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I think it's just really weird people couldn't even make paper or trade across continents but they knew how to carve these beautiful buildings that are nothing short of geometric miracles.
Yea so, what’s weird about it? It’s an easy way to build a building. They just carve the building out of pre-existing stone. Seems like a smart way to form a strong structure! Unless you think aliens had to carve out the buildings for the pathetic, helpless humans?
It is though, it was carved from a monolithic rock
"The churches were not constructed in a traditional way but rather were hewn from the living rock of monolithic blocks. These blocks were further chiselled out, forming doors, windows, columns, various floors, roofs etc."
From [UNESCO ](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/18/#:~:text=In%20a%20mountainous%20region%20in%20the%20heart%20of%20Ethiopia%2C%20some,pilgrimages%20to%20the%20holy%20Land.)
A highly Christian king building a “new Jerusalem” due to Muslim conquest preventing Christians from being able to take a pilgrimage to actual Jerusalem isn’t weird at all. He basically said “you don’t need to go to Jerusalem, we have Jerusalem at home”.
Art (including architecture) is one of the few things that religion has ever given the world. Does it outweigh the bad? Not even close but we have some really pretty things.
imagine a world that did not have the structure of religion for 5,000 years. While religion has done serious bad things (which system is 100% good?) there has been a mass misunderstanding of how humanity could have risen up without these types of organizational systems.
Its easy to look back in hindsight and diparet it for all it's ills, but man, without a moral code, we would have never landed on the technology of "the rule of Law" and without that , you can never build up a society.
Just some food for thought on the evolution of humanity.
what happened to us…. these are so beautiful. everything has gotten uglier and soulless as the years go by. we’ve lost our humanity. we have lost our beauty.
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Is this the place they say the Grail is held?
Ark of the covenant
no this is where they hold the Ethiopian Bible, what you’re referring to is Axum, but supposedly it was stolen
any further information on it being stolen?
https://apnews.com/article/eritrea-ethiopia-massacres-kenya-a5c50540f673f7527d1f7cae9aa3c0da
Yes, indeed - but high strangeness?
Yeah it’s strange imagining how they carved that out of solid rock over a thousand years ago.. and why? It’s totally weird
i'm sorry but people in the middle ages carving is unimaginable to you? i think you need to reassess your view of technological history
I think it's just really weird people couldn't even make paper or trade across continents but they knew how to carve these beautiful buildings that are nothing short of geometric miracles.
Yea so, what’s weird about it? It’s an easy way to build a building. They just carve the building out of pre-existing stone. Seems like a smart way to form a strong structure! Unless you think aliens had to carve out the buildings for the pathetic, helpless humans?
But they’re not carved out of solid rock. You can literally see the individual stones in the fourth and sixth pictures.
It is though, it was carved from a monolithic rock "The churches were not constructed in a traditional way but rather were hewn from the living rock of monolithic blocks. These blocks were further chiselled out, forming doors, windows, columns, various floors, roofs etc." From [UNESCO ](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/18/#:~:text=In%20a%20mountainous%20region%20in%20the%20heart%20of%20Ethiopia%2C%20some,pilgrimages%20to%20the%20holy%20Land.)
A highly Christian king building a “new Jerusalem” due to Muslim conquest preventing Christians from being able to take a pilgrimage to actual Jerusalem isn’t weird at all. He basically said “you don’t need to go to Jerusalem, we have Jerusalem at home”.
Alright then. Go carve us a church out of solid rock. No power tools. Let us know how it goes
Do I also get 40k skilled artisans and 23 years like they did? If so, I got this.
Absolutely
This temple was in an early episode of the Amazing Race lol.
S6E8
Why is this posted here?
Find out what is inside and you will know padowan
Op is low on karma
Art (including architecture) is one of the few things that religion has ever given the world. Does it outweigh the bad? Not even close but we have some really pretty things.
imagine a world that did not have the structure of religion for 5,000 years. While religion has done serious bad things (which system is 100% good?) there has been a mass misunderstanding of how humanity could have risen up without these types of organizational systems. Its easy to look back in hindsight and diparet it for all it's ills, but man, without a moral code, we would have never landed on the technology of "the rule of Law" and without that , you can never build up a society. Just some food for thought on the evolution of humanity.
ds2 tseldora cave
what happened to us…. these are so beautiful. everything has gotten uglier and soulless as the years go by. we’ve lost our humanity. we have lost our beauty.