Although to the uninformed, it may seem at the first glance that the ancient Inca Empire has nothing in common with ancient Russian and other Slavics, the truth is that they have very many cultural similarities, indicating that they were parts of the same civilization in the past.
The Russians, the Incas, and other peoples all have identical cultural elements which are from the original most ancient worldwide pagan civilization, the mother of all other civilization. The Native Americans, including the Incas, came to the Americas from Siberia through the land bridge roughly 10,000 years ago. The Incas were the first ones to come over the land bridge because they penetrated the farthest into the continent, and eventually wound up in the Andes, where they preserved the culture of this original pagan "Hyperborean" civilization. So we can say that the people of the Inca Empire have the most ancient culture. On the other side of the world, the Cossacks and Caucasians and other peoples of Russia preserved this ancient pagan culture in their art, rituals, dances, clothes.
So we know that these peoples were both in Siberia 10,000 years ago then they separated, those who left and went over the land bridge became the Incas, and those who stayed became the Russians. If we compare and extrapolate, we can reconstruct what was that ancient pagan civilization like, and what were the people like who came over the land bridge. Not savages, they were carriers of a very advanced and sophisticated traditional culture.
This ancient pagan civilization was based on shamanism, who could talk with the spirits of the forest, and their ancestors. The shamans used to dance as a spiritual ritual, and as a military practice. These dances have been preserved from the ancient many many hundreds of years by the peoples. This was the oldest civilization in the world, the mother of all other civilizations.
Don't believe me, see for yourself. The ancient Inca and ancient Slavic cultures have many many similarities.
https://pdfhost.io/v/~YpsBBE8E_Inca_Empire_and_Russian_traditional_pagan_cultures
The dances of the Incas and Russian Cossacks are absolutely identical!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yNdGpQo1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoWEmc6Yoc
This original ancient worldwide pagan civilizat
... keep reading on reddit ➡AFAIK, Greece sees Christianity as part of its identity but also proud of its ancient past. So I wondered how Greek education system united them ?
I was reading about Belisarius' triumph and the route that it took ending in prayer in the hypodrome of Constantinople. So I wondered, is there any information on the triumph held by Honorius, which,to my understanding, was the last triumph held in the city of Rome. Did it take the original route that ended at the temple of Jupiter, or were the most blatantly pagan traits replaced by Christian ones?
-akin to divinity imagined in Nasaditya sukta & Advaita philosophy. Their criticism of Christianity was similarly directed towards lack of rationality in Biblical creationism & capriciousness of the Christian god. And yet as Hellenestic religions reformed on the path to rationality, they lost the turf to the irrational & capricious god & myths of Christianity.
>In the early 3rd century BCE, the biblical book of Genesis was translated from Hebrew into Greek in order to be read by the Jewish communities of the diaspora who no longer understood Hebrew. Though the book could now be read by non-Jewish Greeks, it did not incite much commentary or hostility because Judaism was not a missionary religion. Most Greeks felt no need to quarrel with the Jews. But with the rise of Christianity – a decidedly missionary religion – the situation changed. Christians adopted the Greek Bible from the Jews, and in their proselytising efforts they confronted non-Jews with this book, which they took to prove that the coming of Christ had been predicted by Moses and the prophets. Between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE, pagans struck back against the new Christian challenge, arguing that the Greek Bible (the Old Testament) was an inferior work, confused and philosophically unsound. There are three Platonist philosophers who stood foremost in the philosophical fight against the Christians and their book of Genesis: Celsus, Porphyry and Julian the Apostate.
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>>Celsus, the first pagan writer known to have drawn extensively on Genesis, wrote his massive anti-Christian work The True Doctrine between 175 and 180 CE. It does not survive. But some 70 years later, his book at last received its equally massive counterattack in the Christian scholar Origen of Alexandria’s work Against Celsus (c248 CE). Origen’s book contains extensive quotations and paraphrases of Celsus, allowing us to examine the role that Genesis played in his polemics against Christians and Jews. As with other later Platonists, Celsus firmly believed that the ‘true doctrine’, which is of divine origin, is to be found in the age-old traditions passed on since time immemorial by wise ‘barbarian’ (that is, non-Greek) nations, such as the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Indians, etc. There is, he says, an ancient doctrine that has existed from the beginning of time, and has always been maintained by the wisest nations and most perspicacious humans. But much to Origen’s indignation, Celsu
The Pagan Empire had a lot of resources and manpower, being the second most powerful kingdom in Southeast Asia at the time, rivaling the Khmer Empire. The Mongols usually failed in Southeast Asia campaigns due to the diseases there, however, the Pagan Empire was the only Southeast Asian nation that the Mongols managed to defeat. They famously failed invading Java and Dai Viet.
Eventually, the Mongols were driven out of Burma, but not until they have disintegrated the Pagan Empire into many different states.
Why was it that the Pagan Empire was the only Southeast Asian empire the Mongols managed to beat?
