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recent bookmarks from jmVox Hiberionacum explains the Loch Ness Monster's apocryphal origins2019-09-05T21:21:09+00:00
https://twitter.com/VoxHib/status/1169708380040155137
jmThe clue is the origin story, fuckos... And it's just that. A hagiographical motif in a story.
In the original Life of Columba, by Adomnán, which is a string of stories drowning in Christian metaphor, it's refered to as Aquatilis Bestiae, a 'water beast'.
But its not the point of the story. If you read [the] actual episode, point is that blue arsed pagan pictish feckers who witness Columba scaring the bejaysis out of the waterbeast (away from a devout follower, bravely swimming in river, full of faith, despite the danger) are impressed.
In other words. It's some class of a metaphor. Now hold that thought, and go look up Leviathan motif in Hebrew Bible, or Beast from the Sea in Revelation, and/or other water beast appearances in medieval hagiography...
Revelation 13:1-10 (ESV)
The First Beast - And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. [....]
In other words: Modern day Nessie Bolloxology, Tourist Trap Tat and Snake Oil 'Scientists' looking for funding, are all entirely based on actual seventh century insular Irish imagination and religious metaphor. The end.
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