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[chimera]

My interest is the preservation of ancient tradition from Celts, Saxons, Vikings and others. I would like to discuss how these are "chicken and egg" expressions of Church authority and presence. The facts are historic but the mechanics are debatable.
To start, the chimere robe of Episcopal bishops and verger, and Catholic and Anglican bishops of UK, and zimara robe of Popes, derives from the "zamarra" fleece-jacket of zamarrone shepherds in Celtic-Galicia Spain, and acciamara of Sardinia. This origin is found in Oxford Dict. , and Anglican and Catholic texts on vestments. Until a century ago, zamarrones wore a goat-head on their head at carnival and feast-days. That resembles the British Celtic war-god Camulos with goat-horns. Chimere robes for bishops were made of camelot goat-wool, from Angora goats._OED 'camlat' 'chimere". This suggests that bishops wore expensive Angora wool as a symbol of high status, implying that this camelot robe had been reserved for druids of similar high position, and thus for Popes as similar to arch-druids. "Verger" relates to "vergobret" the chief druid of Gaul France. Druids were active in the time of St Elegius in France 6th cent. The British Queen Mother, the Queen, Charles and the AB of Canterbury have been inducted as druids, as were Winston Churchhill and David Lloyd-George prime minister in World War I.
The chimere is worn by the Dean of Windsor at the George and dragon Chapel at the castle, beneath the carved war-goat on the roof.
Is Celtic influence still active in church thinking?