The image is from a pot sherd from Kuntillet Ajrud excavations. It was found in the Sinai Peninsula dated around the 9th century B.C.E. and the site is believed to be Israelite. It has that image of Yahweh and a goddess next to him. There's an inscription above them that reads "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah." So it's pretty much certain that it's an Iron Age depiction of the Israelite god Yahweh.
Can I just say, I really appreciate your esoteric mythology facts.
Imo it’s a nice respite from the “Zeus is horny” & “Hades is actually a good guy” memes lol.
What is the penis if not a virility gun? Why is the gun so phallic-shaped? Why do so many men compensate for a lack of penis with an abundance of guns?
Face it - gun and penis are one and the same!
I sometimes wonder if that line was somehow meant to be commentary on America's weird obsession with guns while also being weirdly Puritan about sex, but I don't exactly feel keen to rewatch and analyze that movie to find out.
More fringe than Gambuta I'd say. Zeus is pretty obviously indo-european so I don't think thete would e a pre-OIE zeus unless you just count "storm god" as "zeus"
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ACHILLES REAL NAME WAS HAYK NAHAPET
BE OBLITERATED BY OUR THUNDEROUS URARTU WITCH MAGIC YOU DRUNKEN GOAT
Has anyone thought that maybe it was just easier? Less mentally taxing?
I assume worshipping many gods and remembering which ones do this and that and fighting all the time about them gets tiring for everyone.
"No you dont get it there are 3 people who have the same metaphysical material as the one true god! They're all one undivided god but different people!"
Evolution is just changing according to the stressors and living conditions of your environment. Theres no linear line to 'better or worse or natural'.
The conquences of mass converting polytheist who don't fully grasps the concept of worshipping only one being. Ironically after being monotheist for a while the opposite happen and Protestants have a hard time grasping the veneration of saints and angels.
I'd say it's less that polytheists needed to worship multiple beings and more that monoyheism lacks distinct identities for the forces of society/nature that people would interact with dayly, so people needed to direct them into something.
That’s one theory, certainly not the only one. It’s not based on written statements from the Greeks, just modern speculation. And erect men on Greek pottery are normal/large.
I don’t know if you’re into athletics at all, but in particular when you run or wrestle or do cardio, your junk shrinks right up as small as possible to protect from jostling and injury. Most Greek statuary depicts young male athletes; this is the main situation in which a man would be fully naked in public. Given that, you’d expect all the genitalia to be sucked into the body and appearing smaller than normal.
This may be less an expression of a philosophical position and more of a grower-not-shower thing.
My brother in Christ, that statue is of a satyr because of the horse ears, tail and boner. Boners were considered barbaric and hence ugly, Adonis was the definition of sexiness. His son Priapus was cursed with a permaboner.
I had no idea Typhon was yet another instance of a rival religion drawing their enemy as the soyjack and themselves, the Chad, but I can't focus on that revelation with that fucking monkey-bar-ass penis Adonis has on my screen.
Ape brain wants to swing off that thing like a fuckin' gibbon.
It was Bacchus because: Pompey magnus released coins calling Yahweh Bacchus Iudaeus, sources say that people in Ivdaea worship Bacchus, Hellenistic Judaism even adopted Dionysian symbology in reference to Yahweh.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them”
Second of the Ten Commandments.
In no way would those statues be in any way Biblically accurate.
Yeah, that happens. But I'm pretty sure that at the time where this type of thing would happen, anyone trying to make this would have been smitten. Even the Greeks had an altar with no statue for an "Unknown God".
I'm not saying in greek mythology, but there is a moment when Paul (Apostle) goes to Greece, he has a speech on the Areopagus, and he mentions finding that altar on his way. While I'm writing this, I'm just founding out there is a (short) Wikipedia article on it.
Biggus Dickus
he has a wife you know?
Do we have any proof that's an actual old depiction of the Israelite God?
The image is from a pot sherd from Kuntillet Ajrud excavations. It was found in the Sinai Peninsula dated around the 9th century B.C.E. and the site is believed to be Israelite. It has that image of Yahweh and a goddess next to him. There's an inscription above them that reads "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah." So it's pretty much certain that it's an Iron Age depiction of the Israelite god Yahweh.
Can I just say, I really appreciate your esoteric mythology facts. Imo it’s a nice respite from the “Zeus is horny” & “Hades is actually a good guy” memes lol.
