
Mythology, Rewilding Forests and indigenous knowledge with Manchán Magan
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Early Christian Church in Ireland
The early church in Ireland is all about oak trees. They weren't even aware that their ancestors 2000 years ago had sought these groves in big forests to do their ceremonial rituals. And then they just, you know, they instinctively, they recreated them. So it's always like, you never thought of it that way. I always saw churches as more of a cave thing, but now that you explain it with the huge big pillars in the middle, it is quite foresty.
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