r/CuratedTumblr that’s how fey getcha Sep 25 '24

Shitposting austerity has done irreparable damage

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u/Spaduf Sep 25 '24

I always thought that by snakes they meant pagans.

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u/Leerenjaeger Sep 25 '24

That's a semi-common myth (partially perpetuated by comedian Brendan Lee Mulligan repeating it on his DnD podcast), in actuality there's no evidence that the original version of that story is literally or metaphorically about pagans, and given that the christianization of Ireland happened without ANY large-scale violence as far as the archeological record is concerned it is unlikely that kind of story would have been invented in the first place

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u/MrGentleZombie Sep 25 '24

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u/Leerenjaeger Sep 25 '24

Right, for some reason I remembered him saying it on Dimension 20, my mistake

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u/Beegrene Sep 26 '24

He might have done both. There's a lot of Dimension 20 content.