The alleged skull of Mary Magdalene.
I like Martin Luther’s polemic about relics: “How many pieces of the true cross are there in the world? How many thorns from Christ’s crown of thorns? How many nails from the crucifixion? There are enough nails to shoe all the horses in Saxony. And if all the relics of the saints were gathered together, there would be enough bones to build a ship and enough wood to boil all the water in the sea.”
In that sense it’s one of Mary Magdalene’s many heads.
“Of the 12 apostles, 18 of them are buried in Spain.”
She is the hydra.
If you sewed together all the fragments of Jesus’s foreskin, you could go skydiving with it.
That’s a really good quote.
Martin Luther had an extremely finite of fucks to give. Despite not sharing his beliefs, I respect the man for upturning 1500yr of status quo.
IDK their religion allows straight up substitution magic, they turn wine and crackers into pieces of their dead god. Why can’t thorns and pieces of wood turn into the implements that killed him?
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exactly where my mind went
Sure it is. Let’s just pretend there is no monetary incentive for a region to have a holy relic which brings them a bunch of tourism. Ain’t nothing holy under capitalism.
Every single consecrated Catholic altar contains a relic of a saint. Usually they’re pretty small, maybe a piece of a fingerbone or something. You’re right that a good one like this would bring in lots of pilgrims (tourist dollars,) but it’s a tradition that way predates capitalism.
I’m not in the business of defending the Catholic Church or capitalism, just wanted to clarify.
Socialists don’t see a fundamental difference between a king or church owning the means of production and a merchant/capitalist/whatever owning it, because there isn’t a significant difference. Adam Smith was observing truths on the nature of property ownership and how to increase the gains from such, not describing the idea of rich and powerful people owning property that would make them money by exploiting the value of labor. That idea is as old as agriculture.
Where it might get tricky is if the gains from owning the “relic” were funding welfare programs/charity more than they were funding the excessive lifestyle of the clergy, but that’s not something Catholics are particularly known for living up to, responsible usage of tithes and actually following the precepts of ascetism in the clergy.
That’s metal as hell- I mean, heaven!
The Moment i realised the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
Hahaha came here to say: this is some serious warhammer shit
Looks like something the Deacons of the Deep would be protecting right next to the massive empty tomb.
What my unkindled hollow looks like with the face mask of his helmet open.
And I’m supposed to believe people paid good money for a blowie from that face?
Actually, nevermind, I believe it.
Even in death I still serve
Imagine that place being abandoned and a explorer accidently shining light on that skull…
40K does loves to grab imagery from old christian imagery for the Imperium.
Or Dune. Or Morecock. Or basically anything.
Yeah 40k puts anything cool in the blender. Then slaps some psudolatin on it and says I own this.
Why not just add a calf somewhere?
It looks like it’s gonna give the Doctor and the TARDIS a hard time this week.
Dontputyourdickinthat
Where do you think 40k got it
It’s like they haven’t studied history or read any 40K.
Wait Catholics; nevermind. They didn’t read the room with Luther, and he was friendly.
Luther was not friendly
At first he was a reformer, he didnt initially intend to create another schism but well the powder was already there and he lit it.
he was a reformer, but he was an angry, shitposting bastard about it.
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/talking-tough-martin-luthers-potty-mouth/
He, and literally every other Catholic, had a right to be angry.
I went to the capuchin crypt in Italy.
Spoiler; had nothing to do with monkeys
Did you find any legendary gear?
Nah, just snagged a couple skulls.
Not even common white gear? Man this game SUCKS.
Graphics are good though.
Good graphics, awful gameplay…
They were a dull grayish white.
I don’t know, people seemed pretty freaked out when I was carrying them around.
They’re working on some level
I went to a crypt in Britain as a kid, can’t remember where tf it was, but I still remember it because it was super interesting.
It’s where I learned about Trepanning and how they did it back in olden times to “let the bad spirits out” and it actually worked because it reduced swelling around the brain by giving the blood a way out.
We still do that today, just with thr patient under anesthesia so they dont freak out about uaving a hole drilled in their skull.
Yeah that’s what the dude said when he was showing us around, blew my preteen brain.
I recently watched an episode of Hamiltons Pharmacopoeia where this lady was talking about her experience living with the guy that made all the LSD for the south of Britain back in the day. She fell in love with a pigeon.
Anyway this dude was well into trepanning, thought it was a way to increase the brain capacity and expand the mind.
She ended up trepanning herself on film and releasing the footage, yeah they watched it on the episode.
She was a bit of an oddball but swears by it.
Ha, cool.
What do you think the Imperium was modeled after?
capucin- prefix comes from the Latin for “hood,” and by synecdoche means “monks” (who wear hoods)
Cafe Cappuccino has the same roots.
This is correct. There’s actually a little plaque that has this explanation on it before you go into the crypt.
It’s this funny little Latin lesson before you descend into a skeleton catacomb and are confronted with the living memory that you, too, are temporary.
synecdoche
I didn’t like that movie.
Yeah, that one is definitely a sight to see, if you can stand looking at dead people’s bones.
if you can stand looking at dead people’s bones
I much prefer it to looking at alive people’s bones
I’m fine with them. I went through that whole catacomb and then went through the others.
They have a lot of bony vaults and tunnels and catacombs in Italy.
And whatever church has the wooden fragments of Christ’s cross.
I saw those too.
They look like wood fragments.
At one point, there were probably enough cross fragments going around to build a house with.
