HIST 290 Lecture Notes - Manannán Mac Lir, Badb, Carrion Crow
28 Nov 2012
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431 ce is when palladius came to ireland, it was the first recorded date in. There was human sacrifice in early ireland it was part of early irish religion: we have found 3 examples of this. Cashel man: found in bogs and sacrificed in similar ways, standing stone called crom cruaich" where it is consistently recorded that irish families came and sacrificed their first born child. They really tracked the movement of the sun st. patrick calls them sun worshippers". We don"t know much about practical day-to-day life, and the irish people wouldn"t have known much either. The druids (the priestly class) guarded the common people from knowing about the religion: the common people just did what they were told. Still traces of pagan religion in irish life, as well as in our own, today. Samnain november 1st: all souls day, the day before: all hallows eve (aka halloween)
