#galatia

[mapsontheweb]

Galicia, Galicia, (New) Galicia, and Galatia.

#maps #galicia #galatia #placenames

[murshili-ii]

Celtic Month Bonus Piece: Techtosagii

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Our seventh and final Celtic Month piece doesn’t correspond to any holiday; it’s a bonus piece in honor of the ancient Galatian Celts who invaded Greece and entered Anatolia during the 3rd Century BC. They settled in the land that would become known as Galatia; and they were by far the easternmost of the Celts. They’d later go on to become some of the first Gentile Christians, to whom Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians was written.

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The only Celts around today are the Insular Celts, who survived on the British Isles. Even the Bretons, who do live on the mainland, are the descendants of Britons who fled overseas during the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain.

But the Celts used to be a prolific people; they once dominated Europe. The Celtic Gauls lived throughout what is now France, Switzerland, Belgium, northern Italy, southern Germany, and Austria. What is now northeastern Spain was home to the Celtiberians.

They were unstoppable warriors. A Gaulish king named Brennus invaded and sacked Rome in the 4th Century BC. Gauls later invaded and settled the Balkans, and even briefly invaded Greece, during the 3rd Century BC. At the height of their expansion, a group of Gauls known as the Galatians turned east from the invasion of Greece, and settled in central Anatolia, the region of what is now Turkey that would be known as Galatia for centuries thereafter. This was the high-water mark of Celtic expansion; the farthest afield they would ever expand.

The signature Roman sword, the gladius, was adopted from the Celts; and so were other weapons and tactics that made later Classical armies powerful. The Greeks and Romans alike romanticized the Gauls for their courage and virtue, even while scorning them as barbarians, in a way that’s highly comparable to the way European settlers in North America would later view the Native American peoples.

Following Julius Caesar’s conquest of Transalpine Gaul, the Continental Celts began to be assimilated into Latin culture, losing their Celtic language and identity; and the Celtiberians were to follow, along with their other mainland neighbors.

Even after their conquest by the Roman Republic in the 2nd Century AD, the Galatians continued to speak a Celtic language at least until the 4th Century AD, and likely until the 6th Century AD; making them among the latest-surviving Mainland Celts. They would eventually be absorbed into Greek and, later, Turkish culture; leaving the Insular Celts as the last Celts left in the world.

When the Apostle Paul wrote his Epistle to the Galatians in the 1st Century AD, it appears that Christian communities were already forming in Galatia; making the Galatians some of the earliest Gentile Christians. Christianity wouldn’t begin to spread in Ireland for another several centuries.

The exact same region of central Anatolia that became Galatia was also, about a thousand years prior, the heartland of the Hittite Empire, one of the most powerful Bronze Age nations, ruled by speakers of the Hittite language; the earliest Indo-European language of which we have written record, an ancient relative of the Celtic languages as well as most of today’s European, Persian, and North Indian languages.

I like to think that, while moving into the exotic new land that would become their home, the Galatians came upon the ruins of ancient Hittite cities, and maybe even the Hittite capital, Hattusas.

What you see in the foreground of this piece is a Hittite fortification inspired by the Lion Gate at Hattusas.

In the background, you can see the convoy of the Galatians, traveling, with their Greek spoils of war, into this new land.

In the near foreground, we see a Galatian prince and his Greek war-captive exploring the ruins.

(That penannular brooch that the Galatian prince is wearing is really more of an Insular Celtic thing; but penannular brooches are so distinctively Celtic that I couldn’t resist.)

The Techtosagii (or Textosagii, or in Latin, Tectosages) were one of the three Galatian tribes that participated in the Invasion of Greece and ultimately settled in Anatolia. Their name seems to consist of two words also found in other Celtic languages, and can be compared to Old Irish “techtaid” (“to have, to possess”) and “saigid” (“to seek out, to strive for”). It could be translated as “Possession-Seekers”, “Estate-Seekers”, “Wealth-Seekers”, or “Home-Seekers”; and that’s exactly what they were: people on the move looking for a new land to be the source and substance of their prosperity.

It isn’t known what drove them to leave their original homeland; some writers say it was greed; others say it was overpopulation; others say it was famine. In the end, they found the new home they were seeking. They would make the land their own, and their descendants would prosper there.

