Godfrey Higgins

CELTIC DRUIDS

PREFACE.

Upon reviewing what I have written in the following work, it has occurred to me
that I have not said quite so much, in my first chapter, on the mode usually adopted of
transferring written accounts from one language into another, as is expedient; I shall,
therefore, in this place, submit a few preliminary observations to my reader.

Man possesses organs of the mouth and adjoining parts, by which he produces sounds
expressive of his feelings. When these sounds become limited to certain defined, fixed
objects, and are meant to represent these abjects, they are called words, and the repre.
sentations of these objects in his mind or understanding are called ideas. Hence words
represent both the things and the ideas. Thus words are sounds significant of ideas.
Letters, in like manner, are marks formed by the mechanical powers of man to perpe
tuate and record these sounds significant, that they may pass to others, or to futurity
Now suppose a parent state to send off colonies, but before she send them off, that she
form a system of letters to represent such sounds as she has found needful for recording
her ideas. Suppose she make A to represent the idea of unity, B to represent the idea
of two unities, D to represent the idea of four unities, and O to represent some other
collection of unities; and these signs also she make, when combined in various ways, to represent the ideas of things treated of just now ; for instance,
that D A B should standtor a certain fish called a Dab. Now we will suppose a colony to go away, and to take this artificial system with them; in all future time, when they want to represent the word dab, and the idea of that fish, they ought to make the three signs d-a-b, and no
other; and they ought to do this if they wanted to represent the parent signs and the
idea, although they might have changed the sound given to these signs in their habits of
speaking. Should they have got into the habit of calling the A o, yet, in the case above
supposed, they ought to write dal, and not dob. The reader will observe, that if they… (plus d'informations)

Sir Godfrey Higgins and the Black Celtic Druids;

“Most readers of history know about the Celts, ancient inhabitants of Europe, whose priests were known as the Druids. It is generally thought that these Celts were Caucasoids, but Sir Godfrey Higgins, British antiquarian, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, came to the conclusion in the early 1800’s that they had been a Negroid people. Higgins wrote a three volume study entitled The Celtic Druids. In the following passage from his Anacalypsis he modestly refers to it as an essay:

“In my essay on the Celtic Druids, I have shown that a great nation called Celtae, of whom the Druids were the priests, spread themselves almost over the whole earth, and are to be traced in their rude gigantic monuments from India to the extremity of Britain. The religion of Buddha of India is well known to have been very ancient.” (Higgins is here referring to the first Buddha, who is supposed to have lived between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, and not to Gautama Buddha who lived about 600 years B.C. There were at least ten Buddhas mentioned in the sacred books of India.)He goes on to say, “Who these can have been but the early individuals of the black nation of whom we have been treating I know not, and in this opinion I am not singular. The learned Maurice says Cuthies (Cushites), i.e. Celts, built the great temples in India and Britain, and excavated the caves of the former; and the learned mathematician, Reuben Burrow, has no hesitation in pronouncing Stonehenge to be a temple of the black curly-headed Buddha.”

(Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book I, Chap. IV, New York, 1927.)”… (plus d'informations)