Review: The Druid Code: Magic, Megaliths and Mythology by Thomas Sheridan.

In Thomas Sheridan's extensive study of Irish mythology and history the reader gets a perspective which combines both a folkloric and symbolic framework. This is an often overlooked type of examination when it comes to Irish history but one which is most valuable to the unbiased thinker.

In many instances accurate exploration and indeed interpretation of Irish megaliths has been forced to fit a worldview which sees Christianity as the most logical and enlightened conclusion. While many Irish archaeologists and historians of the twentieth century had a reflexively Biblical starting position this is no longer an excuse for academics today who have extensive documents, comparative religious sources and archaeo-astronomical evidence at their disposal.
Depressingly, Sheridan demonstrates that even with this potential for new appraisal, up until recently Irish archaeology has still been reluctant to accept and embrace the true scope of its pagan past.

Rather than succumbing to a restrictive paradigm, the author finds corollaries by mining Northern European folklore and recent archaeological discoveries outside of Ireland. Common motifs and archetypes are placed within a context that frees ancient Irish spiritual wisdom from the cell of Christian condescension.
What is enlightening about this approach is that the author shows that fear of this pagan knowledge is more of a reason for its concealment than any overhaul through progression.

Purchase The Druid Code: Magic, Megaliths and Mythology here.

Purchase Thomas Sheridan's new book, Sorcery: The Invocation of Strangeness here. 





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