Comments on: Our Druid Cousins

By: Sammi

Sammi — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:10:04 +0000

I recently came across the word touen (alt. spelling towen) with the information that it’s an old druid word. Could you please tell me what it means or refers to? I’ve been unable to locate anything else about it.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:19:04 +0000

I also came across this word in Stephen Kings “Crouch End”, refered to as a druidic term. This is an author who generally researchs the terms/words he uses yet I have not been able to find this word elsewhere? Any idea?

By: Aine MacDermot

Aine MacDermot — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:32:59 +0000

I’d never heard of the term before. I did a quick search of google and came up empty. If you learn anything more about it, feel free to post the info here for others.

By: Success In Life

Success In Life — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:15:13 +0000

Does Druid Ryme With 3 and 9?…

Looking, and then things seem familiar.
Wanting something to ring true.
Something exciting…yet solid and real.
Then the first of three for making,
Feels real but not understood.
21 lessons to learn on the surface, but I still dont get lesson one….

By: tom

tom — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:49:31 +0000

ok, the term is an ancient mass burial hole, towen or touen. it was a druid word and in england they would bury a bunch of people in giant holes in times of chaos. but there is a mysticism to the word in that towens dont stay shuit and sometimes the dead come back through

By: Val

Val — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:08:22 +0000

Tom, can you confirm your sources please? I think all of us are folks who’ve seen Crouch End and are researching the theological aspect behind it. Towen has a nice sound to it, however there just isn’t any web presense of it having existed as a druidic word.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:46:18 +0000

there was and still is remnents of a native spiritualty in these islands
that existed before the so called celts or gaels arrived here. i have inherited
a sound understanding of this belief system and it has nothing to do with druids. in my opinion it was passed down from our neolithic ancestors.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:55:16 +0000

I love this article! Good work. I believe in the years to come more evidence will be discovered proving the Vedic origins of the various European people.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:37:30 +0000

Very interesting article. This parallels some research i did on the Celts recently for my Archaeology class. The striking similarities in culture between the ancient Vedics and Celts probably owes a lot to their strong oral/legalistic/intellectual traditions. It is truly remarkable that there could be that many consistencies between these groups despite their remoteness from one another, e.g. why did other I-E civilizations like the Greeks and Romans show more divergence from the original I-E model that the Celts/Vedics seem to exemplify? This provides much material for future scholarly endeavours to be sure.

Also, responding to the word above “crouch end” may be a variant on Cruachan, which is the ancient capital of Connaught in the Ulster Cycle of Irish myths. It was, at least, a place of religious and symbolic significance to the pagan Celts. A large burial mound stands there today in Roscommon County, thought to be the grave site of the last Righ (high king) of the pagan Celts.