Time for LOVE.
May God provide the fortitude you need to carry on the mission and the peace you deserve.
>very little is know about the ancient druids
According to Sir Barry Cunliffe, an emeritus professor at Oxford University who has written extensively about druidism, there were indeed rituals which “involved slaughtering people, and watching the way they died”. It may not have been a druid dealing the fatal blow, but “druids had to be present” at these ceremonies.
The head druid represented the whole religious order, spanning territorial borders, making him one of the most powerful men on earth.
You know The Wicker Man? Imagine that, but more so
In the classic 1973 horror film The Wicker Man, a group of creepy pagan townsfolk (spoiler alert!) burn a visiting policeman to death in a giant hollow statue of a man.
This image didn’t come from the fevered imagination of the film’s writer Anthony Shaffer – it dates back to Caesar’s Gallic Wars. For the ancient druids of Gaul and Britannia, it seems one man wasn’t enough. Caesar claimed they would burn giant figures made of willow-shrubs, with their limbs filled with several living men at a time, usually criminals.
Writing around 77AD, Pliny the Elder bemoaned the fact that – although the Romans had seen moderate success in suppressing the druids in Gaul – in Britannia the druidic tradition was still alive and kicking. Nonetheless, he wrote, the Romans had done their best to curb the locals’ worst excesses, such as “those monstrous rites, in accordance with which, to murder a man was to do an act of the greatest devoutness, and to eat his flesh was to secure the highest blessings of health.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/britannia-truth-druids-cannibalism-wicker-men/
Recent evidence that Druids committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice perhaps on a massive scale add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/druids-sacrifice-cannibalism