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<blockquote data-quote="Wepwawet" data-source="post: 5338173" data-attributes="member: 56398">Another thing about historical druids that is indirectly related to the Druids and metal talk:They didn't write nor had a writing system. Instead they kept all their knowledge on memory and passed it down orally. To comit all that stuff to paper or stone would make it less magical or less sublime, it would be like dessecrating all that mystical knowledge.Then there's ogham. Although some people see it as an alphabet (each symbol has the name of a plant and corresponds to the first letter of that name), it was used as a mnemonic device to record bigger abstract stuff.Now after reading Celebrim's great posts I'm not so sure about this. I still think most of this is true, which is one of the biggest reasons we know so little about the Druids.EDIT: btw, i wanted to give Celebrim another XP, but ENW doesn't let me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wepwawet, post: 5338173, member: 56398"] Another thing about historical druids that is indirectly related to the Druids and metal talk: They didn't write nor had a writing system. Instead they kept all their knowledge on memory and passed it down orally. To comit all that stuff to paper or stone would make it less magical or less sublime, it would be like dessecrating all that mystical knowledge. Then there's ogham. Although some people see it as an alphabet (each symbol has the name of a plant and corresponds to the first letter of that name), it was used as a mnemonic device to record bigger abstract stuff. Now after reading Celebrim's great posts I'm not so sure about this. I still think most of this is true, which is one of the biggest reasons we know so little about the Druids. EDIT: btw, i wanted to give Celebrim another XP, but ENW doesn't let me :( [/QUOTE]

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