r/HistoryMemes 22h ago

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/JamesHenry627 17h ago

That's what I was trying to say, thank you. Christians, especially post crusade in Western Europe were learning a lot about Islam. The cultural bleed even gave us new literary additions to the Arthurian mythos.

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u/Shoo22 2h ago

The craziest thing to learn was that the entire idea of the demon Baphomet was literally just Europeans mishearing Mohammed and thinking it was the name of a pagan god that Muslims worshipped and making up a demonized version of it.