I really enjoyed reading your analysis, and mostly agreed with it. One thing I wanted to add however is that my take on the "Rocky Road to Dublin" scene is a little different. The way it was staged, how it climaxes on the ecstatic dancing of the mostly-Black vampires in a ring around Remmick, in a kind of syncretic pagan ritual, seemed to be suggesting to me that it was a genuine communion, his song and dance joined to their expression of celebration.