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* '''Since devlinsfirst loved livvy''': Since Dublin was first settled along the Liffey. | * '''Since devlinsfirst loved livvy''': Since Dublin was first settled along the Liffey. | ||
| − | * '''devlinsfirst loved livvy''' → devils (Watchers, angels, who had been sent down to instruct men), who seduced (first loved) [[Liffey|livvy]] (''daughters of men''); the offspring of these sexual relations were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim | + | * '''devlinsfirst loved livvy''' → devils (Watchers, angels, who had been sent down to instruct men), who seduced (first loved) [[Liffey|livvy]] (''daughters of men''); the offspring of these sexual relations were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim Nephilim], giants, the "fallen ones" → [[Finn]] |
** '''Genesis 6:1–4:''' "1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the '''sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair'''; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. '''There were giants in the earth in those days'''; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Genesis#Chapter_6] | ** '''Genesis 6:1–4:''' "1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the '''sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair'''; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. '''There were giants in the earth in those days'''; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Genesis#Chapter_6] | ||
** '''Jubilees IV. 22''' And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.[http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofjubileesor00char#page/38/mode/2up] | ** '''Jubilees IV. 22''' And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.[http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofjubileesor00char#page/38/mode/2up] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:02, 19 March 2010
- liffey → livy → livvy
- Liffey: River Liffey, the principal river on which Dublin stands
- Since devlinsfirst loved livvy: Since Dublin was first settled along the Liffey.
- devlinsfirst loved livvy → devils (Watchers, angels, who had been sent down to instruct men), who seduced (first loved) livvy (daughters of men); the offspring of these sexual relations were Nephilim, giants, the "fallen ones" → Finn
- Genesis 6:1–4: "1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."[1]
- Jubilees IV. 22 And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.[2]
- Liffey: a town near the Liffey Falls in Tasmania, Australia
- ALP → Anna Livia Plurabelle, who personifies the River Liffey in FW
- Livy: Titus Livius, Roman historian (59 BC - 17 CE) who told the history of Rome and the decline of its morals from the foundation of the city (753 BC) down to his own day
- living
