I was thinking of the angel (?) at 3 o'clock. Didn't notice that the lower picture was Mithras (though where's the serpent? am I just blind?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Watchman
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I was thinking of the angel (?) at 3 o'clock. Didn't notice that the lower picture was Mithras (though where's the serpent? am I just blind?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Watchman
Popular misconception...even RTW: BI get's it wrong lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Internautus III
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Originally Posted by beatoangelico
Winged figures as deities or their messengers aren't exactly a new or specifically Christian thing you know... ancient Mesopotamians already portrayed several of their deities with wings, as did the Greeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by CirdanDharix
I know, but it's the style that makes it seem more like an angel to me; it looks more medieval than what i'd usually associate as ancient. But then, what do I know about artsitic history? Pretty much nothing.
actually it was in 380 with the edict cunctos populos,Quote:
Originally Posted by beatoangelico
CUNCTOS populos, quos clementiae nostrae regit temperamentum, in tali volumus religione versari, quam divinum petrum apostolum tradidisse romanis
religio usque ad nunc ab ipso insinuata declarat
thereby raising "the religion of St. Peter" to the status of State Religion
in 391 paganism was outlawed, thus ending freedom of worship, one of the factors that granted Rome the absence of religious wars except the ones against "The Judean People's Front". Or was it "The People's Front of Judea"?
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I think it was the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea". The "Judean People's Front" is that guy over there :smash: