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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3041889, member: 44316"]Each one of those is a treasure! Wonderful! </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if ancient provincial people had religions where these types had real meaning. A modern artist could made a snake cowboy as a novelty, but we would not expect him or her to create it as an expression of some profound reality in his/her mental world. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some history books consider the transition from paganism to Christianity without much discussing what the pagans were doing and thinking in their religions. You can read a lot about early Christianity without learning much about paganism. Books that do discuss that (<i>The Age of Constantine the Great</i>, an old book by Jack Burckhardt, does) reveal some pretty strange (to our sensibilities) goings-on. I'm sure their religious texts (if they had any) were suppressed, so we may never know what a snake on a horse meant to them, if it had meaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think it was a novelty type like it would be today?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3041889, member: 44316"]Each one of those is a treasure! Wonderful! I wonder if ancient provincial people had religions where these types had real meaning. A modern artist could made a snake cowboy as a novelty, but we would not expect him or her to create it as an expression of some profound reality in his/her mental world. Some history books consider the transition from paganism to Christianity without much discussing what the pagans were doing and thinking in their religions. You can read a lot about early Christianity without learning much about paganism. Books that do discuss that ([I]The Age of Constantine the Great[/I], an old book by Jack Burckhardt, does) reveal some pretty strange (to our sensibilities) goings-on. I'm sure their religious texts (if they had any) were suppressed, so we may never know what a snake on a horse meant to them, if it had meaning. Do you think it was a novelty type like it would be today?[/QUOTE]
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