by OP ED » Tue May 20, 2008 12:14 am
I'll say, since you clarified what you were trying to get at, and I understand better now:
I've heard speculations regarding post-African origins for [at least part of] the Irish people/culture. St. Patrick, likely is an amalgamation of pre-Christian figures [deities] converging into a saint for propoganda purposes. He seems to share certain qualities with other healing gods associated with snakes. Thoth is the most obvious.
I have no idea where Pike gets the nonsense about Buddhism in Ireland though. You'd have thought a freemason would know Egyptian gods from their Indian relatives. I've always found the correlations between the Sumer epics/religious narratives and Celtic traditions to be fascinating. It could be that N. Africa [egypt] and Ireland share a common past via Sumer, and that the snakes and crosses were imported from there. The Celts seem to be the only non-eastern religion that operates on the same time-scale as Sumer.
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