I wonder how many gods have been lost due to religious syncretism. The Greeks apparently had many pantheons, as there are many sects of christianity. They seemingly had their own myths and gods separate of each other that later artists and local conquerors would try to compound with each other. The same happened in the near East with Babylon and Assyria and the many groups of both northern and southern african. How many gods have been forgotten because one god absorbed the myths and legends of another cannibalizing it?
At least the goddess wasn't fazed out of later histories such as Hestia was with Dionysus. Seeing as to how Zoroastrians tend to have an almost inverse correlation with their Hindu brethren (Asura(bad) vs Ahura(good) and Indra(protector) vs Indra(the demon)) I wonder if Vinayaki has or had a counterpart
Odin never died, he just merged with the Jewish god. In fact, God is a name for Odin. Church holds service on Wednesday for a reason. Many of the Norse traditions are also in Christianity.
The Church could not stop this. The Norse, did not want to revere a god who (according to Jews) despised them for being non Jewish. No Pagans did, this is why they were forced to convert by pain of death.
Reminds me of the burrows of the beaker culture, which farmers ploughed into the ground all across the UK by 'accident' leaving basically none in Lincolnshire and probably Norfolk too.
Even though they have protected status, a plough would accidentally knock a bit off every time the field was ploughed and now only remnants of large Lincolnshire burrows can be made out as bumps on fully ploughed fields.
And nobody did anything.
It’s not earth’s orbit that should matter but earth’s rotational period. If no additional matter is added (from outer space), then there should be no noticeable change.
We'd also have to take into account Herodotus' penchant for exaggerating, his ability to make simple mistakes (calling a fox sized marmot a fox sized ant), as well as the Greek tendency to equate a totally separate god with one of their own despite the formers difference in cultural significance or practices with the latters
I think they got this wrong. They are mixing up two Jadwigas. One is from the 1380's and the other from 1200's. The smaller casket is from Jadwigas only daughter whom she was buried with. She married King Jagiello.
The protection of trees is peculiar anomaly in religious practices. Off the top of my head there aren't any equivalents to this practice in Greece, Persia, or the Near East (perhaps in old Greek rustic religions relating to Pan, and Canaanite Asherah worship). Seems strange considering many Indo European religions have a mother earth goddess figure within them
Hilariously both of their respective religions say to reject material things, an argument could be made for this structure's symbolic worth, but at the end of the day they have given this building this worth and only enhanced it's material/culture value both the Muslims and the Hindus say things such as "God/the universe is unknowable" or "Only fools claim to understand God/the universe", and they truly seem to believe that their gods would place any value in a temple that possibly switched hands
Wondering if the Egyptians much like many Near Eastern and Greek religions believed in a "personal god", a god who followed you from birth the assure your success. The same type of god who failed Oedipus leaving him at the mercy of Apollo and led to the suffering of "The Poor Sufferer" at the hands of Marduk
The big and significant exception to the use of the precessional cycle is the Mesoamerican peoples including the Maya. Despite some very sloppy research trying to sqeaze in this people with the rest of the world, the Maya did not include the precessional cycle in their calendar system and among the thousands of inscriptions they left behind a cycle of 26,000 years is never mentioned. Apparently they did not find this cycle useful for prophetic/predictive purposes and in my most recent books The Nine Waves of Creation and Quantum Science of Psychedelics I explain why. In short the reason is that the Mayan calendar system is a quantized system, which is not primarily meant for time-keeping but meant for charting the evolution of the quantum field and hence also of the human mind, which in turn determines the evolution of human civlizations. In contrast, the idea that the precession of the equinoxes is a physicalist theory based on Newtonian physics (in fact Newton himself was the first to formulate the differential equation that describes the precessional movement). Since by definition Newtonian physics is different from quantum physics and focused on the movement of physical bodies it is unable to explain the shifting ages that humanity goes through. This then is the reason that no one who has studied the so-called zodiacal ages that the precessional cycle goes through has been able to identify any clear and systematic distinctions between these so-called ages. It is one of these theories that lacks any empirical evidence to support it, but continues to live on because so few people care to study the alternative, most important of which is provided by the queantum science of the Maya.
It is also worth mentioning that many Greek societies worshipped different gods and pantheons were shifted around depending on where you lived, Athena (or a god identified with her) being the head god in certain areas, for example. So it's likely that Minos "demi god son of Zues" was actually Minos "demi god son of *insert name of unknown God/goddess here". Later writers such as Homer would attempt to canonize and retcon these early religions through syncretism
Given what people on heavy psychedelics have described, a multi armed/red/blue/elephant headed/multi headed being sounds pretty on the money. Interesting to see that ancient priest/artists may have consumed psychedelics just as modern day artists have in order "to find inspiration"
The Muslims have a similar phrase but in reverse, the Quran mentions that God loves "the people of the book", i.e. Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Magians (possibly Zoroastrians) However similarly to the word Pagan, the phrase "the people of the book" has been argued to have originally been, or can be interpreted as in some cases "the people with a book" (possibly meaning a wide variety of religions). The fact that one of the Caliphates burned many existing versions of the Quran, most differing from the current standard version you can pick up in almost any store, doesn't help with the investigation
I’m not sure that it is in fact in Timaeus that I was referring to. It is the recountng of the story told by the Egyptian priest Solon perhaps to Socrates in a dialogue about the history of the previous 10000 as speculated by Plato. I thought this fascinating. Anyway, for what is worth. Jeff
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A compass would be mostly useless for aligning with true north.
Nice bit of leftist propaganda then; It's a contemporary take on history, like the said contemporary 1930's right wing tabloid version......
