Reminder you worship the Roman God Mithras (later Sol Invictus) on the 25th of December
top kek, would love to see the sauce on that
Notice the uptick in 'muh feelz' faggotry?
You're in a Roman Sun Cult
Happy Saturnalia to you too, I can't wait to open muh presents!!!
>biblefags are so lost
because they don't know the origins of their own shit
Both Christianity and Mithraism prided themselves in brotherhood and organized their members as church congregations. Both religions purified themselves through baptism, and each participated in the same type of sacrament, bread and wine. Mithra was born in a cave; a cave is likewise the setting for the nativity of Jesus in the widely-read and influential Gospel of James, which though not canonical is the earliest surviving document attesting the veneration of Mary and claiming her continuing virginity. Both nativities were celebrated on December 25th, and each savior was visited by shepherds with gifts. Both Mithraism and Christianity considered Sunday their holy day, despite early Christianity observing the Jewish Sabbath for centuries. Many have noted that the title of Pope is found in Mithraic doctrine and seemingly prohibited in Christian doctrine. The words Peter (rock) and mass (sacrament) have original significance in Mithraism.
Both Mithraism and early Christianity considered abstinence, celibacy, and self-control to be among their highest virtues. Both had similar beliefs about the world, destiny, heaven and hell, and the immortality of the soul. Their conceptions of the battles between good and evil were almost identical, with Christianity adopting millennial epochs that were integral to Mithraism from Zoroastrianism. "They both admitted to the existence of a heaven inhabited by beautiful ones … and a hell peopled by demons situate in the bowels of earth." (Cumont, 191) Both religions placed a flood at the beginning of history, and both believed in revelation as key to their doctrine. Both awaited the last judgment and resurrection of the dead after the final conflagration of the universe. Christ and Mithra were both referred to directly as the "Logos" (Larson 184).
much moar here:
http://www.crystalinks.com/mithraism.html
don't know much about that God, but from a quick dig I did see the 'birthday' or day of special annual worship is the 25th
seems like a different God altogether, Mithras (and other civilizations' similar God) is the Sun God, but VERY related in terms of the myths
Tammuz seems to be associated with similar myths, but different (the connection to Ishtar is interdasting):
Tammuz (also known as Dumuzi) was the name of an ancient Near Eastern deity who was best known for his patronage of herdsmen and his romantic entanglement with Inanna (the Sumerian goddess of sexual love) also known as Astarte or Ishtar. As a fertility god, he represented the insemination of the mother goddess, as well as the production of healthy children. The best-known myth of Tammuz describes his death at the hands of his lover, a punishment earned for his failure to mourn adequately when she became lost in the Underworld. The god's sojourn among the dead was commemorated in various forms of human expression, including poetic laments and ritual practice.
In his Syrian iteration, Tammuz was incorporated into the Hellenic pantheon as Adonis, a beautiful youth who earned the love of Aphrodite.
The concepts of death and resurrection are tied to the myth of Tammuz, which foreshadowed the central role of resurrection in the religion of Christianity.
then there is this that seems to point to being a basis myth for Jesus (separate from Mithras/Sol Invictus who also have similar myths), many Gods/deities have myths like this:
Based on the first Mesopotamian texts discovered by archaeologists, it was initially assumed that Ishtar/Inanna's descent into the underworld occurred after the death of Tammuz/Dumuzid, rather than before it. As such, her goal (like Orpheus) was to rescue her departed love. This version became popularized in M. Jastrow's "Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World" (1915), a tremendously popular account. Though new texts uncovered in 1963 presented a considerably different picture of the tale (as outlined above),[14] the old interpretation still persists in certain circles, especially among those who seek parallels between Middle Eastern deities and the resurrected Christ. For instance, it is in this vein that Paul Carus states: "The ancient Tammuz is one of the most important prototypes of Christ. He is a god-man, an incarnation of the deity who is born as a human being, dies in the course of time and eakes to life again."[15]
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Tammuz
Persian/Babylonian Sun God Mitra → Greco/Roman Sun God Mithras → Roman Sun God Sol Invictus (Roman Monotheism) → Roman Catholicism
http://www.crystalinks.com/mithraism.html
no problem
I know less about the Mid-East origins of these Gods than I do the Greco-Roman origins
kind of natural though, because we live in the west, but always interdasted to learn moar about it and dig around sometimes
especially during the holidays that evolved from them
<still hasn't searched for shit
don't what would be "acceptable" to you, here's another ( ):
The word decimate in the English language has come to mean to destroy or slaughter something but the word has an older historical meaning. The military context of the word can be traced back to the Romans, where the decimation of a military unit was a form of punishment and a way of enforcing military discipline. The word decimate comes from the Latin word decimare meaning to take or destroy one-tenth (from the Latin word decem meaning ten). For a Roman legion deemed to have failed in its duties this meant that one in ten legionnaires would be selected, stripped of their armour and beaten to death by their comrades. This would obviously kill one tenth and therefore decimate the offending legion. Marcus Licinius Crassus enforced an example of this during his campaign against the renegade gladiator Spartacus. Crassus’s legate Mummius engaged the rebel gladiators early, against Crassus’s wishes, and was defeated. 500 men of the legion involved were deemed to have shown cowardice and Crassus had one tenth killed - that is he decimated the legion to restore discipline. Strong parallels can be drawn between this action and those of the Soviet Union's commissars in World War 2 whose role was to install discipline and restore morale, often in a brutal fashion and frequently with the deaths of those thought to be showing cowardice.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/concepts_decimate.html
or you could follow the links
ffs, they cite Plutarch and Tacitus
>I try to do Q stuff in different languages
thread got slid off, but anons put this together