I believe it's part of the general Mudslide theory.
where we have a rather recent secret past but somewhere in the early modern era we paved over the remains of our old big people cities and just rebuilt our modern architecture over it.
it is most common among americans and australians, so old colonies with relative short individual histories.
>Did owners of these skulls and bones consent to be architecture?
Not sure for other ones, but this one
Way to miss the point.
- The Sedlec Ossuary, was a result of a massive plague that simply resulted in the graveyards not being anywhere close to be able to accept that many bodies. To make place for new ones, the old ones had to be dug up, but it also had to be absolutely assured that they still remain on hallowed grounds. Thus figuring out a way to fit them into the graveyard chapel was the only solution.
And pretty much all of those bodies died a good few centuries before being turned into cool chrismass decorations.
that reminds me of some women who allowed her body to be used for science after she passed away only for her son to find out the US military took the body to test some explosives.
Why are Asian people afraid of skeleton? I'd like a reasonable explanation. Is it based on ancient chink boy history and myth? Was it a war? What started it?
Americans teach little world history let alone ancient history so the Great Skeleton War of the Shang dynasty tends to get glossed over. The trauma is unconciously seared into China's cultural memory.
>Why are Asian people afraid of skeleton?
Actually different cultures have different reasons. In Japan specifically, it was a result of their obsession with both physical and ritual purity. Something that absolutely makes sense when you realize that due to the natural conditions, Japanese urban centres were far more space constrained than western, and fear of contamination and potential spread of diseases was far more of a pressing issue.
Also, Buddhism generally does not like physical remains of a body because they distract us from the far more important metaphysical aspect of our existence. That is why Buddhism much more prefers flame burrials to other options (if possible, because flame burrial is economically quite disadvantageous due the the cost of fuel needed).
And since Buddhism further took over burrial customs in Japan (since the original shinto was literally too afraid of inpurity to even handle the subject), flame burrials became the norm, and thus skelletons were something you'd usually only see when something obviously went wrong, So that would generally make you uneasy.
It's like finding a huge bloodsplatter that nobody bothered to clean up to them - it does make you wonder what happened, and sure that it wasn't a good thing.
I don't know much about other cultures, safe for the fact that Taiwanese people are REALLY afraid of ghost, which is why they genuinely just fricking refuse to even go to their own cemetaries.
Why are Asian people afraid of skeleton? I'd like a reasonable explanation. Is it based on ancient chink boy history and myth? Was it a war? What started it?
Oh yeah, and it is also worth noting that it may not be so much them being particularly afraid of skellies, as us being unusually comfortable with them.
Christianity had a strong fixation on physical remains, as it was believed that after Rapture, we will be reformed from the same physical matter that we used to be in life, more or less. Being burned or otherwise your skelleton being destroyed was believed to be potentially a literal obstacle in getting to the Last Reconing. In fact burning your body was one of the most grave punishments Catholic church could practice, reserved usually for most severe and dangerous heretics. The core punishment of burning a witch at a stake wasn't in the pain (honestly, you'd asphyxiate before you get seriously burned anyway), but the prospect of your body being completely destroyed.
That, together with the cult of physical remains of Saints, made people generally more comfortable with skelletons than most other cultures are.
This game made me appreciate more the dark shit of christian religion.
Weird how there isn't a single 8-hour online video that explains how the religion in Blaspy is supposed to work. They toss around all sorts of names and titles and rituals but it's so unclear what they actually believe in other than "fricked-up rites good".
I don't know if people outside of South America study the spanish and portuguese colonies, but the game is basically showing how there is only one true god and the natives's believes are nothing but garbage. That's the reason why you go through killing everyone because the inquisition in europe is not even close to what happened in SA where litearally every tribe and civilization was wiped in the name of their true god that gave them "crusaders" gold.
It's literally a death cult, but some people enjoy it. I wish they would just worship their shit without trying to get me into that trash every fricking week.
vampyr
When i was a boy i used to love running down the passage ways in the paris catacombs and running my hands over the smoothed skulls.
>Christards be like “This isn’t evil death worship”
>Doesn't venerate Santa Muerte
>bones are LE BAD
Did owners of these skulls and bones consent to be architecture? If not, bury them back please.
Bones are just a left over organic material, just like nails and hair
Getting yourself buried on church-grounds was a sought-after privilege, so obviously.
no these are victims from a race of cannibal giants. they also built all the buildings that are way too big for modern sized humans
What?
He's an archaeologist guessing what the frick the point of a cathedral is.
I actually want to hear this schizo theory
Nephilim
I believe it's part of the general Mudslide theory.
where we have a rather recent secret past but somewhere in the early modern era we paved over the remains of our old big people cities and just rebuilt our modern architecture over it.
it is most common among americans and australians, so old colonies with relative short individual histories.
