so, i was gonna make a post about this a while but completely forgot. The real mystery of the cathedrals is what they replaced. Nearly all of the great cathedrals of the middle ages were built over pagan temples of worship. like a rebranding of these sites. even St. Peter's Basilica was built on a roman or Greece pagan temple
pagan is a misunderstood term. take Germanic paganism for example, its hard to say what the structure of the religion was at this time. if you compare what we claim is paganism is now it is vastly different from the way it was described in the past.
theres a book from the 1000s from a guy named adam of bremen. He worked for the church and went to a pagan temple in sweden to check it out. look up the temple of uppsala. old pagan viking temple.
he said they worshiped a "trinity" thor, odin, and fryra. they would sacrifice people and animals, cut them up and throw there bloody bodies over a scared tree.
this seems to be a common trend in different pagan religions. Pacal the great in mesoamerica did similar ritualistic acts. human sacrifice, tree of life, birds.
around 1000ad all this switched and a new trinity was ushered in and replaced the old one. the cathedrals erased the history of the sacrificial temples.
the idea of "Jesus being sacrificed for our sins" is supposed to represent the end of human sacrifice. the symbol of him on a cross is a representation of the end of old age when they sacrificed people on the sacred trees.
So would you agree with me then that this plane of existence is just a playground for demons to possess and kill stupid humans "sacrifice", and that all religion is inherently wrong and evil?
so, i was gonna make a post about this a while but completely forgot. The real mystery of the cathedrals is what they replaced. Nearly all of the great cathedrals of the middle ages were built over pagan temples of worship. like a rebranding of these sites. even St. Peter's Basilica was built on a roman or Greece pagan temple
pagan is a misunderstood term. take Germanic paganism for example, its hard to say what the structure of the religion was at this time. if you compare what we claim is paganism is now it is vastly different from the way it was described in the past.
theres a book from the 1000s from a guy named adam of bremen. He worked for the church and went to a pagan temple in sweden to check it out. look up the temple of uppsala. old pagan viking temple.
he said they worshiped a "trinity" thor, odin, and fryra. they would sacrifice people and animals, cut them up and throw there bloody bodies over a scared tree.
this seems to be a common trend in different pagan religions. Pacal the great in mesoamerica did similar ritualistic acts. human sacrifice, tree of life, birds.
around 1000ad all this switched and a new trinity was ushered in and replaced the old one. the cathedrals erased the history of the sacrificial temples.
the idea of "Jesus being sacrificed for our sins" is supposed to represent the end of human sacrifice. the symbol of him on a cross is a representation of the end of old age when they sacrificed people on the sacred trees.
some cathedrals still have engravings that symbolism this old pagan tree sacrifice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouen_Cathedral#/media/File:Rouen_(38564194996).jpg right on the front of this cathedral theres a carving showing 5 men standing infront of a tree with people hanging from the branches. eerie shit in plain view
So would you agree with me then that this plane of existence is just a playground for demons to possess and kill stupid humans "sacrifice", and that all religion is inherently wrong and evil?
... more or less yeah, it seems to be along those lines.