Druid Spiritual Powers

Druid Spiritual Powers Which Romans Interpreted As Deities

(February 12, 2026) This was the time when north European Druid deities began to be personified, probably due to their contact with the Romans whose deities were already personified. Deity lordification/personification occurred during empire formation whenever distant rulers came to be seen as a entities just as powerful and capricious as nature powers. Because most rulers were men this also tended to downgrade the divine feminine over time.

Because Druid culture was a magical culture most spiritual powers were not normally clustered into deity labels. Yet, this did not stop the Romans from doing just that:

"They (Druids) worship as their divinity, Mercury (Mercurium) in particular, and have many images of him, and regard him as the inventor of all arts, they consider him the guide of their journeys and marches, and believe him to have great influence over the acquisition of gain and mercantile transactions. Next to him they worship Apollo (Apollinum), and Mars (Martim), and Jupiter (Jovem), and Minerva (Minervan); respecting these deities they have for the most part the same belief as other nations: that Apollo averts diseases, that Minerva imparts the invention of manufactures, that Jupiter possesses the sovereignty of the heavenly powers; that Mars presides over wars."

"To him, when they have determined to engage in battle, they commonly vow those things which they shall take in war. When they have conquered, they sacrifice whatever captured animals may have survived the conflict, and collect the other things into one place. In many states you may see piles of these things heaped up in their consecrated spots; nor does it often happen that any one, disregarding the sanctity of the case, dares either to secrete in his house the things captured, or take away those deposited; and the most severe punishment, with torture, has been established for such a deed." (Julius Caesar: Gallic War Book 6, Chapter 17)

Etymology

• Mercurium: This is the Druid Akkadian phrase M.ER.K.UR meaning those powers from "life-power's harbor involved with the dawn" where the harbor is the rain making sky-shell and the life powers are the divine fertility fluids which flow down to earth. Dawn was when the night powers of fate became fixed so this was the time when rituals were done to shift fate with emotional magic. Hence, Dawn also became known as the witching hour. Mercury is best viewed near the eastern horizon just before sunrise (dawn). Because it never strays far from the Sun, this elusive planet acts as a "morning star" shining brightly for only a few weeks, several times a year.

• Apollinum: This is the Druid Akkadian phrase A.P'.LL.IN meaning those powers "affecting the life-bird-powers desired by the Moon-Eye (Su)" where the life bird powers are the editing powers which affect the connections of the divine irrigation network which directs life powers to earth. The Moon-eye shifts fate but can only do so with motion powers, not with the life powers shifted by the life-power deities of Hu and Ayu.

• Martim: This is the Druid Akkadian phrase M.AR.T meaning the powers of "life controlled by astrology-magic." In contrast to Apollo, the powers of Mars are able to affect the life powers which are also affected by the fate shifting of astrology-magic. The random fortunes of war were due to fate being shifted.

• Jovem: This is the Druid Akkadian phrase Y'.W.EM meaning those powers of "Yahu which restrict the Supervisor" where the Supervisor is the sun and storm god Hu representing the divine irrigation network which guides life powers to earth. Yahu also became Yahweh is the Hebrew scriptures. Yahu represents the power which manifests life on earth when triggered by the fertility-fluids from the higher powers.

• Minervan: This is the Druid Akkadian phrase M.IN.E.RW meaning those powers of "life for the Moon-eye which disable the shepherd-priests." The Moon-eye was the dark new moon and eye-pupil god Su whose priests were called shepherds. This spiritual power cluster (deity) represent the life powers which could overrule the powers of astrology-magic.

References

Photo from: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/observing-news/mercury-in-the-morning/

Main Druid Pantheon Deities (Post Indo-European Invasion) As Revealed in the Runic Texts

The above image from the silver Grundestrop Cauldron from Denmark (200 BC - 200 CE) is the horned god which is the storm form of the Druid god Hu (described below). In one hand is the feminine symbol of the ring (torque) while in the other hand is the masculine symbol of the stick or snake.

• Alu: This is the Druid triple power God consisting of the gods Su, Hu, and Yahu. The phrase “power of Alu” became the word “Allah.” The “powers (plural) of Alu” became the Akkadian word “Aluhin” which later became the Hebrew “Alohim” and ‘elohim“ (the letter /‘/ became dual use with /a/ after 600 BCE) which is translated as “God” in the Hebrew Scriptures.

• Ayu: The Druid crescent moon goddess also called the "Reed boat." The crescent shape represents a harvesting sickle used to edit the life threads/channels which bring and direct the life powers to earth from the higher divine realm.

• Hu: This is the sun and storm god representing the life powers above the earth which flow down to earth as fertility-fluids. Sun light/heat and rain are his "emanations." Moving rainstorm clouds were imagined as a herd of running wild cattle so his rainstorm form became associated with the storm bull. Due to his life emanations, Hu is called the “Healer” (Akkadian ḫelû) which is the source for the Greek sun god word “Helios.”

• ISu: The Goddess consisting of the Druid goddesses Kate, Ayu, and Selu.

• Kate/Hekate: The label for this Druid goddess seems to come from the Druid Akkadian phrase K.A.T.E meaning the one "involved with affecting astrology-magic's disablement." She is the dark part of the visible moon (not the new moon) and represents the dark underworld where souls reside. She determines where and when souls are reincarnated. As the underworld she is represented by the chalice which collects the earth's waters and so is the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian legends because spring water was assumed to come from the underworld. Hekate means "Hu's Kate" because Hu's life powers were also thought to disable the fate shifting of the astrology-magic associated with Su.

