Saturday, June 02, 2007
The Truth about the Aboriginal Folk of Britain___Part Three
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As I mentioned in Part Two, the Celtic Invaders were the first to give a name to the Original Peoples who were living in Britain before they invaded the Islands.
Because the Celts had invented a thing called Soap (you may have heard of it) and had ‘squeaky-clean’ faces, they looked down on us poor folks who only had water to wash in.
Likewise, ‘Dry-Cleaning’ had not yet been invented, so our clothes had a sort of ‘lived-in’ look about them; that wasn’t improved by the mud and dead leaves that were part and parcel of forest living.
So the Celts, called us the ‘Faerie Folc’, meaning the Filthy People.
In fact, this term, Fairy Folk, in modern English; has been handed down, through all the generations since Celtic times.
All the old Fairy Stories were based on passed-down Celtic memories used to frighten children and keep them in order.
However, as with all verbally passed-down stories, they have become distorted over the years and now only bear a resemblance to the original truth.
So, in the forthcoming issues of this Blog, I will try to tell you more about these Fairy Folk.
In our part of the WildWood, there were three different Tribes; all of whom had been here since time immortal..... Or at least 7,000 years.
Although we were different to look at, we did have a lot in common; that the Celts were unaware of.
For instance; None of us had any ‘half-moons’ on our fingernails.
In fact, we all knew that the Moon was very special to us... So when we noticed the half-moons on the nails of the Celts... We thought the Gods had put them there to remind the self-centred Celts of their duties.
We all had a similar Creation Myth involving the ‘Gods before the Gods’ as they are now known, and whom we all know as ‘The Folks Upstairs’.
Although we would never have entertained the idea of any form of marriage between the tribes... We always had peace between us and we were always ready to celebrate and trade with the other Tribes whenever we met.
We were all psychic enough to ‘Walk in Balance with Mother Nature’ and show respect for the Natural World about us.
We all had a life expectancy of 85 years.... Whereas the Celts could only look forward to some 65 years.
We tended to go grey, or rather, Silver Haired in our forties, so as to spend half of our life looking extremely old to the Celts.
The Celts, when grey about sixty and it indicated to them that the end was near.... This resulted in their handed down horror of finding they had a grey hair... This is still observable today.
Likewise, we didn’t even have any proper weapons, until the Celts brought Aggression to our Halcyon Homeland, and put us to the sword.
Next time.... I’ll tell you more about the other Aboriginal Tribes... So stay tuned!
As I mentioned in Part Two, the Celtic Invaders were the first to give a name to the Original Peoples who were living in Britain before they invaded the Islands.
Because the Celts had invented a thing called Soap (you may have heard of it) and had ‘squeaky-clean’ faces, they looked down on us poor folks who only had water to wash in.
Likewise, ‘Dry-Cleaning’ had not yet been invented, so our clothes had a sort of ‘lived-in’ look about them; that wasn’t improved by the mud and dead leaves that were part and parcel of forest living.
So the Celts, called us the ‘Faerie Folc’, meaning the Filthy People.
In fact, this term, Fairy Folk, in modern English; has been handed down, through all the generations since Celtic times.
All the old Fairy Stories were based on passed-down Celtic memories used to frighten children and keep them in order.
However, as with all verbally passed-down stories, they have become distorted over the years and now only bear a resemblance to the original truth.
So, in the forthcoming issues of this Blog, I will try to tell you more about these Fairy Folk.
In our part of the WildWood, there were three different Tribes; all of whom had been here since time immortal..... Or at least 7,000 years.
Although we were different to look at, we did have a lot in common; that the Celts were unaware of.
For instance; None of us had any ‘half-moons’ on our fingernails.
In fact, we all knew that the Moon was very special to us... So when we noticed the half-moons on the nails of the Celts... We thought the Gods had put them there to remind the self-centred Celts of their duties.
We all had a similar Creation Myth involving the ‘Gods before the Gods’ as they are now known, and whom we all know as ‘The Folks Upstairs’.
Although we would never have entertained the idea of any form of marriage between the tribes... We always had peace between us and we were always ready to celebrate and trade with the other Tribes whenever we met.
We were all psychic enough to ‘Walk in Balance with Mother Nature’ and show respect for the Natural World about us.
We all had a life expectancy of 85 years.... Whereas the Celts could only look forward to some 65 years.
We tended to go grey, or rather, Silver Haired in our forties, so as to spend half of our life looking extremely old to the Celts.
The Celts, when grey about sixty and it indicated to them that the end was near.... This resulted in their handed down horror of finding they had a grey hair... This is still observable today.
Likewise, we didn’t even have any proper weapons, until the Celts brought Aggression to our Halcyon Homeland, and put us to the sword.
Next time.... I’ll tell you more about the other Aboriginal Tribes... So stay tuned!
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