#galatians #galatia #gauls #hellenistic_era #hittites #hattusas #celts #celtic #spring #springholidays #digitalart #vector #mosaic #collage #inkscape

[brianchilton]

S7E19 Galatians 4 The Grace of God

By: Brian G. Chilton, M.Div., Ph.D., and “Cowboy Apologist” Curtis Evelo | January 25, 2024 S7E19 Galatians 4 The Grace of God on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SRqb8eVyAE%5B/embedyt%5D Matter of the Grace of God and the Head (4:1-7, 21-31) Legal Illustration (4:1-7) Old Testament Illustration (4:21-31) Hagar–allegory of the law Sarah–allegory of grace Matter of the Grace of God and…

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#Apostle Paul #Bellator Christi #Bellator Christi Podcast #Bible #Curtis Evelo #Dr. Brian Chilton #Galatia #Galatians #Law and Grace #New Testament

[kdmiller55]

It Always Comes Back to Grace

11 See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. 12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 14 But far…

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#Galatia #Galatians #Galatians 6 #ghteousness #glorification #God&039;s masterpiece #grace #Holy Spirit #Jesus Christ #Judaizers #justification #men-pleasing #party of the circumcision #Paul #salvation #sanctification #the fear of men #the Law #works #works-righteousness

[ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet]

Paul's third missionary journey

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#Antioch #Asia #Ephesus #Events #Galatia #God #Greece #Jesus #Macedonia #Ministry #Paul #Troas

[whencyclopedes]

Galacia

Galacia era una región en el norte central de Anatolia (la actual Turquía), poblada por los celtas gálatas ca. 278-277 a.C. El nombre proviene del griego "Galia", que los escritores latinos repitieron como Galli. El rey de la vecina Bitinia, Nicomedes I (quien reinó del 278 al 255 a.C.) ofreció tierras a los celtas y se establecieron en tres provincias formadas por cuatro cantones (barrios) constituidos por ciudades-estado (conocidas como oppidum) gobernadas respectivamente por las tres tribus que componían el grupo inicial: los tectósages, trocmos y tolistóbogos.

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#PabloApóstol #PeríodoHelenístico #Galatia

[preacherpollard]

Understanding Truth

Thursday’s Column: Captain’s Blog Some things just don’t mix. Milk and orange juice, taxes and freedom, Coca cola and Mentos. But there is one particular mix that can sometimes be fatal. Blood pressure medicine can be a great thing, but when mixed with Advil/Ibuprofen it can harm your body and even give you a brain hemorrhage. If you mix rubbing alcohol and bleach you create chloroform. It’s…

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#amazed #circumcision #disturbed #Galatia #gospel #Judaisers #sinner&039;s prayer #tradition

[exc-lsior]

look i know that this entire season has been set in a universe brennan’s mom created but brennan actually bringing in the harpy and galatia 9 and acting as a character directly from the original play/comics themselves took it to a whole new level and fully made me cry 🥺

#dimension 20 #a starstruck odyssey #dimension 20 spoilers #ALSO GALATIA 9 IS THE CHARACTER HIS MOM PLAYED IN THE ORIGINAL PLAY #(and the other character brennan describes (brucilla) is the character that his aunt played in the original play too!!) #like can you imagine how insane that must’ve felt #to not only be playing in the world your mom created but also to get to play the same character as her #even if it was only for a brief moment 🥺 #if i were brennan in that moment i would’ve been so emotional #it’s just too much for me 🥺 #i would’ve been a crying mess as soon as the impact of that moment actually hit me 😭 #what a beautiful little moment to bridge together this universe’s origins and this next gen story being told in it #and what a wonderful way to honour this story’s roots 🥺 #d20 #aso

[starstruck-comics-annually]

Meet the most well known and beloved Starstruck Characters: Galatia 9

Galatia 9:

Either one of two, well-known Molly Medeas;

1) renowned Hera of the Revolution, Molly Medea, or

2) Molly Younger, also known as Galatia 9, the elder Molly’s granddaughter, from her daughter Margaret, by Siegfried Siegfriedson. Sentients from all corners of the Multiverse (and there are oh-so-many corners) have remarked upon the astonishing resemblance between these two Molly Medeas, a resemblance remarkable even for members of the same family. Aside from twins, of course, and with exceptions for those races that reproduce parthenogenetically or asexually

Galatia 9, fairly recent incarnation of the Omegazonian Maiden Goddess, daughter of the Star Mother, bringer of the bow.

She is a U4F affiliated “freelance fighter” Captain and self-proclaimed Poet Militant

Galatia 9 took the name while serving time on Omega 6 where she joined a tribe of Omegan Amazons rather than becoming the sex toy of a pack of Lyconian Dromo Rustlers

Galatia 9 (AKA Molly Medea Younger)

Galatia 9 (Molly) makes her first appearance in the Starstruck comics in Episode 3 as a growing fetus and eventual baby. Her last appearance is in Episode 19 the final episode (maybe not, you never know) of the Starstruck comic book series.

