Religious reconstructionism, the rebuilding of ancient traditions based on fragmented data and adaptation of these traditions for practical use in today's world while still retaining historical and cultural integrity, is a tall order on any day. When talking about the Picts, a tribal people from the British Isles, separate from the more familiar Celts and about whom we have only a spare few foreign accounts and some mysterious monuments dotted about the isles, it seems impossible and most have given up right out of the gate. Ray Hess is a polymath, capable of seeing patterns and making...