Elves and the Tuatha de Danaans

[Calavanya]

Wahhh! So many things said. Well, I study this at university, Anglistics, not the Celtology, but... First of all, the first people on the British isles were so called Iberians, as far as we know they are the first. Then came the Celts. The legend of Tuatha De Daanan is Celtic. Tuatha were spiritual beings, meaning they weren't mortals. In those times they inhabited this, let's say, dimension and the spiritual beings lived on this, "material" world together with people, but on some distance. As people started spreading, basically there wasn't enough space for both, bla, bla, there was war adn the Tuatha were exiled from this world. There are still some (by belief) connections between the two worlds, such as the trees, and that's why the old Celts held trees as sacred and built circular settlements around the trees. So, this is in short, if you are interested... Also, so called "pagan" or "wiccan" religion is also Celtic, practiced by ancient Druids. The religion may have developed in many directions, but the Druids were scientists, scholars and healers, who believed that knowledge can be a dangerous weapon in the hands of the unwise and ignorant. Believe it or not... You also have people today calling themselves Druids, ones practicing this, others that, so who would know...