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twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

The executioner is your eyes, and the blackness of your curls - like a guardian of beauty’s gates

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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Who that

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna
stupid sexy radu

Speleothing
May 6, 2008

Spare batteries are pretty key.
Vlad the Impaler's brother

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
i didn't know that about dracula's brother, that's cool as hell and yet again history is cooler than the things we come up for our stories.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtifactsHub/status/1381108608042065922

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
I'm more interested in no hair on head or face

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DUekrCnye8

Fish of hemp
Apr 1, 2011

A friendly little mouse!

Hocus pocus! The water is now wine!

Loucks
May 21, 2007

I’m perfectly chill. Perfectly chill. The most innocuous comment set you off, not me. People are shockingly stupid, except for me. If that upsets you please shut the fuck up.

Fish of hemp posted:

Hocus pocus! The water is now wine!

I seem to remember being told that “hocus pocus” originated as a mocking corruption of the “hoc est corpus” from the Catholic mass, so that tracks. No idea if it’s true. Or is that the joke?

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Loucks posted:

I seem to remember being told that “hocus pocus” originated as a mocking corruption of the “hoc est corpus” from the Catholic mass, so that tracks. No idea if it’s true. Or is that the joke?

yeah. its what jugglers in the 1600s named themselves as a joke on transubstantiation.

all magic spell words have cool etymologies

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

what about abra kadabra

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

babypolis posted:

what about abra kadabra

these magic words were coined in reference to a powerful Pokemon line

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
ACABadabra

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

babypolis posted:

what about abra kadabra

Its actually a corruption of Avada Kedavra, which is a spell real wizards use to curse their enemies with death

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




looking at the right edge of that triangle and loving ARBA DA CARBA

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019


. Jesus was regularly shown as a clean-shaven "Roman" man in early Christian art. Of course, sometimes he was bearded (well, the earliest bearded Jesus is in the Catacomb of Commodilla from the late 300s, so this may not count as true Early Christian), as well, but even that was no attempt to make him look "Jewish" (but rather a philosopher, or a Jupiter). Somewhat like early Christian theology, early Christian art was decentralized and developed as a serious of local art experiments within the late Roman style. Christians adopted their visual image of Jesus from Roman art, not from Judaism. The standardized bearded Jesus developed primarily from Jupiter and philosopher images after Constantine.

Roman philosophers were usually portrayed with a beard and long hair, particularly, Stoics and Cynics). The long hair and beard were associated with a philosophical indifference to worldly gain and luxury, and carried associations with Greekness (Greeks being the archetypal philosophers). At the same time, many Roman gods (see Jupiter) were already portrayed with long hair and beards, something that almost certainly influenced Jesus iconography (a way of making him consistent with the visualization of the divine in Rome). Also, long hair sometimes appears on images of a youthful Jesus as "the Good Shepherd" (this was the most popular image of Jesus in the earliest portrayals of him from the 200s and 300s). The long hair would suggest youthfulness and rusticity, adding to the main theological point of Good Shepherd iconography: Jesus forgives you, rather than condemning you for your sins.

The earliest Christians made art in tombs (the famous catacombs in Rome, for example) and particularly after Constantine the image of Christ expanded in importance, grandeur, and number. Christ became a new kind of Jupiter, ruling the universe from a throne

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1380241626354880517

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/archaeologyart/status/1381653394218229761

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good



Holy poo poo that's beautiful

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
fun fact in 300bce earth's gravity was about 1/3rd what it is now

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




vir angustus

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

paul_soccer12 posted:

fun fact in 300bce earth's gravity was about 1/3rd what it is now

so if i were to go back in time i'd basically be goku?

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Dreylad posted:

so if i were to go back in time i'd basically be goku?

youd be yamcha lmao

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

paul_soccer12 posted:

youd be yamcha lmao

considering most goons are turtle....

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
I'd be Yajirobe

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




you'd be a giant barbarian in their midst and some manlius would lay you low for your personal effects

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
judging by that statue I think we'd be tiny barbarians

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




cock your head 90 degs and tower above

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Stairmaster posted:

considering most goons are turtle....

that's not fair, a turtle at least has some defensive capability

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

our odor wards off potential predators

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
both them and me would quickly die from strange diseases

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

paul_soccer12 posted:

youd be yamcha lmao

gently caress

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1382381017189781507
https://mobile.twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1382384383768862722

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Quelle horreur! Premodern prehistory in the premodern history thread!

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

then prepare to be terrified by some prehistoric premodern prehistory

https://mobile.twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/1376279373947502594

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

I genuinely don't get how footprints fossilize with that kind of detail

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/ticiaverveer/status/1382749576558444545

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Speleothing
May 6, 2008

Spare batteries are pretty key.

Inspector Hound posted:

I genuinely don't get how footprints fossilize with that kind of detail

The wet sand had just the right level of minerals and pH in the water for it to harden permanently. Like pressing your hands into wet concrete but by accident.

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