She has also made a cameo in the series: Dimension 20: a Starstruck Odyssey (>Watch Trailer<) a Table top actual play show on Dropout TV (>Sigh up<)

// Glossary down here //

United Federation of Female Freedom Fighters: The stated purpose of the U4F was “to secure employment for the millions of female fighters who distinguished themselves in the great battle,” and “to bring, if we can, a halt to the senseless destruction of property that has marked, indeed marred, the first cycle of a new era” and “to make sure we don’t wind up back in the same soup we just crawled out of.”

Omega 6: An automated farming disque that functioned as a penal colony, abandoned at the overthrow of the Incorporated Elysian Republic

Omegazons: Omegan Amazons. It is commonly believed that women prisoners banded together on the automated farming disque and penal colony, Omega 6, after it was abandoned at the overthrow of the Incorporated Elysian Republic, in order to protect themselves from certain undesirable elements on the colony.

Lyconian Dromo Rustlers:  An incredibly mean, incredibly stupid life form, native to the planet Lycon. The name Lyconian Dromo Rustlers was settled on these barely sentient beings due to their habit of impregnating and devouring Lyconian Dromo cows

#starstruck #starstruck comics #starstruck odyssey #Galatia 9 #Molly Medea #U4F #Meet the Starstruck Characters

[verloonati]

being a starstruck (the comic series) fan is such a struggle. I mean thanks to D20 a lot of people are aware of it, way much than it would be otherwise, but i don't want to share content about the Gunner Channel (i do, i love them, but also, they are not my favorite starstruck media). But i want to talk about Galatia 9, Brucilla the Muscle, Verloona TI and Ronnie Lee Ellis, and well, that's unfortunately nichier

#starstruck #galatia 9 #Brucilla the muscle #don't get me wrong i love #a starstruck odyssey #but why is nobody calling harry palmer a malewife is beyond me

[noeggets]

If you're a seedrian, what flower are you?

idk but one of the first seedrain i ever made which was one of my many sonicsonas had a flower that look like this

don't know what type it is but i just kept it cause i associate my username with purple

#a #q #anons #Galatia the seedrain #sth #sonic oc #sonicsona

[mourning-again-in-america]

why can't the indo-europeans just stay in one place 😩

#actually i was unaware of galatia or its inhabitants #i was vaguely aware of the epistle to the galatians but i thought it was to the *galicians* of spain #(galicia is also a confusing region name given the existence of one in spain and one in eastern europe; I'm much more familiar with the #latter given its important role in Austro-Russian strategy in the board game Diplomacy

[gemsofgreece]

do you have any favourite modern Greek writers? especially women

I am not well versed in Greek literature but the presence of men in its circles has been very prominent in general.

My favourite female writer would be Penelope Delta. I also like Galatia Grigoriadou-Soureli for kid’s literature.

My overall favourite writer is Alexandros Papadiamantis.

#greece #literature #greek literature #writers #alexandros papadiamantis #penelope delta #Galatia grogoriadou soureli #anon #ask

[kdmiller55]

A Time to Sow

6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap,…

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#apostles #community #Galatia #Galatians #Galatians 6 #Jesus Christ #Paul #reap #selfishness #sow #sow to the flesh #sow to the Spirit #spirituality #teachers #the Body of Christ #the church #the Holy Spirit #the life of faith #you reap what you sow

[magical-misfit]

They way I can’t describe the feelings in my chest when I finally got back around to finishing a Starstruck Odyssey only to see THAT cameo. 

Like my hyper fixation with Dimension 20 and Dnd lead to me watching all of the D20 campaigns in like the span of a month, which lead to me searching high and low for the Starstruck comics to read them which eventually lead to me kickstarting my reading habit AND THEN: 

At what I’ve considered to be my lowest moment this year, after months of being mistreated and shit on at my job culminating in getting COVID with no sympathy from any of my real life peers, I hear and see Brennan say, “This is Galatia-9 aboard the Harpy.”

There are no words for how much that meant to me and how much I needed that. I legit cried.

#a starstruck odyssey #aso #dimension 20 #d20 #a starstruck odyssey spoilers #galatia-9 my beloved #the best space amazon #she means....so much to me and to see Brennan use his mom's work in his campaign is so sweet and means so much to me

[captainswan618]

GALATIA 9 is coming to defend the Wurst??? Holy shit what a fucking pull!!! She better do insane damage lmao

#HER!!! #a starstruck odyssey #dimension 20 #galatia 9 #captainswan618 talks too much