Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 28/12/2024 06:25, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

As for BRITS ... 'unbroken' maybe means a few thousand
   years - but with every wave of invaders the 'gods' got
   mixed, re-named, re-statused - and some just disappeared.
 

Indeed. The Celtic pantheon of nature spirits remains a dismal parody of its formal self with just a few faeries, leprechauns and of course the Morrigan.

   Kinda like Hindu 'paganism' - the idea of god-beings with
   such extreme power and 'generative potential' that a mere
   passing thought could pop another god or god-like thing
   into existence on the spot ... a nice kinda 'fractal'
   look and feel  🙂
 

I cant see how Hinduism  could have a pantheon. At its core its mostly philosophy.
I always thought that their gods were understood to be symbols, nor 'real'

   Know nothing about Chinese theology alas ... other than
   that it had a lot of 'demons'. Gotta look into that. May
   NOT entirely 'get it' alas because I wasn't born Chinese.
   'Gods' kinda COMPLEMENT the culture rather than CREATE it.
 

Japanese is ancestor worship.

   Oh, good movie/Harry Potter question - how come all
   'spells' are done in LATIN ??? Did spirits/gods/etc
   from 10,000 years ago all speak Latin too ???  🙂

Well traditionally necromancy texts were written in Hebrew or Latin, as there was a close association between the religion and its antithesis.🙂
Although IIRC HP Lovecraft had a mad Arab somewhere on his demonology. Abdul Alhazred, creator of the Necronomicon.
I mean it wouldn't make good drama  for our Harry to mutter ' I say great spiwwit, turn Malfoy into a spotted toad'
Clever people spoke Latin or Greek, back in the day.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift