(2000) Produced by Cromwell Productions for the Discovery Channel, researched and written by David Manson, featuring interviews with expert doctorate archaeologists and historians. This video presents a detailed study of Celtic Tribes of the Druid Priesthood, essentially as the "first Europeans" who laid the ancient foundations of European civilization. It reveals a strong connection between the "hierarchy" of Celtic "nobility" (which was the Druid Priest class) and being a brave "warrior", such that warfare itself was "very ritualistic" and even ceremonial (at 13:57 min). This establishes ancient Celtic origins of the "warrior priest" concept which was central to defining the medieval Knights Templar. It presents another class of Celtic "nobility" as the Bards, a subset of the Druid Priesthood, who were not only poets and musicians, but more importantly the historians of the Celtic tribes, as well as the reporters of contemporary "news" (at 21:05 min). The Celtic High Priestly class, the famous Druids, were the "judges and lawyers", as well as the educators of "intellectual knowledge", as well as the officiating Priests of ceremonies, and also prophets (at 22:54 min). A famous Celtic "Warrior Queen" Boudicca is highlighted, proving that the Druids respected women as equals, including as battle commanders (at 38:12 min), just as they had High Priestesses equal among the High Priests. The video explains that the Celts actually welcomed Christianity (ca.400 AD) which was "popular", but gave it their own infusion of ancient traditions, and it was the Druids who contributed the tradition of "monasticism" and established various types of monks (at 40:50 min). The only mistake in this video is the mention of Druids supposedly having done "human sacrifice". It is proven by more archaeologists from other sources that the human remains wrongly presumed with modern bias to be "sacrifice", were actually highly honoured ancestors, over whose sacred burials they built ritual stone circles, to enable the spirits of the ancestors to join with the living and participate in the spiritual ceremonies. Other accounts of "sacrifices" in the historical record, reported by foreign rulers (actually military foes), were actually official capital punishment by the death penalty for serious crimes upon judicial conviction, but the executions were carried out in a ceremonial manner to honour the Celtic deities, just as everything else they did in all areas of life was mostly ceremonial. COPYRIGHT ISSUES & FAIR USE --------------------------------------------------- This video is part of the "Educational Documentary Film Series" of the Sovereign Magistral Order of the Temple of Solomon, collectively comprising a "Video Library" consisting of an overall derivative work in its own right. This educational documentary film is provided by our non-profit organization strictly for academic and research purposes. The video itself is presented as tangible evidence, for academic citation, proving that certain historical facts or conclusions of historians have been recognized or referred to by mass media outlets or other researchers. It is thus provided as a "living footnote", referred to in our own original more academic and scholarly research, in support of our own original works. It is our good faith belief, verified to the best of our ability, that the author of this video has already caused or allowed it to be made freely available non-commercially to the general public. Original credits have been preserved (if such were contained in the work). It has been digitally re-mastered to improve video and audio quality. Accordingly, this use cannot infringe on the economic nor attributional value to the author. This constitutes "Fair Use" under the laws of the United States (17 USC 107), and "Fair Dealing" under the laws of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other countries. If you are the author, producer or lawful owner of copyrights in this work, and you believe that we have mistakenly identified it as under Commons License authorized for non-commercial Fair Use, please DO NOT make complaints to YouTube or otherwise. If you SIMPLY REQUEST removal of the video directly to us (through our Email or Website which are disclosed in this YouTube Channel), and provide any evidence indicating that you reasonably hold rights in the work, we will GLADLY REMOVE it promptly and voluntarily. Please respect that this Channel is needed to present many of our own original works that we are developing as quickly as we can, so it is not necessary to cause problems with the service provider only to enforce your rights, which we are committed to absolutely honour at your lawful and credible request.

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