#first century ad

[infinitysisters]

“The New Testament in the original Greek is not a work of literary art : it is not written in a solemn, ecclesiastical language, it is written in the sort of Greek which was spoken over the Eastern Mediterranean after Greek had become an international language and therefore lost its real beauty and subtlety.

In it we see Greek used by people who have no real feeling for Greek words because Greek words are not the words they spoke when they were children. It is a sort of “basic” Greek; a language without roots in the soil, a utilitarian, commercial and administrative language. Does this shock us? It ought not to, except as the Incarnation itself ought to shock us.

The same divine humility which decreed that God should become a baby at a peasant-woman’s breast, and later an arrested field-preacher in the hands of the Roman police, decreed also that He should be preached in a vulgar, prosaic and unliterary language. If you can stomach the one, you can stomach the other.

The Incarnation is in that sense an irreverent doctrine: Christianity, in that sense, an incurably irreverent religion. When we expect that it should have come before the World in all the beauty that we now feel in the Authorised Version we are as wide of the mark as the Jews were in expecting that the Messiah would come as a great earthly King.

The real sanctity, the real beauty and sublimity of the New Testament (as of Christ’s life) are of a different sort: miles deeper or further in.”

—

CS Lewis, intro to JB Phillip’s translation of the New Testament letters, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴, 1947

[art-for-a-reason]

The clear substance in front of the bust is "cabochon-worked rock crystal bezel" according to the article. I had to know.

Seriously cool.

A Roman “hologram” effect ring found in the grave of 1st century AD noblewoman, Aebutia Quarta. The ring is thought to depict her son, Titus Carvilius Gemello, who passed away at age of 18. Found at the Grottaferrata necropolis close to Rome.

👉 Read more: https://buff.ly/47Bx2fY

[livingwellnessblog]

Grace VS Law, Neville Goddard & The Apostle Paul

Grace VS Law, Neville Goddard & The Apostle Paul Neville Goddard, a 20th-century mystic and lecturer, did draw upon biblical themes in his teachings, and the concept of “The Law and The Promise” is one of his key ideas. While the terminology may echo the Biblical use of “law” in some ways, it’s important to note that Neville Goddard’s interpretation and emphasis differ significantly. Here’s a…

[bruhstation]

can't it even be more obvious thomas. why are you surprised that a sudrian historical site filled to the brim with armor and weaponry that dates back to the middle ages has old people afflicted with the gold dust working around the castle

[catabasis]

1601 | 1941 GOOD OMENS 1.03 | 2.04

[imerian]

Aaaaand i decided to post more of my f1 crafts here so here landoscar edition (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

Onse again photo without doodles under cut and some rambling in tags

[samstatsupremacy]

you didn't hear it from me, but jacob anderson created a new spotify playlist titled EUROPE and has been adding songs to it for the last month 👀

we already know that he uses music to get into Louis' mindset in his trailer during filming (he shared the LDPDL playlist a while back with this explanation) so one can only assume that things are brewing...

[marcus-junius-brutus15]

C0m3 t0 Th3 C0lluseum for h0t g1rls. 🤑💞

I DONT KNOW WHAT A COLLUSEUM IS???

[coriander-candlesticks]

I'm sick so I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, but I've been thinking about the nature of myths recently as I've been exploring hellenic polytheism.

For context: I'm ex-Mormon. I was raised in the church and, because of that, was taught biblical literalism but in, like, a more subtle way than most? I was raised believing that Adam & Eve and Noah's Ark, etc., were literally true, but that the story of Job specifically was not; I also always knew evolution and the Big Bang to be correct, despite there being a verse in the Doctrine & Covenants (a Mormon-specific religious book) where God apparently told Joseph Smith that the world is 6,000 years old- a passage I didn't know existed until my senior year of high school. I didn't realize I had believed in biblical literalism until I'd left the church, actually.

Now that I'm aware of it, it's a mindset I'm actively trying to combat while I explore Hellenic polytheism. It's definitely been a task to separate the nature of the Gods from their myths, as brutal as they often are. And it's something I've noticed within the community, too, which I think is interesting. It makes sense: Christianity, at least, has had a chokehold on much of the world for a long time, and so many of us have experienced literalism as our first interaction with any sort of holy text (though, of course, Greek myths as a whole aren't that) alongside our first experience with divinity as a wrathful God whose flaws are waved away, or ignored, or twisted into positive attributes. This also means that I'm trying to re-approach several deities with an open mind (Zeus, Hera, and Ares in particular, but many of them to some extent) while also trying to un-condition myself. I was already in the process of doing this, of course, but trying to figure out how to interact with a completely different pantheon has made that especially clear.

