Druidism 17: 17-9 Century Romantic Movements

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They were inspired by 17-9 century romantic movements. In Druidism, they do not have a sacred text or anything equivalent to a bible as well as no universally agreed set of beliefs and ideas. Druidism is known to be more of a spiritual path, but to some, a religion of some sort. There are many beliefs in this paganism religion, some feel that they are animists, pantheists, monotheist or even duo theist. The monotheistic druids believe in one deity known as the Great Spirit, so as to not identify the gender. Duo theists believe in the existence of a pair of forces or beings. Polytheistic believe that there is more than one god or goddess. However animists and pantheists believe that Deity does not exist as one or more gods but instead present

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