A a B

Simple formulas

As above so below

All things being equal

= for every A a B

Classification of Things

I know these are very old relationship drawn between sea and land.

Limpet gathering is an interesting social ritual in this respect, virtual unchanged over- time.

For a belief or idea to remain in mind it needs a location in which it can be found and be expressed.

Simple minded rule.

It simply has to work.

Helpful if the pattern is widely reinforced and constantly comes to mind.

This pattern has a significant distrubition across both time and space.

 

                        above

                                                                                            a

                       (o·o) I =         ↑↓          = I (o·o)

                                                                                            b

                       below

Discusses a snail theory but illuminated snail art is still open to interpretation.

Wall fish (Northern English) = snail

Sea Bacon (Irish)  = limpet/ barnacle

I don’t know what older reproductive theories are in regard to the snail, although spontaneous reproduction is strongly associated with shellfish.

Snail along with the barnacle goose was eaten at Lent in parts of France.

Consumption in the U.K. was strongly associated with illness, use is medical, both as ingredient in medicine or consumed by the sick for certain conditions.

Also turned to as a food source at times of famine.

Other aspects of its consumption in Britain I need to check.

 

 

The edge of the knife was applied always on one side, and never on top of the shell; a little sharp tap was given either with the hammer or stone, and the fish fell at once

Reference

M. S. Lovell, The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland: With Recipes for Cooking Them.

 

 

Entanglement

Limpets are a group of aquatic snails the exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong muscular foot.

I have some past history here, on wither the frog is a native of Ireland, which involved a brief excursion into the consumption of frogs and snails in Ireland ( or its absence).

To be associated with the politics of empire, nationalism, tradition, the nature of being reasonable and unreasonable.

I think.

Also still not fully recovered from discovering that a swastika on food packaging in Tapie, indicates the food is suitable for vegetarians.

Hence the random Nazi gag.

So a brief excursion, into early 20th century cultural perspectives and differences in regard to the consumption of frogs and snails.

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Barnacle goose.

Before it was found to be a species thought to be a kind of thing, which spontaneously generated in the sea, then transformed into a bird.

If look at the name in English, you could infer that it starts of life as a shellfish= a barnacle, before turning into a bird = goose.

Could also make the further claim that the origin of this observation and the naming convention (barnacle) is Irish.

Standard generalization.

The issue

Description is just not that consistent and the idea of the barnacle goose is subject to dispute, its life cycle is also described in a number of different ways.

The claim the name is Irish.

True, a match exists

It means limpet. But limpet here is a kind of thing. Naming convention may in modern biological indicate a ‘true’ or ‘false’ limpet.

Although in an older sense a true or false limpet = a real thing.

A kind of thing, rather than a biological species

Whats the difference between a limpet and a barnacle in Gaelic culture?

No idea if the claim that barnacle aspect of geese (it may also be considered a duck) is Irish in origin.

So secondary subject, taste and stimulus.

Barnacle goose is edible and can be associated with food taboos?

Limpet is also edible, can it be firmly associated with food taboos?

I think what I am interested is the degree to which taboo may contain both strong negative associations/ strong positive association.

Regulation of consumption, allowed at particular times/ proscribed at others.

Really I have no idea.

Subject is not easy to determine, sources have a tendency to develop a descriptive sense and interest in food consumption later in the historical record.

Older sources are terse and fragmentary.