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Post by Robin_Sprouts on Jan 17, 2003 10:52:22 GMT -5
I can smell weather. Is that unusual? Or maybe its not exactly weather but change in bariometric pressuse. I just know when it is going to rain or snow or be really hot. I can smell it when I walk outside. I can also touch the tip of my nose (or what used to be my nose) with my tounge. The weather thing might be helpful to the druids, but I am doubtful about the tounge/nose thing.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 17, 2003 11:02:53 GMT -5
Yay!! A weather smeller!! Yes, thou art now a fellow Druid. ;D
I can only smell when it's going to rain. But then I've never lived anywhere that get snow. But I can't smell when it's going to be hot. I also have my hair help in predicting rain, cos it's the only time my little ringlets come back.
And your tongue touching will be useful. You can amuse us when we are bored enough to be amused by watching someone touch their button nose with their tongue.
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Post by En on Jan 18, 2003 14:23:51 GMT -5
Roo, don't be silly. A third of the task of being a druid was knowing the healing arts. So you are our healer, and Nierme and Robin and Koko are those with special senses, and we can probably all manage the storytelling and counseling part.
I don't have a white robe. I've got a green and brown one though. Can I wear that? I can't do any neat human tricks except I can put my thumb completely behind the back of my left hand, like bend it all the way around backward and even drum my fingers while I do it.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 18, 2003 14:35:06 GMT -5
You have a double jointed left thumb? Weird....
Yes, your brown and green robe will do En. ;D And for now, I will have to make do with my red and blue satin robe with a chinese dragon on the back, and flippy floppy sleeves.
Hmmmm....weren't there meant to be prophets in the druids? Three of them that were supposed to predict the future? The Fates they were called weren't they? No wait, that's Greek mythology. Never mind.
I'm trying to think what else the Druids did. It's been so long since I studied Celtic beliefs and religion. I do remember they worshipped trees and made offerings to them. Especially Oak trees. Oak trees were really important to them for some reason.
*realises what she is saying and looks sideways at Nialle*
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Post by Rue on Jan 18, 2003 14:36:34 GMT -5
I'm being silly anyway
I have an awesome raincoat. Okay, I know that sounds really weird, but I love nice dresses and things, so looking through my older sister's closet has been a favourite past-time of mine since I was just a wee tot. And then none of her clothes would have fit me, but it didn't matter.
So she had this one thing, which I thought was just a type of cloak. And it was so beautiful. So I'd been in awe of it for forever, and just a little while ago she was cleaning out her closet and asked me if I wanted it. I was such a dork. I was asking her how to take care of it, and I asked, "Can it get wet?" and she's like, "Umm... yeah. It's a raincoat."
Anyway, it has a perfect hood, and a clasp to close it, and the best part is that depending on the angle, the fabric can look brown or green. I'm thinking of lending it to En for a day so she can wear it and her elven shoes. ;D Next time Gen or I see you, crazy kid.
Only that's not white, and it's not very warm either. Plus I'd be scared of messing it up.
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Post by En on Jan 18, 2003 14:43:38 GMT -5
Uhhhhhh. Only oak trees with mistletoe growing on them. Yeah, that's it. *quickly tries to pick a bit of mistletoe out of shis hair without anyone noticing*
It seems like some of the Druids were prophets. Like in my head, there's a separation between druids-who-healed, druids-with-special-senses-or-prophetic-abilities, and druids-who-taught-and-recited-histories-and-gave-royal-counsel. Am I just making that up though? I spend so much time thinking about cool systems of social structure that I can never remember what really happened and what I was just daydreaming about.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 18, 2003 14:53:49 GMT -5
I know that Druids were the only really educated ones in Celtic culture. Boys were chosen and sent off at a young age to study tediously to be a Bard and healer adn all that sort of thing. But, seen as people can't be good at everything, I'm guessing that most probably learnt the basics, and then chose what they liked best and studied it further to make it their main Druid profession.
I had some really, really good things on Celtic religion. We had to study the Celts in ancient history and we did religion for about 3 weeks. they were very nature based, worshipping trees, rocks, earth, water, grass, wind, and all the different types of animals seperately because they believed that each thing had it's own god or goddess or spirit that had to be pleased and I think in some cases, guarded.
Like in the legend of Excaliber, when the Lady in the Lake gives Arthur the sword, she is the goddess of water, or at least she was in the original tales.
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Post by En on Jan 19, 2003 15:18:33 GMT -5
*nods* And circles were really important to them, as symbols go, because they represented the main god figure, Lugh, god of the sun, and because circles are whole and without end. That's why the "Celtic cross" has a circle with a cross.
And though everyone has seen pictures of Stonehenge, which was one of many incredibly complicated astronomical calculators and ritual centers, there were other holy places too: rooms made in the roots of trees that only had direct sunlight on one day of the year, hollows in the trunks of yews big enough to live in, that sort of thing. One of the great virtues of that religion was that there were about as many ways to celebrate it as there were people, and scientific curiosity as well as good storytelling were encouraged rather than made into religious rules.
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Post by KoNeko on Jan 20, 2003 5:42:17 GMT -5
Wow! You know so much about druids and Celtic culture. I know like, nothing really.