For some time I was under the impression that the prospect of eternal punishment for the wicked and eternal paradise for the righteous was the "selling point". But there was Tartarus and Elysium and, by the time of Virgil, the Underworld was compartmentalized in a way that was almost Dantean.
By the time of the Diocletianic Persecution, there were Roman senators that had abandoned Jupiter Capitolinus for the church. What caused them to inherit the god and religious texts of the cult of an alien, foreign people, with a main character who was killed by the lowest form of capital punishment the Romans had, and a god that was mutually exclusive not just to the worship of other gods but to the recognition of their very existence?
Just curious as to how the scholars were able to keep it consistent. It seems being Christian while also acknowledging the Pagan founding myth seem to be at odds with each other.
I understand that the Pagan religions could easily incorporate other pagan gods into their religion. But it seems that monotheism never held that flexibility.
Also, I guess in general how did they handle the famous Roman heros that they looked up to ( Scipio Africanus, Marius, Cesar etc. ) being Pagan? Or did they denounce them too? I know the Roman people were OBSESSED with their lineage and who descended from what....
People often comes with unique names for a Scandinavian centered Germanic/Norse Empire (Midgard) or an England/Norway focused one (North Sea Empire), buth so far no one has suggested a name for a North Germany centered Pagan Empire.
Germania sounds a bit too Romanized for an Empire name, and doesn't reflect the reality of a German majority Empire ruling over a lot of Germans and Nords.
I started the game as a duke and was working my way up to emperor, and during that time apparently someone really dropped the fucking ball on Catholicism, because the church dropped down to like 20% religious authority which caused countless unending heresies and religious revolts to start happening, the Byzantines took this time to move in and conquer most of europe, including France which I'm part of.
Eventually with murder I overthrew the king, and fought a war of independence against the BE, slowly but eventually winning because they were in a civil war. Apparently at some point after they made contact with Scandinavia, everyone in the BE became secretly reformed pagan, they had until this point been pretty chill letting everyone in europe be catholic, but that changed real fast as everyone under the BE suddenly became pagan.
Now the pope is basically crashing on my fucking couch, there are constantly heresies that my priests must put out like fire burning a pine forest in a drought, all while fighting massive raiding armies that never stop coming, and every single order like the Templars, and the Teutonic order basically are almost wiped out to a few hundred men every couple of years when the entire pagan world declares holy war on me, and I just barely fight them off. Every son I have goes war focus and ends up being 30+ military, amazing duelists and brutally scarred because of the constant unending fighting, and almost none live past 40. I have to go through several lustful wives just to keep up the demand for sons to continue fighting these wars.
This is some fucking warhammer 40k shit, a grim dark future where there is only war.
What did they make of their ancient history? How important was it to them? Did they even care?
Haesteinn is going places, specifically to Egypt to bring Zeus back in a glorious bloodbath and resurrect the Roman Empire. Any tips?
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So I started as pagan tribal and got the Byzantine empire title using the claim throne > abduct > win claimant war cheese. Then I took the reclaim Constantinople decision and was a tribal ruler of a primary Byzantine empire title, until I reformed my pagan faith and I immediately became feudal without needing to take the special "Become Feudal" decision. Furthermore, my succession changed from confederate to Primogeniture, even though the year was 900. I know the Byzantium starts with primogeniture, but I don't know if it should carry over if you claim the title, Is this working as intended or a bug?
In 394, the Western Emperor Eugenius and his German general Arbogast led a Pagan revival in the Western Empire. They met the Christian, Eastern Emperor Theodosius in battle at the Frigidus River, with a statue of Jupiter and Hercules sewn on their banner.
Unlike in our timeline, a freak windstorm doesn't kick up and Eugenius' forces defeat Theodosius, who recognizes Eugenius' claim to the throne, retreats back to Constantinople and dies of natural causes a few months later. Citing Jupiter's favor in their victory, Eugenius and Arbogast convert and lead a Pagan reformation similar to what Justinian the Apostate had attempted, and at least stabilize paganism as the ruling religion in the west, which had never been as strongly Christian as the West.
As an added effect of the victory, a disgruntled Alaric never sacks Rome and Stilicho never mismanages the West as the Emperor Honorius' regent. With Arbogast and Eugenius providing a stable hand through the tumult of the early 5th century, the Western Empire doesn't fall like in OTL, and eventually the empire stabilizes into two different states with their own royal lines based in Milan and Constantinople. What effect does this have? How much longer does a Western Empire that hot through the 5th century crisis last? Does paganism have any chance or surviving long term?
The Pagan Empire had a lot of resources and manpower, being the second most powerful kingdom in Southeast Asia at the time, rivaling the Khmer Empire. The Mongols usually failed in Southeast Asia campaigns due to the diseases there, however, the Pagan Empire was the only Southeast Asian kingdom that the Mongols managed to beat successfully. They famously failed invading Java and Dai Viet.
Eventually, the Mongols were driven out of Burma, but not until they have disintegrated the Pagan Empire into many different states.
Why was it that the Pagan Empire was the only Southeast Asian empire the Mongols managed to beat?
