Everybody’s matriarchal until the chariot gang rolls into town praising Dyēus Ph₂tḗr and drinking milk.
Moose-Rage on
Why is it always Sky Father and Earth Mother? Any ancient society ever switch it up? The sky’s the mom and the earth’s the dad?
johnbarleycornreborn on
The Earth Mother thing is a Victorian delusion perpetuated by poor scholars in the 20th century.
AverageAF2302 on
We have water, the moon, the nectar, the earth, the light, and the gods. What is the enemy of the dead? What is the deceitfulness of the immortality of mortals?
We drank the moon, the nectar, the earth, the light, and we knew the gods. What is the enemy of us, the pitiful one? What is the cunning of the nectar of mortals?
apāma somam amṛtā abhūmāganma jyotir avidāma devān | kiṃ nūnam asmān kṛṇavad arātiḥ kim u dhūrtir amṛta martyasya ||
“We drink the Soma, may we become immortal; we have attained the light of (heaven), we have knownthe gods; what now could the enemy do to us, or what, O immortal, should the aggriever do to the mortal?”
Run, the steppe cowboys are coming.
EstablishmentLow3012 on
Is this even actual history or are we just making up Neolithic traditions?
xesaie on
People make sooooo many assumptions about neolithic faith, which we basically know from a few statuettes.
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Everybody’s matriarchal until the chariot gang rolls into town praising Dyēus Ph₂tḗr and drinking milk.
Why is it always Sky Father and Earth Mother? Any ancient society ever switch it up? The sky’s the mom and the earth’s the dad?
The Earth Mother thing is a Victorian delusion perpetuated by poor scholars in the 20th century.
We have water, the moon, the nectar, the earth, the light, and the gods. What is the enemy of the dead? What is the deceitfulness of the immortality of mortals?
We drank the moon, the nectar, the earth, the light, and we knew the gods. What is the enemy of us, the pitiful one? What is the cunning of the nectar of mortals?
apāma somam amṛtā abhūmāganma jyotir avidāma devān | kiṃ nūnam asmān kṛṇavad arātiḥ kim u dhūrtir amṛta martyasya ||
“We drink the Soma, may we become immortal; we have attained the light of (heaven), we have knownthe gods; what now could the enemy do to us, or what, O immortal, should the aggriever do to the mortal?”
Run, the steppe cowboys are coming.
Is this even actual history or are we just making up Neolithic traditions?
People make sooooo many assumptions about neolithic faith, which we basically know from a few statuettes.