St Patrick and snakes (Święty Patryk i węże/żmije, a Wenedowie)
[nadesłał Jarosław Ornicz – z okazji Święta Irlandczyków/Celtów – tłumaczenie Czesław Białczyński – a ja uzupełniłbym ten tytuł – „Święty Patryk i węże/żmije, czyli odejście Niebiańskich Bogów Wenedów”]
Thursday, 16 March 2017
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, He chased them into the sea after they attacked him during a 40-day fast he was undertaking on top of Mt Croagh Patrick.
The problem is all evidence suggests that post-glacial Ireland never had snakes. So maybe the snakes that Patrick expelled were not real terrestrial snakes but symbolic celestial snakes?
In my post „Fulacht fiadh – salt extraction facility?” I talked about the climate change patterns in Ireland over last 5,000 years and how they could have affected people’s ability to extract salt from sea water.