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Roman genocide of Druids
Originally published Sept 5 2020 in my Facebook page.
Today I learned more about the Roman genocide of Indigenous Britannia (modern day Britain).
The Druids were the fiercely patriotic native priesthood, loyal to the soil of Britannia. They traveled freely among all the tribes and were welcome everywhere because they were so respected and held in awe. They would certainly have been inspiring tribes to resist the colonizers, and sharing Indigenous spiritual tools to do so.
The Romans knew they could never control Britannia — and all Britannia’s rich resources of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, wood — without eliminating the native priesthood who united the tribes.
The Romans spread stories about the Druids. They said they sacrificed people, were barbaric, were evil, and they must be stopped to protect the people of Britannia. We’ll never know if any of those stories about the Druids are true because the Romans wiped them all out and flattened their stronghold on Anglesey. Isn’t that convenient for the Romans? They destroyed the entire Druid epistemological heritage because the Druids were forbidden to write down their knowledge and passed everything on orally. Since other Druids in Europe traveled to Britannia to learn, this effectively wiped out the Druids for all Europe for all time.
