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Mac-Talla: Cànan Shiorruidheachd

Mac-Talla: Cànan Shiorruidheachd

Posted by Andrew on Monday 22 August 2016
It wasn’t only news that was published in Mac-Talla; often they would have articles on all sorts of topics, especially historical. Some of those articles were well-written and make an effort to be thoroughly detailed and accurate with their information, but from time to time the paper would carry articles which were entirely false. These sorts of articles were published as if every word therein was correct, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. For instance, this article from 1898, which is convinced that Gaelic is ‘the language of eternity’ and that every word and language in the Bible and the Middle East in general originates from Gaelic:
 
If Gaelic is not the language of eternity, then it is very similar to the language of eternity. Two things especially make them similar — “Mana,” and “Mene, mene, tecel, upharsin.”
 
Mana was the heavenly grain, or food of the Angels, as the King of Israel tells us. What Gael does not know the meaning of the word Mana, image of the true bread which was to come; the word Mana is used so often in Gaelic that there is no point in writing to prove that it was from the eternal language that the Israelites had to borrow the word. Again me-ne — unfair; tecel — he conceals the weight that should be there — he saw what happened to his father and this did not serve as a warning for him, but he concealed the weight; u-far-sin or you are ordered off the royal throne on which you sit. It is my opinion that it is clear enough that the writing on the wall was Gaelic. It was not Hebrew or Greek or Caldean or Arabic or any of the tongues of Shem or Ham’s descendants; if it was then plenty of learned men there could have read it, but one who in whom the eternal spirit of God dwelt had to be fetched to interpret it.
 
The article goes on to say that words like ‘Jerusalem’ come from ‘Iar o Shalem’ (West of Salem) and that even the name of the river Nile comes from Gaelic, on top of words like ‘Teutonic’ and ‘Slavonic’ and the entire Sanskrit language. Even though people today will still joke about Gaelic being the ‘Language of Eden’, I don’t think many would even try to argue all of that as true!
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