Thank you
Say it with me.
Yβall know the story.
Inβna first of days, come to be that Man and Snake, they both live in Magnolia Garden. They come there to visit on wisdom where Yah canβt see, all quiet, all holy. But Yah, he already found out about Magnolia Garden, and he come down off that cloud with his bow and ax, fin to split Man down his middle seam and steal Snakeβs prize.
βYou gwan go through it, boy,β Snake had said to Man, and Man, he knew it. βChop me up. Take a piece of that Revelation Heart and cook it up real nice. You gwan need that revelation to find your way back here after youβre gone.β
So Man does what he says, and he splits Snake up with his axe into thirteen pieces, and takes his Revelation Heart, and cooks it up real nice. He does this right outside of Atlanta, in the Magnolia Garden. He swallow a piece, and then he throw the rest way up high in a magnolia tree where Yah cainβt see. But just as it go down his throat, Yah, he gwan in in the Garden.
Man cainβt wrestle with Yah, and Snake cainβt neither. Yah, he already chased all the snakes out of St. Louis, which is why they came down to Magnolia Garden. So Yah grabs Man by his heels and his hair and pulls him straight down the middle and tears him clean in half. And that partβs just like the Sooner version: from the left part of his body, you get Sister Eve; from the right, you get Brother Adam.
Theyβs confused, the two of them, Brother Adam and Sister Eve. They got an ache, and that ache -- yβall feel it now, brothers and sisters? -- that ache is the scar where they got split.
And so they go to Yah, and they tell him, βPappy Yah, I ainβt feelinβ good. I got an ache down deep. I think Iβm hungry.β And Pappy Yah, he donβt want to let them know that ainβt neither of them a whole person, and thatβs why theyβre hurting. So he tell them, βYou ainβt hungry and there ainβt no reason to be hungry. Donβt you eat nothinβ in Magnolia Garden.β
And Snake, he dead. Ainβt nobody to tell them different. And so this goes on: Brother Adam, he come down to Pappy Yah, and he say, βI ainβt feelinβ so good,β and Pappy Yah, he says that Magnolia Garden is paradise, and there ainβt no reason to feel bad. And Sister Eve, she come down to Pappy Yah, and she say, βIβm so hungry,β but Pappy Yah says there ainβt no food in Magnolia Garden. And they all miserable, every last one of them.
But Snake? They set out a call to every dragonfly and every firefly, and they all come runninβ from all over the South to tend t
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Generally speaking, I can understand that for such an important figure, Theodosius would not simply let his escape slide, and certainly would have soldiers tracking him down.
However, I do hope to find any comtemporary, or lacking those, as close as possible, record of his suicide.
The Roman Emperor Constantine I (272-377), convocated the First Council of Nicæa, the reunion of christian sects to organizate the doctrines of the christianism in 325 A.D., but, the christianism only became the oficial religion of the Empire in 380, during the reign of Theodosius, with the Edict of Tessalonica. Why?
by John Lord, LL.D.
Theodosius is lauded as a Christian prince even more
than Constantine, and as much as Alfred. He was
what is called orthodox, and intensely so. He saw in
Arianism a heresy fatal to the Church. "It is our
pleasure," said he, "that all nations should steadfastly
adhere to the religion which was taught by Saint Peter
to the Romans, which is the sole Deity of he Father, the
Son, and Holy Ghost, under an equal majesty; and we
authorize the followers of this doctrine to assume the
title of Catholic Christians." If Rome under Damasus
and the teachings of Jerome was the seat of orthodoxy,
Constantinople was the headquarters of the interest which
all classes took in the metaphysics of theology. Said
one of the writers of the day: "If you desire a man to
change a piece of silver, he informs you wherein the
Son differs from the Father; if you as the price of
a loaf, you re told in reply that the Son is inferior
to the Father; if you inquire whether the bath is ready,
the answer is that the Son was made out of nothing."
The subtle questions pertaining to the Trinity were the
theme of universal conversations, even amid the calam-
ities of the times.
Theodosius, as soon as he had finished his campaign
against the Goths, summoned the Arian archbishop of
Constantinople, and demanded his subscription to the
Nicene Creed or his resignation. It must be remem-
bered that the Arians were in an overwhelming ma-
jority in the city, and occupied the principle churches.
They complained of the injustice of removing their
metropolitan, but the emperor was inflexible; and
Gregory Nazianzen, the friend of Basil, was promoted
to the vacant See, in the midst of popular grief and
rage. Six weeks after Theodosius expelled from
all the churches of his dominion, both of bishops and
of presbyters, those who would not subscribe to the Ni-
cene Creed. It was a great reformation, but effected
without bloodshed.
Moreover, in the year 381 he assembled a general
I asked this question in r/historicalwhatif to generate activity in the old sub. Too bad this got deleted. Still, I would like to see what would happen if this scenario were to occur.
After the death of Emperor Theodosius I in 395 AD, the Roman Empire was permanently divided by his wishes between his two sons. Arcadius, the older son, got the Eastern half while Honorius, the younger son, got the Western half. What if both Arcadius and Honorius decided to go to war against one another to unify the Roman Empire?
I feel like most of the mods in this franchise focus heavily on early Roman Empire or the Republic. Roma Surrectum 2 is great but I'm not too interested in the setting.
Post-Theodosian period is great as Christianity became the state religion but civil war and the Chalcedonian split (Nestorian and Monophysite controvery) soon followed. It would made an interesting interplay on politics and religion I think.
Is there any such mod with such time period?