En, with the different kinds of druids, is it like, they are trained specifically in their one area of practice, or do they do a little bit of everything but know one area better than the others? Are there any all-rounder druids?
Oooh! And I've got a red and blue towel material bathrobe. It doesn't have a hood though, but I can cloak my head with a tea towel or something. ;D
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Post by Motley the Mercenary on Jan 20, 2003 9:33:23 GMT -5
me too me too! i have a green bathrobe. hey, we had better be careful though because people will start thinking this is a pyjama party instead of a mystic order
um, i can smell stuff but not as well as nierme, and i have a sense for... they're not ghosts, just memories in a place. and i can do the bard thing all right
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 20, 2003 9:51:17 GMT -5
well....it can be a Druids pyjama party. ;D
I have this other weird thing. it's not really a power or a sense, it's just....weird. i seem to attract spiders. we often get times when tons of spiders will migrate inside our house, adn i always seem to end up wiht the biggest one's in my room, and on my balcony. a bit before xmas i woke up to an entire room full of baby spiders. i don't have a very big room, and lots of it is taken up by my four poster queen bed, and these baby spiders had spun webbing between my bed and the walls all over my room, and were all crawling abut my ceiling and the tops of my walls. there were hundreds of them. there was a big one, there mum i pressume, sitting in the corner near the top of one of my walls too. it was freaky.
so yes, i seem to attract spiders. it has ended up making me develope an arachniphobia that i never used to have.
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Post by KoNeko on Jan 21, 2003 9:58:30 GMT -5
*shudder* I'd be a hysterical mess if I attracted spiders! It was bad enough when we were at camp in grade 4 and a big hairy one landed on my friend's face (she was on the top bunk) and she woke up...
Oooh, Robin, when you say you can smell the weather, is that like that really yummy fresh dirt smell right after a dry spell when the rain is about to fall? I love that smell.
Hey, I have a question for those of you who have an enhanced sense of something (mostly smell it seems?)- is your enhanced sense to compensate for another sense which might be a bit weaker? I'm only asking because I've got horrible eyesight, but I can sometimes hear things before I see them. So yeah, I was wondering if it was the same with you as well.
Oh, and although I don't attract spiders, I have some sort of animal linky connection thing. It's like, I know sometimes what they're thinking or what they want or something. Like with my pets (even before I had had them for a long time, or when they were very young and couldn't communicate with me yet) or even animals I haven't met before (like the baby gorilla at the zoo that came up to the glass and touched my hand). And my clairvoyant says that I've got an animal energy surrounding me, and I asked her what kind of animal (half hoping it would be a Siberian Tiger!! ) but she said it was something with horns, like an ox or a buffalo or something.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 22, 2003 2:04:44 GMT -5
No, all my senses seem to be fine. I can sometimes hear better and hear things most others don't. I can always see pretty well. I'm always the first to find the animals that are meant to be camaflaged at the zoo, and it never takes me long. I often feel things before they actually touch me, like, I feel the air movement from them makng their way towards me. My sense of taste is fine too. I can often taste if something isn't quite right, and I'm always the first to be able to tell if something we're eating may be starting to go a little off. You know how food gets when it starts to go a little off, but is still afe for consumption? Well I can't eat it when it gets there cos I can taste it. And I think I've talked about my sense of smell enough. ;D
KoKo, that is sooooo cool. I occasionally get a bit of a connection with an animal, but not very often. It's always one that I can relate to, like mum's cockatoo she used to have. It never liked being in it's cage, so even though mum would always tell me I wasn't allowed to, I'd take her out and let her sit on my shoulder. She never went anywhere, just sat, adn she'd always be so much hapier having been out for a while that day.
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Post by Jet Black on Jan 22, 2003 10:30:16 GMT -5
Neko, I think I have the animal thing too. For some reason, there used to be stray cats coming into my house compound (outside, of course), and I sometimes feed them or not. I mean, it's not like as if I feed them, then they come back for more. Other cats come in, not just the same ones.
And there was this time where I had a fighting fish for a pet. Usually, they die after three months or so, but this one lasted for a year!
My cat is always following me around, even though my housekeeper is the one who brushes its fur and gives it food, though (sometimes I have no time). I usually play with it, pat its head, feed it, and stuff, but it's more of my housekeeper who helps with my cat, you know? (Although I do want to try bathing him, but my parents won't let me...he scratches.. ) Yet, he still follows me around..
Weird...
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Post by Motley the Mercenary on Jan 22, 2003 15:44:28 GMT -5
i like cats a lot. they just don't like me. dogs do though and mosquitoes
i have a feel for wooden things. like, i know when they're going to split and where. sometimes rocks too, but mostly wood. oh, and cemeteries, i get this weird feeling from some of the graves and wouldn't you know, they need extra dirt a few weeks later, or the stone tips over in a bad frost or something.
yeah, i think my feel and smell are to compensate for my crummy vision. i can see fine, it's just i can't pick out little things or well-hidden things. and you know when people drive by and wave at you? i can never see who it is. that's so annoying. they just go by too fast for me to recognize them.
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