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minus-squareNouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·9 months agoA lot of that Catholicism stuff is just Christianity with local gods and figures retconed in using saints expansions. And that whole Christian thing is just a Mediterraneanised/Latinized Zoroastrianism.
minus-squareTaniwha420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months ago… And Zoroastrianism is just hyped up druidism. The Persians were part of that Indo-European world.
minus-squareNouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI don’t know what drugs the Persians were into, but now I’m imagining a priestess ripping a massing bong and saying “Okay, what if instead of alllll the trees, it’s just about one tree?.. And the tree is a dude”
A lot of that Catholicism stuff is just Christianity with local gods and figures retconed in using saints expansions.
And that whole Christian thing is just a Mediterraneanised/Latinized Zoroastrianism.
… And Zoroastrianism is just hyped up druidism. The Persians were part of that Indo-European world.
I don’t know what drugs the Persians were into, but now I’m imagining a priestess ripping a massing bong and saying
“Okay, what if instead of alllll the trees, it’s just about one tree?.. And the tree is a dude”