Virtually every symbol and every use of symbolism has squewed and dishonest provonance.

Religion does it, nationalistic rewriting of history does it, and I guess the only countries who claim they are free from this phenomenon and young countries who have yet to build up a 'history'.....but having said that, it is only a matter of time before they also fall into the trap, so the USA is young, and hasn't a great (so far) back catalogue of myths and legends, but it will......you see it starting with the 'tea party' story, which will eventually become a myth.....you also see it with the George Washington story, the Lincoln story etc........not all stories are true and the process starts

The German National Socialist Party raided the medievel archive, the Serbian Nationalist did a similar thing.....and the Scottish back catalogue of heros and legends is mesmerising.....along with a persecution complex (OK, sometimes that come with actual persecution

So it is no suprise the St George is mythesised by England, in the same way I'm sure St Patrick wasn't a sales advisor to Guinness

Mr Reason wrote:
no suprise the St George is mythesised by England, in the same way I'm sure St Patrick wasn't a sales advisor to Guinness

You forget that the "flag of St George" (red cross on white background) was the flag of Acquittaine, and when Eleanor of Acquittaine asked her son Richard I (of England) to lead her armies in the Crusades he did so UNDER her flag.

Thats how the people of the Middle East began to associate the flag with England.

As all in the wonderful Plantagenet series.

In The Know (as always) wrote:
the flag of Acquittaine


You mean Aquitaine (Aquitania).

why celebrate some bloke who killed off all the dragons ?

In The Know (as always) wrote:
red cross on white background


Sardinia had the same flag, first.

St George was Turkish and St Andrew was an Israeli.