• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yahweh was actually the old god of the harvest and wine I believe. Before the Jewish Pantheon shrunk to one god only. So Yahweh was similar to Dionysus at one point. There are still remnants and mentions of the other gods in the old testament, like Yahweh’s wife Ashira and Baal who I think was an underworld god. Also funny that in the old testament, god talks about other gods as if they’re real but weak or bad, doesn’t deny they exist.

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      2 months ago

      I remember a theory that Dionysus is the Christian god in disguise.

      There’s also a theory about Loki being the same.

      I don’t remember the details but these theories make more sense to me than the actual religions

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        2 months ago

        To me it’s crazy that the Aztecs had a trickster god of mischief who would shape shift into a Fox. And across the planet we have Loki.