Maybe it's because they seem a bit ... you know ... pagan, writes The Southland Times in an editorial.
"Was this, we darkly ask ourselves, a section of the community rising up against the evocations of muddy celtic misbehaviour? Disporting druids, the Baltane fires, wicker men and all that? "
What? Out here???
Muddy celtic misbehaviour?
Nice turn of phrase Mr Editor!
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If only they were as creative in their criticism as the sculptors.
Only in Southland would art be equated with paganism.
Or our shield-holding, antler-adorned representative rugby team, the mighty Southland Stags regarded as pagan!
It's a crazy topsy-turvey world Bio!
actually Southlands heritage is quite Celtic. There was the festival in the year 2000, the Gog/Magog wall in Invervagas, the green man on the same wall, the alloy tiles embedded in the footpaths, the Celtic Cross.....the editor doesnt have to look far
Good heavens!
There's the music too, I suppose, the skirl of the pipes (go the Waimatuku Pipe band!), Brownies, Pippins, Guides and Rangers, the Scouting movement, with their animal totems: Akela, Kaa, etc. - the wolf and the snake.
It doesn't take much scratching does it! And a good hearty heritage it is too!
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