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Anarchy paradise

Karamuru wrote:I had to google Percy Jackson.
But it paid off. I was happy to find out Greek gods speak English.
They are Greek...but hey, they are gods, they must have arrived in the New World sidestepping Ellis Island. Moreover...being gods, they must pre-date the Mayflower. And Columbus. In fact, Poseidon didn't need to travel at all, of course. From the Aegean Sea to the mouth of the Hudson River he is pretty much everywhere.
I imagine the gods probably like pizza too, and go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient sculptures of themselves - gods are vain, everybody knows that.

I understand the concept. Legend has it that the city where I was born was founded by none other than Odysseus himself.

I am pretty sure gods love pizza.

Karamuru, Hermes Express 123, and Central california republic

Third list of deceased nations:

Massintu
Metopias
Middle asia mano
Miles davis jr
Neopolitan ice cream
Neececonsin
Nego-utopia
Nekrosto
New greater vatican
North ceeio
North east artheria
Norvesta
Not a trigger puppet xii
Of china-
Of the runk vocraconastan
Olegier saneaselo
Omega 56
Oovaslandia
Ounteapreon
Pakvora

Karamuru, Cloud-9, and People of phoenix

I remember Pakvora as being our first delegate and one of the first nations to come here. Much love to Pakvora.

People of phoenix and Voxija

Annabeth-chase

Gypsy Lands wrote:Greetings to you, Annabeth-chase. Region hopping? No matter, anyone coming here gives us an excuse to sample Skailin's coronary artery bypass producing pancakes!

**sets out a platter of pancakes, strawberries, whipped cream, butter, tea and coffee**

I left out the Hershey's kisses. Too tempting for Skailin.

I have come to stay.

Karamuru, Gypsy Lands, People of phoenix, Anarchy paradise, and 1 otherVoxija

Central california republic

Gypsy Lands wrote:I remember Pakvora as being our first delegate and one of the first nations to come here. Much love to Pakvora.

F

Annabeth-chase

Karamuru wrote:I had to google Percy Jackson.
But it paid off. I was happy to find out Greek gods speak English.
They are Greek...but hey, they are gods, they must have arrived in the New World sidestepping Ellis Island. Moreover...being gods, they must pre-date the Mayflower. And Columbus. In fact, Poseidon didn't need to travel at all, of course. From the Aegean Sea to the mouth of the Hudson River he is pretty much everywhere.
I imagine the gods probably like pizza too, and go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient sculptures of themselves - gods are vain, everybody knows that.

I understand the concept. Legend has it that the city where I was born was founded by none other than Odysseus himself.

The gods do like pizza.

Central california republic

Annabeth-chase wrote:The gods do like pizza.

So the Greek Gods are canonically Roman? Hmmmmmmmm

Hey Gypsy Lands, how are you finding all the deceased nations? Did you have a personal list or is it something anyone can find for any region?

Anarchy paradise

page=activity/view=region.gypsy_lands/filter=cte

This is a good place to start Cloud-9

Cloud-9 and Hermes Express 123

Cloud-9 wrote:Hey Gypsy Lands, how are you finding all the deceased nations?

I keep all the residents here in my dossier. I have a puppet here who keeps only the current nations. That way I can keep a record of who's here. For example, a few hours ago The united-states of america- CTE'd. Our "regional happenings" may not show this because there's so much activity listed due to all of our embassies. My dossier is quite large now; I'm not sure how nations can be entered.

Stand by for the 4th list!

Cloud-9 and Hermes Express 123

Gypsy Lands wrote:I keep all the residents here in my dossier. I have a puppet here who keeps only the current nations. That way I can keep a record of who's here. For example, a few hours ago The united-states of america- CTE'd. Our "regional happenings" may not show this because there's so much activity listed due to all of our embassies. My dossier is quite large now; I'm not sure how nations can be entered.

Stand by for the 4th list!

Wow! Very cool! Why don’t you put them in a dispatch?

Also, will we be forming an N-Day team this year?

Cloud-9

Central california republic wrote:So the Greek Gods are canonically Roman? Hmmmmmmmm

The Roman gods where stolen from the Greeks.

Hermes Express 123 wrote:The Roman gods where stolen from the Greeks.

"Did the Romans copy the Greek gods but changed their names, or was it the other way around ?

Neither of these hypotheses are correct; the Greeks and Romans originally had separate deities with different names, different mythologies, and different attributes, but, due to immense Greek cultural influence in Italy, the Romans gradually came to identify their own native deities with the Greek ones. In the process, they adopted traditional stories and distinctive divine attributes belonging to the Greek deities and attributed them to their own.

