I think he's admitting what's already obvious to observers: that he's a chronic shit-talker who shouldn't be taken seriously, especially while he's drunk.
Maybe there's some meaning hidden in metaphor, but it's so difficult to separate from patent absurdity that it's easy to dismiss it all as bullshit.
Parnassus is a mountain sacred to Apollo and Dionysus, home to Maenads, Muses, the Thriads, and the Oracle of Delphi. I don't know which resident lasses would be described as 'swallowing swords' and 'shooting out fire at us heathen hordes'.
I think he's admitting what's already obvious to observers: that he's a chronic shit-talker who shouldn't be taken seriously, especially while he's drunk.
Maybe there's some meaning hidden in metaphor, but it's so difficult to separate from patent absurdity that it's easy to dismiss it all as bullshit.
Parnassus is a mountain sacred to Apollo and Dionysus, home to Maenads, Muses, the Thriads, and the Oracle of Delphi. I don't know which resident lasses would be described as 'swallowing swords' and 'shooting out fire at us heathen hordes'.