Paulallen
September 11th, 2005, 03:23 PM
http://w3.tvi.edu/~cgulick/heritage.htm
COOL ARTICLE!!
a king named Conor around the time between AD and BC. Conor had been hit by a "brainball" during a battle. I imagine the brainball to be a kind of mace -- that cannonball, with or without spikes, attached by chain to a handle. Anyway, the brainball caved in Conor's skull, but Conor still lived. What they had for a physician in those days said that if the brainball were taken out of Conor's skull, he would bleed to death. So Conor continued as a mighty king for years although he had a brainball stuck in his head.
The story is told that one day, there was a terrible sound and the sky turned black. Conor's wise men explained that far away in another land, a good man had been put to death wrongfully on a cross. Sword in hand, Conor raced out yelling, "Who was it? Who killed that good man?" He was bent on getting revenge, but he ran into the branch of a tree, the brainball was knocked out, and Conor died.
I take it that the "good man" was Jesus Christ. It's just the kind of story the Catholics liked to use when introducing their faith to a new people. It takes something the people know and connects it with Christ. For that reason, I discredit the story about Conor's death, but I bet the rest happened. Was Conor an ancestor of ours? What a man! To have survived and ruled and continued fighting with a brainball in his head. This was no weakened, coma-strickened, survival by a thread. This was LIVING!
from the book by seumas macmanus. " the story of the Irish race"
COOL ARTICLE!!
a king named Conor around the time between AD and BC. Conor had been hit by a "brainball" during a battle. I imagine the brainball to be a kind of mace -- that cannonball, with or without spikes, attached by chain to a handle. Anyway, the brainball caved in Conor's skull, but Conor still lived. What they had for a physician in those days said that if the brainball were taken out of Conor's skull, he would bleed to death. So Conor continued as a mighty king for years although he had a brainball stuck in his head.
The story is told that one day, there was a terrible sound and the sky turned black. Conor's wise men explained that far away in another land, a good man had been put to death wrongfully on a cross. Sword in hand, Conor raced out yelling, "Who was it? Who killed that good man?" He was bent on getting revenge, but he ran into the branch of a tree, the brainball was knocked out, and Conor died.
I take it that the "good man" was Jesus Christ. It's just the kind of story the Catholics liked to use when introducing their faith to a new people. It takes something the people know and connects it with Christ. For that reason, I discredit the story about Conor's death, but I bet the rest happened. Was Conor an ancestor of ours? What a man! To have survived and ruled and continued fighting with a brainball in his head. This was no weakened, coma-strickened, survival by a thread. This was LIVING!
from the book by seumas macmanus. " the story of the Irish race"