[[abrahamic]] [[abrahamic]] [[syncretism-conversion-isation]] [[abrahamic]] --- [[christianity]] This page is about Christianity itself prior to IE influences. For "conversion and syncretism" see [[christianity]]. ## Scholarship [[r-sugirtharajah2013]] --- ## By Branch ie [[celtic-christianity]] [[classical-christianity]] [[germanic-christianity]] [[lithuanian-christianity]] [[greek-christianity]] [[iranian-christianity]] [Wikipedia: Interpretatio-Christiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretatio-Christiana) ## Misc. Biblio [[robertson1910]] Pagan Jesus [[z-smitek2001]] orion [[z-smitek1999]] Axis Mundi [[grade2019]] [[fideler1993]] [[gricourt-hollard2018]] [[cosmas-damian]] [[k-patton2009]] [[wikander-ola2017-from]] ## Sycretic Texts [[solarljoth]] [[heliand]] ## Topics [[christmas]] [[arthur]] [[st-george]] [[crosses]] ### Christianity Before IE Influences - Original Christian End Days were gonna happen in the lifetime of Jesus https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says-about/end.html ### People [[raedwald]] ### Narratives [[hero-slays-dragon-christianity-ie]] ### View of Each Other #### Pagan view of Christianity [[r-hoffman1994]] Porphyry #### Christian view of Paganism [[wellendorf2018]] ### IE Influences on Christianity [[russell1994]] Germanization [[porter1999]] [[murphy-g2000]] Appendix C ### Middle Earth Christians used the Germanic concept of Comitatus in conjunction with the use of the Anglo-Saxon term Middangeard for "earth" to describe their God as the lord/father/guardian of the earth ### Virgin Birth [[welburn2008]] zoroastrian ### Other from The Survival of the Pagan Gods by Jean Seznec The Basilica of Constantine was mistaken for a temple of Bacchus due to its use of amorini artwork!   Cupid -> The Angle of the Annunciation Minerva -> The Virgin Mary   General:  "Moral interpretations of myths" was a tactics used by pagans in reaction to the contemporary moral focus of the society caused by Christianity "For many who wished to keep the religion of their fathers it offered a means of giving that religion new life and of bringing it into line with the modern conscience." (p. 87) [There's no evidence for it before hand I suppose?] Christian apologists held this against the pagans, but once they had taken control they use it themselves.   "Do you honestly believe that Homer...had in mind the allegories which have been foisted off on him by Plutarch, Heraclides, Ponticus, Eustathius, and Phornutus, and which Politian has purloined from them? If you do believe this, you are far indeed from my opinion, which is that Homer could no more have dreamed of anything of the sort than Ovid in his Metamorphoses could have been thinking of the gospel[s]." (Rabelais p.95)   About the Porta Maggiore in Rome: "Carcopino has shown that the decoration as a whole embodies the great esoteric doctrines associated with the Pythagorean sects...the Basilica of Constantine was mistaken for a temple of Bacchus!" (p.105)