• Selu/Selene: This is the goddess Selu/Selene who is the feminine emotion/motion directing power representing the astrological motion powers of fate originating from the moving heavenly bodies of the night sky (stars and planets). The word “Selene” means “powers of Selu with its /en/ ending.”

• Su: This is the masculine Druid motion-power source god who is represented by both the dark new moon and the pupil of the eye. Su was the motion source power of the hidden, inner emotions and the power which moved the heavenly bodies as directed by the Goddess. This eye correspondence gives rise to Su’s other main epithet which is “observer.” The new moon defines the monthly cycles so Su is also “father time” or "time-keeper" (Akkadian šattu). His divine bird is the astrology-magic owl (Ḫu’u owl) which seems to be the famous Athenian owl.

• Thu: This is the genderless or hermaphrodite deity associated with passionate emotions as a source of change and activity. Thu was the deity associated with emotion magic.

• Yahu: This is the form manifestation god who represents the triggering of the invisible "things-given" on earth. These "things-given" later became the universal Platonic-forms of Greek philosophy. The existence of this concept in all runic texts indicates that the Greeks got this idea from the earlier Druid civilization. Yahu was the source word for Yahweh who became the national god of Judah, by adding the noun possessed Akkadian ending /e/ or /i/ to Yahu to form the meaning “power of Yahu.” That derivation goes like this: Yahu + e = Yahue = Yahwe, then because inner and ending vowels not allowed in Druid Akkadian then becomes “Yahwh” or “Yahweh” because E/H are duals for the Semitic letter he.

References

Photo of Hekate dating to about 100 CE from the Met Museum in New York at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255881

The Roman Era River Celtic Goddess Sequana as the Personification of the River Seine's Power

(February 3, 2026) The photo above shows the goddess "Sequana" found during the excavation of a temple site called the Fontes Sequanae (the Springs of Sequana) at the headwaters of the river Seine near the town of Châtillon-sur-Seine in the Burgundy region. Sequana is a good example of the creation of new deities by the personification/lordification of spiritual powers which was occurring throughout Druid culture during this time. This temple was started in the Druid era and continued on into the late Roman empire era. Notice the ball being held in the duck's beak. This appears to be the moon.

• Sequana (later Seine): This is the Druid Akkadian phrase S.EQ.AN meaning river where "Su is functionally-replaced by considerations" where considerations are the focused emotions of emotion magic. This has essentially the same meaning as the later word applied to this river which was Seine which is the Druid Akkadian phrase Ṣ.E.IN meaning the river where "activity disables the Moon-Eye (Su)" where "activity" can be any motion power, either sourced from emotions or sourced from the heavenly bodies.

Around 100 BCE, a temple was built by the Gauls near this spring consisting of a "simple square chamber surrounded by an open porch where worshippers could assemble." Around 50 CE a masonry channel was built that fed a catchment area. Next, additional buildings were built in a space about 300 feet [91 meters] long." This complex consisted of a long building with seven rooms. In addition, farther "to the north, a monumental entryway of four pillars led the pilgrims into a long courtyard. The eastern side of the courtyard was occupied by a covered colonnade that sheltered a porch.... At the northern end of the courtyard three steps led down to the spring, the channel from the spring and the catchment basin."

A large clay pot from the Roman era was found bearing the Latin inscription Deae Sequana(e) rufus donavit meaning "For Divine Sequana a red offering-pot." The pot contained a smaller pot filled with 800 bronze coins from the third and fourth century. Interestingly life-size human male figures dating to the time of the temple's founding around 80 BCE and carved from tree limbs were found nearby where they had been thrown into what was then a marsh

Gauls/Celts Were From The Deity Dis Meaning They Were "Manifestations of the Goddess"

(February 18, 2026) The above image is the Roman era representation of the Goddess (Druid Akkadian IS) with its triple moon goddess powers from Kate/Hekate, Ayu, and Selu/Selene. The Goddess defined fate by directing the masculine (God's) divine seed or source powers. The God (Druid Akkadian Alu) was also a triple power consisting of Su, Hu, and Yahu. Significantly, the appearance of the dark new moon (Su) once a month disabled the Goddess because at that time no part of the moon was visible.

"All the Gauls assert that they are descended from the god Dis, and say that this tradition has been handed down by the Druids. For that reason they compute the divisions of every season, not by the number of days, but of nights; they keep birthdays and the beginnings of months and years in such an order that the day follows the night." (Caesar, Gallic War Book 6, Chapter 18:)

• Dis: This is the Druid Akkadian phrase D.IS meaning those powers "manifested by the Goddess." The Goddess is the triple moon which is a night time power.

The Romans masculinized the goddess Dis as "Dis Pater" meaning "Father of Dis." In 249 BC and 207 BC, the Roman Senate under senator Lucius Catellius ordained special festivals to appease Dis Pater and Proserpina (Greek Persephone). Roman Dis was the god which brought the souls out of the underworld up to the earth plane to be reborn. He later would be confused with Pluto as the god of the underworld when the idea of reincarnation fell out of favor during the classical era. In classical era Greek and Roman myths, souls only returned from the dead in a few special cases aided by Herakles or Orpheus.

References

C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library. Online at:https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0001%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D13

Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War: Interlinear Translation (1893 first edition). Worldside Press 1952 edition

Photo of Hekate dating to about 100 CE from the Met Museum in New York at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255881