St. Patricks Day Decoded
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She's says that she "loves irish men"...
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She's says that she "loves irish men"...
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Larry Lobster
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Where did it come from?
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
I never really knew shyt about St. Cactrick's Day
but I started looking up some shyt and damn.In the book, A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language: In Two Parts it shows the meaning of those words and dammit if these cacs just ain't caccing
And Dubh Eireannach does in fact mean wild irishmen. Matter fact damn near every word that begins with Dubh means "black"
And according to wikipedia, the legend says he did chase snakes out of ireland, even though a snake has never been found in that entire country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick#St._Patrick_banishes_all_snakes_from_Ireland
The absence of snakes in Ireland gave rise to the legend that they had all been banished by St. Patrick[68] chasing them into the sea after they attacked him during a 40-day fast he was undertaking on top of a hill.[69] This hagiographic theme draws on the Biblical account of the staff of the prophet Moses. In Exodus 7:8–7:13, Moses and Aaron use their staffs in their struggle with Pharaoh's sorcerers, the staffs of each side morphing into snakes. Aaron's snake-staff prevails by consuming the other snakes.[70]
Image of St. Patrick banishing the snakes
However, all evidence suggests that post-glacial Ireland never had snakes, as on insular "New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland and Antarctica... So far, no serpent has successfully migrated across the open ocean to a new terrestrial home" such as from Scotland at one point only some twelve miles from Ireland, where a few native species have lived, "the venomous adder, the grass snake, and the smooth snake", as National Geographic notes,[71]and although sea snake species separately exist.[69][72] "At no time has there ever been any suggestion of snakes in Ireland, so [there was] nothing for St. Patrick to banish", says naturalist Nigel Monaghan, keeper of natural history at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, who has searched extensively through Irish fossil collections and records.[69]
The only biological candidate species for appearing like a native snake in Ireland is the slow worm, actually a legless lizard, a non-native species more recently found in The Burren region of County Clare as recorded since the early 1970s, as noted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service of Ireland, which suspects it was deliberately introduced in the 1960s. So far, the slow worm's territory in the wild has not spread beyond the Burren's limestone region which is rich in wildlife.[71]
One suggestion, by fiction author Betty Rhodes, is that "snakes" referred to the serpent symbolism of the Druids[73] during that time and place, as evinced on coins minted in Gaul. Chris Weigant connects "big tattoos of snakes" on Druids' arms as "Irish schoolchildren are taught" with the way in which, in the legend of St. Patrick banishing snakes, the "story goes to the core of Patrick's sainthood and his core mission in Ireland."[74]
Because of his association with snakes, St. Patrick is associated with the deity Damballa in Voodoo.[75]
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it shows yall the kind of "militants" in this forum
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Im not to sure about this one. Talking about you cannot have a language without a script, which is false. In fact language predates scripts and the only reason for the development of scripts and writing was to model and codify the language. Because in reality all symbols and letters do is let us model our thoughts for reproduction and conveyance (its mathematics). That is why picture writing is the oldest form of written word.
But the word N!gger has no connection with Nagas\Negus IMO. The word N!gger comes from Niger and we never called ourselves by such a name. The name was brought into Latin by the "Berber" slave traders most likely ( I suspect). It was not until Juba II, a latinized king of Mauretania in northern africa had maps drawn and used the term Egerew-n-igerewen (Tuareg), gher-n-gheren (Berber) to describe the "river of rivers" we now call the Niger. The Latin peoples adopted it by adopting the main sounds N-G-R and proceeded to produce the words Niger and Negro, which replaced Mavros\Maurus amongst the Latin peoples for black. Prior to that berber contraction the Latins used maurus and aithiopian to describe blackness.
How did he reach such conclusions is my question?
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