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1,100 year-old Denmark crucifix ‘may change history’
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| 03-17-2016
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Posted on 03/17/2016 12:25:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I’m not sure that’s supposed to be a ‘heart’. I think it’s a stylisation of the time, a way to indicate a human face with broad forehead and chin.
-JT
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posted on
03/17/2016 6:14:28 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: truth_seeker
Thanks for the info. I usually learn more from the people who come to this forum than the knowledge which I share.
Not every civilization was great about recording their history and some of the doers did more than the writers.
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posted on
03/17/2016 6:49:04 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: Cementjungle
The splayed legs indicate that this is not a Jesus image.
Also, as gingers lack souls, hair color also indicates that this unlikely to be a Jesus image.
However, in a thousand years, it might pass for one, if a researcher really needs to publish to make tenure.
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posted on
03/17/2016 7:29:53 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: Red Badger
Looks like a warrior in armor to me, not seeing a crucifix.
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posted on
03/17/2016 7:39:34 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Red Badger
What makes it a crucifix? Why not just a person? Easter time fraud alert. They do this every stinking year.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/18/2016 6:39:09 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Boogieman; All
This comes from Ireland, judged to be 8th century. Except that the boards of the cross are much broader and the artistic detailing is different, the design is essentially the same, if you look closely. Artists in different areas would have different materials, perhaps more or less abundant material, local/cultural traditions in techniques, etc.:
http://irisharchaeology.ie/2015/05/an-8th-century-crucifixion-plaque-from-co-roscommon/
-JT
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posted on
03/18/2016 7:21:43 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: HiTech RedNeck
Yeah that “heart-face” is interesting.
Wikipedia says the earliest known use of the “heart symbol” is from the mid-13th century, which was hundreds of years after this thing was made. So I don’t think people would have associated the shape with a heart.
To: Hostage
Whenever I encounter that stupid “BCE”, I just read it as “Before the Christian Era”.
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posted on
03/18/2016 4:56:27 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Keep calm and Pray on.)
To: Jedidah
You are so right. Maybe the translator messed up....
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posted on
03/18/2016 4:58:18 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Keep calm and Pray on.)
To: Red Badger
Looks like a warrior in a helmet and chain mail armor.
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posted on
03/18/2016 4:59:16 PM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
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03/18/2016 5:00:37 PM PDT
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pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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