remain a likely possibility that the connection between Patrick and the banishment of snakes may owe something to his abolition of the druidic cult of Nathair the snake god instead of an actual purge on snakes. I believe that snakes have served as an allegory for paganism, which St. Patrick “banished” when he brought the Catholic religion to Ireland’s shores, even though there is no such relation mentioned in the early lives of the Saint.  Continue reading The Celtic religion prior to the advent of Christianity