So, Pygmies A.K.A The Twa People Were The Original Inhabitants Of Ireland?

[96Blue]

I watched a video about these people on a travel channel on YouTube and looked them up.

Said video:


Allegedly, these people are said to be the original inhabitants of Ireland (Leprechauns) and St. Patrick's Day is about St. Patrick killing them.

Is any of this true?

Timestamp: 33:40


This Breh says they're from the north pole, but how could they be from the north pole if it's cold as hell up there?

 

[Able Archer 83]

After watching the video, I'm going to say: no, it's not true.

The inspiration for leprechauns lies not in actual short people, but part of the whole European theme of faeries/elves: the "underground people" of Germany, the sidhe of the Gaels etc. etc.

Saint Patrick was just a missionary, and had no actual military authority. Indeed, the Irish who he ministered to regularly beat the shyt out of him for daring to preach an unfamiliar faith.

It's interesting folklore, but anthropologically untenable.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Sounds like hotep fantasies. No offense....

 

[saturn7]

Timestamp: 33:40


This Breh says they're from the north pole, but how could they be from the north pole if it's cold as hell up there?

"the candy cane is the Nike sign"



Holy Hotep!!

 

[96Blue]

Sounds like hotep fantasies. No offense....

"the candy cane is the Nike sign"



Holy Hotep!!

I just asked a question, brehs, as y'all can see in my post.

 

[saturn7]

I just asked a question, brehs, as y'all can see in my post.

I don't have the answer. I was just tripping off that dude in the video. He might be on Hidden Colors 6 with that performance.

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

Sounds like hotep fantasies. No offense....

It is hotep fantasies. Much like every *Insert Peoples, Nationality etc* were really black.

 

[mbewane]

Twa is only one of the Pygmies groups, most specific to the Great Lakes region (Burundi, Rwanda, DRC, Uganda). The people at the timestamp in the video are speaking sango, language of the CAR, so they must be Pygmies of the Aka group.

edit : looked at the beginning of the vid and it's clear that he's in CAR, so they must be Aka, not Twa.