"druid" is kinda a vibe tbh
look at the sky.
taste me, as the food and drink Alice found almost said. she was cast unto a stormshorn sunderedsea. you too will fall beneath my waves in time.
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in reply to @lookatthesky's post:
its such a vibe but i simultaneously, weirdly dont feel like i deserve to self refer as a druid cuz a term which initially implied decades of training and occupying a certain place in the community as a spiritual leader and keeper of oral knowledge and stuff and im like
is that me. thats probably not me.
but on the other paw, "nature mystic attempting to store as much information about the world in my head as possible and be a repository of that knowledge to my friends and show them the magesty and mysticism of the other-than-human world, who walks between worlds and tries to capture the world in poetry" is definitely me. and i guess on the other other paw, the pagan celtic cultures the druids originally belonged to are long gone.
they are dead. the romans, and later christianity, killed them, and realistically we are not getting that kind of community back. so i guess i feel a conflict of "it is actually okay to reinterpret words from our distant past for a modern context" with like, a yawning, perhaps grieving, sense of loss for something attatched to that word that can never rly be regained.