>Did owners of these skulls and bones consent to be architecture?
Not sure for other ones, but this one
- The Sedlec Ossuary, was a result of a massive plague that simply resulted in the graveyards not being anywhere close to be able to accept that many bodies. To make place for new ones, the old ones had to be dug up, but it also had to be absolutely assured that they still remain on hallowed grounds. Thus figuring out a way to fit them into the graveyard chapel was the only solution.
And pretty much all of those bodies died a good few centuries before being turned into cool chrismass decorations.
that reminds me of some women who allowed her body to be used for science after she passed away only for her son to find out the US military took the body to test some explosives.
>playing gmod with realistic gore add-ons
Why?
Way to miss the point.
Did you know that there is a skeleton inside of you even at this moment?
>human form evil
>satan goat illuminati imagery? nah you are just a schizo lol
Anon those are clearly skeletons not humans
it isn't
death is not an entity
and your soul is inmortal
is just useful to have a material object to remind you of that
>Something completely natural every human has is evil
Meds.
What would you know about Christianity?
Duck Soles
Planescape Torment
Morrowind
Any Warhammer 40K game.
hmmmmm skyrim
Dark Souls crypts/Nito boss
Clive Barker's Jericho
Why are Asian people afraid of skeleton? I'd like a reasonable explanation. Is it based on ancient chink boy history and myth? Was it a war? What started it?
Americans teach little world history let alone ancient history so the Great Skeleton War of the Shang dynasty tends to get glossed over. The trauma is unconciously seared into China's cultural memory.
Because it's symbolic of death and there's some shit in their traditional religion about death being tainted.
>help someone who is poor/sick
>get tainted with evil (now your soul is unclean lol)
woooooooooow
it's not much different from the rest of the world
executioners or butchers were also considered unclean
>Why are Asian people afraid of skeleton?
Actually different cultures have different reasons. In Japan specifically, it was a result of their obsession with both physical and ritual purity. Something that absolutely makes sense when you realize that due to the natural conditions, Japanese urban centres were far more space constrained than western, and fear of contamination and potential spread of diseases was far more of a pressing issue.
Also, Buddhism generally does not like physical remains of a body because they distract us from the far more important metaphysical aspect of our existence. That is why Buddhism much more prefers flame burrials to other options (if possible, because flame burrial is economically quite disadvantageous due the the cost of fuel needed).
And since Buddhism further took over burrial customs in Japan (since the original shinto was literally too afraid of inpurity to even handle the subject), flame burrials became the norm, and thus skelletons were something you'd usually only see when something obviously went wrong, So that would generally make you uneasy.
It's like finding a huge bloodsplatter that nobody bothered to clean up to them - it does make you wonder what happened, and sure that it wasn't a good thing.
I don't know much about other cultures, safe for the fact that Taiwanese people are REALLY afraid of ghost, which is why they genuinely just fricking refuse to even go to their own cemetaries.
Oh yeah, and it is also worth noting that it may not be so much them being particularly afraid of skellies, as us being unusually comfortable with them.
Christianity had a strong fixation on physical remains, as it was believed that after Rapture, we will be reformed from the same physical matter that we used to be in life, more or less. Being burned or otherwise your skelleton being destroyed was believed to be potentially a literal obstacle in getting to the Last Reconing. In fact burning your body was one of the most grave punishments Catholic church could practice, reserved usually for most severe and dangerous heretics. The core punishment of burning a witch at a stake wasn't in the pain (honestly, you'd asphyxiate before you get seriously burned anyway), but the prospect of your body being completely destroyed.
That, together with the cult of physical remains of Saints, made people generally more comfortable with skelletons than most other cultures are.
blasphemous
>ancient tomb no one has been to in centuries
>candles lit
blasphemous is specifically about fricked up catholic church aesthetic
This game made me appreciate more the dark shit of christian religion.
This game was kino aesthetically and pure sovl but ngl the gameplay itself was kinda mid for a metroidvania.
Weird how there isn't a single 8-hour online video that explains how the religion in Blaspy is supposed to work. They toss around all sorts of names and titles and rituals but it's so unclear what they actually believe in other than "fricked-up rites good".
I don't know if people outside of South America study the spanish and portuguese colonies, but the game is basically showing how there is only one true god and the natives's believes are nothing but garbage. That's the reason why you go through killing everyone because the inquisition in europe is not even close to what happened in SA where litearally every tribe and civilization was wiped in the name of their true god that gave them "crusaders" gold.
It's literally a death cult, but some people enjoy it. I wish they would just worship their shit without trying to get me into that trash every fricking week.
Blasphemous
ck2
blasphemous, its gameplay is nothing special but aesthetics are absolute top tier making it actually worth playing