Glad you enjoyed! Yes, they certainly deserve more respect, though however strongly charged with meaning, they are only ever as powerful as we make them.
I think there is more of the culture intact in Greece, than ireland. I am following breadcrums as well. Yours are more loafs of bread. Modern things can be marketed as new and wonderful only because we do not make effort to grasp the old ways.
This is very true. I don’t know that much about the reality on the ground in Ireland, but I do have a colleague whose work is dedicated to highlighted similar stories from Celtic lore. I don’t know how deeply entangled it is with everyday life though; here in Greece it is very much part of everyday reality.
we have lore fairytales, DNA, and stones and monoliths. there is some writing left to translate of the brehon laws, but it is slow going. Greece has a good bit to work from. The irish were killed if found trying to learn to read for generations. Like 3 people are still living who are broadly fluent in it. We are working on it. Christianity did a thorough job along with the British crown starving millions. You people were similarly treated i think, in some ways. I recall the church selling for adoption thousands of Greek babies also.
Not sure about the church selling babies (never heard of anything like that), but many male babies were forcibly taken by the Turkish occupiers and raised as warriors then used against the Greeks, and some girls taken for their harems. The sole blessing is that apart from this - which was selective rather than universal, the communities were allowed their language and religion as long as tithes were paid and some children “sacrificed “ this way. Hence the survivals.
Those are beautiful. It may indeed be that symbols rule the world. we had better take care.
Glad you enjoyed! Yes, they certainly deserve more respect, though however strongly charged with meaning, they are only ever as powerful as we make them.
I think there is more of the culture intact in Greece, than ireland. I am following breadcrums as well. Yours are more loafs of bread. Modern things can be marketed as new and wonderful only because we do not make effort to grasp the old ways.
This is very true. I don’t know that much about the reality on the ground in Ireland, but I do have a colleague whose work is dedicated to highlighted similar stories from Celtic lore. I don’t know how deeply entangled it is with everyday life though; here in Greece it is very much part of everyday reality.
we have lore fairytales, DNA, and stones and monoliths. there is some writing left to translate of the brehon laws, but it is slow going. Greece has a good bit to work from. The irish were killed if found trying to learn to read for generations. Like 3 people are still living who are broadly fluent in it. We are working on it. Christianity did a thorough job along with the British crown starving millions. You people were similarly treated i think, in some ways. I recall the church selling for adoption thousands of Greek babies also.
Not sure about the church selling babies (never heard of anything like that), but many male babies were forcibly taken by the Turkish occupiers and raised as warriors then used against the Greeks, and some girls taken for their harems. The sole blessing is that apart from this - which was selective rather than universal, the communities were allowed their language and religion as long as tithes were paid and some children “sacrificed “ this way. Hence the survivals.