I have fought alongside Saracen and Samurai alike, defended my home against rival clans, seen my Sisters burn for their beliefs, dug trenches with the Allies to stop a madman's quest for racial dominance, moved with time and tide in conflict after conflict.
But what saddened me the most was watching my own people persecute and massacre those with cultures not unlike our own. Did we Celts not paint ourselves before battle? Did we not braid feathers in our hair? Wear robes of fur in winter? Answer to the call of drum and flute in celebration and in battle? Regard Earth as our Mother and provider of All Things? Did we not honor our Ancestors and take guidance from our animal brethren?
We are all of one blood, One Race.....
The Human race.
Different creeds, different cultures, different colors, true, but each bleeding the same under the cold touch of steel. Each with something to lose should their battle turn from victory to defeat, each with the capacity to love or hate with total conviction, each with the capacity for loyalty or betrayal to their chosen king or cause.
Yet in our arrogance, our assumption that our way is right, we humans [regardless our heritage or chosen beliefs] have lost our Eyes, the ability to See that which connects us like so much spider silk, weaving and binding us to All That Is.
Try to stretch it, it will not break.
Try to cut it, your blade shall bounce back no matter how keen the edge.
It was there before time and will be there when time and times are done, weaving us closer together, choking those who choose to resist and fight that which they know to be true, but sadly fear that truth so much they'd rather die defending the lie.
Most will see this as the rantings of a madwoman- even worse see me as a traitor to my race.
Yet this I say to you, my Children- look to the past and See the future. Research those you feel inferior to you and see if you feel the same after learning that which is the truth and nothing more or less.
Know that when the Celts were still hunter-gatherers, the Egyptians were building temples that still stand to this day. Even the Parthenon is in sad shape compared to the great temple of Abu Simbel built by Rameses II. And how many 13th century Crusader castles are in mere ruin while Angkor Wat stands in all its glory as if frozen in time?
The world's oldest known alphabet was developed in central Egypt around 2000 BC from a hieroglyphic prototype, and over the next 500 years spread to Canaan and eventually to the rest of the world.
The ancient Indian mathematician Pingala presented the first known description of a binary numeral system around 800 BC written in Hindu numerals. The numeration system was based on the Eye of Horus Old Kingdom numeration system.
A full set of 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams, analogous to the 3-bit and 6-bit binary numerals, were known to the ancient Chinese in the classic text I Ching. Similar sets of binary combinations have also been used in traditional African divination systems such as Ifá as well as in medieval Western geomancy.
An ordered binary arrangement of the hexagrams of the I Ching, representing the decimal sequence from 0 to 63, and a method for generating the same, was developed by the Chinese scholar and philosopher Shao Yong in the 11th century.
Point is, Young Ones, is that one race or creed is neither superior nor inferior, that each can learn from another and take away the best parts to improve oneself and one's own individuality.
Peace be to you.
Peace be to All.
There can be only One......
