• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    3 days ago

    Explanation From Original OP:

    In his autobiographical Confessio, St. Patrick wrote that upon trying to secure passage on a ship to escape slavery, the pagan sailors offered their breasts to be sucked. He refused, stating it was “out of reverence for God”. In pre-Christian Ireland, offering a nipple to be sucked or kissed was an ancient Celtic custom, it served as a symbolic gesture of submission, asking for protection, or swearing loyalty to a superior or chieftain.

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      In pre-Christian Ireland, offering a nipple to be sucked or kissed was an ancient Celtic custom, it served as a symbolic gesture of submission, asking for protection, or swearing loyalty to a superior or chieftain.

      I remember hearing that people got their nipples cut of, so they could never be king?