Has Daz forgotten about Irish Heritage?
Wicked Whomp
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Out of all the holidays, the one day dedicated to Irish Heritage here in the US, and Daz skips over it for yet another Egyptian bundle? Is there some digital potato famine going on that I'm not aware of? Is our money too GREEN for Daz?
Now don't get me wrong, I see an old St. Patrick's Bundle listed as a "bonus madness" item, but to be included as a sort of footnote for yet another egyptian bundle is a bit of a slap in the face, no? So then where's the love for the Irish here?
Daz has made the effort to celebrate all sorts of other holidays and what not leading up, so where's our celebration?
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Irish love matters! Aye!
And if I'm not mistaken, both of the bonus items that are Irish were PC+ freebies at one time. I think the textures were from like two weeks ago and the other one I have in my library but no clue when I got it.
On the plus side, the textures being a former PC freebie means you're likely to have it, which means you have the key item and get the extra 10%.
Leprechauns are male, so I think we know why they didn't get a promo.
But what about a banshee? Daz could have had a banshee bundle.
According to Britannica
Banshee, Irish Bean Sidhe, Scots Gaelic Ban Sith, (“woman of the fairies”) supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful “keening,” or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night was believed to foretell the death of a member of the family of the person who heard the spirit. In Ireland banshees were believed to warn only families of pure Irish descent. The Welsh counterpart, the gwrach y Rhibyn (“witch of Rhibyn”), visited only families of old Welsh stock.
I'd like to see a banshee... And more mythological creatures in general.
+1
You'd think that but, alas, I did not get the texture pack the other week as I'm trying not to get anything I know I'm not ever going to use to save hard drive space. Lol always works out that way.
You didn't have to download it go get the bonus.
Not many people know it, but the population of Utah is almost 30% ancient Egyptian, and they're still pretty annoyed that the Day of Maya, Chief Prophet of Amun at Karnak, hasn't been restored after being eliminated by Akhenaten, not even after his son changed his name to Tutankhamun. After the last St.Patrick's Day Parade resulted in a large number of khopesh injuries, Daz 3D was probably asked by the Governor to downplay the day this year.
I didn't forget!
Faith and begorrah!
30% ancient Egyptians? That must bring up the average age.
The average age is kept in balance by the hordes of baby eating mountain men which no one ever talks about (other than me right now).
Even a "Utah mountain men eat 100000 babies in one night" search on the internet will turn up suprisingly little. It wasn't even widely reported in the local media.
As a Black man with 40% of my heritage being Welsh and English, I am still waiting for my St. James and St. David day 3d content.... One can scrounge around for dragons, daffodills, etc... but really people!
I've been doing genealogy work on my family trees for years now. So far I've found two huge branches of my family tree that go back to the 1700s-1800s. Those two branches (Callahan and Cutler) confirm my Irish ancestry.
Last year I got excited about a planned free & catered St Patrick's Day dinner in my apartment building. Unfortunately the event was cancelled due to COVID-19. This year we didn't have a celebration either, for the same reasons.
I'm not Irish, but I cooked corn beef with cabbage and roasted taters today.
The local pub was serving green beer, first one on the house.
It's actually not a US holiday but an unofficial fest day taken by Irish in US that became well known like Cinco del Mayo and other unofficial holidays. It's also really not about being Irish at but about St Patrick via the Catholic Church. St Patrick was English. The religious then were a much higher percentage of the population and the religious were much more strict about observing the demands of the church as well. If you've ever lived in a part of Catholic Europe or in anywhere else for that matter, you'd see than the obvservance days for various past people and subdued and many.
I still wear green though to avoid snake bites.
It may surprise you to know that all (physical) St Patrick's Day celebrations were cancelled again this year, both in Eire (The Republic of Ireland) and in the 6 counties (Northern Ireland.)
BTW why is it that the US celebrate St Patrick's day but not St Andrew's, St George's and St David's days.
Americans have a special relationship with Saint Patrick's Day, and not other feast days (well, there is Saint Valentine's Day) because Americans invented Saint Patrick's Day. (dodge and weave) While I am being slightly sarcastic, the American embassy in Dublin produced a video a few years back asserting just what I wrote - telling the Irish that Americans invented Saint Patrick's Day. That was when the current president, who is of Irish descent, was vice president. I know of no such official government video telling the French that Americans invented Bastille Day or telling the Chinese that Americans invented the lunar new year.
what about Gertie?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_of_Nivelles
The assignment of Gertrude as patron of cats and the designation of the cat as one of her attributes seems to date from the 1980s. It is not mentioned at all in Madou's extensive historical survey from 1975. A more superficial association of Gertrude with the cat as a mouse hunter goes further back. Her veneration as protector against rats and mice dates from the early 15th century during the Black Plague and spread from Southwestern Germany to the Netherlands and Catalonia
St Patrick is largely mythologized.
He wasn't a saint. He wasn't Irish. And his name wasnt Patrick originally was most likely was Maewyn Succat. He didn't herd sheep as a slave in Ireland since there were no sheep in Ireland. For some reason they attributed the snake thing to him, but since there were no snakes in Ireland modern people spun that to mean he drove out the druids and pagans, but no that isn't what it meant either. it is just likely a monk thought that was an interesting story and cribbed the snake story from another European saint.
From the link, "The first major English-language publication presenting her as patron of cats is a 1981 catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
See, the Met is in New York, so Americans invented Gertrude as patron of cats.
https://www.daz3d.com/the-banshee
https://www.daz3d.com/vyk-banshee-for-genesis-8-female
https://www.daz3d.com/banshee-for-star
There was a daz leprechaun. Once. I can't find it via search though. But that could be simply the store not sure if it was removed.
https://www.daz3d.com/shamus-o-shaughnessy-for-k4
Well, Romano-British really, the English hadn't arrived in any number yet.
I love that old figure Star! by Lady LittleFox. I don't have the banshee stuff to go with Star!, but I am inspired to revisit the character. I will pause my 'Americans invented Irish heritage' educational contributions just long enough for a Star! render, either as a banshee or in a dystopian future (different thread that I frequent).