GARDAI are hunting vandals who attacked a 5,500-year-old standing stone at the Hill of Tara in Co Meath with a hammer.
Damage has been caused in 11 places on all four faces of the Lia Fail Standing Stone — also know as the ‘Stone of Destiny’ — which is mentioned in ancient texts about the High Kings of Ireland.
via Hammer vandals damage 5,500-year-old ‘Stone of Destiny’ – National News – Independent.ie.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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