{"id":239056,"date":"2023-10-21T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=239056"},"modified":"2023-10-21T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:47:28","slug":"archaeologists-stunned-by-halleys-comet-event-which-plunged-earth-into-darknes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/archaeologists-stunned-by-halleys-comet-event-which-plunged-earth-into-darknes\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists stunned by Halley’s Comet event which plunged Earth into ‘darknes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this the reason Ireland converted to christianity?<\/h3>\n

The Orionid meteors pass the night sky in a flash of light every year, peaking this year on October 21.<\/p>\n

They pass through debris from Halley’s Comet, perhaps the most famous of them all.<\/p>\n

Halley’s has passed the Earth for at least 2,000 years and is known to have been in existence for some 16,000 years.<\/p>\n

It was first recorded in the Shih Chi and Wen Hsien Thung Khao chronicles, though others say this date can be pushed back further, to the Ancient Greeks in the year 466 BC.<\/p>\n

The comet has been present for many major world events, and some researchers and archaeologists believe it may well have influenced some of these historical flashpoints, including a shift in religion on the British Isles.<\/p>\n

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Ireland’s conversion from Druidism is thought to have taken place in the 5th century AD.<\/p>\n

The story goes that a man by the name of Patrick travelled to the island from Roman Britain in order to convert the Pagan population.<\/p>\n

Researchers have, however, long doubted the legitimacy of this, questioning whether it is only a fiction to outline Ireland’s Christian history, something that was explored during the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary, ‘Sacred Sites: Ireland’.<\/p>\n

Dr Patrick McCafferty, a Celtic Scholar, said: “The reality wasn’t like that, Saint Patrick did not travel all over Ireland, he was confined mainly to the northern part of Ireland.<\/p>\n

“Also, we know that other people were teaching at the same time, and we also know that even by a century after his death, paganism still survived in Ireland.”<\/p>\n

Since then, scientists have analysed the Earth’s ice stores in order to determine what was going on in Ireland at the time of its conversion, with some researchers coming across an “extraordinary” link between Halley’s Comet and the event.<\/p>\n

Sometime around 540 AD, a huge dust cloud appeared in the Earth’s atmosphere, something that researchers have managed to identify in the vast stores of ancient ice.<\/p>\n

Aligning the dates of the dust cloud with the conversion to Christianity, alongside analysing air bubbles trapped in one of the ice columns, they found that the two events did appear to be linked.<\/p>\n

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