This variety of religious syncretism was extremely common among polytheistic peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. It was commonly thought that basically all peoples worshipped more-or-less the same major gods, just using different names and in different ways. This made it easy to equate one’s own deities with those of foreign peoples. When the Akkadians under Sargon conquered the Sumerians in Mesopotamia in the late twenty-fourth century BC, they did almost exactly the same thing that the Romans did with the Greeks; they syncretized their own East Semitic deities with the deities of the Sumerian people they had conquered. Greek writers were already in the habit of describing foreign deities using Greek names long before the Roman Empire became prominent; the historian Herodotos (lived c. 484–c. 425 BC), for instance, identified the Thracian and Egyptian deities by equating them with Greek ones who were originally unrelated.

The Roman identification of Greek deities with their own is known in Latin as interpretatio graeca, or “Greek interpretation.” Some of these identifications were entirely natural. For instance, the Romans identified their god Jupiter with the Greek god Zeus. Now, as it happens, Jupiter and Zeus are both derived from the much earlier Proto-Indo-European god Dyeus Phater (*Dyḗus Ph2tḗr), the god of the daylit skies. The fact that they had so many attributes in common, therefore, was because they were etymologically related to each other.

Other identifications were not natural at all. The Romans, for instance, identified Mars, an important, widely-venerated, and dignified god personifying masculine virtue, who was closely associated with agricultural fertility, with the Greek god Ares, a relatively unimportant god of violence and raging bloodlust who was seldom if ever worshipped by the Greeks at all. These two personalities were very difficult for the Romans to attempt to reconcile!

Another case of this may be the goddess Venus, who was originally a perfectly respectable matron goddess associated with agricultural fertility and marital love. Venus was seen as the mother of Rome, yet the Romans came to identify her with Aphrodite, the young, sex-crazed Greek goddess of lust and sexual passion, who was well known for her many adulterous exploits.

Other deities were directly imported from the Greek pantheon to the Roman pantheon, retaining their original Greek names and attributes fully intact. Examples of these include the gods Apollo (whose name is merely a Latinization of his Greek name Ἀπόλλων), Bacchus (who takes his name from Βάκχος, a Greek epithet of the god Dionysos), and Pluto (who takes his name from the Greek word Πλούτων, meaning “of riches,” which was a euphemistic name for Hades, the ruler of the Greek Underworld).

To that extent, then, it is more accurate to say that the Romans copied their deities from the Greeks, but it is important to stress that this influence was not strictly one-directional. Indeed, many of the most famous stories we think of as being part of “Greek mythology” are actually Roman, or at least known only from Roman accounts. Many of the most famous myths have their first recorded tellings in the Metamorphoses, a long narrative poem written in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid in around 8 AD."

Source : quora.com

**Edited : sorry for the "professorial"-style post.
I had the same question as Hermes Express 123 and decided to dig deeper for answers.**

Flandarz, People of phoenix, and Hermes Express 123

Central california republic

Karamuru wrote:"Did the Romans copy the Greek gods but changed their names, or was it the other way around ?

Neither of these hypotheses are correct; the Greeks and Romans originally had separate deities with different names, different mythologies, and different attributes, but, due to immense Greek cultural influence in Italy, the Romans gradually came to identify their own native deities with the Greek ones. In the process, they adopted traditional stories and distinctive divine attributes belonging to the Greek deities and attributed them to their own.

This variety of religious syncretism was extremely common among polytheistic peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. It was commonly thought that basically all peoples worshipped more-or-less the same major gods, just using different names and in different ways. This made it easy to equate one’s own deities with those of foreign peoples. When the Akkadians under Sargon conquered the Sumerians in Mesopotamia in the late twenty-fourth century BC, they did almost exactly the same thing that the Romans did with the Greeks; they syncretized their own East Semitic deities with the deities of the Sumerian people they had conquered. Greek writers were already in the habit of describing foreign deities using Greek names long before the Roman Empire became prominent; the historian Herodotos (lived c. 484–c. 425 BC), for instance, identified the Thracian and Egyptian deities by equating them with Greek ones who were originally unrelated.

