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illogarithmil · 10 months ago

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One day my fellow historians will achieve their ultimate triumph and demonstrate that polytheism has never existed, we've all been transcendental monotheists forever and we still are actually (sorry neopagans :( )

#joke to be clear #i am neither academic-bashing nor neopagan-bashing #it's just quite funny to me how many different religions #and regions and areas #seem to become dramatically leas polytheist the more you read into the scholarship #pre-islamic arabia which all the islamic sources describe as being fully of pagans worshipping rocks and stones and all the usual topoi?#all evidence of polytheism there vanishes a century before muhammad was born #ancient greece? allow me to introduce you to the ambiguities of the singular usage of Ζεύς and stoic notions of a universal divine #the frontiers roll ever back :(

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