SteakHoagie666

SteakHoagie666 t1_iwo9hnj wrote

Always love the reddit historians who try to teach us a lesson without even reading the fucking article. The Germans who killed him even waved at him to stop. His unit was told not to advance. His unit tried to stop him. He just did it.

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SteakHoagie666 t1_ivnyb68 wrote

In platos story one of the sons of posieden, Atlas is " made rightful king of the entire island(atlantis) and the ocean (called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom."- from Wiki.

So.. I mean... the king of atlantis is named after the mountain range and ruled over the area as his fiefdom.. in platos story... but if you're sure there was no connection and no inspiration whatsoever drawn from it Okey fuckin dokey.

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SteakHoagie666 t1_issjesz wrote

It's uh not. That's kinda the extreme fantasy version of it. Necromancy in religion can be seen as just speaking to the dead. Or 'divining' answers from the dead.

It's seen not a great idea because you could be talking to anything. Demon, yourself, another entity, or whatever.

I think the parallel they were drawing was simply the fact when you "talk to the dead" it's not really them or "may not be".

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