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Apr. 1st, 2007 | 02:42 am
well, I just now remembered this and what better time than when im bored to inform people of somthing that deeply moves and hurts me.
St. Patricks day.
many people, to no fault of their own, celebrate St. Patricks day. for good reason. its aparently here, the holiday where everyone, especially the irish, wear green, get completely plastered, and laugh about leprachauns and pots of gold. which, that in of itself is completely fine and I support and mirth making on that level.
what I did wish however is that people understood what St. Patricks day was really about. somthing that troubled me and still does to this very day.
Many of you know the legend of St. Patrick, who came to ireland and in the story "cast all the snakes from ireland" leaving it snakeless (for real, I dont know if thats true...someone told me it was, but I doubt that in a nice, green area with lush vegetation no snakes would exist...anyways, I digress)
it is actually a metephor my kind people.
Green in irish catholocism was the color of the catholics, and what they stood for. in "driving the snakes out of ireland" what they mean is, St. Patrick lead a horrific and gruesome campaign, to rid ireland of the protestant, celtic, pagan and pict people, leaving it primarily catholic and "pure".
several people were killed and even more were driven from their home, some of them losing valuable pieces of their cultural history forever.
so, in rememberance to my pagan bretheran, but most of all, to my fellow human, I wear orange or black on St. Patricks day. rememboring the deaths of the people who wouldnt bow to the christian tyranny and my ancestors and predecessors, who believed so dearly in their faith, they would rather face death than somthing they thought was a lie.
so yeah. i didnt want to depress anyone, I just had to let everyone know. Trixxi and I always wear orange, and we acutally wore orange to gettin lucky last year! boy that was a long-winded night of explanation, but informative! lol.
St. Patricks day.
many people, to no fault of their own, celebrate St. Patricks day. for good reason. its aparently here, the holiday where everyone, especially the irish, wear green, get completely plastered, and laugh about leprachauns and pots of gold. which, that in of itself is completely fine and I support and mirth making on that level.
what I did wish however is that people understood what St. Patricks day was really about. somthing that troubled me and still does to this very day.
Many of you know the legend of St. Patrick, who came to ireland and in the story "cast all the snakes from ireland" leaving it snakeless (for real, I dont know if thats true...someone told me it was, but I doubt that in a nice, green area with lush vegetation no snakes would exist...anyways, I digress)
it is actually a metephor my kind people.
Green in irish catholocism was the color of the catholics, and what they stood for. in "driving the snakes out of ireland" what they mean is, St. Patrick lead a horrific and gruesome campaign, to rid ireland of the protestant, celtic, pagan and pict people, leaving it primarily catholic and "pure".
several people were killed and even more were driven from their home, some of them losing valuable pieces of their cultural history forever.
so, in rememberance to my pagan bretheran, but most of all, to my fellow human, I wear orange or black on St. Patricks day. rememboring the deaths of the people who wouldnt bow to the christian tyranny and my ancestors and predecessors, who believed so dearly in their faith, they would rather face death than somthing they thought was a lie.
so yeah. i didnt want to depress anyone, I just had to let everyone know. Trixxi and I always wear orange, and we acutally wore orange to gettin lucky last year! boy that was a long-winded night of explanation, but informative! lol.
Comments {3}
From:Date: Apr. 1st, 2007 04:00 pm (UTC)
LINK//zorz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druids
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From:Date: Apr. 1st, 2007 07:22 pm (UTC)
LINK//zorz
I guess it's like Columbus Day, too; sure, I'll take the day off, but I'm not celebrating.
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From:Date: Apr. 2nd, 2007 07:40 pm (UTC)
LINK//zorz
WE WIN AGAIN!
too bad some of those non-believers got away. dammit. and we couldn't even get it done in the holocaust either >.<
(you know i'm joking right?)
^____^
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