Ancient Druid Spiritual Specialists

The mage in today's popular imagination. The Romans mentioned the magic classes of the northern peoples as Druid, Ovate (Vate) and Bard. The Vates are directly mentioned in the Druid Akkadian texts while the words "Druid" and "Bard" are short Akkadian phrases which was the pattern for the classical era and later.

The Different Types of Ancient Druid Spiritual Specialists

(April 23, 2024) Translations of the ancient Druid texts show that they had numerous types of spiritual specialists divided into the 4 main classes.

Diviners (Akkadian Našu, Naša, Nīšu)

Astrologers [Akkadian Ameru, Amiru]: These are diviners of the motions of the night sky's heavenly bodies. The motion of the night sky was considered to be one of the sources of motion powers alongside inner emotions.
Seers [Akkadian Barû, Biru, Beru] and Seeresses [Akkadian barûtu]: These are diviners of the natural world’s life manifestations. This is a rare division of a profession by gender.
Bards [Akkadian phrase BR.D]: This later phrase means "Seers of Life Manifestations" so this is just another name for the Seers. These sorts of phrases started developing during the Roman and Greek classical periods. Apparently predictions of the Seers were spoken as poetic oracles as exemplified by the Oracle of Delphi. The word "Bard" comes to English via Celtic bardos, Greek bardos and Latin bardus.
Magi [Akkadian Mugu, Magi, Maga]: These are magical diviners specializing in emotional/spiritual healing due to hidden or suppressed influences. This sort of healing also includes emotion related physical ailments. Matthew 2.1 associates Jesus with the Magi by having them come from the east to honor his birth. This became the source for the English word "magic."
Watchers [Akkadian Palilu]: These seem to combine the functions of astrologer and seer.

Magic Crafters/Enablers (Akkadian Maṣȗ) - Motion/Emotion Power Class

Celestial-Healers [Akkadian Asû]: These are the healers of the effects from the night sky motion powers.
Moon-Eyed-Ones [Akkadian Inu]: These are the crafters of night sky astrology-magic of fate are called moon eyed-ones. They attempt to change fate and seem to be the source of the term lunatic.
Healers [Akkadian Ḫelû]: These are direct physical body healers who are associated with the sun's powers. This word became one of the Greek sun gods as “Helios.” The Greek god of healing Asclepios was thought to be a son of the other sun god, Apollo.

Priests/Vates (Fathers - Akkadian Abu) - Life Class of Spiritual Powers

Threaders [Akkadian Qû]: These people use rituals to adjust the connection of the life network.
Weavers, Vates [Akkadian Utû, Watu]: This is another name for “Threader.”

Shepherds/Druids (Akkadian Rē’û, Rēyû, Rewû) - Both Classes of Powers

Shepherds [Akkadian Rē’û, Rēyû, Rewû]: Shepherds herd and drive the movements of people and network birds (eagle-vultures and owls) by working with their emotions. In general they seek to keep all the various emotions/motivations in balance so that life may prosper. The gospel of Matthew associates Jesus with being a shepherd in addition to associating him with the Magi.
Druids [Akkadian phrase D.RD]: This phrase means Life Manifestation's Drivers and so they are functionally the same as the Shepherds.

Traditional Chinese Qi sign which seems to represent wind over a heavenly body.

Minoan Gi sign (Linear A script) is similar to the top part of the Cuneiform Sumerian and Akkadian sign. It may also represent a star or heavenly body.

Sumerian Gi sign meaning breath, soul, spirit, energy. It might also mean bile because the liver was thought to be the intermediary between divine energy and emotional energy. It shows wind being gated above a feather.

Emotional Energy (Gi, Chi)

(updated April 23, 2024) The specialists working with the motion/emotion powers primary manipulate emotional energy which is written as Gi or Ge in Akkadian and Sumerian. The far east has an identical concept which in the Chinese language is transliterated as Qi or Ch'i (Wade-Giles), in Japanese as Ki, and in Korean as Gi again. (https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Qi).

This commonality suggests that this word goes way back to the hunter/gatherer/fisher humans who migrated along the coastlines. In contrast emotional energy in the central Asian Indo-European language seems to have been called "wer" from which English gets the word "work."

In ancient Druid civilization Gi is analogous to wind and breath (spirit). It is the divine power which moves and assembles things as opposed to the power which grows of things. Akkadian “Gi” is the source of the English word “energy” via Greek energeia and late Latin energia. The word “energy” itself is a later Akkadian phrase Enu.Gi meaning "reassignments of energy.”

References

New World Encyclopedia's entry for Qi. Online at: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Qi