I wonder how many gods have been lost due to religious syncretism. The Greeks apparently had many pantheons, as there are many sects of christianity. They seemingly had their own myths and gods separate of each other that later artists and local conquerors would try to compound with each other. The same happened in the near East with Babylon and Assyria and the many groups of both northern and southern african. How many gods have been forgotten because one god absorbed the myths and legends of another cannibalizing it?
At least the goddess wasn't fazed out of later histories such as Hestia was with Dionysus. Seeing as to how Zoroastrians tend to have an almost inverse correlation with their Hindu brethren (Asura(bad) vs Ahura(good) and Indra(protector) vs Indra(the demon)) I wonder if Vinayaki has or had a counterpart
Odin never died, he just merged with the Jewish god. In fact, God is a name for Odin. Church holds service on Wednesday for a reason. Many of the Norse traditions are also in Christianity.
The Church could not stop this. The Norse, did not want to revere a god who (according to Jews) despised them for being non Jewish. No Pagans did, this is why they were forced to convert by pain of death.
Reminds me of the burrows of the beaker culture, which farmers ploughed into the ground all across the UK by 'accident' leaving basically none in Lincolnshire and probably Norfolk too.
Even though they have protected status, a plough would accidentally knock a bit off every time the field was ploughed and now only remnants of large Lincolnshire burrows can be made out as bumps on fully ploughed fields.
And nobody did anything.
Great article, amazing pice of history.
It’s not earth’s orbit that should matter but earth’s rotational period. If no additional matter is added (from outer space), then there should be no noticeable change.
It is worth mentioning that along with animals the Hindus believed in protecting, until death, plant life
We'd also have to take into account Herodotus' penchant for exaggerating, his ability to make simple mistakes (calling a fox sized marmot a fox sized ant), as well as the Greek tendency to equate a totally separate god with one of their own despite the formers difference in cultural significance or practices with the latters
I think they got this wrong. They are mixing up two Jadwigas. One is from the 1380's and the other from 1200's. The smaller casket is from Jadwigas only daughter whom she was buried with. She married King Jagiello.
The protection of trees is peculiar anomaly in religious practices. Off the top of my head there aren't any equivalents to this practice in Greece, Persia, or the Near East (perhaps in old Greek rustic religions relating to Pan, and Canaanite Asherah worship). Seems strange considering many Indo European religions have a mother earth goddess figure within them
Hilariously both of their respective religions say to reject material things, an argument could be made for this structure's symbolic worth, but at the end of the day they have given this building this worth and only enhanced it's material/culture value both the Muslims and the Hindus say things such as "God/the universe is unknowable" or "Only fools claim to understand God/the universe", and they truly seem to believe that their gods would place any value in a temple that possibly switched hands
Wondering if the Egyptians much like many Near Eastern and Greek religions believed in a "personal god", a god who followed you from birth the assure your success. The same type of god who failed Oedipus leaving him at the mercy of Apollo and led to the suffering of "The Poor Sufferer" at the hands of Marduk
The big and significant exception to the use of the precessional cycle is the Mesoamerican peoples including the Maya. Despite some very sloppy research trying to sqeaze in this people with the rest of the world, the Maya did not include the precessional cycle in their calendar system and among the thousands of inscriptions they left behind a cycle of 26,000 years is never mentioned. Apparently they did not find this cycle useful for prophetic/predictive purposes and in my most recent books The Nine Waves of Creation and Quantum Science of Psychedelics I explain why. In short the reason is that the Mayan calendar system is a quantized system, which is not primarily meant for time-keeping but meant for charting the evolution of the quantum field and hence also of the human mind, which in turn determines the evolution of human civlizations. In contrast, the idea that the precession of the equinoxes is a physicalist theory based on Newtonian physics (in fact Newton himself was the first to formulate the differential equation that describes the precessional movement). Since by definition Newtonian physics is different from quantum physics and focused on the movement of physical bodies it is unable to explain the shifting ages that humanity goes through. This then is the reason that no one who has studied the so-called zodiacal ages that the precessional cycle goes through has been able to identify any clear and systematic distinctions between these so-called ages. It is one of these theories that lacks any empirical evidence to support it, but continues to live on because so few people care to study the alternative, most important of which is provided by the queantum science of the Maya.
It is also worth mentioning that many Greek societies worshipped different gods and pantheons were shifted around depending on where you lived, Athena (or a god identified with her) being the head god in certain areas, for example. So it's likely that Minos "demi god son of Zues" was actually Minos "demi god son of *insert name of unknown God/goddess here". Later writers such as Homer would attempt to canonize and retcon these early religions through syncretism
Given what people on heavy psychedelics have described, a multi armed/red/blue/elephant headed/multi headed being sounds pretty on the money. Interesting to see that ancient priest/artists may have consumed psychedelics just as modern day artists have in order "to find inspiration"
The Muslims have a similar phrase but in reverse, the Quran mentions that God loves "the people of the book", i.e. Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Magians (possibly Zoroastrians) However similarly to the word Pagan, the phrase "the people of the book" has been argued to have originally been, or can be interpreted as in some cases "the people with a book" (possibly meaning a wide variety of religions). The fact that one of the Caliphates burned many existing versions of the Quran, most differing from the current standard version you can pick up in almost any store, doesn't help with the investigation
Hera sending a gadfly after the cow as she did with Io makes me wonder if Romans associated the insect with the goddess
I’m not sure that it is in fact in Timaeus that I was referring to. It is the recountng of the story told by the Egyptian priest Solon perhaps to Socrates in a dialogue about the history of the previous 10000 as speculated by Plato. I thought this fascinating. Anyway, for what is worth. Jeff
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