Gaul, the land of the Celts between the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees, keeps coming back in my Atlantis research.
Writers from Timagenes to Scott-Elliot said its people remembered an origin across the ocean, and Gaul is also where Druids, Rome and early Christianity met.
The Gauls possessed traditions of Atlantis which were collected by the Roman historian, Timagenes, who lived in the first century, b.c.
Three distinct peoples apparently dwelt in Gaul.
First, the indigenous population (probably the remains of a Lemurian race), second, the invaders from the distant island of Atlantis, and third, the Aryan Gauls (see Pre-Adamites, p.
Timagenes supposedly cited the Druids of Gaul, and he apparently said one group of Gauls came from "a remote island", but I could not confirm this, and a remote island could just as well be Ireland or Britain.
Donnelly's The Iberian Colonies of Atlantis has the Iberians spreading over Spain, Gaul and the British Islands at a very early date and holding the south of Gaul as far as the Rhone.
The Irish Colonies from Atlantis contrasts the Druids of Gaul and Britain, said to offer human sacrifices, with the Irish Druids, who are claimed not to have.
On Civilization an Inheritance Donnelly argues that the Gauls were no savages: they had iron weapons, walled towns, wheeled vehicles and written languages, and they believed in the immortality of the soul.
Lugh: The Celtic God of Many Skills, Oaths, and the Harvest covers Lugus, the Gaulish form of Lugh, whom Julius Caesar identified with Mercury, with dedications to him across Gaul and Britain.
In Claire Heartsong's Anna, the voice of the Magdalenes, Anna describes the Essene life in Gaul and Britain.
Across the lands of Gaul and Britain we consecrated our life-force within sacred groves, caves and standing stone circles, which have stood witness to the divinity in all life from ‘time before time’.
Sad to say, tranquil peace within our cottages, orchards and Essene way of life was constantly overshadowed by the haunting presence of Rome, which had earlier made Gaul its colonial state.
Gaul also mattered to the rise of the Church.
Christianity: Looeamong’s establishment notes that Constantine ruled Gaul, Britain and Spain before he defeated Maxentius.
For every page I tagged with Gaul, see the Gaul tag archive.
Inscriptions and dedications to Lugus across Gaul and Britain.
This event matches the number "six thousand" and location link to Thebes (origin of the legion), but it happened in Gaul, not in Thebes itself.
It is a sore thing for my soul to experience that what is being taught in Rome, Ephesus, Antioch and Gaul is also making encroachment into this monastic centre.
We recently received unsettling messengers sent by Irenaeus, a powerful theologian and bishop who lives in Gaul.
When he is an adult he will have the option of choosing whether to remain in India or come to Gaul or perhaps go on to Britain.
Across the lands of Gaul and Britain we consecrated our life-force within sacred groves, caves and standing stone circles, which have stood witness to the divinity in all life from ‘time before time’.
Sad to say, tranquil peace within our cottages, orchards and Essene way of life was constantly overshadowed by the haunting presence of Rome, which had earlier made Gaul its colonial state.
After the collapse of the Second Tetrarchy (system of four co-rulers), Constantine (ruling Gaul, Britain, Spain) and Maxentius (controlling Italy and Africa) claimed power in the West.
Across the lands of Gaul and Britain we consecrated our life-force within sacred groves, caves and standing stone circles, which have stood witness to the divinity in all life from ‘time before time’.
Sad to say, tranquil peace within our cottages, orchards and Essene way of life was constantly overshadowed by the haunting presence of Rome, which had earlier made Gaul its colonial state.
Timagenes ? supposedly said the same thing, citing the Druids of Gaul as the source.
He apparently also classified the inhabitants of Gaul into several groups, one of which claimed to come from "a remote island", but again I wasn't able to confirm this.
Besides, "a remote island" could also be Ireland or Britain, there were people going back and forth to Gaul...
