12-30-2006, 02:14 PM
It is certainly a study of ages :-) )
Interesting points, for example on syncretism - some originally or ostensibly religious traditions may be so culturally embedded, that converts bring them into the new faith, or continue to think in these habitual forms.
It becomes very difficult to interpret what indicates belief without the same cultural referents - I often think of the local late Georgian cemetery chapel influenced by the Erechtheion Temple, on Athens' Acropolis as well as Egyptian models and used by Roman Catholics, Wesleyans, Anglicans and even Quakers as well as agnostics and atheists for funerals.
I presume few users in it's history did so to worship Athena Polias or Poseidon Erechtheus, let alone Amun-Ra! (a divine figure also merged from separate traditions)
Interesting points, for example on syncretism - some originally or ostensibly religious traditions may be so culturally embedded, that converts bring them into the new faith, or continue to think in these habitual forms.
It becomes very difficult to interpret what indicates belief without the same cultural referents - I often think of the local late Georgian cemetery chapel influenced by the Erechtheion Temple, on Athens' Acropolis as well as Egyptian models and used by Roman Catholics, Wesleyans, Anglicans and even Quakers as well as agnostics and atheists for funerals.
I presume few users in it's history did so to worship Athena Polias or Poseidon Erechtheus, let alone Amun-Ra! (a divine figure also merged from separate traditions)
Salvianus: Ste Kenwright
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A member of Comitatus Late Roman Historical Re-enactment Group
My Re-enactment Journal
~ antiquum obtinens ~
