Cul Na Mona Bog Body

katarin

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/0812/1224302302047.html

Quite excited about this find; the discovery of a woman may pave the way for a reworking of the original interpretation of these bodies.

shellykbookey

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/3000-year-old-bog-body-is-likely-sacrificed-Irish-king-127898048.html
Apparently the lady in the bog is now an iron age king, deposited on an iron age boundary. The more Ned Kelly goes on about these bog bodies the more embarrassed I get for the profession. I know newspapers and what not like the sensationalist angle but are the surely the fact that the body survived should be enough. Hopefully they’ll put some more information out when the remains get looked at properly.

GhostInTheRuins

“Irish kings in the ancient period were replaced after a number of years. The old king would be sacrificed and a new king chosen. It ties in with their religious beliefs surrounding the solar deity (male) and the deity of the land (female). The king ties in with the solar cycle – the waxing and waning of the sun.

The idea was that the king was married to the sovereignty, or the land. The goddess would become old and withered and she would need a new young consort to return her to youth and vigor and beauty. So the old king would be killed and a new one take his place. They wouldn’t have been that old, either.”

Sure if that's the case, why on earth would anybody want to be a King?