SplitMindTF2
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Recently I've been reading about The Saturnalia, a festival in ancient rome to celebrate the god Saturn and something stuck out to me. During Saturnalia the slaves and slave masters were said to of swapped roles with the slaves now being able to talk back to their masters, order them to do things, and even sit with them at the dinner table (this of course had its limits but that's besides the point). This tradition had its roots in the golden age in which Saturn ruled over Italy and I quote:
"The first inhabitants of Italy were the Aborigines, whose king, Saturn, is said to have been a man of such extraordinary justice, that no one was a slave in his reign, or had any private property, but all things were common to all, and undivided, as one estate for the use of every one; in memory of which way of life, it has been ordered that at the Saturnalia slaves should everywhere sit down with their masters at the entertainments, the rank of all being made equal."
-Quote from Justinus
Doesn't that sound alarmingly similar writings by Marx? Not only that but traditionally Saturn was said to of hold a sickle, I'm not saying Marx himself was a Saturn worshipper but maybe someone who adopted the symbol of the hammer and sickle and Marx's ideals, i.e. Vladimir Lenin was.
a painting of Saturn holding his sickle from the
Naples Archaeological Museum.
This theory isn't too developed and I'd like to hear some feedback on this, and perhaps anymore evidence of it.
"The first inhabitants of Italy were the Aborigines, whose king, Saturn, is said to have been a man of such extraordinary justice, that no one was a slave in his reign, or had any private property, but all things were common to all, and undivided, as one estate for the use of every one; in memory of which way of life, it has been ordered that at the Saturnalia slaves should everywhere sit down with their masters at the entertainments, the rank of all being made equal."
-Quote from Justinus
Doesn't that sound alarmingly similar writings by Marx? Not only that but traditionally Saturn was said to of hold a sickle, I'm not saying Marx himself was a Saturn worshipper but maybe someone who adopted the symbol of the hammer and sickle and Marx's ideals, i.e. Vladimir Lenin was.
a painting of Saturn holding his sickle from the
Naples Archaeological Museum.
This theory isn't too developed and I'd like to hear some feedback on this, and perhaps anymore evidence of it.
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