What, that's not common knowledge?
Btw, christmas was stolen from Yule. And some stories in the old testament are from Gilgamesh and Atrahasis Epos, like Mose' abandonement in a reed basket as an example.
Literally all beings and concepts in christianity have a pagan origin. Even ancient YHWH/Yahweh/Jehovah/Tetragrammaton (God) goes probably back to El.
But i guess that's natural, concepts like an underworld are in above epics too, those sorts of stories developed over civilizations.
44For accuracy sake, yes the depiction in the Olympics was meant to be Feast of the Gods, but that painting came after The Last Supper and is thought to be directly inspired by da Vinci. Last Supper - 1495 Feast of the Gods - 1635-1640
Linking Wikipedia. The primaries appear to be in French 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Festin_des_Dieux
42The same christians who got offended by this would also complain about muslims being prudish when they get pissy about showing their prophet.
42Its sad. Just full blast showing global problems with history education
27As someone raised as a Mor[m]on, their response would be: the pantheons of pagan gods are just corruptions of the Gospel taught to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Thankfully, Joe Smith (not a couch banger, just a plain old pedophiliac serial rapist like any other good Christian leader) restored (made up) the lost parts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
22At Last, Supper! Gah, I've been so hungry.
21This meme is just confused. The Feast of the Gods motif would be familiar to da Vinci and whether it was deliberately referenced or perhaps just a visual convention of how to portray a feast, and who influenced who are questions best asked to an art historian specialized on the time period. But ultimately it doesn't really matter - da Vinci's The Last Supper is one of the most iconic images in history and it's not strange that people watching makes the connection, I certainly did even if I also got the reference to Les Festin des Dieux. Of course the idea that the ceremony mocks Jesus or whatever is a hysterical reaction, but that's American evangelicals for you.
Connecting this to christian adaptation of Pagan holidays and motifs, however, is farfetched and ahistorical. The Last Supper is a painting, Leonardo is not the christian church. Leonardo was active during the high renaissance, a time when the ideas and imagery of (mostly pagan) Antiquity was reintroduced into christian europe. References to pagan rome and greece was à la mode in art.
20Yahweh was actually the old god of the harvest and wine I believe. Before the Jewish Pantheon shrunk to one god only. So Yahweh was similar to Dionysus at one point. There are still remnants and mentions of the other gods in the old testament, like Yahweh's wife Ashira and Baal who I think was an underworld god. Also funny that in the old testament, god talks about other gods as if they're real but weak or bad, doesn't deny they exist.
17It’s really too bad Paul went in for Apolline Douchiness rather than Dionysian partying.
11And there's me mishearing it as diogenes and thinking some bowls were going to get broken and some chickens were going to get grabbed.
8I thought it was a well planned Papa Smurf..../s
7Does anyone have a video link? I can't find it anywhere.
5As if those so-called "foot-washing Christians" had anything better to do. 😒
4I agree, but you used a censored picture.
4Meh
1It was all based on divine shapes and tapestries etched by early mathematicians to represent what they thought were powerful concepts, especially "moral" ones, that they thought could shape people's behaviour.
People like Pythagoras could go insane worshipping these shapes, even though they had useful mathematical properties that could predict things about what the real world was like. They weren't totally stupid, and maths without technology wasn't extra hard.
Scholars like Jesus would go around spreading ideas about how perfect the triangle was. It contained three simple connected points that were very similar. Specifically, it had a C3 rotation in mathematical group theory. If you spin it by 120 degrees, it's the same afterwards. It contained three equally important geometric points that could never be transformed or "manipulated" so you could easily tell them apart. This was His Trinity.
Shapes like this are actually very important and have special properties in quantum dynamics nowadays, so their beliefs still hold a lot of power in many very logical people and how they think the world works based on science.
There were also more complicated systems popular in the past, too, that built up other forms of mathematics. Astrology was a good example too. They actually had very complicated systems for predicting lots of things based on measurements of time. If the data you had generally fit what usually happened (at least most of the time), you could be quite confident in those beliefs without being totally moronic.
I actually think some of these more mathematical beliefs may see a resurgence in the near future as proper quantum technologies are developed. People could fear them as they disrupt beliefs about technology, even those that only know a limited subset of modern physical laws (like Newton's laws, which are very accurate, but not universally "true" by modern scientific standards).
Most people don't realise how much technology is about to change. It's already happening and it's scary.
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