does /co/ know about the cartoon history of the universe or are those comics too obscure for even /co/?
>>152987634>SAAR LOOK THE ROMAN WORSHIP SHIVA WE ARE ARYANNah, dropped, incinerate, hope everyone involved in this dies.
>>152987670Obsessed
>>152987670they are literally Aryan. the nazis were the ones trying to claim that germans were aryan too, but it literally means Indians.
If you post more we might
>>152987634This is completely counterfactual. Roman religion had a very key relationship to the state, where the Gods protected the state against outside threats and if you stopped preforming the rituals then the state goes to shit. A lot of this is traced back to how Romans viewed the household, which had its own gods and spirits.>the hearth is the center of the household, the maiden of the household tends the hearth, if the hearth goes out then your house is cold, if a guest enters and finds the hearth out and your house cold then something is wrong with your household>the Vestal Virgins kept the proverbial hearth of the city of Rome lit, if it went out then metaphorically there was something wrong with Rome as it wasn't keeping good social orderAnd it's the same with not worshipping Jupiter. You're metaphorically challenging Roman law, and this is what Christians were perceived as doing when they refused to participate in Roman religious rituals, especially ones oriented around deified emperors. It was like not paying your taxes combined with not standing up for the Star Spangled Banner, and the Romans cracked down on what they perceived to be anti-Roman behavior.Every single other religion got a pass for the most part because Romans would connect their deities with local deities, an early recognition of the Indo-European religious connection.Zeus and Jupiter are not actually the same God, Romans just conflated the two because it fit their political purposes.
>>152991848Furthermore, the idea of "going to Hell" would not sound strange at all to the Romans. They would have interpreted this as "going to Hades", which Roman religion said you'd go to anyway with the only alternative being a relatively nice part of Hades called the Elysium Fields. It is still Hades, just nicer. Death sucked in Greco-Roman religious thought, it was a land of regret and stillness.
>>152991863Furtherfurthermore, the whole Christian message of finding some way to escape Hell/Hades wouldn't have sounded strange either. Orphic traditions - as in Orpheus - had a whole cult behind the 'mystery' of what Orpheus discovered during his visit to Hades. And then there was the cult of Dionysis, which in addition to being the god of festivities and drunkedness was also a Death-Rebirth demigod figure.The biggest shocking thing that Christianity did was allow women to participate equally in its religious rituals. Not for feminist reasons, but for community reasons, and this is what ultimately caught on.
>>152991848>>152991863>>152991879Thanks, /his/anon
I will tell you of the beginningHeaven and earth splitNothingness praised creation
>>152992042This is a gross misinterpretation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, to the point of clearly never having read it.The moral of Gilgamesh is that a proud and unruly king was a piece of shit. Yes he is a demigod, but this only makes things worse as nobody can challenge him.Except Enkidu. His is a wild man, but a civilized one. He is brought to challenge Gilgamesh, they fight over the fact Gilgamesh is a piece of shit, and Gilgamesh finally has someone who is his equal and they become friends. Ironically the wild man is the one who civilizes the civilized man.This comes to tragedy when Enkidu is killed during an adventure. Gilgamesh is so grief stricken he goes off on a journey to find some cure for death. He finds it, but while bathing a snake consumes the cure (thus explaining why snakes shed their skin). His quest failed, he returns home hopeless - until he sees his city Uruk. Finally he understands the purpose of existence and what is permeant - civilization in the form of a city state.The whole story is about the difference between humans and gods, hubris, humility, death, and what truly lasts. It carries so much meaning that there is a reason why it is considered a profound work of literature to this day.Meanwhile, atheist fedora tipping has produced absolutely nothing of comparable worth.
>>152992085Yes but it's not really about the epic
>>152992238We only know about Gilgamesh from the Epic. There is no other source.This whole thing is the fedora tipping version of Chick Tracks.
>>152992238Well yeah how could it be when their only knowledge is surface level at best?
Oh is this gonna be about the discredited dying and rising God motiff? Some quite literally Victorian understanding that is more antiquated than the bible itself.
>>152992274Don't forget the Christian Dark Ages, when they invented cranes, guns, and advanced plate armor. Think of how much further along we'd be without those things.
>>152991879>The biggest shocking thing that Christianity did was allow women to participate equally in its religious ritualsI dunno, that incident with the roof tiles was pretty shocking.
>>152992289www.historyforatheists.com
>>152987634Larry Gonick, right?Haven't read his stuff in decades.
>>152987634whhoa
>>152989686"Indians" are about as aryan as an Iraqi is a babylonian.
>>152992238>vol.5You know what would be great? If we did a storytime of the whole ass thing, like how /a/ does for mangas.
>>152994473I would love that, but the comic is long AF and fairly obscure
>>152994473The issue is getting good enough scans for everything
Who cares?
>>152989686Only delusional Indian nationalists think Aryans originated in India.
>>152991848Interesting. So the most shocking thing to the Romans would be the fact that Christianity was monotheistic and thus could not by definition by absorbed into Roman polytheism?
>>152997150The shocking thing would be probably be more like not engaging with the cult of the Emperor.
>>152987634>dude all religions were in heckin' harmony until le evul christins showed up!!There were wars fought over worshiping the wrong god from the same pantheon
>>152988965Rent free
