e of Constantine:
"These Druids held a meeting at a certain time of the year in a
consecrated place in the country of the Carnutes [modern Chartres] which
country is considered to be in the centre of all Gaul." It is well known
that anterior to the Roman Conquest there existed in Britain a
long-established, seven-fold state, governed by seven kings, compared by
John Speed (1630) to seven crowned pillars.

The kingdom of Mercia included the counties in the centre of the kingdom
and is said to have been founded by Crida or Creoda. The central and chief
ruler of Britain was styled Bretwalda. It is well known that Stonehenge,
which is associated in folk-lore with the number seven, is situated in the
heart of the plain region of England and is supposed to have been the seat
of central religion and government.(132)

It is moreover acknowledged by Knight that the ancient Britons were a
people who evidently had some great principle of association in their
religion as in their industry. The familiar fact, that at one period the
ancient Kent, Cantium, was governed by four kings, also styled "the four
princes of Cantii," furnishes an indication that quadruplicate division
was also known to the ancient Britons.

A few instructive facts concerning Welsh Druidism may be appropriately
cited here.

Morien has pointed out that the Druidic Celi Ced corresponds to Amen-Ra,
the Egyptian Hidden Sun. According to Welsh system the universe was born
of Celi-Ced, a dual power, Celi being the masculine and Ced the feminine
principle. Ceridwen is termed the Welsh Isis, and her name translated as
"the producing woman." Celi is invariably represented as _hidden_, the
three Hus representing him in manifestation.

"The three Hus are: Hu cylch y Cengant=the Hu of the circle of infinitude;
Hu cylch y Sidydd=the Hu of the circle of the zodiac and Hu yn Nghnawd=Hu
incarnate. The latter was incarnate in the Arch Druid. He, standing in the
middle of the Gorsedd circle, where the triple life lines met, implied by
his action that the three emanations which had their root in the dual
Ced-Celi, focussed themselves in him. He stood facing the east where the
sun rises" (_cf._ the ceremonial position assumed by the king of Erin in
council and that of the Roman augur on drawing his templum). "The name for
the physical sun was Huan, translated as 'the abode of divinity.' " "The
Druidic bards of N. Wales worshipped Beli."(133)

In Welsh legend a god named Pere