Sorry about that, guys. I literally
could not resist. My body was taken captive by ancient and primal
spirits of crude humor, and I was forced to watch in horror as my
very own fingers wrought this disrespectful pun. It absolutely
has nothing to do with the fact that I am basically a 5 year old.
Anyway, at the request of one of my
friends, I am going to talk about Irish and Gaelic Mythology. This
was likely something that s/he (gender obscured for anonymity’s
sake, even though the idea of me talking to a girl is laughable at
best.) suggested jokingly, but it would seem that s/he underestimated
just how desperate I am to write about absolutely anything, and how
averse I am to coming up with my own ideas. So to him/her, I ask
this: Is this the victory you imagined? Are you satisfied with what
you've created? Because, if you are, then perhaps it is only because
you have not read on.
So. Irish and Gaelic mythology? Well,
honestly, I don't know a damned thing about either one. I couldn't
even point to Ireland or Gaeland on a map. Holy crap! You know what
literally just occurred to me? (As I am writing this, not as you are
reading it) “Ire” comes from the latin root “ira”, which
means anger or rage. Someone tell the stereotype committee! Their
groundbreaking work in portraying the Irish as angry drunks was right
all along! The Romans said so. Now might be as good a time as any to
mention that I don't know the difference between “Irish” and
“Scottish”. Now, I could say it's because I believe in the
greater whole of humanity, and I dislike giving people labels, but in
reality, I just don't give one thin shit about who you are or where
you came from. Unless you came from the moon or something. Then I'll
have my people call your people. Fun thought experiment: If a joke falls flat on a blog that no one reads, does the writer still make a sound when he cries himself to sleep at night?
Now, the first thing that comes to
everyone's mind when they think of “Irish and Gaelic mythology”
is the Loch Ness Monster. Now, I'm actually fairly sure that Loch
Ness is in Scotland, but as I've previously discussed, I don't care,
and I refuse to look it up, or I'll run out of my already sparse
repertoire of things to talk about. As we all know, Nessie is a
creature that unequivocally does not exist. If you believe that s/he
(Is Nessie the friend that prompted this post? Perhaps) does exist,
please stop. Your field of “cryptozoology” is the worst thing to
happen to the suffix “-ology” since astrology. Or maybe
Scientology? On second thought, that joke was in poor taste.
Scientology is definitely a legitimate religion, with which I have no
qualms. This is an official statement that is in no way being made
out of fear of legal prosecution.
Man, I really need to learn to stop
trailing off my paragraphs into overly long jokes. But I digress.
Like the vast majority of myths, Nessie is indeed mythological. It is
a fantasy creature that could never exist, like a sane blogger. As
you may know, the Loch Ness Monster is purported to live in Loch
Ness, or “Lake Ness”, if you don't have a speech impediment. Stop
laughing. Speech impediments are a serious problem, just like the
racism necessary to assert that an entire country is incapable of
pronouncing a word correctly. According to world-renowned monster
expert, J.K. Rowling, The Loch Ness Monster is actually a kelpie. A
kelpie, according to her, is a shapeshifting beast that spends most
of its time as a horse. But in the water, for some reason. This is
because a kelpie is a monster from Irish(?) mythology that looks like
a horse, but sometimes turns into a beautiful woman to lure sailors
(notoriously gullible when it comes to beautiful women in suspicious
places) so they could kill them. The fact that Wikipedia describes
the Kelpie, a figure from Irish Mythology, as looking like a horse,
then shows a painting of a naked woman, is proof that Wikipedia has a
sense of humor. It's the stealthiest bestiality joke ever made. Or
was it the Scottish that were notorious for such affairs?
Another figure I vaguely remember from
Irish Mythology is Finn McCool, who... killed people, or something? I
remember hearing about him from the website "Badass of the Week" ,
which is about exactly what it says on the tin. Before you click that link, know that the author describes is as containing "an unnecessarily copious amount of profanity". So don't say I didn't warn you. From what I can tell, Finn was more or less like an Irish Kratos, at least as far as
defeating the local pantheon's God of War goes. One of my friends
describes his story rather admirably here,
in a video that he honest-to-God turned in to an English teacher. He fails to mention how the salmon that Finn
burns his hand on was a salmon of wisdom or something, which is the
science responsible for his smart-knowing. Finn also apparently
really hated cartographers, judging by all the geography he caused.
He is said to have created the Giant's Causeway and the Isle of Man,
making him roughly as strong as a tectonic plate. Also, “McCool”
is a pretty cool last name. Like anything else that's Irish, it can
be spelled in at least a baker's dozen different ways, but “McCool”
is easily the best.
And now, at the suggestion of the same
friend I mentioned at the beginning, (The one who takes full
responsibility for
any complaints
you have about this post) I'm going to talk about something called a
“bean
sidhes”. Despite sounding like a painfully inauthentic new menu
item from Taco Bell, this is apparently... a banshee. This is what
I'm talking about, Scottland. No one will take you seriously if you
keep intentionally spelling things with the intent to obfuscate what
it is that you're talking about. Now, as you all know, a Banshee is a
Covenant light aircraft that features two rapid-fire plasma cannons
as its primary weapon. Its purple paint job and unusual cockpit
clearly designate it as an alien aircraft, because humans would never
design a vehicle so ridiculous for the purpose of warfare.
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| Clearly a work of advanced alien technology |
I
suppose it also bears mentioning that “Banshee” is also the name
of a kind of ghost that screams a lot or something. Apparently they
shriek when someone is about to die, kind of like how you see a
doppelgänger
when you're about to die. In fact, I think the concept of
doppelgängers
might also be Irish/Scottish/Gaelic/Celtic. A quick Google search...
denies. Looking back, the umlaut probably should have tipped me off
that they were German. This is a great disappointment to me, as I was
all ready to link to an article about Doppelgangers. The more I can
link to other people's work, the less I have to do myself, which is
always the primary goal to which I strive. Anyway, Banshees scream
when someone is about to die. But send not to know for whom the
banshee keens, it keens for thee.
And,
for the big finale, I'm going to talk about Cat Sith. Because the
Irish are downright masters of deception, it pains me to report that
these are not feline masters of the Dark Side of The Force. They are
basically a race of fairy people, but they are also cats. Like all
fairies, they are humanoids with wings, and they can do magical
things, like cast spells and fly. What differentiates them from other
fairies is their cat ears, which are totally kawaii. Some myths
purport them to have a verbal tic that causes them to sporadically
insert “nya” into their conversation, as well as refer to
themselves as “neko”. And, because this section is purposely
engineered to make my friend regret suggesting this to me, I'll say
this: some rumors suggest that Cat Sith play a role in the plot of
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. I cannot say what they do, nor can
I respond to any accusations that this is obviously just a joke. Or
is it?!
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| A wistful guess of what could have been |
So,
to the reader that provoked this desecration of a once-proud
heritage, I ask once again: Was it worth it? Do you now regret what
you have inflicted on this world? Let me know in the comments! You
know who you are.
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