Reyes y sacerdotes, sacrificios y adivinación en la Lusitania y la Baeturia ancestrales

There are studies dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the Indo-European peoples who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula. The critical review of classical ethnographic sources can deeply alter the traditional view of the social structure and beliefs of these communities. Between Viriato and the Celtic kings, there are clear similarities; we see in these figures and characters both war and the embodiment of a complex web of power and legitimacy. In fact, here we witness the germ of the concept of Monarchy as we know it today in history, where the king (not even the Celtic or Celtiberian king) is never alone, but instead relies on the forces of the beyond, on religion, and in this case, on the figure of the druid as a counselor and a true ideological architect. Matter and spirit go hand in hand. The king and the representative of transcendence as well. The support of the Celtiberian king was based on the knowledge, above average for the time, that this intellectual of the era, an expert in spirituality, provided him. Let us look back to the time of Viriato, before Romanization, to the origins of civilization in the Iberian Peninsula