried thunderbolts. God of fire is Aedh (pronounced uh-ee), meaning fire. The sun Deity is Sulios. The Celtic word for invocation is gutuater.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic God of rain and thunder was Indra who carried thunderbolts. Vedic God of fire is Agni, meaning fire. The solar Being is Surya. The Sanskrit term for invocation is hotar.<\/div>\n<div>8) Celtic cosmology conceived of cosmic creation as a primal Person sacrifice. The Celt term for breath is anal. For soul, the Celt word is anam.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic cosmology describes cosmic creation as the sacrifice of Primal Being. The Vedic word for breath is prana. The soul in the Vedas is atman.<\/div>\n<div>9) The central Celtic ritual was the fire sacrifice, conducted in geometric pits with offerings of herbs, mead and flour cakes, conducted by chanting druids, the Celtic priests.<\/div>\n<div>The central Vedic ritual was the fire sacrifice, performed in geometric pits with offerings of ghee, spices, rice-conducted by hymn-and-mantra-chanting brahmins.<\/div>\n<div>10) Celtic priests were called druids, meaning \u201cknowers of the tree, or truth.\u201d They memorized the entire knowledge of the Celts and passed it on orally, forbidding written transmission. They were divided into several classes: seers, judges, royal advisors, hymn chanters, poet bards, sacrificers. They were also astronomers, healers and magicians.<\/div>\n<div>The Vedic priesthood \u2013 the brahmins-memorized the scriptural and societal law knowledge of the Hindus, passing it on orally, forbidding writing. Brahmins formed several divisions associated with the fire ritual duties. Enlightened brahmins became rishi seers. Others advised kings and some specialized in medicine and astronomy\/astrology.<\/div>\n<div>11) Druids studied for 20 years in strict discipleship to master their oral, ritual, law, science and psychic arts.<\/div>\n<div>Brahmins studied for 12 years in a gurukulam to master oral, ritual, mathematical, astronomical knowledge.<\/div>\n<div>12) Druids memorized extremely lengthy poetic sagas that communicated spiritual metaphysics and civic laws. The poetic metre was a fixed syllable line, free form, with 3-part cadence at end.<\/div>\n<div>Bards of the Vedic literature memorized lengthy poetic sagas conveying spiritual knowledge and dharmic duty. The poetic metre was a fixed syllable line, free form, with 3-part cadence at end.<\/div>\n<div>13) Druids practiced breathing, posture and meditation techniques that gave degrees of ecstacy, often accompanied by intense heat in the body.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic ascetics practiced breathing, posture and meditation skills in a spiritual unfoldment process called tapas (heat), generating high body heat.<\/div>\n<div>14) Celtic society was divided into three hierarchical stratas of life: priests, warriors and producers (inclusive of merchants). Druids advised warrior-kings known as rix. Upward progression through classes was possible.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic society divided into four hierarchical castes: priests, warriors, merchants, workers. Brahmins counseled warrior-kings (rajas). Upward mobility was sanctioned in Vedas, but later frozen in societal law books.<\/div>\n<div>15) Celts prized the magical power of telling truth, honor\/piety among men and eloquence in conversation and oration.<\/div>\n<div>Vedic society prized the supernatural power of truth-saying, piety and honor, and eloquence in gatherings.<\/div>\n<div>16) Celts honored women, guarded their virtue, and allowed by law daughters of sonless fathers to inherit property or to marry kinsmen to bear male heirs to the father. Seeresses were sanctioned, and priestesses for Goddesses favored.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4397\">Vedic Hindus prized womanly virtues, and by law sonless fathers could bequeath property to daughters or arrange her marriage to relatives for male heirs. Female seers were countenanced, and female ascetics tended Goddess rites.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4415\">17) Celts recognized 8 forms of marriage from arranged to love to abduction. A bride gift was given by the groom.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4511\">Vedic Hindus followed 8 forms of marriage from arranged to love to abduction. The groom paid a bride price.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4414\">18) Celts defined life stages, columns of age: infancy (0-1), boyhood (2-11), adolescence (12-18), young adult (19-45), old age (46-65), decrepitude (65+) in which enlightening inspiration is sought.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4398\">Vedic society taught four ashrama stages of life: studentship (12-24); family life (25-48); elder advisor (49-72); religious solitaire (72+), in which the individual seeks enlightenment.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4399\">19) The Celtic ideal measure of life was to live 100 years.<\/div>\n<div>The Vedic ideal of a fulfilled life was to live 100 autumns.<\/div>\n<div>20) Celt family unit was a group of four generations from a great-grandfather.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4400\">The ancient Hindu family unit is four generations from a great-grandfather.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4401\">21) One Celt calendar was based on 62 lunar months (5 years +) intercalated to a 3-year solar cycle for solstice correction. Druids studied stellar motion, navigation and contemplated such abstracts as the size and nature of the universe.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4393\">Vedic astronomy is based on lunar months daily aligned to star positions and related to 3-year and 5-year solar cycles. Vedic astronomy was applied to astrology, and the rishi seers contemplated the universe\u2019s nature and genesis.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4392\">22) By Celt law a man owed money could fast at the door of the debtor-who must join the fast-forcing the debtor to pay or enter an arbitration.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493372708416_4391\">By Hindu law, a creditor could fast at the door of the past due debtor, who then was obligated to protect the health of the creditor and pay the debt.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Contrary view:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752010\"><span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752056\">Either it is error or mistake<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752010\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752010\"><span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752059\">What has been quoted erroneously<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752010\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752086\">Old Irish \u2013 arya (freeman),Sanskrit \u2013 aire (noble)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752087\">Old Irish \u2013 naib (good), Sanskrit \u2013 noeib (holy)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752088\">Old Irish \u2013 badhira (deaf), Sanskrit \u2013 bodhar (deaf)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752089\">Old Irish \u2013 names (respect), Sanskrit \u2013 nemed (respect)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752090\" dir=\"ltr\">Old Irish \u2013 righ (king), Sanskrit \u2013 raja (king)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752090\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752090\" dir=\"ltr\">The Real is as under:<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752090\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752128\">Old Irish \u2013 arya (freeman),Sanskrit \u2013 Arya (\u0906\u0930\u094d\u092f) meaning civilized<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752129\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752129\" dir=\"ltr\">Old Irish \u2013 naib (good), Sanskrit \u2013 noeib (holy) No such word in Sanskrit where three vowels could come together.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752129\" dir=\"ltr\">viz. \u00a0 n\u00a0<span id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752766\" style=\"color: #440062; font-size: x-large;\"><b id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752765\"><i>o e i\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>b (holy)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752130\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752130\">Old Irish \u2013 badhira (deaf), Sanskrit \u2013 Badhir (\u092c\u0927\u093f\u0930) (deaf)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752131\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752131\">Old Irish \u2013 names (respect), Sanskrit \u2013 Mananiya (\u092e\u093e\u0928\u0928\u0940\u092f)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752132\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752132\" dir=\"ltr\">Old Irish \u2013 righ (king), Sanskrit \u2013 rajan (king) (\u0930\u093e\u091c\u0928\u094d\u200c)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752010\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752010\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1132392220yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493113750812_752075\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0It is a very old belief prevailing in India, the the Indians had explored a lot countries. 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