Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/28/24 5:58 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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.
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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  🙂
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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'

   Then explain all those temples ... to specific gods, with
   faces  :-)
   SOMETIMES the gods are 'ideas'/'ideals', SOMETIMES they
   manifest materially.

   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.
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 Japanese is ancestor worship.

   A little more complex than that ...

   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.

   :-)
   If you want demonology, Persian or Babylonian might
   be more productive. Hey, they were a BIG DEAL for a
   LONG time.
   The first 'god' to be mentioned however was Sumerian,
   "Enki" (spelling varies). It liked 'fish' themes and
   supposedly imparted all kinds of civil-structure and
   civil-engineering info mostly to the citizens of
   Eridu (now Kuwait). Uruk and Ur copied. Great luck
   that paper hadn't been invented yet - those clay
   tablets are REALLY 'archival media'.
   The even older works at Gobekli Tepe imply even earlier
   gods/religions - but there's no real DETAIL. It's
   kinda like finding a 'cross' symbol but with no
   clue as to what it MEANS to anybody, no background.
   I guess the builders "just knew" and ASSUMED everyone
   would 'get it' forever and ever.
   Sumerian tales have been kinda well translated at
   this point. Especially study the hero/demigod
   guy named 'Gilgamesh'. Probably the first cite
   of a 'Hercules'-type figure. Double-alpha male,
   huge (6-7 feet prob) with Arnie's physique. He
   became SUCH a pain in the ass in Ur that they
   petitioned the Gods to find ways to distract him
   (you could actually walk to the temple and talk
   to physical gods in those days). They arranged a
   near-equal gay-boy lover and some 'tasks'/goals.
   This kept him out of everybody's hair  :-)
   Anyway, the tales were so good they were later
   translated into Akkadian and then Babylonian.
   Raw translations - including 'text missing' bits -
   can be found online.
   SO INTERESTING how civil life and concerns have
   changed SO LITTLE in 7000+ years !