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| To begin with, in dealing with the Celts we are dealing with an ethnic group of various tribes occupying Europe from about 1200 or 800 B.C. to about 30 B.C. and then the peoples remaining to this day in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Man and Cornwall. What has been forgotten too often is that the Indo-Europeans were the ancestors of most Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Roman, Greek, Thracian, Iranian, Afghanistani, Pakistani, and Hind peoples. All of these Indo-Europeans share a common linguistic, cultural and religious (pre-Christian and pre-Islamic) heritage. Many linguistic and comparative pre-historians had discovered the existence of the Indo-Europeans in the last century and in this century. The scholar Georges Dumezil made many an excellent study of links between the Indo-European epics and myths. The Nazi’s propaganda had unfortunately created the myth of a master race and that the ‘Aryans’ (actually Proto-I.e.) or Indo-Europeans were all of the so-called Nordic racial type. The fact is that the indo-Europeans were at one time mostly of the white race is true and the “Nordic”, “alpine” or Brachycephalic type and “Mediterranean” ethnic types were the dominate group and yet they conquered and intermixed with some non-Indo-Europeans as well usually forcing the outsiders to assimilate to the Indo-European way. Most of these conquered folk were of the same race as the Indo-Europeans. In Southern Europe the Mediterranean type dominated, as one moved northward into the central areas the Alpine type dominated and more of a Nordic area in the very far North, but in India as the Aryans had been conquering Semitic types and not assimilating much they ran into the Dasyus or Dravidian types which they subdued and perhaps over the centuries absorbed into the lowest classes in varying degrees until the structure became the caste system.
If any certain race could be classified as the race of the early Indo-European it would probably be the so-called Alpine or Brachycephalic type who were generally rounded headed brunette or brown haired and auburn haired peoples who were mixed with the fair haired tall blonds of the Northern types. What is more important though, is that these peoples domesticated the horse about 5,500 years ago in the steppes of Russia, and developed a strong social and political structure that spread their culture all over Europe and into Asia and would endure for many centuries. In figure 1 there is a diagram illustrating the dispersal of Indo-European language. (To be continued.) 
Calendar Yule will be celebrated at Live Oak Grove at 7:00 P.M. on Dec. 21st, There will be regular Druid services on December 18th, and January 1, 15th, and 29th. Take the BART to Orinda and call 254-1387 for a ride. 
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