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Book Review - The Book of Kells

In order to become a king in ireland, you have to get down on all fours and fock a horse. In the twelfth century, why is that so bad? And did the irish even do this with horses? Probably not. If you want to see the roots of white at such a taboo, if you go back to seven 32, which is like 400 years before this book was written. But you'll see that pope, gregory the third, sent a letter to boniface asking him to abolish the pagan custom of slaughtering and eating horses. Horse sacrifice was a thing with certain tribes of europe. The vikings sacrifice horses and basically d

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