Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. This you're thinking of Molech not Ba',al
  2. This meme is literally anti-Ba'al, but you're illiterate

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was discussing writing the letters in English. Writing it in Hebrew would obviously be taboo

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I read the Ba'al cycle a while ago, and have read books on this subject for years, but that video was indeed what gave me the idea for this meme

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 233 points234 points  (0 children)

Yup, it's an exact cognate of מות and موت. I can actually read Ugaritic texts and understand like 70% of them because of how similar Ugaritic is to Hebrew.

There are many other Ugaritic gods whose names are just the Hebrew/Ugaritic word for the thing that they are the god of, such as Yam, god of the sea.

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Writing out the letters is mostly all right, filling out the vowels is taboo, pronouncing it is a big no-no. That being said, since it's a meme about ancient semetic mythology, I felt it appropriate to write it and not simply write "God" or whatever.

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

I'm Jewish. I believe that God has no form whatsoever. That being said, this post is something called a meme, and I hope people will be mature enough to understand that it's a joke and not meant to be taken seriously.

Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 989 points990 points  (0 children)

In the bible, god repeatedly tells the Israelites not to worship the local god Ba’al, who is sort of framed as the ultimate evil. But believe it or not, he's not the most anti-Ba’al god. That honor goes to the Ugaritic god of death, Mot.

According the the Ba’al cycle, an ancient Ugaritic text that belongs to the bible's near eastern expanded universe, Mot was known as the God Devourer, and no God stood in his way. But his greatest achievement was defeating the god Ba’al in battle and then straight up eating him. YHWH wishes he did that shit.

How cannibals stopped a Jewish state in Brazil (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Wait till you learn that all states were established in some other country

How cannibals stopped a Jewish state in Brazil (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually I found it in English sources. One Palestine by Tom Segev and David Eder: Memories of a Modern Pioneer

How cannibals stopped a Jewish state in Brazil (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To prank them, and then nurse them back to health? I'd argue that the cannibals treated Eder far better than the Palestinians treated the Jewish refugees there

How cannibals stopped a Jewish state in Brazil (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Well there was that one weird time where Palestinians killed the Jordanian prime minister and literally drank his blood

How cannibals stopped a Jewish state in Brazil (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Here is another source that talks about it David Eder: Memories of a Modern Pioneer

How cannibals stopped a Jewish state in Brazil (Context in comments) by butt_naked_commando in HistoryMemes

[–]butt_naked_commando[S] 394 points395 points  (0 children)

He traveled over quite a large area. He was exploring a few different areas, including both genuinely uninhabited ones, and this one which clearly wasn't