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GunnerJ posted:The Romans didn't really appear to give that much of a poo poo about their own customary religion over the long run, so it's also possible they just adopted the gods of the Norse wholesale through syncretic identification. So I like this idea. This didn't really happen with Hellenistic or other deities, so I don't think you can draw that conclusion. The Romans just kind of coopted Hellenistic/Gallic/Germanic religious stories under their own branding (as a very gross oversimplification). So you ended up (IRL) where a recognizable Odin-story were assigned to Mercury, and Mercury was a relatively popular god, possibly the most popular, in Roman Germania. I would imagine that this process would be quite similar in this narrative. Perhaps the Germanic culture is more dominant so you retain names of Germanic gods, but give them Roman stories too.
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GunnerJ posted:"Romans adopting Hellenic gods in the first place" is what I was thinking of, but fair enough. Although it's also worth noting that "Rome as continent-spanning empire" and "Rome as rump remnant out on the wilderness" are two pretty different situations. Whatever Romans might think, they aren't anywhere near as powerful as in OTL, so they're probably not in the driver's seat of the cultural merger. Describing what went on with Roman religion as "Romans adopting Hellenic gods" is not really an accurate description of what happened, though. The Romans mashed any gods they came across in to their pantheon. It had already happened with various local Italian and Etruscan religious structures. Really, it was more of a cross-identification process. "That God you call X is our God we call Y"
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Mr.Morgenstern posted:It's very funny to me that the Romans are still calling themselves an empire despite controlling just a bunch of frozen forests in Germania hey some of those are swamps
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I thought we were gonna get a regular Romulus and Remus there. A; let's try to avoid being France for as long as possible.
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ZiegeDame posted:Me watching in horror as, in our quest to not become France, we accidentally become England instead. Absolutely
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We aren't France, we're the Goths
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B Canaan
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When you have the opportunity to have More HRE the Answer is Always yes.
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Let’s go with A for some new stuff.
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