Here's Hercules protecting Buddha
Asians didn't have anthropomorphism in religious art, they got that thanks to spread of hellenism caused by Alexander's conquest
yeah, but statues weren't really a thing to norsemen, i think
maybe they had interscandinavian syncretism, or with Celts
I ever tell you that statues of Buddha exist because of Alexander the great?
ffs..
what the fuck happened to using the Occam's razor? silk is wealth, silk is status, a luxury, was long before islam came along. Kiddo, I suspect political motivation behind these conjectures
hahahahaha
"Arabic artifacts in Viking graves suggest some of them may have been Muslim"
what a reach
Yeah, and many Montenegrians sent their weapons to Alexandria to be decorated by islamic craftsmen, must be cause they were Muslim
dude, you have a taste for exotic goods, gonna interpret it the...
that he used Vikings as an example may not be right, but he was right in claim that charity and helping the poor were popularized as virtues by the Christians. i remember reading letters of Julian the Apostate, and he was pissed about that
the futnote that couldn't fit in my first message:
*Children put on masks and costumes and go around the neighborhood, from door to door, and get candy, sounds familiar?
of course it does, it's Serbian Christmas, what else would it be?
sacred trees called "inscriptions", around which village...
what do you mean by heathen degenerate bashing? the stuff he said about how fake modern paganism is? that is true. it's ironic that my version of Christianity probably, no fuck probably, *CERTAINLY* has more authentic pagan elements than any of those larp religions*. of all the branches of...