It extends to things like prayer and offerings, too. Prayers were very formulaic growing up, even though most of the time there wasn't a strict script to follow. There was always something you ask as part of the prayer, even if it's just 'please help me do better tomorrow' (alongside giving thanks, of course), so trying to craft a prayer without adding *everything* I'm used to including in makes it feel incomplete and, therefore, disrespectful. And daily prayer is something I'm resistant to because of prior experiences with it. I don't want to offend any of the gods by asking for something or asking for too much, especially so early on, and there's always a promised offering the few times I *have* asked. Add worries about exact obedience on top of that and it's proving to be a difficult thing to untangle. And I know that the gods are difficult to offend, figuring out how to do this takes trial & error and that's okay, it'll get better the more I do it, etc., etc.; this is more an issue with my own overthinking than anything else (hooray for ✨ mental health issues ✨). I'm not really asking for advice here, necessarily, just thinking out loud because I'm not comfortable talking to people in meat space about it yet.

[auntieoneandauntietwo]

Seeing as the big high point of Dragonflight is the relationship between Lessa and Mardra, it’s a bit of a shame that the conflict in Dragonquest doesn’t actually center around the collapse of that relationship

[ltwilliammowett]

Roman ship fresco from Ostia, first half 3rd AD

The fresco was discovered in 1865 in columbarium 31 of the Ostien necropolis on via Laurentina depicts a scene where a coastal freighter (navis caudiacaria) is being loaded with food. The ship is called Isis Geminiana (as can be read on its right side) and belongs to a certain Geminus or Geminius: At the stern is the helmsman, Farnaces magister; Abascantus oversees a man tipping a sack full of food (res) into a modius (Roman measure of volume for dry goods); at the prow, another figure seated next to a modius (inscribed Feces) gives orders to two workers carrying more sacks of grain on their shoulders and about to ascend the bridge.

The fresco, which belongs to the subsequent decorative phase (first half of the 3rd century AD) of the tomb, which was built in the second half of the I - beginning of the II century AD, decorated the left wall of the tomb and was flanked by a depiction of Mercury, which no longer exists. On the back wall was the banquet scene, now kept in the Museo Gregoriano Profano.

[theexodvs]

Futurists: Wow, Babylon the Great is clearly (insert ideologically or politically opposing denomination, country, alliance, or system)!

Jeremiah 3, 4, Ezekiel 6, 16: Am I a joke to you?

[wetpapert0wel]

i will forever be sad that razias shadow is as obscure as it is.

[ultimateinferno]

So I've been doing some art research before doing a portrait of one of my OCs because she comes from very Prim and Proper Victorian Nobility and wanted to really study those kinds of paintings from the era which... there's a shit ton of etsy ad facsimiles out there that really corrupt the pool of references, but Wikimedia has a collection of portraits that are actually from the Era and let me tell you, a lot are just great

I Know'd It Was Ripe by Thomas Hovenden

This kid's smile is just infectious.

Girl from Megara by Georgios Iakovidis

She's not having it!

Portrait of a Woman by Simon Hollosy

The warmth in her eyes. I trust her implicitly.

Laughing Girl by Fritz von Udhe

I think this one is my favorite. The warm lighting. The pose. Her smile. I might genuinely try to do a full study on this.

A lot of these weren't the particular style I was going for (the uptight noble portrait) but they do very much provide a window for me into this era that created the one I am making.

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

When Lonan had found him in the bathroom that airless August, he’d been crying for his mother. Now he wants to cry but only for himself. He’s a fruit scooped of its most valuable parts. Rind ready to compost. A twenty-first century tragedy at twenty-one.

when you become genre aware and call yourself a tragedy in narrative lmao <3

BODY BACK!

[aewrie]

the only thing stopping me from developing bug conlang phonetics rn is grimm's home language aka the troupe's language being a pidgin/creole esq mishmash with a stupid amount of loanwords and i'm not dealing with that