2007-03-16 05:39:44 · 13 answers · asked by scientist_clark 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Snakes!
Some read it as pagans.
Cheers!
Simon Templar
2007-03-16 05:43:09 · answer #1 · answered by In Memory of Simon Templar 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Saint Patrick is attributed with "driving the snakes out of Ireland" The snakes are a metaphor for the druids and pre-chistian pagans that resided in Ireland at the time. Patrick was not even Irish, he was a Brit who was enslaved by the Irish. He had no love of the Irish people, and he did in fact place a curse upon them...
In the year 433 CE Patrick usurps the power of the Druids.
"Beltane, 433 CE marked ther beginning of the end for the druids in Ireland. according to legends at the time, if the first fire was not lit by the Ard Ri (Ard Drui) -High King, on top of Tara Hill, Ireland would fall to her enemies. St Patrick, a consummate showman, started the balefire on Slane Hill 10 minutes before the Ard Ri lit the fire on Tara to indicate Patrick's (Jehova's) spiritual domination. By the time the surrounding villages discovered the mistake, the damage had been done and thier own fires had been lit from Patrick's signal..."
How many Irish families have been destroyed by alcoholism? What is the custom on Saint Patrick's day? Why would you celebrate your Irish heritage with the most detrimental of activities?
I do not celebrate my Irish Heritage on Saint Patrick's day either, I mourn for those who are blinded by "tradition" and for the millions who starved during "black 47" It was not a "potato famine" "The Irish were only allowed to eat potatoes, all of the other food -meat, fish, vegetable were shipped out of the country under armed guard to England while the Irish people starved"
I wear all black every March 17th, and I do not touch a drop of alcohol!
2007-03-16 09:51:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In his time many Pagans around Europe were known as snake worshippers, and as such he lead the Church's push to install the Catholic Church in Ireland. So, as such displaced the supposed snake worshippers (it should be noted that there were never any snakes in Ireland). It should be remembered that most people that would not or could not be displaced or converted to the Church were often put to the sword.
With this in mind, I do not celebrate the festival of St Patrick's Day, as it is a symbol of religious intolerance, discrimination and oppression.
2007-03-16 07:06:54 · answer #3 · answered by Puck 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Snakes
2007-03-16 05:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
St Patrick drove out the snakes of Ireland to protect his land from being destroyed
2007-03-16 09:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by Amber 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In many cases Sainthood was given in the same spirit as they gave Silver stars in Nam for wiping out a village that might have had connections with the Cong. Except in this case it was troops that did the killing and transporting and a proselytizing Friar that got the symbolic award.
2007-03-16 07:07:52 · answer #6 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snakes.
2007-03-16 05:44:25 · answer #7 · answered by Alowishus B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to legend, he drove out the snakes. But there have never been snakes there. It was really Pagans that he drove out. This is why many Pagan Gods and Goddesses were later named Saints there.
2007-03-16 06:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the beer.
in 426 a.d. st. patrick rose his staff and drove all of the beers out of ireland.
since then it has been a completely dry nation with no beer either being consumed or sold there.
2007-03-16 05:42:48 · answer #9 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Snakes it was a thinly veiled metaphor for sin and pagans.
2007-03-16 05:48:35 · answer #10 · answered by martin d 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