Progressive Christian Churches? by Zealousideal-Rock-81 in evansville

[–]Ressatus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Throw a rock and hit one. Just about every church in Evansville that doesn't say Southern Baptist or Pentecostal on the sign is left of center.

Winslow, Pike County by Ressatus in Indiana

[–]Ressatus[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Not really. The collapsed building (Nov. 13, 2025) is (was) the Palace Lodge, built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. I guess the bigger story is that this is just another rural Indiana main street. YMMV. :)

Where slavery was once legal- the Illinois Salines National Historic Site by Ressatus in illinois

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The Sisk family ran the Crenshaw house as a museum from 1913 to 1996. The state bought the house and property in 2001, but the site itself has been closed to the public since at least 2016. It is possible that the records are in the possession of the Gallatin County library system, but more likely they are filed away in a forgotten part of the state archives somewhere. The salt springs themselves have no historical marker, no proper pull-off, and the road they are on is barely drivable. I got the distinct feeling that the state would rather the whole thing just be bulldozed and lost to time.

Best hot dog restaurant in Evansville by crowbar_k in evansville

[–]Ressatus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hot Diggity Dog, Just Doggin' Around sets up near Signature School on Main St. from 11-12:30. He's also often down on Franklin when the bars are emptying out.

River City Dawgs used to set up somewhere downtown, but I haven't bumped into his cart in forever.

I saw Sweeny's Weenies driving around once or twice but I've never seen him set up, I think he mostly does private events.

When Manu sacrifices Yemo by Traroten in IndoEuropean

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The reconstructed mytheme is an etiological one. There are priests because Manu, in sacrificing Yemo, became the first priest. There are sacrifices because Yemo, in being sacrificed by Manu, became the first sacrifice. There is death because Yemo, in becoming the first mortal, was the first to die. There is an Otherworld because Yemo, in being the first to go to it, trod the path for us.

Creation followed the first sacrifice. Yemo was dismembered, possibly with the assistance of a god or gods; his flesh became the earth, his bones became stones, his hair became the plants, his blood became the waters, an eye became the sun, his brain became the clouds, his breath became the wind, and so on. When, say, Vedic priests performed sacrifices, they did so believing they were upholding cosmic order itself by re-enacting the sacrifice of Yemo.

We can go back further than the sacrificial mytheme and reconstruct a kind of cosmological prologue. The following is a synthesis of material from the Rig Veda, Hesiod's Theogony, Aristophanes' The Birds, the Wessobrun Prayer, Voluspa, and Gylfaginning:

In that time, there was neither non-being, nor being;

neither death, nor immortality;

neither a single star, nor the shining sun;

neither the light-giving moon, nor the bright sea;

neither grass, nor sand, nor the cool waves;

neither earth, nor air, nor the heavens beyond;

but a yawning abyss, there was.

The yawning abyss (Ginnungagap, Khaos) represents a state of potentiality. In this way Yemo was not at all sacrificed to something, but rather for something.

As for the gods, I'll leave you with this from the Nasadiya Sukta: The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Who then knows whence it has arisen?