You tards tend to forget that the ritual prostitution in Near Eastern societies were both infinitely less degenerate and a lot better structured than the full blown fuckfests and sexual revelry your race engage in. You made entire porn categories out of piss, feces, armpits, feet, choking, race play, death, rape, just the most disgusting shit ever.
A church is where the public attends. a megachurch is meant to be monumental in that it brings together a monumental number of people in communal worship.
A ziggurat, on the other hand, hosts a more solitary rite meant very specifically to set apart the king's unique relationship to divinity. High clerics ascend to a certain level, but not to the top. The highest platform on this symbolic mountain, closest to (in this case) Nanna the moon god and patron deity of Ur, was reserved for the king. He would make his symbolic ascent up the holy mountain and do whatever kings do when they pretend to commune with moon gods. Then he'd come back down to earth, fresh with the glow and rejuvenated authority of having supposedly communed with the divine.
Both megachurches and ziggurats are built big to make a show, but in a megachurch the mass of community makes the show, and on a ziggurat it's all about separating the king from the rest of the community. Like literally putting him out of reach.
>Both megachurches and ziggurats are built big to make a show, but in a megachurch the mass of community makes the show, and on a ziggurat it's all about separating the king from the rest of the community. Like literally putting him out of reach.
Gathering everyone in front of the ziggurat and making them watch the king ascend the "unaccessible" stairs was probably a great show
>>A church is where the public attends. a megachurch is meant to be monumental in that it brings together a monumental number of people in communal worship.
That's false. a megachurch a commercial product to earn money to its owner.
Same as a Mesoamerican temple platform really, just slightly different in form. Kind of a ritual mountain.
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A church is where the public attends. a megachurch is meant to be monumental in that it brings together a monumental number of people in communal worship.
A ziggurat, on the other hand, hosts a more solitary rite meant very specifically to set apart the king's unique relationship to divinity. High clerics ascend to a certain level, but not to the top. The highest platform on this symbolic mountain, closest to (in this case) Nanna the moon god and patron deity of Ur, was reserved for the king. He would make his symbolic ascent up the holy mountain and do whatever kings do when they pretend to commune with moon gods. Then he'd come back down to earth, fresh with the glow and rejuvenated authority of having supposedly communed with the divine.
Both megachurches and ziggurats are built big to make a show, but in a megachurch the mass of community makes the show, and on a ziggurat it's all about separating the king from the rest of the community. Like literally putting him out of reach.
I legit don't get how civilizations capable of building stuff like this kept getting conquered by steppenagger tribes with a fraction of their population
Agricultural societies tend to have really physically weak and poorly motivated people, even if they have much greater numbers. Nutritionally agriculturists are mostly weak peasants who can be organized for massed labor in the off season (hence pyramids and stone temples), but they suck at organized warfare and fighting. The average agriculture peasant is basically at subsistence level and often even starving. In some cases this was even intentional because a starving people is easier to control than well fed people. This is why agricultural societies consisted of dirt poor subsistence peasants with a small group of well fed warriors, priests, and nobles, at the top. The problem is that your well fed and trained warriors are going to actually be smaller in number than the nomads and still probably softer due to the nature of relatively easy living in civilized lands.
A steppe nomad is, in contrast, raised on meat and dairy from birth, learns to fight and ride from basically infancy, and the weak, stupid, or defective, don't survive to adulthood anyways, so the average steppe nomad warrior is going to be mentally tougher and physically superior just by default compared to a civilized person. It's eugenics by nature basically.
I legit don't get how civilizations capable of building stuff like this kept getting conquered by steppenagger tribes with a fraction of their population
Wrong interpretation of an ancient power plant that used lost alien technology
the ziggurat of Ur isn´t it?
Why did they build them
they worshipped some whore, you could go and cuck any citizen for a small fee
You tards tend to forget that the ritual prostitution in Near Eastern societies were both infinitely less degenerate and a lot better structured than the full blown fuckfests and sexual revelry your race engage in. You made entire porn categories out of piss, feces, armpits, feet, choking, race play, death, rape, just the most disgusting shit ever.
That was nearly 3,000 years ago, and it managed to be more sanitary than picrel. Embarrassing
Rolling.
>1-8 from left to right
>9 = no one
>0 = free pick
also rollang
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it's a Ziggurat
Like a Fort
Home.
Bronze age equivlant of this. Actually when you think about it the Tower of Babylon could represent mega churches.
A church is where the public attends. a megachurch is meant to be monumental in that it brings together a monumental number of people in communal worship.
A ziggurat, on the other hand, hosts a more solitary rite meant very specifically to set apart the king's unique relationship to divinity. High clerics ascend to a certain level, but not to the top. The highest platform on this symbolic mountain, closest to (in this case) Nanna the moon god and patron deity of Ur, was reserved for the king. He would make his symbolic ascent up the holy mountain and do whatever kings do when they pretend to commune with moon gods. Then he'd come back down to earth, fresh with the glow and rejuvenated authority of having supposedly communed with the divine.
Both megachurches and ziggurats are built big to make a show, but in a megachurch the mass of community makes the show, and on a ziggurat it's all about separating the king from the rest of the community. Like literally putting him out of reach.
What are some good books about ziggurats/sumerian religion in general
>Both megachurches and ziggurats are built big to make a show, but in a megachurch the mass of community makes the show, and on a ziggurat it's all about separating the king from the rest of the community. Like literally putting him out of reach.
Gathering everyone in front of the ziggurat and making them watch the king ascend the "unaccessible" stairs was probably a great show
>>A church is where the public attends. a megachurch is meant to be monumental in that it brings together a monumental number of people in communal worship.
That's false. a megachurch a commercial product to earn money to its owner.
A converter basketball arena?
>king personality cult instead of actual worship to religious entities
Literally megachurch
Platform for religious performance
Same as a Mesoamerican temple platform really, just slightly different in form. Kind of a ritual mountain.
See
Agricultural societies tend to have really physically weak and poorly motivated people, even if they have much greater numbers. Nutritionally agriculturists are mostly weak peasants who can be organized for massed labor in the off season (hence pyramids and stone temples), but they suck at organized warfare and fighting. The average agriculture peasant is basically at subsistence level and often even starving. In some cases this was even intentional because a starving people is easier to control than well fed people. This is why agricultural societies consisted of dirt poor subsistence peasants with a small group of well fed warriors, priests, and nobles, at the top. The problem is that your well fed and trained warriors are going to actually be smaller in number than the nomads and still probably softer due to the nature of relatively easy living in civilized lands.
A steppe nomad is, in contrast, raised on meat and dairy from birth, learns to fight and ride from basically infancy, and the weak, stupid, or defective, don't survive to adulthood anyways, so the average steppe nomad warrior is going to be mentally tougher and physically superior just by default compared to a civilized person. It's eugenics by nature basically.
Where I post from.
Built my martyr saddam hussein
I legit don't get how civilizations capable of building stuff like this kept getting conquered by steppenagger tribes with a fraction of their population
The steppe people had literal metropolises built from wood. METROPOLISES.
source?
A shitty amusement park tier reconstruction by Saddam Hussein
Yep. It's not even a real building, it's a facade.