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2/2 Pre-Christian Religions of Europe Around the Time of Jesus⠀ ⠀ Balkan – Dacian (Zalmoxianism), Thracian, and Illyrian polytheism, and Albanian mythology.⠀ Baltic – Latvian (Dievturi), Lithuania (Romuva), and Prussian (Druwi) polytheism.⠀ Basque – Basque mythology.⠀ Berber and Punic – Traditional Berber religion, and Punic religion.⠀ Celtic – Celtic polytheism (the religion of the druids), and the syncretic Gallo-Roman polytheism.⠀ Germanic – Old Norse (Forn Sed), Continental Germanic (Irminism), Anglo-Saxon (Fyrnsidu), and Gothic polytheism.⠀ Hellenistic – The Roman religion (Religio Romana), the Roman Imperial Cult, the Ancient Greek religion (Hellenismos), the Luwian religion, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Mysteries, and Orphism.⠀ Iranian – Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, the Sarmatian religion, the Scythian religion (Uatsdin), the Mesopotamian religion, and the syncretic Zoroastrian-Armenian polytheism.⠀ Sami – Sami shamanism, animism and polytheism.⠀ Semitic – Judaism, Semitic polytheism (including the Canaanite religion and the Nabataean religion).⠀ Slavic – The Slavic religion (Rodnovery).⠀ Uralic – Finnish (Suomenusko), Estonian (Maausk), and Hungarian (Ősmagyar Vallás) polytheism.⠀ ⠀ Christianity gained converts through the work of missionaries like Saint Patrick, through royal decree like Constantine’s Edict of Milan, and by force as in the Northern Crusades. By the Middle Ages, so entrenched was Christianity in Europe that the continent was commonly referred to simply as Christendom. But the Christianization of Europe was not as absolute as many now think. Pagan traditions survived independently for centuries in some places long after they had been officially Christianized. True to its etymology, pagans found refuge in rural areas. Some of the later attempts to extinguish the remnants of indigenous religion in Western Europe include The Spanish Inquisition and the witch hunts of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In Northern Scandinavia, traditional Sami religion was never fully eradicated and its practice continues today. For other traditions whose lineages were broken, the new generations that have begun to revive them are collectively calle
1/2 European Paganism and Christianization - The spread of Christianity throughout Europe⠀ ⠀ In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked – Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The word derives from the Latin paganus meaning ‘of the countryside,’ essentially calling them hicks or bumpkins. Some of these pre-Christian belief systems are listed below.⠀ ⠀ A note on the categorization – Indigenous religions are, by their nature, nebulous and dynamic. Unlike the relatively uniform Christian Church, indigenous religions have no codified dogmas and no universally ordained ways to worship. Celtic polytheism, for instance, was less of a religion in the modern sense and more of a spectrum of beliefs and practices. The Celtics tribes in Ireland, Gaul, and Galatia may have had some common rituals and an overlapping pantheon of gods, but they were also influenced by neighboring traditions and their local environments.
