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Rene Lalique Druide Vase information and photos at RLalique.com are tied together on this main Druide Vases page. Past and future auctions, historical details, sales, copies, reproductions, articles and more are all accessible from here. This page grows as more info is added to the website. Note: The Druids were an ancient high-ranking priestly class in France, England, and Ireland. The name is thought to be a conflation of words from early languages meaning oak-knowers. They did not leave a written record but we know something about them from the writings of others. 50 years before the Common Era, after Rome invaded Gaul, Julius Caesar writing in his Commentaries, gives the oldest known detailed description of the Druids. He wrote that the Druids "are engaged in things sacred, conduct the public and the private sacrifices, and interpret all matters of religion". Apparently these sacrifices were quite bloody. In the first century the great Roman philosopher, author, naturalist, and military man Pliny the Elder wrote about the Druids reverence for both sacrifice and mistletoe. "We should not omit to mention the great admiration that the Gauls have for it as well. The druids – that is what they call their magicians – hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and a tree on which it is growing, provided it is a hard-timbered oak. Mistletoe is rare and when found it is gathered with great ceremony, and particularly on the sixth day of the moon. Hailing the moon in a native word that means 'healing all things' they prepare a ritual sacrifice ...." And there we have it: the ritual of oak and mistletoe and Druids. See The Entire Catalogue Of: Rene Lalique Vases
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