The Roman identification of Greek deities with their own is known in Latin as interpretatio graeca, or “Greek interpretation.” Some of these identifications were entirely natural. For instance, the Romans identified their god Jupiter with the Greek god Zeus. Now, as it happens, Jupiter and Zeus are both derived from the much earlier Proto-Indo-European god Dyeus Phater (*Dyḗus Ph2tḗr), the god of the daylit skies. The fact that they had so many attributes in common, therefore, was because they were etymologically related to each other.

Other identifications were not natural at all. The Romans, for instance, identified Mars, an important, widely-venerated, and dignified god personifying masculine virtue, who was closely associated with agricultural fertility, with the Greek god Ares, a relatively unimportant god of violence and raging bloodlust who was seldom if ever worshipped by the Greeks at all. These two personalities were very difficult for the Romans to attempt to reconcile!

Another case of this may be the goddess Venus, who was originally a perfectly respectable matron goddess associated with agricultural fertility and marital love. Venus was seen as the mother of Rome, yet the Romans came to identify her with Aphrodite, the young, sex-crazed Greek goddess of lust and sexual passion, who was well known for her many adulterous exploits.

Other deities were directly imported from the Greek pantheon to the Roman pantheon, retaining their original Greek names and attributes fully intact. Examples of these include the gods Apollo (whose name is merely a Latinization of his Greek name Ἀπόλλων), Bacchus (who takes his name from Βάκχος, a Greek epithet of the god Dionysos), and Pluto (who takes his name from the Greek word Πλούτων, meaning “of riches,” which was a euphemistic name for Hades, the ruler of the Greek Underworld).

To that extent, then, it is more accurate to say that the Romans copied their deities from the Greeks, but it is important to stress that this influence was not strictly one-directional. Indeed, many of the most famous stories we think of as being part of “Greek mythology” are actually Roman, or at least known only from Roman accounts. Many of the most famous myths have their first recorded tellings in the Metamorphoses, a long narrative poem written in Latin by the Roman poet Ovid in around 8 AD."

Source : quora.com

**Edited : sorry for the "professorial"-style post.
I had the same question as Hermes Express 123 and decided to dig deeper for answers.**

I was talking in Percy Jackson canon lmao.

I was forced to study the Roman Gods in Latin class. The language itself was the major emphasis, but Roman history was also involved. And yes, while the other language clubs had a Christmas party, we had a Saturnalia party.

I know a lot of you are interested in the N-day activities. I'm not partaking, but I don't mind whatsoever if a bunch of you form a team and make GL proud!

Karamuru, Voxija, Hermes Express 123, and Central california republic

what a great area you all have here :P

Gypsy Lands, People of phoenix, Hermes Express 123, and Central california republic

Central california republic

Gypsy Lands wrote:I was forced to study the Roman Gods in Latin class. The language itself was the major emphasis, but Roman history was also involved. And yes, while the other language clubs had a Christmas party, we had a Saturnalia party.

I know a lot of you are interested in the N-day activities. I'm not partaking, but I don't mind whatsoever if a bunch of you form a team and make GL proud!

Or we join the winning team idk

Anarchy paradise

I played for two years but this is my first n-day

Hermes Express 123 and Colin advance wars

Last N-day I was the last nation in my faction and I was holding off another faction for as long as I could but got overwhelmed

Hermes Express 123 and Colin advance wars

Skailin wrote:Last N-day I was the last nation in my faction and I was holding off another faction for as long as I could but got overwhelmed

Hey DudE wAnna jOiN Us.

We NEED cANnON mEAt, Plus YOU cAN eARN bIG LEgeND.

Pretty please 😘

Gypsy Lands wrote:I keep all the residents here in my dossier. I have a puppet here who keeps only the current nations. That way I can keep a record of who's here. For example, a few hours ago The united-states of america- CTE'd. Our "regional happenings" may not show this because there's so much activity listed due to all of our embassies. My dossier is quite large now; I'm not sure how nations can be entered.

Stand by for the 4th list!

Interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Further list of CTE'd nations in GL: (I apologize for any misspellings; some weird names here)

Paris agreement founder
Pluris
Pwnsco
Rabspha fon ang
Ratardland
Rtemsiik tareotaa
Saint yepland
San-andreas-
Sawadiland
Silvia mercel
Sker supes
Sly rap
Sorores nigri velleris
South artheria
South ceeio
South kiestarovic
Sugar skullyna
Swan union
The 51 united states of america
The confederate-states of america-

People of phoenix and Hermes Express 123

When was Gypsy Lands founded ?

Karamuru wrote:When was Gypsy Lands founded ?

3 yrs. ago this month. I'll add it to the WFE.

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