Conspiracy theory, pirates and everything
The skull and crossbones – the Jolly Rodger – it’s a familiar icon. Supposed to stand for pirates.
Weird research, just accumulated intellectual crap I’ve picked up, traces the skull and crossbones back to a dark ages cult in France. Supposedly, upon opening crypt, there was a skull, sitting on top a crossed thighbones, and the skull was serving as an oracle.
So that’s the source of the image, allegedly. Now, same secret society (maybe the Knights Templar) carried that image forward into battle, especially as a flag of the privateer, in the early 18th century, aboard vessels who were engaged in “less than legal” practices of raiding foreign crafts, particularly Spanish galleons, bound for Spain.
Keep following.
The image then shows up on a church, a mission, in South Texas, in what was New Spain at the time, the mission was started in 1722, moved to Goliad in 1749, and that church was erected in 1777. With a skull and bones, right over the north facing side entrance. Curious.
