County Down, Friday, 17th June, 2022…
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No one views the biblical story
of David and Goliath
with anything other than complete veracity.
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Yet the biblical time frame
is nothing if not sketchy.
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How long from the beginnings
of time did all this purportedly occur?
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Is a question few people think to ask.
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One thing is for sure,
all the sacred sites we have been considering are way,
way older than our accepted time-frame
is willing, or able, to admit.
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Which pretty much means
that everything else about them is also up for grabs…
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When these sites are not attributed
to the work of the Devil by folklore
they are, inevitably, put down to giants
and legendary figures of the past like
Fionn, or Robin, or Arthur, and some
of the original Celtic Saints,
also, become cast in this light.
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And even in some of the Irish Folktales
it is clear that Fionn and his band of Fenians
dwell in a land of giants.*
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The scientifically minded amongst us,
of which there are now so very few,
laugh out loud, when they hear this, and roll their eyes…
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But before there were only lizards,
and newts, and snakes,
there were also dinosaurs.
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*See, Fionn Mac Cumhail and the King’s son – In Myths and Folktales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin.
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