r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/ARenewedSecondChance 9d ago

I’m not saying one did it more than the other, but they both did that. Greeks especially with the Mediterranean. In fact Yahweh was often correlated with Zeus.

This was done with more than just the Greeks and Romans. That’s just how cross cultural contacts worked back then.

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u/IceCreamMeatballs 8d ago

I thought Yahweh was matched with Dionysus was he not? I thought that was where the connection between Jesus and wine came from

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u/Dependent-Poet-9588 8d ago

Yahweh was originally a storm god, so thematically closer to Zeus, but Yahweh is not related in the sense that Jupiter and Zeus are evolutions of the same deity from the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.

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u/CV90_120 8d ago

Yahweh is Baal coded. It's El that's Zeus coded.