Bard Child
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Post by Bard Child on Dec 4, 2008 1:23:01 GMT -5
Can someone tell the quote when Datho explains to Succat about why the druids honor the trees?
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Post by Dred on Dec 4, 2008 7:31:03 GMT -5
I'll have to pull out my book and look it up unless someone else beats me to it.
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Post by Tegid on Dec 4, 2008 19:12:08 GMT -5
"Trees live out of themselves; they neither kill to eat -- like the creatures of land and sea -- nor do they toil for their food, but the All-Wise nourishes them in season, and their span outlasts all other living things in creation. Their wisdom runs deep as their roots in the earth, even as their branches reach toward heaven in exaltation of their Creator.
"Yes, they may be cut down, and when they fall, they die. But whether they are burned in the fire or used for building, their lives are given for those they serve -- either for warmth in the cold or to support the roof above ... so that even in death these giants of the land serve those who depend upon them. In this they are the emblems of the druid-kind, who seek to emulate these noble qualities in all our ways.
"Although trees such as the oak and hazel are much revered by the filidh, we no longer worship them as of old. Worship of the creature is blind folly, but worship of the living Creator is the beginning of wisdom."
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Post by CynanMachae on Dec 4, 2008 22:48:04 GMT -5
Tegid, what chapter is that quote from? Because I was reading Patrick earlier today and couldn't find it.
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Post by Tegid on Dec 5, 2008 2:55:15 GMT -5
Twenty, toward the end. This exchange made Buinne feel threatened by Succat as a usurper.
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Post by CynanMachae on Dec 8, 2008 12:28:05 GMT -5
Ah, thanks. I was reading a bit further along, after his vision and such.
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