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Thread #67429   Message #1129132
Posted By: CarolC
04-Mar-04 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Uhyvdla
Subject: RE: BS: Uhyvdla
These I believe would have been true accounts - the only ones in existence.

My point exactly. They are the only ones. The culture of the Kelts and Gauls of Europe is dead and is no longer passed from one generation of these people to the next. And this is because they no longer exist as a people. And they no longer exist as a people in large part because of the Romans. The information recorded by the Romans is not sufficient for me to be able to know the culture of my tribal ancestors as my own. Many of the tribes of the Americas can have this knowlege. The people in places like India and some parts of Asia can have this knowlege. Jews can have this knowlege. But I cannot.

I should also say that the Christian Church is also responsible to a great extent for the fact that the oral traditions of most of my Pagan ancestors (both the continental Europeans as well as the Irish and Scottish ancestors) have been interrupted.

But don't get me wrong. It's not a huge part of my life to be thinking about these things. It's just a couple of things that I don't appreciate about the Romans and the Christian Church.