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Strix - Jan 26, 2005 11:09:07 am PST #6946 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Matt and Brenda are correct. The Romans were really practical about encountering a new culture's gods, and simply assigning them a place, at least in the early parts of the Roman empire. Look at the Celtic gods. It was all about tradition.

They did get a little upset about Isis, though, but mainly that's because her followers were just too luxurious, emotional and so darned un_Roman.

Early Romans were like the Borg when it comes to gods: We Will assimilate.

Now, after Constantine turned the Empire Xian, things were a little different.

Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2005 11:29:18 am PST #6947 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Not all that different. St. Brighid looks a lot like the Celtic goddess who preceded her. Heck, Christianity has a certain amount in common with Mithraism, or so I've been told.

Syncretism is an excellent survival strategy for a religion.

Strix - Jan 26, 2005 11:41:03 am PST #6948 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Now, after Constantine turned the Empire Xian, things were a little different.

Oh, I meant in that religion became a little more religous to the Romans with Xianity, than it had been with the pantheon. Course, Romans were pretty pragmatic and a lot of them converted easily, with no real qualms...but many were mightily worried about the Emperor taking religion so seriously.

erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 11:44:37 am PST #6949 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Disquieting in its resonance. Though I don't really believe...well, maybe that's a thought best expressed somewhere else.

Strix - Jan 26, 2005 12:00:24 pm PST #6950 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Now I"m curious, Erika.

erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 12:18:31 pm PST #6951 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I don't really believe Bush is for real. I think that is the appearance of conviction. But how does heathen me know? Apart from that, color me Roman.

Strix - Jan 26, 2005 12:21:24 pm PST #6952 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I think the conviction is real. BUT I don't think he's ever thought about religion at all; I think he seized it as an absolute idea, a my way or the highway approach.

dcp - Jan 26, 2005 1:16:05 pm PST #6953 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

St. Brighid looks a lot like the Celtic goddess who preceded her.

There was a very well done bit about this in The Book of Kells by R. A. MacAvoy

erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 1:18:53 pm PST #6954 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

OK, Erin, you said it better. I'm not sure if I should say "Thank you," or "Stop it!"

Jim - Jan 27, 2005 3:51:56 am PST #6955 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

There's also interestin stuff about this in Melvyn Bragg's Credo , which I've just finished and throughly recommend to anyone who liked The Book Of Kells - it's about St's Wilfred, Cuthbert and Bega in 7th Centrury Northumberland. And yes, it is by that Melvyn Bragg.

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