Before setting out with his companion monks, he's said to have climbed the mountain to prepare himself in prayer.
Brendan the Voyager, the medieval saint said to be the first European to reach the New World, began his epic voyage from Brandon Point at the north western end of the peninsula. Mount Brandon is Corca Dhuibhne's holy mountain.
And each year at the turning point between July and August, people climbed the mountain from the east to celebrate his annual festival with bonfires, feasting, dancing, hand-fasting and sacrifice. Brendan or a dark and evil deity defeated by the sun god, Lugh.Īcross the millennia, his stone image was preserved in the village of Cloghane, at the foot of Mount Brandon here in Corca Dhuibhne. And a thousand years later, depending on whether you were a Christian convert or a stubborn adherent to the old gods, he was either a pagan wizard banished by holy St. Depending on which team you batted for in pre-Christian Ireland, he was either Lord of The Harvest or The Bringer of Famine. You're looking at the face of Crom Dubh, The Crooked Dark One.
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