Fun Fact! Romans actually generally did not regard the peoples they conquered as worshiping different gods than the Romans themselves did. After all, doesn't everyone worship a god of war, and a god of family, and a god of healing? What does it matter, theologically speaking, what worshippers call them? A rose by any other name...
Toutatis is usually identified by Roman sources as either Mercury (the god of trade) or Mars (the god of war), just worshipped under one of those funny, furrin names! Silly Gauls and their silly language!
Huh, whaddya know, he really does say that in the episode! Thematically appropriate, too, because Teutatis was a "protector of the tribe" and equated with Mars, and Bandit said it right before going to war with Lucky's Dad because his palm tree kept dropping leaves in their yard.
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PugJesus@piefed.social · 49 pts · 139d
Fun Fact! Romans actually generally did not regard the peoples they conquered as worshiping different gods than the Romans themselves did. After all, doesn't everyone worship a god of war, and a god of family, and a god of healing? What does it matter, theologically speaking, what worshippers call them? A rose by any other name...
Toutatis is usually identified by Roman sources as either Mercury (the god of trade) or Mars (the god of war), just worshipped under one of those funny, furrin names! Silly Gauls and their silly language!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 138d
They already did this themselves by associating their gods with the much more developed Greek ones, so makes sense.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 136d
the empire so violently patriotic and cocksure that they just pre-emptively said the rest of the world was roman and simply didn't realize it.
omae wa mou romanou
marble@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 139d
Hey, that doesn't look like Asterix!
aeiou@piefed.social · 20 pts · 139d
I read that as 'Garlic Gods' and was rather confused
PugJesus@piefed.social · 18 pts · 139d
By the bread of the gods!
0ops@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 139d
By the power of
RaRye!grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 139d
What episode of Bluey was that?
eli@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 138d
Throne looks like episode "Queens" (Season 2, Episode 23)
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 138d
Huh, whaddya know, he really does say that in the episode! Thematically appropriate, too, because Teutatis was a "protector of the tribe" and equated with Mars, and Bandit said it right before going to war with Lucky's Dad because his palm tree kept dropping leaves in their yard.