RE: Best books debunking Christianity
November 30, 2017 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2017 at 10:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 30, 2017 at 2:08 am)Wololo Wrote: She'd like the Táin bó Cuailnge then. Lots of dismemberment in that.She does..but not for that part-
"I’ll get under your feet in the ford in the shape of an eel and make sure you fall. I’ll put your eye out with a stone from my sling. I’ll come as a hornless red heifer, and lead the cattle to surge against you in the waters, whether ford or pool, and you’ll not know me." -said the Morrigan, to Chulainn. She beat his ass, too...and then snuck off promising that he would die for having rejected her. Which, ofc, he did. She watched as he died, and one can only surmise she got her man in the end, Morrigan gets what she wants.
All of my kids are derived from characters in the ulster cycle and associated mytholgy.
Allannah is a disambiguation of an honorific/term of endearment for the daughter of Lir, Fiannuala. She cared for her brothers for 900 years after they were all turned to swans through the jealousy of a second wife.
Morrigan..well, we know her from the above. A shapeshifting war goddess who watched over the water. The Phantom Queen. She's the Floridian in the family, lol.
Ronan, My big boy....little seal....literally - a reference to selkie....a mermaid kind of figure. Definitely conceived at seaside.
Cormac........my little man, mini-me. This one was kid naming brilliance in action. Drew my name and my wifes family name together. Roughly tied with his middle it means something like: The raven, son of- It really flows off the tongue and into the rest of his name, too. Like a song. He hates it though, gets real pissy about it (and people habitually mispronounce it like they're pointing at something in the spice rack). "That's not MY NAME! My name is Big Mack!"
Lahni, Mo, Ro, and Mac. :takes a bow:
(They have an older sister, Jocelyn - roughly meaning "from the Geats" not to be confused with the Danes. What can I say, I'm committed. If we'd had more I'd have started to dip into the Edda, but since we didn't..I name my pets shit like Huginn and Muninn
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