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And yet some people like to label Ireland a “catholic country”.
The first people in Ireland believed other things and these beliefs pre-date Christian and Catholic beliefs by many thousands of years.
@Barry Somers: If you think that disproves it, good luck to you!
@Barry Somers: well of course people that were alive before Christianity wouldn’t be Catholic hahahahahaha what even is this comment
@Barry Somers: Well obviously but this isn’t new information that has suddenly come to light. The Christians replaced /rebranded the existing solstice festivals with Christmas and Easter. We have holly and ivy at Christmas because the pagans believed it had magical properties because it managed to stay green during the Winter.
@Barry Somers: Seriously what is it about history you think people are ignorant about?
Every cou try in Europe was not Christian. Religion be it pagan or whatever let people believe in what they want and dont badh any faith
@Sportmad: I’m not ignorant of history, I’m well aware of it. The issue is people labelling Ireland as one faith when clearly it didn’t start as that one faith and isn’t that one faith now.
It’s never been a 100% when it comes to population
@Barry Somers: yep true…it’s only 85% Christian. Although that was back in 2016.
@Sean: and halloween/all souls day (nov1) though samhan making a comeback
@Barry Somers: exactly who is giving us this label.. and so what ? What does it mean to you..
If people think one thing of us do be it we are who we are and those come from the census figures..
I presume you are not a Christian from your comment but people have stated they are so what move on from it ..
@Barry Somers: We were better off before the Romans got here.
@Sean: And ‘Christmas’ on December 25th is also a dud because there’s no reference in the bible that tells when Christ was born. Like many other ‘discoveries’, Constantine and his gang took the 25th from the pagans as it was around this time that the sun and winter solsctice were celebrated. The new gang thought it would be a great idea to take that day – lack of creativity on their part that perhaps shows there was no proof of a miracle worker Jesus Christ, especially since Jesus was a common name at the time, and there was another Jesus claiming to be a rather special miracle man.
@Fachtna Roe: apart from the sanitation the medicin, education, wine, public order, irrigation………..
@Barry Somers: I wonder if anybody has ever said that Ireland was always Catholic, though. It’s not like St. Patrick is an obscure figure.
@Peter B: the Romans never got here.
@john smith iv: suppose that explains the lack of aqueducts.
@Peter B: And the halibut….
@Barry Somers: what’s the point of your comment? Who cares what people want to label Ireland as? The article is about another piece of our history that may have had symbolic meaning for our ancestors. This is about archeology and I can’t see the value in dragging in your religious or not beliefs.
@Fachtna Roe: The Romans never got here.
@Fachtna Roe: “Yaaaaaa, What have the Romans ever done for us ?”
@Barry Somers: ‘Christian’ beliefs predate ‘Catholic’ beliefs by 1500 years.
@Barry Somers: It kind of stands to reason that those who lived before the advent of Christianity were not catholics. Their beliefs didn’t survive though.. but Catholicism has.
@Peter B: Ireland was never conquered by the Roman empire and the Roman church didn’t really build roads or aqueducts
@John Mulligan: Open your eyes. They’re still here.
@Mary Fitzsimons: It was Rome that sent the Normans/English here. It is a mistake to think the Roman Empire fell and disappeared; it changed in nature and name, but it never went away.
@john smith iv:
@john smith iv:
What an amazing find. Its huge!
Paganism makes more sense to me. Seems its making a comeback too.
Wonderful.
@Dearbhla O Reilly: not sure about the human sacrifice part, though.
@john smith iv: I dunno, there’s a few that it could work for!
@john smith iv: No mention of human sacrifice in the article at all.
@john smith iv: irish pagans did not do human sacrifice, we were more advanced
Fantastic. Is it a class 2 relic?
@Conor Heffernan: only if it moves without assistance.
Amazing stuff!
We have such a deep fascinating pagan history
@Garden Shed: and the Catholic Church of the last century took us back to our origins
@Anthony Doyle: The Roman church of this century is hardly much better. They’d be back to their tricks super quick if we didn’t have camera-phones and the Internet.
Was this found today because if so…PUT IT BACK!!!
@Spiderman: my thoughts exactly
@Damian Tubbritt: bad date to be messing around with pagan stuff alright.
@Spiderman: it helps to read the article.
Ah gortnacrannagh idol. It was never the same after Louis walsh and Sharon Osborne left.
An inscription on the relic roughly translates to “cases of what?”
@Alan Leahy: Buckfast??
Survived 1600 years in the bog. I wonder how long it will last now?
@John Vectravi: it will most likely be in a museum of some sort until the end of humanity. So pretty much as long as anything else.
@Mark C: I like your optimism, but I think in time it will end up in some future skip or the like or lost from the record and ends up as a garden feature in some wealthy persons garden. I doubt it will be as safe as it was for the next 1600 years.
@John Vectravi: I bet you’re against being vaccinated too
@John Vectravi:
It will be 3D scanned, saved to cloud, copied and exact replicas can be reproduced as often as you like.
@John kane: no at all John. Double shot here and glad to get it.
@iohanx: Exactly
Paganism got a raw deal. At least they worshiped tangible things like the sun and earth, etc. I wonder if it had been able to evolve would we care more about our surroundings.
If you are bored and want some random trivia,Google vampire grave found in Roscommon.Human remains found buried with rocks in their mouth.
Stop the dead coming back for a munch.
@John Sleator: in the Protestant Cathedral in limerick there is a tomb with apears to have Vampires on the top of it
Idols and Pagans! Maybe we should use terms similar to what we would use today. The religion may have been Druidism and a statue is a statue, regardless of creed.
Just given Simon Cowell an idea
When I saw the title of this at first I thought they were talking about me hole Martin.
Clonrichert in Fermanagh had a great relic but it ended up being driven into a boghole
That looks like my mothers washing board – 1930’s at best.
No doubt in 1,000 years time when future generations dig up a stature from the Christan era they too will consider it a lost item from a previous pagan era.
Only if it’s a moving statue ;-D
Possibly an original version of the modern blow up dolly…
It will be up graded to a class 2 relic by Bishop brennan
Put it on top of the Holy Stone of Clonrickard.
This is so so so so sad…
@Eamonn O’Hanrahan:???
Bog Idol
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