Crom Dubh = Bran Dun = St Brendan ...This is one of the versions of the story how st Brendan defeated Crom Dubh: Quote: Saint Brendan and his brethren are erecting a church at Cloghane, at the foot of Mount Brandon. They ask the local pagan chieftain, Crom Dubh, for a contribution. He volunteers a bull, knowing full well that the bull is wild and dangerous. Brendans monks attach a halter to the bulls neck and lead the animal placidly away. The bull was slaughtered and his meet was eaten by the workers and his blood was used for mortar. Crom Dubh is furious and demands the bulls return. Brendan writes the words Ave Maria on a slip of paper and suggests to Crom Dubh that the paper weighs more than the bull. Nonsense, asserts the pagan chieftain. A scale is arranged and, sure enough, the paper outweighs the bull. Crom Dubh is so impressed that he submits to conversion, along with all of his tribe. A pattern (patron saint day) to Crom Dubhs honor is held in the village of Ballybran on the last day of every July ever since. It is called in Irish Domach Crom Dubh (Crom Dubh Sunday). Some villagers add that the celebration of Domach Crom Dubh used to take place in the graveyard around the head which represented Crom Dubh. Marie MacNeill attested to the antiquity of the head and surmised that the stone was probably taken to the top of Mount Brendon for the harvest festival of Lughnasad. (From Irish folclore commission Archives) from: Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland This story shows that the sacrificial animal of Crom Dubh was a bull. Bulls are always found as a replacement sacrifice used instead of human sacrifice and especially instead of kings sacrifice. The fact that the bulls blood was used for mortar points at human sacrifices performed to insure successful erection of buildings. This type of sacrifice is well documented in Europe and particularly in the Balkans. What is even more astonishing is the description of the saints day celebration dedicated not to st Brendan but to Crom Dubh. I would suggest that word pattern comes from pater (father) as well as patron (protector). Hromi Daba, Dabog, the wolf king, the wolf shepard is considered to be the father of Serbs. So here in the hart of the Corcu Duibne land people we have a village of Ballybran which is an equivalent of Ballydubh as vran and dubh mean the black, dark, in Serbian. These people celebrate slava, saint protector day but ultimately celebration of the main ancestor of the Corcu Duibne: Crom Dubh. The fact the the original mass used to be held on the graveyard just confirms that what we have here is an ancestor cult celebration called slava, which only exists among the Serbs, and as we see now among some Irish as well. Who was this Brendan the man who defeated Crom Dubh? Brendans father is Lugh, Crom Dubh. When we look at the name of his mother we realize that his mother Cara is Crom Dubhs wife Corra. Also, Brendans own name could just be a bastardization of Bran as was suggested by Marie MacNeill. In Dingle locals claim that the true name of the Brendans head peninsula is Brans nose. What is interesting is that b and v sounds are interchangeable as they are produce using the same position of the speech apparatus and can be very easily morphed into one another. In Irish we actually dont have v. Instead we write bh and mh. Now vran in Serbian means black, vrana means crow and gavran or vran is a raven. If raven was the ruler of the domain of air and therefore of communication, and it was associate with god Lugh who was also god of communication, and Serbian and Welsh word for raven is vran maybe this is why we have wren associated with Lugh. Is association of wren with Luth miss translation of the original myth? Marie MacNeill also says that worship of St Brendan has replaced the worship of a sun god Lugh which was originally worshiped on mountain tops. What is interesting is that all those mountain tops are also associated with Crom Dubh. In Ireland we have a triple deity called Crom Dubh but also Lugh. He was often portrayed as a triple headed god. Crom Dubh was a god of the underworld, the sun god and the god of fertility. In Serbia this triple god of the underworld, sun and fertility is is Dabog, hromi daba, triglav. boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85915046&postcount=149 boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85915234&postcount=150
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