Nabonidus-AncientReligions

Mesopotamian & Near Eastern religion, Qigong, and Gnosticism. Currently translating Taoist alchemy texts

[Nabonidus-AncientReligions @zyc137779]

Photos I took while there.

[推总 @Newsinchina]

中国上海保存完好的拜占庭风格教堂 息焉堂。希腊朋友们 早上好！

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@xiaojietongxue Reminds me of "jakq dengekitai"

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Bro lives in the 19th century

[PJtheterrible @PJtheterrible]

@statsglobe Humanity can be further narrowed into five races: 1. Negroid, 2. Australoid, 3. Caucasoid, 4. Mongoloid, and 5. Amerindian. Some races are a combination of two or more of the above. Indians are a combination of #2 and #3, for instance.

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@rongtangjushi 君之視臣如土芥，則臣視君如寇讎。」既率獸而食人，天皇制何足惜？

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@rongtangjushi 聞誅一夫紂矣,未聞弒君也

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@serbiaireland Wow, wasn't aware of it. Thank you!

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@kim_jindopup @ArdaKacmaz6 @seqCharm Based Korean:

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Yeah China will def mog Korea in case of total war. But consider that China is exceptionally strong and that being defeated by China still didn't falsify the reality that Korea is militarily stronger than European countries. @grok compare Korean military stats with Britain, France and Germany.

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@CUedh1 Japanese depiction:

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@archaeologyart If you are curious please check my introductory post on the fabric: https://t.co/oU9y2iJCs2

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The Kingdom of Khotan(于闐) might have been the only place in the world to venerate the Ramayana, Greek mythology and Near Eastern Mythology.

First discussed by the great H.W. Bailey in 1939, the Rāma story in Khotanese contains plots retained from earlier versions of the Ramayana rather than the common version today. For example, instead of directly being son of Daśaratha, Rāma is described as son of Sahasrabāhu, son of Daśaratha. In addition, in the Khotanese story, Rāma only have one brother, Lakṣamaṇa, instead of three. What is most surprising, though, is that in this version, Sītā is the daughter of Daśagrīva(Ravana).

Further, Duan Qing, Professor of Indo-Iranian Studies and Boya Chair Professor of Peking University, proposed a compelling hypothesis on a pre-Buddhist Khotanese Pantheon in her "Myth and Ritual: Deciphering the Code of Civilizations on Qushu from Ancient Khotan (2022)". She argued that the Qushu(氍毹, type of Khotanese blanket) have a distinct Roman Empire era Mesopotamian or Egyptian style, depicting a vast array of figures in distinct levels. She further suggested that on the first level(bottom of image) depicts a god which transits between the underworld and the mortal world (presumably Hermes) due to a Khotanese compound word description formed from Greek for the underworld and Sanskrit for island. One level higher up, she identified the pair of deities at the center as Persephone and Hades. But the real cultic object of the Qushu, she suggested, was the "goddess of longevity" standing under the twin trees on the third level, Inanna, and the flute-blowing goddess beside her, Ishtar (Astarte). Thus, the third level might be a depiction of the Babylonian story"lament of the Flutes For Tammuz", describing Ishtar's resurrection of her mortal lover Tammuz (basically Adonis in Grecian mythology). The whole Qushu thereby becomes a coherent narrative of a "return from underworld" structure, illustrating Khotanese belief in human resurrection and acting as their plee to the "goddess of longevity" for their own salvation.

In some degree, the unique position of Khotan between the East and the West, and roughly every civilisation in Eurasia enabled the kingdom to accept diverse heritages. As the account always loves to comment on Middle Asia, it is where what cultural mix might happen must happen.

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@archaeologyart Reminds me of this:

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@PAHoyeck Please delete this😭

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@visualsancients Wow, thanks for the time you took to reply me!

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@MichaelTrun2pt Herodotus, Book I

[ぴんけるねす @pinkernes0517]

#ビザンツ界隈

1391年、1394年、1411年、1422年にオスマン帝国に帝都コンスタンティノポリスを包囲された際の東ローマ帝国。ちなみにこれら全てを指揮して一度も帝都を落とさなかったのがパレオロゴス朝のマヌエル2世(在位1391~1425)であり、皇帝の外交力で帝国は半世紀延命されたとも言われている

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This reminds me of the Indian Zoroastrians, who must have found it odd to find "Daeva"(demons) to mean god in Sanskrit/Prakrit.

[behrâm @EzKordem]

An etymological diagram of words meaning 'God' in the Indo-European language family.

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@precisioncanton @ArmandDAngour @Athanasius_45 Here you are: https://t.co/Kekifwxj2H

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A lot of people mentioned here the Battle of Eurymedon (469BC). Less known is the Battle of Eurymedon (190BC), in which the Roman General Adamus defeated the Seleucid fleet led by Hannibal. This was vital for the later Roman victory at Magnesia and the creation of the Roman Empire as we know it.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

"The well-being of the individual and of human and Christian society is intimately linked with the healthy condition of that community produced by marriage and family” (Gaudium et spes, 47). The Church is well aware of this, as shown by the pastoral concern of the Popes who have succeeded one another since the last Council, right up to the two Synodal Assemblies convened by Pope Francis, which were addressed again in recent days by the Heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences. #GeneralAudience