Cia a tha am facal? What's in a name?

The term 'Celt' was initially employed by Ceasar to indicate the vast federation of tribes north of the Italian Alps, a vastly disparate group united only by their culture and their religion. I highly doubt that the Adui, or the atrebates, nor the Carbutes, nor the Cymry, nor the Caledonii, nor the UiNiall, not the Eoghainachta, nor the Sons of Donn or Scota ever refered to themselves as Celts, or Keltoi. It was a foreign designation to the ancient Celts, employed by foreigners in a foreign tongue, implying of all things they they were foreigners. Similar in character to how the Native Tribes of the indigenous Americans are collectively referred to as 'Indians', a term they would not learn the misrepresentative meaning of until well after their subjugation. Like the various Gaulish, Brythonic, Cymraic, Gaelic, Iberian, or Semnothracian peoples the Anishnabee, and Algonquin, Inu, and Dene peoples came to adapt (and in some cases adopt) the nomenclature of their foreign oppressors, much like the Celts of proto-Europe. These Northern peoples were a disparate and varied group, each pertaining to, and maintaining their own variety of a standard customary format and ritual, usually quite distinct, and notably localized. The only percievable common thread which ran through them was a basic Warrior cultural format based in a king and Clan-ship system with a thread of shamanic theocracy running throughout. It would seem that the word 'Celt' does not apply to a particular peoples but rather a cutural format distinguished by it's structure, and united in it's mythology and custom. A cursory glance at the Calusarii dancers and Morris dancers readily denotes a common form, function, decorum, and practice that litterally stretches across Europe, and in many cases extends to Britania's daughters, namely her 3 largest America, Australia, and Canada.

Very few of the original cult practices survive intact from the ancient days, but from their fragments we can build again. And that is roughly what is being attempted here. From what i've gathered the Druids never named their religion, accepting religious designation only for themselves. It was the latter Christians who imposed the term Druidism to describe they though to be the common religion that seemed to be practiced by all the major Celtic groups. The Gaels call it the 'Sean Nos" the "Old Ways", and in the custom of oppressed peoples reclaiming the words which once oppressed them i think 'Celt should be applied to the spiritual practice that united them in a way no other foreign word ever could have before. I am Both Normand, and Eoghainachta, and i am a Celt.