On Sep 12, 3:05 am, Kent <kent... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:



On Sep 11, 5:33 pm, An Coibhi Drui <photographerofkilke... at (no spam) gmail.com
wrote:

On Sep 11, 11:08 pm, "1X2Willows" <nos... at (no spam) least.invalid> wrote:

Akins of that Bilk wrote:

On Sep 11, 11:43 am, "1X2Willows" wrote:
[....]
Trying to suggest there has ever been a homogenous "Celtic religion"
is as idiotic as claiming all Native American tribes believe in
"Manitou".

dig? :-)

The didn't call themselves "Gauls," of course,

correct

so, help me along here... what tribe are we talking which is supposed
to have adhered to that outlandish book religion you're peddling?

the Irish?

We will, yeah, if Akins gives us a share in the Book, to write the
Script - and the Film Rights too
He should be negotiating in Hollywood, instead of wasting his time
here with Undertakers like Dan, Willows, Kent & Co - in fact my own
Undertaker I've appointed, Sammy Johnson , is at least human, and a
cool guy too considering he's my age now and was brought up since he
was a kid with stiffs in boxes for company :-)

I sincerely hope you get to spend some personal time with him quite
soon. He might even make you look presentable at last. Probably going
to be his biggest challenge yet.

Dan, Noinden and Kent are Stiffs before their time, though that's just
around the corner , heh heh heh

Long ways down that street for me before I reach that corner. You're
the one rounding the curve, Mick, not I.

You're a ghoul already, Kent !

On Sep 10, 8:35 pm, An Coibhi Drui <photographerofkilke... at (no spam) gmail.com
wrote:

Yes, Akins, but I see a fatal flaw, the Druids never knew anything
about all that Celtic mythology you include, the monks who came along
centuries later composed all that stuff .- Hide quoted text -

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Actually the monks wrote down the stories pretty much as they had been
told for centuries,

Akins of that Ilk wrote:
On Sep 10, 8:35 pm, An Coibhi Drui <photographerofkilke... at (no spam) gmail.com
wrote:

Yes, Akins, but I see a fatal flaw, the Druids never knew anything
about all that Celtic mythology you include, the monks who came along
centuries later composed all that stuff .

Actually the monks wrote down the stories pretty much as they had been
told for centuries, well before the coming of Christianity to the
Islands. Now what the monks did do was to put their own Christian spin
on things, to make the old myths fit in with Biblical history. That,
of course, is what is wrong with all the medieval Irish texts that
recount the Irish mythological cycle in the corrupted Christianized
form. The Lebor Feasa Runda has none of that, it is purely pagan,
being Ollamh Fodhla's account of what was revealed to him by a
messenger of the Aes Sidhe:

The Testament of Ollamh Fodhla

"Hear now the words of Eochaidh Ollamh Fodhla, the High King of
Ireland, who spake unto his son, Cairbre, saying, “Value, O my son
Cairbre, the wisdom of my words, seeing that I, Eochaidh, have
received this from the Áes Sídhe.”

HA HA HA what a Vaudeville act

Hot Dogs anyone? Peanuts and Hot Dogs!

More than likely the alphabet used by the Druids was something very
close to the "Iberian script" (see: http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/images/C23.jpg
) The example shown on that site, having been taken from an
inscription on a lead tablet from Ullastret dating to about 300
B.C.This is probably quite similar to the alphabet used by the Druids
which Caesar refers to as "Greek Letters".

On Sep 11, 7:33 pm, An Coibhi Drui <photographerofkilke... at (no spam) gmail.com
wrote:
On Sep 11, 11:08 pm, "1X2Willows" <nos... at (no spam) least.invalid> wrote:





Akins of that Bilk wrote:

On Sep 11, 11:43 am, "1X2Willows" wrote:
[....]
Trying to suggest there has ever been a homogenous "Celtic religion"
is as idiotic as claiming all Native American tribes believe in
"Manitou".

dig? :-)

The didn't call themselves "Gauls," of course,

correct

so, help me along here... what tribe are we talking which is supposed
to have adhered to that outlandish book religion you're peddling?

the Irish?

We will, yeah, if Akins gives us a share in the Book, to write the
Script - and the Film Rights too
He should be negotiating in Hollywood, instead of wasting his time
here with Undertakers like Dan, Willows, Kent & Co - in fact my own
Undertaker I've appointed, Sammy Johnson , is at least human, and a
cool guy too considering he's my age now and was brought up since he
was a kid with stiffs in boxes for company :-)

Dan, Noinden and Kent are Stiffs before their time, though that's just
around the corner , heh heh heh

Cheers,
Michael .- Hide quoted text -

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The ancient Irish legends would make for a tremendous motion picture
saga.

You have the Fomorians representing the primordeal forces of
darkness, the Tuatha De Danann as the gods of light, and mankind,

the
descendants of both these forces, expelled from the immortal realm by
the pride of Tuireann.

Man's struggle to reach his destiny, symbolized
by the repeated attempts to colonize Ireland; the sinking of Tir
nan'Og

to become Tir fo Thonn, to prevent it from falling into
Fomorian hands after the Fomorian prince Elatha seduced the De Danann
Eriu, impregnating her with Bres. The Exodus of the Tuatha De to
Ireland and their struggles against the Fir Bolg and the Fomorians to
gan dominance over it, and the eventual downfall of the De Dananns at
the hands of mankind

and their banishment to the Sidhe.

The trickery
of the Fomorians to get mankind to worship Crom Cruaich

and the
decimation of Tighernmass and his followers,

then the revelation of
Druidism to Ollamh Fodhla teaching how the Tuatha De Danann should be
honored through the rites and practices he set down in the Lebor Feasa
Runda......quite the Pagan epic.