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Celtic Traditions
Vision on death:
They believed view reported by Philostratus of Tyana in the second century that the Celts believed that to be born in this world, we have to die in the Otherworld, and conversely, that when we die here, we are born into the Otherworld. For this reason, Druid funerals try to focus on the idea that the soul is experiencing a time of birth, even though we are experiencing that as their death to us.
Vision on the soul:
3 quarters of the body contains the soul:belly/middle/head
Images:
The ship
Number 9:
Heilig getal. pasgeborene : 3 keer over het vuur dragen, 3 keer kolomsgewijs rond het vuur dragen en dan 9 keer water over het hoofd door de vroedvrouw. criminelen werden in een boot gestoken en in de zee geworpen over de negende golf. Beyond the ninth wave= exile! veelvoud van 3: drievoudige blessing: water, aarde, lucht
Alexander Carmichael: “Carmina Gadelica-Hymns and Incantations