Druidcast Episode 1

Druidcast - The Druid Podcast

Order of Bards Ovates and Druids

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2007

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Druidcast - the Druid Podcast

Welcome to the webpage for the Druid Podcast - Druidcast - provided by the Order. Your host is Damh the Bard and each episode he will feature poetry, story and song offered by Bards throughout the world. There will also be interviews with people from the Druid tradition, seasonal thoughts, explorations of Celtic mythology and history, reviews, and competitions.

Shownotes for episode 1:
The first show is an introduction to the Order, the three grades, and the Druidic Wheel of the Year. Intro music is 'Hills they are Hollow' by Damh the Bard (http://www.paganmusic.co.uk), the link harp music is 'Hawthorn' by Fred Hageneder (http://www.friendsofthetrees.org.uk), and the backing harp music for the Imbolc poem is 'Wake' by Claire Hamilton (http://www.livingmyths.com).

Throughout the section discussing the seasonal cycles we have used the dates relevant to the Northern Hemisphere, if you are listening from the Southern Hemisphere the dates are reversed, ie the Summer Solstice is on or around the 21st December, not June.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	I'm
0:04.0	I'm
0:05.0	The Thank you. I'm I'm
0:21.6	I'm
0:23.6	I'm your host, Dave the Bard and over the coming months we'll be talking about Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids.
0:55.2	I'm your host, Dave the Bard, and over the coming months we'll be talking about topics of interest to modern druids,
1:00.7	seasonal thoughts, discussions on the Arwen and mythology, sacred sites, that kind of thing.
1:06.2	And we'd also like to feature the work of bards out there.
1:09.5	So if you're a poet, a storyteller or a musician,
1:12.7	do send in your work for our Bardic Circle feature that will start next month. And I'll tell you
1:17.6	how to do that at the end of the show. But as this is the first show, I thought it would be best to
1:23.7	begin with a short history of the order and how it's run, that kind of thing, a bit
1:28.2	about what we do. So you can get a good feel about who it is you're listening to. And
1:33.7	hopefully that will encourage you to subscribe and to keep listening and keep learning and
1:39.5	keep finding out more about modern druidry. So we'll begin with the history of the order.
1:54.4	The druid and pagan world in the early 1960s when the Order of Bards, ovates and druids
2:00.3	was created was very different
2:02.6	to how it is now. Occult exploration was directed very much by ideas and rituals developed by
2:09.5	the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Theosophical Society, who, over the course of
2:15.0	what was a very short period of time, helped to define the Western
2:18.4	mystery tradition. At this time, Druid and Freemason were almost the same thing, with the dominant
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