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Being a huge fan of history and ancient religions while I was digging up on the internet I found this about the religion of the thracians/dacians.
From (((wikipedia))) articles “Thracian Religion” and “Zalmoxis”
“One notable cult that is attested from Thrace to Moesia and Scythia Minor is that of the "Thracian horseman", also known as the "Thracian Heros", at Odessos (Varna) attested by a Thracian name as Heros Karabazmos, a god of the underworld usually depicted on funeral statues as a horseman slaying a beast with a spear. Dacians had a monotheistic religion based on the god Zalmoxis. The supreme Baltic thunder god Perkon was part of the Thracian pantheon, although cults to Orpheus and Zalmoxis likely surpassed him”
From my understanding the Zalmoxis monotheism arose later on and was based on a regional/tribal area.
“According to some scholars, such as Vasile Pârvan, Jean Coman, R. Pettazzon, E. Rohde and Sorin Paliga, since ancient sources do not mention any god of the Getae other than Zalmoxis, the Getae were monotheistic. However, Herodotus is the only ancient author who explicitly states that the Getae had only one divinity. “
“Herodotus asserts that Zalmoxis was originally a human being, a slave who converted the Thracians to his beliefs. The Greeks of the Hellespont and the Black Sea tell that Zalmoxis was a slave of Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchos, on the island of Samos. After being liberated, he gathered huge wealth and, once rich, went back to his homeland. Thracians lived simple hard lives. Zalmoxis had lived among the wisest of Greeks, such as Pythagoras, and had been initiated into Ionian life and the Eleusinian Mysteries. He built a banquet hall, and received the chiefs and his fellow countrymen at a banquet. He taught that neither his guests nor their descendants would ever die, but instead would go to a place where they would live forever in a complete happiness. He then dug an underground residence. When it was finished, he disappeared from Thrace, living for three years in his underground residence. The Thracians missed him and wept fearing him dead. The fourth year, he came back among them and thus they believed what Zalmoxis had told them. “
This seems like another of the pagan stories that the joos stole from in creating their rabbi jewsus xian
The parallels are clear :- Both human-god figures
- Both slaves of their master (jewsus says he is slave of g-d..which is the joos) and both start out poor. - Both end up rich (jewsus supposed to take over the world and its riches when he comes back) - Both self-proclaimed teachers making banquets to teach disciples. - Both say that their “disciples” will never die (jewsus saying there will be muy resurrection then you will live forever) and live forever happy
- Both go in the ground for some time while their disciples supposedly mourn them then they reappear “resurrected”. Then people are supposed to believe them and only worship them onwards.
From (((wikipedia))) articles “Thracian Religion” and “Zalmoxis”
“One notable cult that is attested from Thrace to Moesia and Scythia Minor is that of the "Thracian horseman", also known as the "Thracian Heros", at Odessos (Varna) attested by a Thracian name as Heros Karabazmos, a god of the underworld usually depicted on funeral statues as a horseman slaying a beast with a spear. Dacians had a monotheistic religion based on the god Zalmoxis. The supreme Baltic thunder god Perkon was part of the Thracian pantheon, although cults to Orpheus and Zalmoxis likely surpassed him”
From my understanding the Zalmoxis monotheism arose later on and was based on a regional/tribal area.
“According to some scholars, such as Vasile Pârvan, Jean Coman, R. Pettazzon, E. Rohde and Sorin Paliga, since ancient sources do not mention any god of the Getae other than Zalmoxis, the Getae were monotheistic. However, Herodotus is the only ancient author who explicitly states that the Getae had only one divinity. “
“Herodotus asserts that Zalmoxis was originally a human being, a slave who converted the Thracians to his beliefs. The Greeks of the Hellespont and the Black Sea tell that Zalmoxis was a slave of Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchos, on the island of Samos. After being liberated, he gathered huge wealth and, once rich, went back to his homeland. Thracians lived simple hard lives. Zalmoxis had lived among the wisest of Greeks, such as Pythagoras, and had been initiated into Ionian life and the Eleusinian Mysteries. He built a banquet hall, and received the chiefs and his fellow countrymen at a banquet. He taught that neither his guests nor their descendants would ever die, but instead would go to a place where they would live forever in a complete happiness. He then dug an underground residence. When it was finished, he disappeared from Thrace, living for three years in his underground residence. The Thracians missed him and wept fearing him dead. The fourth year, he came back among them and thus they believed what Zalmoxis had told them. “
This seems like another of the pagan stories that the joos stole from in creating their rabbi jewsus xian
The parallels are clear :- Both human-god figures
- Both slaves of their master (jewsus says he is slave of g-d..which is the joos) and both start out poor. - Both end up rich (jewsus supposed to take over the world and its riches when he comes back) - Both self-proclaimed teachers making banquets to teach disciples. - Both say that their “disciples” will never die (jewsus saying there will be muy resurrection then you will live forever) and live forever happy
- Both go in the ground for some time while their disciples supposedly mourn them then they reappear “resurrected”. Then people are supposed to believe them and only worship them onwards.