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Cormac .. Lord of the Isles

Cormac, also Carmac ... sometimes translated as "of the isles" or charioteer .. is an ancient reference to the King of Alba or the Western Isles which kingdom incuded the hebrides, Isle of Man and most of Scotland and the upper parts of Anglia and Ulster. Its people were Celtic and Anglian. Christianized with the Roman Empire and after its fall retaining the Christian religion .. Carmac was the egendary king there from the 4th century.

After the return of paganism across Britain with the Danes and other Viking invasions... Carnac's kingdom like Arthurs became legendary to Celtic people as far awy a Wales and Gaul - Brittany. Cormac became the legend of the "Bishop-King" ..often transposed as the "Fisher-King" .. in the Western Isles ..like the 'Misty Isles of popular legend. In Cormac's day ... the Catholic Church, permitted married clergy like the Greek Rites and conveyed full holy orders including bishoprics to nobility.
Cormac's annointed, and his concubinage became those of the bishop -- a tonsure like older Judaic High Priest .. and his lineage was among them .. ie the MacCormack and the Buchanan. MacCormack thus meant 'son of Cormac' ...and Buchanan was celtic-gaelic word for the censor -- the keeper of the ritual or the line. McCormac is hence frequently a 'sept' of Buchanan. Later generations trued with the MacDonalds through the MacBeth and Duncans and Davids to Scottish kings.

another scottish family .. at times rivialing and obtaining the crown inthe wst of Scotland descends from the MacPhee also MacFie ..which means son of the 'dark peace'. Often referneced to a Danish Viking term .. the nae recounts a legendary 'mating' of a woman in a swimming suit made from a seal's tale .. which woman was likely an Aleut or Eskimo. hence the often told story of a mermaid. Her 'husband took her seal-suit so that she could not swim away. Artic aboriginal people would account this version - one of learned survival by a woman adrift from her people.

As time passed and paganism in Britain hosted the Viking Danes .. the legend of the Bishop King and the mating with the mermaid became corrupted ... with longing ... through Brittany to the more secure Mediterranean.

Occasionally re-told now or an attempetd deduction .. it becme the thesis ofr the work "Holy Blood ..Holy Grail" .. which theorizes a bloodline of Jesus Christ.
Whether commencing in the Mediterranean with the 'legend' of the Magdalene in Marsalla (Marseille) or with the belief of an ancestrally connected people of Alba [Ancient Scotland] to jesus and Pharoah (the MacNeil et al) ..these ancient daic Scots believd themselvs conencted to the bloodline of King David and hence Jesus ..and anticipated his reappearance ..ie Emmanuel .. in any generation. ..Some elements of the 'song' about the sons of Jesus are reputed in the lineage of Dugald McCormack .. Dugald is Scottish corrupted for of Gaul or Wales.

Because the concept of a human Jesus of this nature in descent amounts to a heresy .. it is not sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church.
Scottish kings ultimately descended like France and the Merovingians through the kingdoms stewards .. which became the Family Stewart. Interpretations of this nature of course conveyed the 'divine right' of kings. It would be a descent akin to the family of the Prophet ..save not necessearily directly patrineal ..though collectively genetic.
Due to the diverse nature of the genes involved, including the Asiatic-American aleut or Eskimo .. and the Pharonic-Middle Eastern Semitic with caucasian elements .. in theory .. the group would eentually default to the blood of their ancestor .. the 'whole blood' of the human race ... the "Holy Grail" ... or "Sang Real" ... as a tribute to the "son of the ancestor". Related to all mankind.

In later historical antecedents ..in ancient Cathay ..China unified from the "warring kingdoms' via the King-Emperor Chin whose bloodlines and 'mind' superseded language limitations and united them all... a European counterpart would have been Charlemagne and subsequent attempts at 'unifying' European Emperors.