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Heathenism (also Heathenry, or Greater Heathenry), is a blanket term for the whole Germanic neopagan movement. Various currents and denominations have arisen over the years within it. Some of these denominations follow white supremacy, and some of the groups listed here follow folkish ideology. Europe. Scandinavia. Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið ...
A similar Welsh group was the Society of the Druids of Cardigan, founded circa 1779, largely by a group of friends who wished to attend "literary picnics" together. [132] The third British group to call itself Druidic was English rather than Welsh, and was known as the Ancient Order of Druids.
The Greco-Roman and the vernacular Irish sources agree that the druids played an important part in pagan Celtic society. In his description, Julius Caesar wrote that they were one of the two most important social groups in the region (alongside the equites , or nobles) and were responsible for organizing worship and sacrifices, divination, and ...
The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids or OBOD is a Neo-Druidic order based in England, [1] but based in part on the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has grown to become a dynamic druid organisation, with members in all parts of the world.
The Druid Network was created in 2003 to help its members and those in society understand and practice Druidry as a religion. "Its practitioners revere their deities, most often perceived as the most powerful forces of nature (such as thunder, sun and earth), spirits of place (such as mountains and rivers), and divine guides of a people (such as Brighid, Rhiannon and Bran)."
Neo-Druidism grew out of the Celtic revival in 18th century Romanticism. Its first organised group was the Ancient Order of Druids, founded in London in 1781 along Masonic lines as a mutual benefit society and still extant today. It is not a neo-Pagan group. It was followed in 1792 by the Gorsedd of Bards of the Isle of Britain, also founded in ...
Neo-druids include: Berthou, Gwilherm, Breton poet; Bonewits, Isaac, author and scholar of several Druid and neopagan related books and articles; Carr-Gomm, Philip, former chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids; D'Ambrosio, Ossian, founder of Antica Quercia and Cerchio Druidico Italiano
The British Druid Order (BDO) is an international druid order, founded in 1979 as a religious and educational organisation. Its constitution defines it as a not-for-profit unincorporated association. [1] It is commonly regarded as being one of the first, if not the first, explicitly neo-pagan Druid Orders. [2]