Sir Godfrey Higgins and the Black Celtic Druids;

“Most readers of history know about the Celts, ancient inhabitants of Europe, whose priests were known as the Druids. It is generally thought that these Celts were Caucasoids, but Sir Godfrey Higgins, British antiquarian, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, came to the conclusion in the early 1800’s that they had been a Negroid people. Higgins wrote a three volume study entitled The Celtic Druids. In the following passage from his Anacalypsis he modestly refers to it as an essay:

“In my essay on the Celtic Druids, I have shown that a great nation called Celtae, of whom the Druids were the priests, spread themselves almost over the whole earth, and are to be traced in their rude gigantic monuments from India to the extremity of Britain. The religion of Buddha of India is well known to have been very ancient.” (Higgins is here referring to the first Buddha, who is supposed to have lived between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, and not to Gautama Buddha who lived about 600 years B.C. There were at least ten Buddhas mentioned in the sacred books of India.)He goes on to say, “Who these can have been but the early individuals of the black nation of whom we have been treating I know not, and in this opinion I am not singular. The learned Maurice says Cuthies (Cushites), i.e. Celts, built the great temples in India and Britain, and excavated the caves of the former; and the learned mathematician, Reuben Burrow, has no hesitation in pronouncing Stonehenge to be a temple of the black curly-headed Buddha.”

(Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book I, Chap. IV, New York, 1927.)” ( )