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[@TenOfTwenty]

So, about the Carthaginians sacrificing their children to Baal. It mostly happened. We have found ancient graves near the ruins filled with the skeletons of children. Multiple historians and writers at the time made note of it as well, and these were academics from across the Mediterranean. Also, it was only their first-born children that were sacrificed.

[@TenOfTwenty]

@Purple Emerald I understand what u are saying but that wasn't true. A huge number of children would not live to see adulthood due to illness. It was common for societies in ancient times to be around 50% children to offset the difference. Plus, the rate at which women would die in childbirth was astronomical compared to what it is today. Women had to focus on giving birth as much as possible in order to keep populations growing. It is sad that this was a necessity, but we should be thankful to live in a time where this is no longer necessary.

[@TenOfTwenty]

@Purple Emerald I'm going to be quite honest, I didn't realize you were being sarcastic with your first comment lol.

[@cegesh1459]

@@TenOfTwenty There is no evidence for it happening. In fact the children graves have greek letters and names in them. The graves of small children are more likley becauae a lot of children died, even during / aftwr birth. We have found regular children graves, not sacrifices. Maybe it did happen sometimes, but evidence is lacking. After all human sacrifices were rather common at the time, the Romans did it too.

[@Souledex]

​@@cegesh1459 Wow. Everything you said was wrong. There is evidence for it happening. It wasn't convincing 20 years ago - but it is now. From a number of different sites at this point, It certainly didn't happen all the time, even possibly only during times they would have starved anyways, but it definitely did happen. There is evidence they would be killed before they were burned too - at least that's a part of the historical record and the opposite seems to only be the narrative of their enemies. And no the Romans as a nation at least did human sacrifice once in their recorded history with incredibly ridiculous and specific circumstances relating to the Sibyline books. They prided themselves on not doing it - it literally was a defining feature of their identity. The only argument you could make is they killed prisoners that marched during a triumph at the end of the Via Sacra. That definitely has religious overtones to us, but if they very explicitly did not see it as that and thought their gods wouldn't even want that it's really a hard argument to make unless making false equivalences are your objective. None of this is to say they are especially morally good - they were every bit as awful as the people they fought- but they were pragmatic warriors with religious superstitions rather than pious farmers with a warlike obsession.

[@artembentsionov]

Saturn is the Roman equivalent to Cronos. Cronos was a Titan (who are the same “species” as the Greek gods) who was foretold that one of his children would overthrow him, so he began eating them as soon as they were born. When Zeus was born, his mother swapped him out with a rock and gave the rock wrapped in a blanket for Cronus to eat. Later on, Zeus grew up and came to work for Cronos as a servant. Then he cut Cronos’s belly open with a scythe, and all his siblings came out. Cronos and the other titans were cast down into Tartarus

[@PaulXPZ]

And years later, Kratos finished him off for good, and Zeus, and pretty much every other greek god. He had anger issues you see...

[@MetalMailman35]

Oh and fun fact about how you mentioned americans, the founding fathers where super roman larpers, thus the architecture and use of a "senate" and all that stuff (i know im super late, but still)

[@astrobullivant5908]

@9:24, It's complicated. We think of a Greco-Roman paganism today where the Greeks and Romans prayed to the same gods and just gave them different names, but originally, they were pretty different religions. At first, the Roman pagan religion was only distantly related to the Greek pagan religion, and the two religions were pretty different. Originally, the Roman pagan religion didn't have Titans, only the Greek one did. Before the 5th Century BCE, when the Romans absorbed elements of the Greek pagan religion, they changed the figures a lot. For instance, the Roman story of Hercules was pretty different from the Greek story of Heracles. In the 4th and 3rd Centuries BCE, the Romans began heavily changing their religion to correspond with the Greek pagan religion. When we think of Rome in its heyday from 200 BCE - 200 CE, its religion was heavily influenced by the Greek religion and Saturn was identified with Cronus, but originally, the Romans didn't make that connection. So, before the 3rd Century BCE, the Romans weren't usually teaching that Saturn ate his children; that was just the Greek story of Cronus.

[@amberswafford9305]

Saturn was called Cronus & he thought he ate Zeus but it was a stone bc those 2 are very similar lol. Then later there was the Titanomachy war which the Olympians won. Yep, that information is useful to me all the time 🤣

[@alexortiz7425]

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[@DevonDaVinci]

Thanks

[@Dnichols619]

Saturn is Chronos (sp? Kronos?) Zeus's father. I dunno the Roman version, but in the Greek version he ate all his kids until Zeus mother saved him by tricking Cronos (maybe).

[@Dnichols619]

Oh and yeah he was a Titan. I might have heard that he was the Roman God of time but I'm not super familiar with Roman mythology. I just know which ones are which Greek God lol.

[@tonygacs6249]

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[@kemal1232]

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[@DevonDaVinci]

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[@cegesh1459]

Fun fact: Romans learned a lot about farming from Carthaginians. They praised a Carthaginian book about acriqulture.

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[@DevonDaVinci]

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[@cegesh1459]

There is no evidence for it happening. In fact the children graves have greek letters and names in them. The graves of small children are more likley becauae a lot of children died, even during / aftwr birth. We have found regular children graves, not sacrifices. Maybe it did happen sometimes, but evidence is lacking. After all human sacrifices were rather common at the time, the Romans did it too.