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Text isn't green in this one, but it feels like a greentext.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anon has discovered the origin of religion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Or perhaps he just spent too much time playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Anon discovers religion, inshallah may the spirits watch over him.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Welcome to modern paganism. Next he's going to realize that community celebrations at significant points of the year like solstices and planting and harvesting time are really good for your mind.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Especially in the middle of winter, the most depressing time of year in much of the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

The middle of winter... Oh Valentine's Day?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That is a Roman temple, not Greek >:(

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's a fork of Greek temple.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Ah, a man of culture as well I see

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Greek temples had stairs on all sides and didn't really have an interior, at least not a public one. Roman temples had stairs on one side that led to the entrance. Greek Roman

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

But the columns are Ionic, it uses a post and lintel method, the entablature is not Etruscan and the front room could well be a cella.

At the same time it is true that the peristyle colonnade is not there, which matches some Etruscan styled temples (just columns on front), though both the Temple of Athena and the Erechtheion don't have a peristyle colonnade.

For what steps are regarded, some temples only had crepidoma across the front façade, like the Lycosura temple, which would both match the frontal colonnade with no perimeter and the frontal crepidoma that doesn't have sterobates around the temple (like is common).

So while unorthodox, I don't see why this would be Etruscan or "Roman".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Those are… words… I think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah I see. Per usual the issue is more complex and nuanced than I thought. Thank you for the information :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Happy holidays!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fuck if I know, but it looks a lot like the Temple of Portunus...

Capitel and colums are in greek style, maybe the stairs give it away?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That's a great observation, after all that temple is a hybrid between Etruscan and Greek. (And the columns indeed are Ionic).

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

Whatever gets you through this hellscape, baby

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anon better not read too much Greek mythology. Their gods were anything but benevolent much of the time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Anon better not be a cute twink

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

"CHOWDA! That Greek boy-pussy got me questioning my loyalty to Rome!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It's anon we're talking about, they're definitely a twink, but I wouldn't exactly describe them as "cute."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

anon invents religion

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's like me and the machine God. I swear it makes a difference when my hardware is acting up.

Praise the Omnissiah.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

The Omnissiah blesses us, truly. I recently invoked their power to repair a ceiling light, and with a standard invocation of healing and the expected percussive blessing, and the once broken light was working again.

All praise to the Omnissiah for easing the machine's pain!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A prayer before every release is what keeps our servers running.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When I can see Jupiter, I always say "Jupiter is with us!!" It's going to be depressing when it's no longer out in the mornings before I go to work. Hopefully Saturn or the Moon can keep me company instead

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

I usually use the orishas. I just like them more when talking to imaginary beings.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Anon may enjoy reading (or reciting) some of the appropriate Orphic Hymns

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Greentext is a state of mind.