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Old February 11th 13, 10:06 AM posted to alt.spirituality.druid,alt.traditional.witchcraft,alt.astronomy.solar,sci.astro.amateur,uk.sci.astronomy
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Default druids' knowledge of astronomy?

On Feb 11, 10:22*am, Martin Brown
wrote:


And do modern druid organizations require their
members to have some degree of astronomical knowledge?


Most of them don't even know which way is up.

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Regards,
Martin Brown



Spoken like a true homocentrist - there is no 'up',there is,however,a
celestial arena out there in which all motions and the relationship of
bodies to each other are interpreted.Of course the idea of 'out there'
is alien to you and the mathematical modelers although the
geocentrists knew this perspective along with the original Western
astronomers who first understood the reasons why the Earth moves
through watching the behavior of planets.

The druids were a class of people which are almost closer to our era
than they were to the neolithic monument builders of Stonehenge or
Newgrange but empiricists have no respect for history or more like a
dysfunctional regard for the development of human achievements.

Remember Brown,there is no celestial sphere and no 'up'.