Alexei Kondratiev's Works.

ALEXEI KONDRATIEV'S LOREKEEPERS COURSE 1.0 Track One - Section Four - A Introduction  This track is designed to give the student a sense of Celtic history and the chronological development of Celtic culture. It has been divided up into an introduction and a series of sections dealing with different historical periods. Each section has an introductory text for general orientation; this is to be supplemented by (for each section) a bibliography for research and some examination questions (mostly essay questions). The Later Iron Age (450 BCE-ca. 80 CE - "La Tène") Around 450 BCE a major upheaval took place in the Celtic heartland. The main centers of princely power were violently destroyed. Since the Celts left no written records from this time we can't know for certain what happened, but it seems likely that the old, established aristocratic lineages were overthrown by other lineages who wanted access to the same profitable trade-routes. The centre of political and econ...

  ALEXEI KONDRATIEV'S LOREKEEPERS COURSE 1.0 Track One - Section Three Introduction  This track is designed to give the student a sense of Celtic history and the chronological development of Celtic culture. It has been divided up into an introduction and a series of sections dealing with different historical periods. Each section has an introductory text for general orientation; this is to be supplemented by (for each section) a bibliography for research and some examination questions (mostly essay questions). The Early Iron Age (800-450 BCE - "Halstatt")   Around 800 BCE a new group of Indo-European peoples began to enter eastern Europe from the ancient Indo-European heartland of the Pontic-Caspian steppe. Greeks called them the Cimmerians, and (a few centuries later) the Thracians. Like their ancestors, they were herdsmen with a "horse culture": a need for swift mobility across wide open spaces had led them to place a strong emphasis on the care and training o...

 ALEXEI KONDRATIEV'S LOREKEEPERS COURSE 1.0 Track One - Section Two Introduction  This track is designed to give the student a sense of Celtic history and the chronological development of Celtic culture. It has been divided up into an introduction and a series of sections dealing with different historical periods. Each section has an introductory text for general orientation; this is to be supplemented by (for each section) a bibliography for research and some examination questions (mostly essay questions). The Origin of the Celts -- Late Bronze Age (ca.1100-800 BCE - "Urnfields")   The Indo-Europeans appear to have entered Europe in several different movements, but one culture that came to dominate central and eastern Europe after 3000 BCE is almost certainly the one from which the main Indo-European groups known in later European history eventually sprang. This is sometimes called the Battle-Axe Culture (from the weapons found in its gravesites) as well as the Cord...

Alexei Kondratiev's LoreKeeper Course 1.0 ALEXEI KONDRATIEV'S LOREKEEPERS COURSE 1.0 Track One - Section One Introduction  This track is designed to give the student a sense of Celtic history and the chronological development of Celtic culture. It has been divided up into an introduction and a series of sections dealing with different historical periods. Each section has an introductory text for general orientation; this is to be supplemented by (for each section) a bibliography for research and some examination questions (mostly essay questions). Who Are the Celts?    Celt: One who lives in a community where a Celtic language is used traditionally, or one who has strong ties to such a community. Celtic: Anything relating to the identity and traditions of such communities.   Who are the Celts? This, it turns out, is a surprisingly difficult question to answer -- mostly because the term "Celt" has acquired a variety of meanings today, not all of them compatible; ...

  ALEXEI KONDRATIEV'S LOREKEEPERS COURSE 1.0 As an official of the now inactive organization IMBAS, the late Celtic scholar Alexei Kondratiev oversaw the development of a training course geared toward the purpose of developing a Celtic worldview in its predominantly Anglo-American membership.  As his original material was non-denominational, Kondratiev, with the help of several volunteers, adapted the material incorporated in his Celtic history and mythology classes into a program called "The Lorekeepers Course" directed specifically towards IMBAS' predominantly Celtic Reconstructionism (CR) audience. After the completion of the basic outline of the course, work on the training of mentors and implementation of the course came to a standstill.  The final goal had been to complete a test run of the course with Kondratiev as a mentor to work out the bugs and implement new material as deemed necessary.  With the dissolution of IMBAS as a corporate entity in 2004, failed ...

This blog will serve as a resource to copies from long-dead Internet sites of these timeless band most excellent writing of  Alexei Kondratiev's Celtic Druid/Pagan works for our studies in the Cosmic Salamander Inc's How to be a Druid Grove and its related social groups.  I was forced to create this blog to ensure everyone could read and download his works. That were taken from copies of long-dead websites. And converted from HTML files to Ebook files and now pasted into blogs. The main set of blogs will be his Lore Keeper Tracks, but I will also add other articles he wrote that I have. A special thanks to the long crossed-over IMBAS.org and archive.org's WaybackMachine. TDK Bio: Alexei Kondratiev (February 15, 1949–May 28, 2010) was an  American author, linguist, and teacher of Celtic languages, folklore and culture . He taught the Irish language and Celtic history at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, New York from 1985 until his death on May 28, 2010. Born:  Febr...