#ancient cultures

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Pendants and Figurines, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

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[m1male2]

House of the Vestals, Forum, Rome

#culture #photography #art #ancient cultures #ancient history #museum #ancient rome

[contac]

#prophesies #ancient cultures #tomb #pyramid #vhs #gif

[ancientorigins]

The word "paganism" has come to refer to various pre-Christian religions belonging to a number of ancient cultures—those from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Scandinavia, and so on.

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[h0bg0blin-meat]

An attempt was made to see how this IVC priest king would really look like irl :)

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[createimpact3p0]

In the heart of ancient Mexico, from the 14th to the 16th century, a vibrant and powerful civilization thrived. The Aztecs, which are also known as Mexica or Tenochca, were most likely originated as a nomadic tribe of hunters and gatherers in northern Mexico. While searching for a permanent home which, according to their believes, would be determined by the appearance of an eagle perched on a nopal cactus with a serpent in its beak, in 1325 C.E. they arrived on a marshy land located around Lake Texcoco.

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[the-cricket-chirps]

Kheker Friese, Tomb of Tjay, Egyptian, New Kingdom, ca. 1550-1458 B.C., Charles K. Wilkinson Illustration

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[dazedlillies]

Every ancient Egypt fanatic needs their Ancient Greek fanatic.

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[michael-svetbird]

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[rumforall]

Earthenware female figurine, Chupicuaro culture (central Mexico) , 300 BC - 100 AD

The Walters Art Museum

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[thesilicontribesman]

Hardknott Roman Fort and Hardknott Pass, Lake District

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[m1male2]

Panteón, Roma

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[historyfiles]

Tartessian Culture: the Tartessian was a near-mythical culture in Iron Age Iberia which was rich in resources and relatively advanced forms of technology, including shipbuilding and metallurgy - and then it disappeared.

#history #historyfiles #archaeology #tartessian #cultures #ancient cultures #iberia #iron age #tartessos #pre-roman #early cultures

[ancientorigins]

In many ancient cultures and religious traditions, rulers and elite members of society not only had wives, they also had concubines.

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[gemsofgreece]

Do you know much about Thracians and their worship of Ares?

I have scarce knowledge about the Thracians so I had to do some research about their religion and.... they did not worship Ares??? The Thracian religion had two deities, a female one (Bendis) and a male one (Zis) and then a demigod (Zalmoxis / Orpheus). These deities encompassed all the qualities traditionally associated with their sex, so Zis was a father god and he had multiple sides to him, he was celestial, chthonic, a hero, a hunter, a royal ancestor of humanity and a warrior. Warrior Zis took a wolf-like appearance and was riding a horse. He was often described in the Thracian language as "bestial".

There is something in ancient literature described as interpretatio graeca, which means that a load of info we have about ancient cultures come from the descriptions of the Greeks and not the other ancient cultures themselves. In this case, Herodotus wrote about the Thracian religion and it is believed his works are a prime example of interpretatio graeca as he was trying to make the foreign religion easily comprehensible to his contemporary Greeks. So, Herodotus would say things like "this is their Ares", "this is their Artemis" and so on. However, the structure of the Thracian mythology appears quite different from the Greek one, especially in its origins.

What could also perplex matters is that Greeks from their side considered the Thracians descendants of Ares, because they were renowned warrior people, but that doesn't mean Thracians worshipped the exact "Ares" Greeks had (and barely even worshipped).

This is an interesting difference. The warrior quality is given to the Thracian father god. Greeks reserve this role for the father god's son who was not all that worshipped either. While Greeks really admired good warriors either among themselves or in other nations, they did not acknowledge themselves as appreciative of the frenzy of war and this is even reflected on how often gods, even Zeus, appeared to dislike and avoid Ares. On the contrary, it is clear that Greeks considered Athena as their primary deity of war, since they viewed themselves as supporters of the defensive war or the war that is inescapable or fully justified or a war that is based on strategy and the evaluation of cost and benefits rather than the wild manly joy or sheer force that was associated with war in some ancient cultures. Furthermore, Ares is portrayed as a young, handsome and strong warrior who however has an unpleasant attitude and does not possess many heroic qualities. So the worship of warrior Zis and the, well, more lukewarm worship of Ares were different.

However, Greeks extensively moved and settled north and a few Thracians did move south (some became mercenaries in Greek armies) and at these points their myths were blending a lot. Usually there are significant differences in the various tellings but there is also a lot of overlap. After the Greco-Thracian interaction, it was often that Thracians would use Greek equivalent names to address the aspects of their gods more easily, so if they wanted to talk about the warrior Zis, they might have said, "Ares". But he was actually a different god.

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[timesacircle]

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