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What would the pagans do?

  • 24-05-2013 8:15pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭


    To get the country back on track maybe we could learn a thing or two from our pagan ancestors.
    Ritual dictated the lives of kings in ancient Ireland as well as the manner of their deaths. “The king had great power but also great responsibility to ensure the prosperity of his people. Through his marriage on his inauguration to the goddess of the land, he was meant to guarantee her benevolence. He had to ensure the land was productive, so if the weather turned bad, or there was plague, cattle disease or losses in war, he was held personally responsible.”

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/digging-up-the-past-166426.html


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    They wouldn't be sitting in their fancy houses on the internet anyway, that's for sure.

    Internet wasn't invented then.
    Neither were houses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Real Life


    Its about time Enda Kenny paid for this weather. He doesnt care about us as long as he can go on his sun holidays hes going to just let it rain all summer for us.


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've seen plenty of suggestions for how to improve the country on AH but I'm pretty sure this is the worst one OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Do you know the one thing that springs to my mind when I think of pagans (or other ancient peoples)?

    They must have been wrecked with toothache the whole time, seriously, it would have driven me mad if I'd lived in those times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Dónal wrote: »
    I've seen plenty of suggestions for how to improve the country on AH but I'm pretty sure this is the worst one OP.

    Sure, we have nothing to loss by giving it a go.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,006 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Human sacrifice.

    I'll get a list started....


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Human sacrifice.

    I'll get a list started....

    I shall nominate the OP since this was his idea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Something about kissing a King's nipple


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Isn't this the weather most suited for cloud computing. Why aren't the government making a fuss about that; farming is so stone age.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    Isn't this the weather most suited for cloud computing. Why aren't the government making a fuss about that; farming is so stone age.


    Good luck there eating your computery clouds.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Read Oedipus Rex... It doesn't end well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    They wouldn't be sitting in their fancy houses on the internet anyway, that's for sure.

    Internet wasn't invented then.
    Neither were houses.


    They haven't gone away you know?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=256


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Do you know the one thing that springs to my mind when I think of pagans (or other ancient peoples)?

    They must have been wrecked with toothache the whole time, seriously, it would have driven me mad if I'd lived in those times.
    no sugar and they only lived to 45


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Burnt at the steak. Yum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,528 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    They'd marry a bunch of people and problem solved.


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