By Clint Fitzgerald ? Reader”s views
St. Patrick”s Day commemoration for those who hold naturally Irish Pagan beliefs remember St. Patrick as anything but a saint. As we bask in the bull of Patty banishing the snakes of Ireland, more notable attributes of the man were his non-Irish origin and interest in promoting Christianity with disregard for the indigenous Irish culture. But to achieve Christian conversion, Patrick understood eliminating any threat to his beliefs was in order.
Crom Cruach, an ancient stone idol adorned in silver and gold, once located on Magh Sl?cht in Cavan County, Ireland, bears a name which translated means roughly, “bent head” or “bloody head”. Crom Cruach was the most ancient god of all the various tribes of Ireland before Saint Patrick seeded the presently dominant religion, Judeo-Christianity.
As described by early Roman writers, Crom was a large, unsculpted, rectangular stone. It was positioned amid a circle of what Roman writers said to have been twelve plain stones. The sizable stone figures have been interpreted by some as representing the Sun, surrounded by the signs of the zodiac, making Crom a solar deity of pagan origin. The worship of Crom Cruach is said to have been demanded by legendary King Tigernmas whom some describe as a Roman Chieftain. King Tigernmas himself is scripted as dying during worship of the Bloody Bent One, killed by rabid followers in an orgy of blood and first born human and animal sacrifices.
To date there is no definite evidence to prove or disprove this theory and it is suspected by many today to be Judeo dogma prescribed to illegitimize the deity.
It is suspected the people of Ireland had worshiped The bent stone deity until the cult image was destroyed by St. Patrick with a sledgehammer where it is famed to have “sunk into the Earth.”
Although broken into many pieces by St. Patrick, the Killycluggin stone, as it is known, resides in the Cavan County Museum in Ireland.
On this St. Patrick”s Day, in the spirit of true Irish tradition wear some green (not blue) in celebration of one of the oldest deities known to man and come to understand why it is the day of St. Patrick”s death that we Irish celebrate and not his migrant life of culture killing antics.
Clint Fitzgerald
Lakeport