Comparative Latitudes⠀ ⠀ The Equator divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres. The hemispheres are in many ways opposites. They have reverse prevailing winds, ocean currents, direction of storm rotation, apparent path of the sun, and seasons from one another. Even the stars in the night sky are different. But when all that is put aside, distance from the Equator (in either hemisphere) is also a critical factor effecting climate, culture, and more.⠀ ⠀ Northern and Southern biomes often mirror each other. For instance, hot deserts mostly exist between 30° and 50° north and south, and tropical rainforests between 0° and 10° north and south of the Equator. While there are strikingly few species that span both hemispheres outside of the tropics, there are many analogs. The South has penguins and the North has auks. The tallest tree in the South, the eucalyptus, and the tallest tree in the North, the sequoia, both live about 40° from the Equator. In this sense, the hemispheres provide a fascinating laboratory of different ways life has adapted to similar climes, like separate worlds sharing the same planet.⠀ ⠀ The map of at the top of this article is an equal-area Gall-Peters map which takes all the land in the Southern Hemisphere (except Antarctica) and drops it in the oceans of the Northern Hemisphere. Relative latitude is preserved, but the landmasses are placed at random meridians. Since land makes up only about 29% of the Earth’s surface, it could easily be rearranged to fit into one hemisphere. Seen like this, our planet seems smaller, and its most distant lands suddenly appear at eye level.⠀ ⠀ Comparative Latitudes maps by Jordan Engel can be reused under the Decolonial Media License 0.1.⠀ ⠀ #Alternative #Projections #Decolonial #Atlas #Originals #NonNorth #Orientation #Region #World
1/6 - 500 Years of Black Resistance Our new map documents centuries of African-American resistance milestones. May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all Black Resistance Movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the resistance milestones you would include. The background of the map depicts the percent Black population from the 2010 census. #BlackHistoryMonth
2/6 - 500 Years of Black Resistance Our new map documents centuries of African-American resistance milestones. May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all Black Resistance Movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the resistance milestones you would include. The background of the map depicts the percent Black population from the 2010 census. #BlackHistoryMonth
3/6 - 500 Years of Black Resistance Our new map documents centuries of African-American resistance milestones. May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all Black Resistance Movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the resistance milestones you would include. The background of the map depicts the percent Black population from the 2010 census. #BlackHistoryMonth
4/6 - 500 Years of Black Resistance Our new map documents centuries of African-American resistance milestones. May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all Black Resistance Movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the resistance milestones you would include. The background of the map depicts the percent Black population from the 2010 census. #BlackHistoryMonth
5/6 - 500 Years of Black Resistance Our new map documents centuries of African-American resistance milestones. May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all Black Resistance Movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the resistance milestones you would include. The background of the map depicts the percent Black population from the 2010 census. #BlackHistoryMonth
6/6 - 500 Years of Black Resistance Our new map documents centuries of African-American resistance milestones. May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. The places and events documented on this map are by no means an exhaustive list of all Black Resistance Movements. Leave us a comment letting us know about the resistance milestones you would include. The background of the map depicts the percent Black population from the 2010 census. #BlackHistoryMonth
Council against Intolerance map. Langston Hughes added a few comments to his copy. #NoBanNoWall #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/CvQCdqN1ph via AltSmithsonian
Established north of St. Augustine in the 1730s, Fort Mose was the first free black community in North America. Map created between 1765 and 1775. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/kvnc9Gp8CG via HillHouseRock
500 Years of Black Resistance⠀ ⠀ In 1526, the very first Africans arrived in North America as slaves of the San Miguel de Guadalupe colony. They promptly revolted and took refuge with the local indigenous people, becoming the first permanent non-native inhabitants of what would become the United States. Since that time, African-American resistance has taken a variety of forms as their challenges shifted from slavery to lynching, segregation, inequality, discrimination, profiling, mass-incarceration, police violence, and others.⠀ ⠀ During the slavery era, common forms of resistance included slave revolts, sabotage, and escape to free states, other countries, or independent communities (maroons). Some captives chose to commit suicide rather than submit to slavery. Perhaps the most day-to-day form of slave resistance was slowing the pace of their work. This contributed to the perception that black people are lazy and docile. If nothing else, this map debunks that racist stereotype. The African-American fight for justice has, for centuries, been as constant as it is widespread, showing that they are anything but a submissive people.⠀ ⠀ After slavery's abolition, free black communities began to organize for self-defense against the KKK and lynching mobs. The early 20th century saw the first public demonstrations for civil rights after a wave of lynching violence against black communities. During the Civil Rights Movement, many nonviolent tactics like sit-ins, boycotts, strikes, occupations, and civil disobedience were developed. This era also saw the rise of more militant factions and rising discontent led to occasionally violent uprisings. Today, a new wave of civil rights has been ushered in by movements like Black Lives Matter. Activists employ the whole toolkit from symbolic actions like kneeling during the national anthem to direct actions like removing the confederate flag from the South Carolina State House and pulling down the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham.⠀ ⠀ May we take inspiration from the past and honor those who fought. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream, may we all keep up the fight. #BlackHistoryMonth
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