Thank you for that lovely explanation.

Then there was St. Patrick who was thought to have through the power of pure prayer to have rid a countryside of an infestation of snakes that ate livestock and eggs used to sustain the people normally.

Then, the word 'Patrician' devolved over the years, as, it seems, more and more 'patricians' began to rule and war and try to 'own' entire peoples without regard for wisdom or patering/ fathering in benevolent ways.

Some speculate that this deterioration amongst the small-village patricians was due to marauders who killed off the wiser elders who'd normally hand down the ways of being in the styles that seemed most profitable and peaceable, and instead leaving the younger embittered and unlearned, to find their own ways during a long occupation. (as we know, this is not only a modern circumstance).

I know it sounds funny, but PTSD is not modern; it is ancient response to shock and horror… and can cause people to turn from peace to anguished violence for generations after. And in the conquerers, often a new kind of 'patricia' rises up, which is based on 'only I am pure' and you are not, you filthy less than a dog man.'

However, here I meant the original meaning of Patrick, as in one who has a share of wisdom earned, and gives it out as nourishment. A big name to live up to. Most all of us have those kinds of names…names to grow into.

Ancient meanings of names is just an interest of mine from having been driven into Latin studies as a Catholic child. Some things stay and stay. lol.

dr.e

Thank you.
dr.e