Worship and Rites R0016

 Worship and Rites R0016

From the theology of Druidism we pass to its worship and rites. Some of these riteswere curious, others were picturesque, and others were repulsive and horrible. If thefi rst, the curious, but not less credulous than curious, was the Druid’s egg. This eggappears to have been an object of some interest to the ancients, seeing they speak ofit, and some of the aver having actually seen and handled it. Of the number who havespecially described it is Pliny. If half of what is related of this egg be true, it must be tous, as it was to the ancients, an object of no litt le wonder. It was formed of the scum ofserpents. As the snakes twisted and writhed in a tangled knot, the egg, produced insome mysterious way, was seen to emerge from the foaming mass of vipers, and fl oatupward into the air.1 It was caught by the priests while in the priests while in the act offalling. The Druid who found himself the fortunate possessor of this invaluable treasuretook instant measures to prevent being stript of it almost as soon as he had secured it.Throwing himself upon a horse that was kept waiti ng for him, he galloped off , pursuedby the snakes, nor halted ti ll he had got on the other side of the fi rst running water towhich his fl ight brought him. His pursuers were stopped by the stream; they had powerto follow him no farther. The egg was his. It was an inexhausti ble magazine of virtues, astorehouse of mighty forces, all of them at his command, and endowing its happypossessor with the enviable but somewhat dangerous att ribute, so liable to be abused,one should think of obtaining almost all he might desire, and of doing nearly all that hepleased. Of those who have testi fi ed to have seen this egg, we do not know one whowas witness to its birth, or was prepared to speak to the extraordinary circumstancessaid to accompany its producti on, or the wonderful deeds performed, or that mighthave been performed, by the Druid who was so fortunate as to get it into his keeping.


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