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walkitoutYeah, yeah, I’ll catch up blog later. I was unpacking, doing laundry and paying bills on Sunday and I’m now sitting up because I keep coughing.
Where was I?
Right. So, there’s some museum in England that has a single Elagabalus coin (see, here it is! Altho no, I did not immediately spot it here either). They put it on display sometimes and have decided to label it with the pronoun “she”, for completely plausible reasons.
I was like, man, I would expect to have more in my brain about 3rd century Roman emperors than was floating to the surface so off to wikipedia to read about Elagabalus (this is when I noticed GBL!). He was high priest of Elagabalus, and it was looking at that wikipedia entry that made me go, d’oh! Shoulda seen it quicker!
Pretty amazing to see how much Elagabalus the teenage emperor did to try to co-opt existing religious stuff into GBL, and how _familiar_ some of it sounds (that black stone thing, especially). Also, he apparently had himself circumcised and didn’t eat pork, so we know where this is all heading. I don’t think there’s anyway of know whether that’s the same black stone or just kinda similar, but one does wonder.
Where was I?
Right. So, there’s some museum in England that has a single Elagabalus coin (see, here it is! Altho no, I did not immediately spot it here either). They put it on display sometimes and have decided to label it with the pronoun “she”, for completely plausible reasons.
I was like, man, I would expect to have more in my brain about 3rd century Roman emperors than was floating to the surface so off to wikipedia to read about Elagabalus (this is when I noticed GBL!). He was high priest of Elagabalus, and it was looking at that wikipedia entry that made me go, d’oh! Shoulda seen it quicker!
Pretty amazing to see how much Elagabalus the teenage emperor did to try to co-opt existing religious stuff into GBL, and how _familiar_ some of it sounds (that black stone thing, especially). Also, he apparently had himself circumcised and didn’t eat pork, so we know where this is all heading. I don’t think there’s anyway of know whether that’s the same black stone or just kinda similar, but one does wonder.