This is why nowadays we have a general problem understanding pagan religious practices and how they actually functioned.

We do know a good bit but we don’t know the core details of what they actually mean, and are meant for. We do know headhunting in some tribes was sacred, because of something related to the warriors soul and spirit, but there is much left to be desired.

My overall point is:

We may not be able to physically ever prove a deities existence, but we can absolutely prove that deity has a mental, spiritual and philosophical existence and thus an impact on mankind.

I appreciate your thoughts on it my man @Deleted User

After a week of the washing machines being out of order I can finally clean my god damn clothes

No more HoboHal, fucking hell

>rome respected foreign gods
>rome wiped out each and every druidic council

No more public cleaners.

They did respect foreign deities considering them real, which is why Rome took foreign prophecies very seriously.

Whatever, it's a thing that was and is no more, and was never related to my people, so I have no love or care for it tbh

Rome, that is

When the Romans disturbed a Brittanic sacred site, a lot of odd things happened pre-Boudica uprising, such as the Thames "turning Red with blood", and a "lost civilisation being revealed underneath the waves", Roman citizens took these things as a serious sign that the foreign Gods are giving them a warning, for their disturbance of that holy site.

They sincerely believed, Boudica's uprising was a punishment from their Gods against Rome.

Do you not share the same DNA as the Angles and Jutes? @Halindir

the last part is the best part.

You know how every area has that "place" that has a weirdly specific nationality living in it?

My hometown I am back in has alot of Vietnamese.

my uncle killed alot of them

Oh yeah within the pagan frame the abrahamic concept of MY GOD OR NO GOD AT ALL wasn't there, the idea of what a god was was also very much different

Anyway, doesn't mean they "respected" respected foreign gods, but I agree they did acknowledge the power behind the foreign pagan gods. They still sought to quench them out of existence lol

Christian Rome was utter shit through and through

Pagan Rome not great, but the choices of pagan Rome did lead to christian Rome, so it can't have been that great

Or something, I'm in the middle of washing my clothes, eating breakfast and satiating my nicotine addiction

So sorry about the incoherent reply m8

@Halindir why have a nicotine addiction when you can drink

Why have either. from the 23rd to new years eve I can't really smoke the tobacco anyway, so I might go for a full stop. But I do that every year, then I get drunk and smoke cigarettes like a furnace

Maybe a rare dry new years 🤔

@Halindir Yeah I agree Christian Rome was a major douchebag half the time, especially with eradication of European Paganism, the endless civil strife and etc but religion wasn't the heart of late Rome's issues; Pagan Rome is much different of a story.

My only focual point is that the Latin Romans did consider foreign deities as real, and their powers as intimidating, enough to where they considered warnings as serious including the feel of necessity to eradicate the holy sites and followers.

Yeah I think I must have read what you wrote a little too lazily since I was a bit busy

Where's your nissehue friend?

I'll shoop one on you if you'd like

Hell dm me your pfps and I'll shoop some hats on you all - unless I get flooded in the dms then fuck all of you

Huh

GG @Deleted User, you just advanced to level 21!

You make hats?

No, but I can photoshop hats on people

Oh

I always liked the architectural art on structures, like on the pillar you sent.

I don't know whether that pillar ever existed. It's a painting by Nils Blommer, norwegian painter from the last century or rather two centuries back I suppose