3200 BC: Cessair and followers; 2500 BC: Partholan; 2000 BC: first Nemed invasion; 1500 BC: Fir Bolg (possibly the Belgae of NW Gaul, per Julius Caesar); 1000 BC: Tuatha de Danann; 300 BC: Sons of Mil (Celts, from Spain [possibly Helvetians who had migrated from what is now Switzerland to Northern Spain]);
There is also a reference to "sea-men" seen in the waters near the island of Gaul.
The Druids of Gaul and Britain offered human sacrifices, while it is claimed that the Irish Druids did not.
Moreover, we find Diodorus Siculus, in a well-known passage, referring to Ireland, and describing it as "an island in the ocean over against Gaul, to the north, and not inferior in size to Sicily, the soil of which is so fruitful that they mow there twice in the year." He mentions the skill of their harpers, their sacred groves, and their singular temples of round form.
And in this universal empire Señor Lopez must find an explanation of the similarity which, as we shall show, exists between the speech of the South American Pacific coast on the one hand, and the speech of Gaul, Ireland, England, Italy, Greece, Bactria, and Hindostan on the other.
They also extended over the southern part of Gaul as far as the Rhone.
The Iberians spread themselves over Spain, Gaul, and the British Islands as early as 4000 or 5000 B.C.
The hostile nations which attacked them came from the north; and when the Mound Builders could no longer hold the country, or when Atlantis stink in the sea, they retreated in the direction whence they came, and fell back upon their kindred races in Central America, as the Roman troops in Gaul and Britain drew southward upon the destruction of Rome.
Eastern provinces under Diocletian and Galerius saw intense enforcement, while Constantius, governing in the west, largely ignored the edict in Britain, Gaul, and Spain.
257.) Hercules stole the cattle from this remote oceanic island, and, returning drove them "through Iberia, Gaul, over the Alps, and through Italy." (Ibid.) It is probable that a people emigrating from the Erythræan Sea, that is, from the Atlantic, first gave their name to a town on the coast of Spain, and at a later date to the Persian Gulf--as we have seen the name of York carried from England to the banks of the Hudson, and then to the Arctic Circle.
Hercules killed Geryon, stole the cattle, put them on the ship, and landed them safely, driving them "through Iberia, Gaul, and over the Alps down into Italy." (Murray's "Mythology," p.
I may be reminded of the Gauls, Goths, and Britons; but these were not savages, they possessed written languages, poetry, oratory, and history; they were controlled by religious ideas; they believed in God and the immortality of the soul, and in a state of rewards and punishments after death.
Wherever the Romans came in contact with Gauls, or Britons, or German tribes, they found them armed with weapons of iron.
The Scots, according to Tacitus, used chariots and iron swords in the battle of the Grampians--"enormes gladii sine mucrone." The Celts of Gaul are stated by Diodorus Siculus to have used iron-headed spears and coats-of-mail, and the Gauls who encountered the Roman arms in B.C.
Among the Gauls men would lend money to be repaid in the next world, and, we need not add, that no Christian people has yet reached that sublime height of faith; they cultivated the ground, built houses and walled towns, wove cloth, and employed wheeled vehicles; they possessed nearly all the cereals and domestic animals we have, and they wrought in iron, bronze, and steel.
The Gauls had even invented a machine on wheels to cut their grain, thus anticipating our reapers and mowers by two thousand years.
the Gauls under Vercingetorix was a difference in degree and not in kind.
The Gauls possessed traditions of Atlantis which were collected by the Roman historian, Timagenes, who lived in the first century, b.c. Three distinct peoples apparently dwelt in Gaul.
First, the indigenous population (probably the remains of a Lemurian race), second, the invaders from the distant island of Atlantis, and third, the Aryan Gauls (see Pre-Adamites, p.
Monastery of Mount Bugarach, Gaul (France)
There have been some troubling experiences occurring in Rome and other places throughout Gaul among the other followers who call themselves disciples of Yeshua.
Joses and Miriam traveled with the family across the sea (to Gaul/Britain area) along with other children.