This is written for a friend. I have referenced a lot. After writing it, I will put it up.
The ancestors of the Irish were the Celts, the Gaelic-speaking branch, and later the Anglo-Saxons (the Germanic branch, the Germans and Celts, the Slavs, and the Vikings were all Aryans) The descendants of people, the Aryans, basically constitute the most primitive race in Europe. The part in parentheses is a gift of friendship) and migrated here, bringing Christianity (Protestantism), Christianity, you know, spread it wherever you go. I want to clear the Celts' own beliefs and call them pagans. A lot of monasteries were built at that time, just some Christian monks preaching or something. This is probably the kind of monastery in the film. Those monks are all Christian monks, including the protagonist Brendan. The Book of Kells is a manuscript copy of the Gospels of the Bible written in Latin, probably around 800 AD. It was first created in the Colonian monastery on the Isle of Iona, and was soon brought to the monastery of Kells in central Ireland ( where the story takes place). Pirates began to attack the island of Ireland at the end of the 8th century, and in 836, when the monastery was destroyed, some monks fled to the European continent with manuscripts, and ancient Irish literature was preserved. This is probably the background of the story.
Now for Aisling, this is really interesting. The director of Aisling said that it was fictional. I don’t think it was a fiction for nothing. Aisling is a forest elf in the film, and I think her image is a druid incarnation (there is this image in Dota). Druids were wizards of the Celts and Irish ancestors, in charge of witchcraft and scholarship. In Roman and Greek mythology, Druid means the goddess of the forest. There was Druidism in the early days, and now it has basically disappeared. Their followers are often said to be able to transform into animals such as wolves and bears (Aisling's self-report at the beginning of the film). Druids are worshipers and defenders of nature, oak trees. And acorns are their holy grail (berries in slices). And the Celts have a characteristic, that is, they were matriarchal clan societies in the early days, and women were usually druids. Druids are also now synonymous with bards, and there is historical record that Christian monks and Irish bards were closely related (Brendan and Asiling). In this way, the image of Aisling is very easy to understand. Aisling represents pagan gods, and Brendan represents Christians. When Christianity wanted to assimilate the beliefs of the local Celts, most of them started with cooperation. The book in the film The creative process of Aisling represents the process of spreading Christianity, the completion of the book represents the process of Ireland being converted, and Aisling finally turned into a white wolf, which means that Aisling can no longer speak, the infidels have been eliminated, and her time has passed. But she (pagan culture) did not disappear, but retreated in the forest, so that Christianity was deeply branded in Ireland, and the Book of Kells has a very distinctive local feature.
The theme of the film is probably like this, and there are several small details. One is Pangur Ban, the first poem about cats in the history of Western European literature. According to legend, the author was an Irish monk in the ninth century, and his cat was called Pangur Ban. Means "whiter than white". Another detail is the huge snake that Brendan encountered after falling into the cave. It should be the giant snake that surrounded the whole world in the ancient Greek mythology of Ouroboros. It is a snake that bites its tail, commonly known as gluttony. Snake haha, the Elamite people call this fetish Tud'ieh, and the word "gluttonous" may come from this~
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