COLIN WILSON

IN READING COLIN WILSON'S BOOK ON MYSTERIES HE HAS BEEN COVERING A LOT BY LEDBETTER WHO STUDIED MANY CULTURES AND RELIGIOUS IDEAS. ONE THAT PARTICULARLY STRUCK ME WAS THE CELTIC CULTURE WHICH LATER BECAME THE IRISH IN IRELAND. THE WORSHIPPED THE DRUIDS. NATURE AND MANY GODS AND GODDESSES WHICH ORIGINATED IN INDIA AND EVENTUALLY BECAME THE CELTS BACKGROUND . WE READ A LOT ABOUT LITTLE ELVES AND FAIRIES AND THE LIKE IN IRELAND AND THAT IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED.

A DIGRESSION IF YOU DON'T MIND .... WE HAVE CHRISTMAS CLOCK EVERY HOUR IT PLAYS ANEW AND DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS TUNE , IT IS PLAYING NOW DECK THE HALLS HAHHA. WE JUST LOVE IT . WHEN WE LIVED IN ELK GROVE CA. WE LEFT IT ON ALL YEAR LONG AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER USED TO VISIT US AND THE CLOCK EVERY HOUR BY HOUR PLAYED FOR US SHE LEARNED TO LOVE IT AS WELL FIRST PEOPLE GIGGLE THEN THEY LAUGH AT US THEN THEY ADJUST AND LOVE IT.

IN 1890 A MAN NAMED FRAZER WROTE A BOOK CALLED "THE GOLDEN BOUGH"
MISTLE TOE WAS THE AFOREMENTIONED GOLDEN BOUGH, WHEN IT DRIES OUT IT TURNS A GOLDEN COLOR. THIS WAS A PLANT THAT WAS WELL THOUGHT OF BY THE DRUIDS.

PART OF THESE BELIEFS WERE SUCH THAT WHEN A DRY SEASON FELL UPON A LAND THE KING WAS TO BLAME FOR IT, SO A SACRIFICE HAD TO BE MADE AND THE KING WAS OFFERED UP, LATER KINGS DIDN'T LIKE IT SO MUCH SO THEY MADE A MAN KING FOR A DAY SACRIFICED HIM AND THEN THEY AROSE ONCE MORE TO THEIR THRONE.


HHAAHAH ONLY SHOWS HOW KINGS AND LEADERS OF COUNTRIES ALWAYS SACRIFICE ONE OF THEIR UNDERLINGS TO TAKE BLAME FOR THEIR MISHAPS.
THIS CONTINUES NOWADAYS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WHEN A SOLDIER IS GIVEN AN ORDER TO SHOOT INNOCENT VICTIMS THE SOLDIER IS GIVEN THE PUNISHMENT AND THE LEADER IS GIVEN A HAND SLAP.
AND SO IT GOES . ALWAYS THE INNOCENT MUST PAY FOR THE KINGS MISDEEDS.

I NOTICE THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO LINES OF DESCENT FOR KINGSHIP ALMOST IDENTICAL TO OUR TWO PARTY SYSTEM. AND THE HEAD CHOPPER OFFER IS THE VOTING BOOTH.
SO WE HAVE NOT MOVED FORWARD MUCH FROM ANCIENT WAYS AND DAYS IN BELIEF SYSTEMS.

ONCE A GROUP WAS ASSIGNED TO STUDY ALL RELIGIONS AND BASIS FOR SAME THESE STUDIES WENT WELL UNTIL THEY TRIED TO STUDY THE BIBLE SINCE PEOPLE INSISTED IT WAS THE TRUE WORD OF GOD IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO STUDY IT. SO IT NEVER WAS EVALUATED AT ALL. ONLY THE CHURCH PRINCES WERE EVER ALLOWED TO MAKE THE EVALUATIONS.
ENGLAND DEVELOPED A NEW CHRISTIAN RELIGION .. PROTESTANT BECAUSE THE KING WANTED A DIVORCE AND THE POPE REFUSED TO GRANT IT SO KING HENRY THE 8TH STARTED HIS OWN RELIGION. THE WAR WITH IRELAND CONTINUES TO THIS DAY AS IRELAND IS A CATHOLIC COUNTRY AND REFUSES THE KINGS ORDERS.
INTERESTING YES? I HAVE LOTS MORE BUT IM TIRED OF TYPING BADLY.