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Disclaimer: the original post with the CGD errata was verified by JMG. Everything else has been checked by DOGD members and the GB, and seemed like errata to them.
Celtic Golden Dawn Errata List
OVATE GRADE
- P. 31 third paragraph. The text reads: the star in your head. Should read: the star ABOVE your head.
- P. 33 first paragraph, it says Sulw is pronounced “SILL-w” for clarification this is sounds like “Sil-oo”. The w is pronounced like W in Welsh.
- P. 33 fifth paragraph. The text reads: for about me flame the pentagrams. Should read: about me STAND the pentagrams. (In all versions of DOGD pentagram ritual the text should read STAND)
- P. 33 sixth paragraph. The text reads: center of light in your head. Should read: center of light ABOVE your head.
- P. 138 second paragraph. The text reads: Third path, Ner to Byth: Mab. Should read: Third path, Ner to Byth: MERCH
- P. 138 second paragraph. The text reads: Fifth path, Ner to Byw: Merch. Should read: Fifth path, Ner to Byw: MAB
- P. 138 2. THE GEOMANTIC FIGURES The list on the last third of the page: The text reads: Seventh Path , Byth to Modur: Tristwch. Should Read: Seventh Path Ner to Muner: Llosgwrn y Draig
- P.138 2. THE GEOMANTIC FIGURES The list on the last third of the page: The text reads: Ninth Path, Byw to Ener: Llawenydd. Should read: Ninth Path Byw to Muner. Gwyn.
- P. 139 2. THE GEOMANTIC FIGURES The list on the first section at the top of the page: The text reads: Tenth Path Byw to Muner: Gwyn. Should read: Tenth Path, Byth to Modur: Tristwch
- P. 139 2. THE GEOMANTIC FIGURES The list on the first section at the top of the page: The text reads: Eleventh Path, Ner to Muner: Llosgwrn y Ddraig. Should read: Twelfth Path, Byw to Ener: Llawenydd
BARDIC GRADE
- P. 160 Seventh step of the Central Ray gives the instruction to bring the current of light down the right side of the body and up the left side. This should be down the left side and up the right.
- P. 171 fourth paragraph, under Calling of Water. Text states “… in lines of glowing green light.” Should read “…in lines of glowing BLUE light.”
- PP. 191-192 multiple errors. In all cases the elemental Lord or Lady you call on should correspond with your destination Grove. Text reads: call your guide by the name of Cernunnos. Should read: call your guide by the name of TOUTATIS. a. In similar fashion text reads Sirona. Should be TOUTATIS b. In similar fashion text reads Belisama. Should be TOUTATIS c. In Similar fashion on page 192 when departing the grove of Fire, you will call for the elemental Lord or Lady to which you are headed. Text reads Toutatis. Should read CERNUNNOS, SIRONA, or BELISAMA depending on your arrival destination.
- P. 196 under CELI. The text reads: In the categories of Aristotle it is position. Should read: In the categories of Aristotle it is SUBSTANCE.
- P. 198 under MUNER. The text reads: In the categories of Aristotle it is substance. Should read: In the categories of Aristotle it is POSITION.
- P. 201 second paragraph. The text reads: In the fourth knowledge lecture, the geomantic structure of the tree. Should read: the GEOMETRIC structure of the tree.
- P. 216 first paragraph. The text reads Φ – 1 = √ Φ. Should read: Φ – 1 = 1 Φ.
DRUID GRADE
- P. 268. In the Supreme Ritual of the Pentagram the text omits the requirement to stand in the elemental sign when giving the license to depart. When giving the license to depart in each quarter, you should be standing in the sign of the element of the quarter while reciting the words “With the blessing of (name of deity) and the (elemental guardian) I license ye to depart. Go in peace, and peace be between ye and me.”
- P. 268 first paragraph. The text reads: for about me flame the pentagrams. Should read: about me STAND the pentagrams.
- P. 297 step J. Also P. 303 step J. The text reads: trace a summoning pentagram of the element over the amulet or other preparation, as though the amulet stood above the amulet. Should read: trace a summoning pentagram of the element over the amulet or other preparation, as though the PENTAGRAM stood above the amulet.
- P. 307, paragraph G. Proclaims the temple open in the Ovate grade, should be Bardic Grade.
- P. 336 Multiple errors. a. The text reads: Second Path Ner to Byth. Should read: NAF to Byth. b. The text reads: Third Path Naf to Byth. Should read: NER to Byth. c. The text reads: Fourth Path Ner to Byw. Should read: NAF to Byw. d. The text reads: Fifth Path Naf to Byw. Should read: NER to Byw.
Mysteries of Merlin Errata List
This list is for the paperback Llewellyn 1st edition of 2020.
- pp 109, 130, & 157: “Imagine your fingers drawing the octagram in a line of indigo light”; should say “violet”
- pp 115, 137, & 163: “Elen of the roads and the twilight, maiden goddess of the Tenth Sphere”; should say (not maiden) “goddess of the Seventh Sphere”
- p 120: “mighty god of the Tenth Sphere”; should say “Fifth”