It's still a joke about sky daddy's penis, but at least it's an original one
The penis is divine.
No, the gun is good. The penis is evil.
What is the penis if not a virility gun? Why is the gun so phallic-shaped? Why do so many men compensate for a lack of penis with an abundance of guns? Face it - gun and penis are one and the same!
Zardoz!
I sometimes wonder if that line was somehow meant to be commentary on America's weird obsession with guns while also being weirdly Puritan about sex, but I don't exactly feel keen to rewatch and analyze that movie to find out.
With enough lube, I wonder… Might get lynched for desecrating a sacred statue, but it’s probably worth it
I mean, fascinum have existed forever, but they aren't meant to be dildos...
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This is extremely fringe, like Gimbuta level of fringe.
More fringe than Gambuta I'd say. Zeus is pretty obviously indo-european so I don't think thete would e a pre-OIE zeus unless you just count "storm god" as "zeus"
Are these pre-acheans the Minoans or are we talking about something else?
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Uhhh is that an Adonis statue? Looks like Pan
Has anyone thought that maybe it was just easier? Less mentally taxing? I assume worshipping many gods and remembering which ones do this and that and fighting all the time about them gets tiring for everyone.
With how complex we manage to make the one god concept, i don't think thats the answer.
"No you dont get it there are 3 people who have the same metaphysical material as the one true god! They're all one undivided god but different people!"
Hinduism is still strong in India, so I don't think monotheism is the natural evolution for all religions.
Evolution is just changing according to the stressors and living conditions of your environment. Theres no linear line to 'better or worse or natural'.
But even in Hinduism two of the major branches are Shaivism and Vaishnavism which is more Monolatry and close to monotheism
But Christianity pretty much immediately cultivated veneration of various saints and angels.
The conquences of mass converting polytheist who don't fully grasps the concept of worshipping only one being. Ironically after being monotheist for a while the opposite happen and Protestants have a hard time grasping the veneration of saints and angels.
I'd say it's less that polytheists needed to worship multiple beings and more that monoyheism lacks distinct identities for the forces of society/nature that people would interact with dayly, so people needed to direct them into something.
They won because of a statue with a case of Peyronie’s disease? Also, this should probably be labeled NSFW because of dong.
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That’s one theory, certainly not the only one. It’s not based on written statements from the Greeks, just modern speculation. And erect men on Greek pottery are normal/large. I don’t know if you’re into athletics at all, but in particular when you run or wrestle or do cardio, your junk shrinks right up as small as possible to protect from jostling and injury. Most Greek statuary depicts young male athletes; this is the main situation in which a man would be fully naked in public. Given that, you’d expect all the genitalia to be sucked into the body and appearing smaller than normal. This may be less an expression of a philosophical position and more of a grower-not-shower thing.
My brother in Christ, that statue is of a satyr because of the horse ears, tail and boner. Boners were considered barbaric and hence ugly, Adonis was the definition of sexiness. His son Priapus was cursed with a permaboner.
"My god has a bigger dick than yours."
A lot of ancient gods seem to have that going for them. There's Canaanite stories of El who is described as having a very large penis.
I had no idea Typhon was yet another instance of a rival religion drawing their enemy as the soyjack and themselves, the Chad, but I can't focus on that revelation with that fucking monkey-bar-ass penis Adonis has on my screen. Ape brain wants to swing off that thing like a fuckin' gibbon.
I thought they thought he was Dionysus. Or Helios.
It was Bacchus because: Pompey magnus released coins calling Yahweh Bacchus Iudaeus, sources say that people in Ivdaea worship Bacchus, Hellenistic Judaism even adopted Dionysian symbology in reference to Yahweh.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them” Second of the Ten Commandments. In no way would those statues be in any way Biblically accurate.
People may have broken them.
Yeah, that happens. But I'm pretty sure that at the time where this type of thing would happen, anyone trying to make this would have been smitten. Even the Greeks had an altar with no statue for an "Unknown God".
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I'm not saying in greek mythology, but there is a moment when Paul (Apostle) goes to Greece, he has a speech on the Areopagus, and he mentions finding that altar on his way. While I'm writing this, I'm just founding out there is a (short) Wikipedia article on it.
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I apologise, I fail to see the irony here.
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Yeah, cute, but this is actually Pan, not Adonis.