Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/27/24 6:12 PM, D wrote:

  On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 23/12/2024 21:14, D wrote:

I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that remains of paganism were alive until the 1700s, but cannot find anything through a quick google. My friendly neighbourhood AI insist on official death in the 12:th century.

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This is a subject of heated debate as modern Wiccan/Pagans like to feel they have an unbroken tradition.
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But of course people probably learned to keep their mouths shit and rub themselves with witches ointment in private...

 I do not believe in any unbroken tradition except among indians, esquimaux or some siberian indians.
 I do believe that it is not impossible that remains existed up until the 17th or perhaps even 18th century, although those remains probably were _very_ different from the original.

   "Unbroken" only so far as the current inhabitants knew -
   they didn't really write it all down.
   The tablets in Uruk and Ur mark the start of 'formal'
   theologies. You can compare Now with Then because it's
   all in writing. MAY be some stuff from further east,
   Persia or the Indus valley, but so far ....
   All hail Enki, bringer of Knowledge and Civilization -
   the true Prometheus !
   There ... "unbroken"  :-)