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Post by dividavi on Sept 6, 2017 0:38:15 GMT
Continuation video about Nimrod, Semiramus's boyfriend/husband: I wonder how these people came to that conclusion that Nimrod & the Hindu god Shiva are one & the same, when their names are totally different? There are quite a few instances of that happening. The Roman deity Jupiter is equated with the Greek Zeus even though the sounds are very different. Actually they're not all that different since Jupiter sounds fairly close to Zeus-Pater (Father Zeus). Poseidon was a major figure in the pre-Mycenean Greek pantheon and he was described as "Husband of the Earth." Somehow he became god of the sea and he was associated with the Roman Neptune, a previously minor deity. The Assyrian king Sennacherib was called Ozymandias by the Greeks. There's a famous country known to its inhabitants as Al Misr, by the Jews as Eretz Mitzrayim and by the Greeks (and afterwards most of the world) as Egypt. The capital of Thailand is not Bangkok, never has been. It's referred to as Krung-Thep by Thai people. There are lots of other examples.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 6, 2017 5:02:53 GMT
Some of the Greek-to-Roman translations sound different, like Athena and Minerva for example. After starting this thread I did a little reading. There was a Scotsman in the 1800's named Alexander Hislop who speculated about this scenario of breaking off into separate cultures and languages but worshipping the same deities under different names. It seemed most plausible to me. Yes, but, he was theorizing that Christian denominations such as Catholics, Orthodox, etc, were worshipping the Virgin Mary as a cover for Semiramis. Unfortunately, I didn't discover that until after I started the thread. Or maybe I heard it once and forgot. His name was vaguely familiar.
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Post by dividavi on Sept 6, 2017 8:03:29 GMT
I wonder how these people came to that conclusion that Nimrod & the Hindu god Shiva are one & the same, when their names are totally different? There are quite a few instances of that happening. The Roman deity Jupiter is equated with the Greek Zeus even though the sounds are very different. Actually they're not all that different since Jupiter sounds fairly close to Zeus-Pater (Father Zeus). Poseidon was a major figure in the pre-Mycenean Greek pantheon and he was described as "Husband of the Earth." Somehow he became god of the sea and he was associated with the Roman Neptune, a previously minor deity. The Assyrian king Sennacherib was called Ozymandias by the Greeks. There's a famous country known to its inhabitants as Al Misr, by the Jews as Eretz Mitzrayim and by the Greeks (and afterwards most of the world) as Egypt. The capital of Thailand is not Bangkok, never has been. It's referred to as Krung-Thep by Thai people. There are lots of other examples. Correction: In antiquity, Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας in the Greek alphabet) was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE, in the 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Sept 6, 2017 8:06:19 GMT
If you don't let up with the trolling, something may have to be done about it in the future. You mean you will get ... all grumpy? Please show the difference between Cthulhu and the mythology which prompted this thread, in terms of their likelihood of actually representing real entities.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 6, 2017 16:38:02 GMT
There are quite a few instances of that happening. The Roman deity Jupiter is equated with the Greek Zeus even though the sounds are very different. Actually they're not all that different since Jupiter sounds fairly close to Zeus-Pater (Father Zeus). Poseidon was a major figure in the pre-Mycenean Greek pantheon and he was described as "Husband of the Earth." Somehow he became god of the sea and he was associated with the Roman Neptune, a previously minor deity. The Assyrian king Sennacherib was called Ozymandias by the Greeks. There's a famous country known to its inhabitants as Al Misr, by the Jews as Eretz Mitzrayim and by the Greeks (and afterwards most of the world) as Egypt. The capital of Thailand is not Bangkok, never has been. It's referred to as Krung-Thep by Thai people. There are lots of other examples. Correction: In antiquity, Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας in the Greek alphabet) was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE, in the 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. In more recent times, there is Santeria, an afro-Caribbean religion that hid their orichas' names by associating each one with the name of a catholic saint, since they were forced to convert or die.
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