Precedent

The story of Oran’s sacrifice in the footers of the Iona abbey are built on this older story, for it is Oran’s lot to be sacrificed so that the abbey walls may stand (in effect, so that the ship of the Iona abbey can finally land at Iona & be received by the resident energies there. It is Oran who travels for 3 days and 3 nights into the Celtic otherworld, and it is his bones which harrow the graveyard where all the dead where sent, and it is through Oran that the angels of Iona are accessed.