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Originally Posted by Ostrogorski
Islam changed nothing, because Islam comes from the same root. They've kept almost whole their pre-Islamic tradition, only thing they've discard are religious prostitution, child sacrifices, worshiping of abominations like Moloch, Baal Hadad, Asherah and Astarte and instead worship only El or Hubbal, whom they call Allah.
Everything else is the same - chtonic symbolism like crescent and star, lunar calendar, stone worshiping - Bethel ( Kaaba for example), polygamy etc.
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Yes, that's true. I was referring to the fact that, for example, ancient sumerians, assirians (semites) or persians (not semites) had "broken" his continuity by adopting islam as main religion. It's clear that, for example, nothing from ancient egyptians remained in muslim Egypt. Also, the Saddam Hussein's regime honoured the ancient Babylonians but this was only an excentricity.
It's curious to see that Islam specifically prohibited the images of human beeings or deities. They ancestors of the desert represented their gods (or abominations
) without problems.
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Originally Posted by Ostrogorski
Indigenous peoples of Siberia were never majority there nor were they major civilizational force. It were always Russians!
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This perhaps is an error of mine with the comma. Obviously, I was referring to North America, not to Siberia.