"Alternatively, the scallop resembles the Setting Sun, which was the
focus of the pre-Christian Celtic rituals of the area. To wit, the
pre-Christian roots of the Way of St. James was a Celtic death journey
westwards towards the setting sun, terminating at the End of the World
(Finisterra) on the "Coast of Death" (Costa de Morta) and the "Sea of
Darkness" (ie, the Abyss of Death, the Mare Tenebrosum, Latin for the
Atlantic Ocean, itself named after the Dying Civilization of
Atlantis). The reference to St. James rescuing a "knight covered in
scallops" is therefore a reference to St. James healing, or
resurrecting, a dying (setting sun) knight. Similarly, the notion of
the "Sea of Darkness" (Atlantic Ocean) disgorging St. James' body, so
that his relics are (allegedly) buried at Santiago de Compostella on
the coast, is itself a metaphor for "rising up out of Death", that is,
resurrection.[citation needed]"

http://www.answers.com/topic/scallop?cat=health

Taken ill? Or perhaps to be infected? In the language of a cleric of St. James?


On 7/9/07, Carl Steen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In 1709 Rev. Francis Le Jau of St James Goose Creek Parish in SC wrote that
> an Indian trader had "caused a poor Indian Woman a Slave of his to be
> scalloped  within two miles of my house, she lived 2 or 3 days in that miserable
> condition  and was found dead in the woods"
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> Is "scalloping" some kind of torture or did he mean "scalped" ?
>
> thanks,
> Carl
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