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Brief History of Rome’s Military and Religious Warfare Conquests!
The Birth of Catholicism
Until 380 CE the Roman Empire relied on a Pantheon of Gods to support its citizen’s spiritual needs. However, all that was to change with the Edict of Thessalonica aka Cunctos populos, issued on 28th February 380 CE. When a belligerent tripartite of Roman Emperors (Theodosius I, Valentinian II, and Gratian.) chose the Orthodox group of the Christian religions and outlawed all other Christian sects and Pagan worship. The new religion the Emperors named—Catholic Christians!
The short Englisce version of the edict reads:
We command that those persons who follow this rule shall embrace the name of Catholic Christians. The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment (28 February 380). [Codex Theodosianus, xvi.1.2]
From then on the Catholic Christians took no time to annihilate any opposition, in the process taking Pagan Temples, festivals and holidays, as well as Pagan priest vestments and titles for themselves. Thus the Fish-head of the fish-skin of the priest of Baal became the Bishops mitre, the title Pontifex Maximus of the Chief Pagan Priest of Rome was taken by Damasus I Bishop of Rome (366-384 CE), which we know in its short version as Pontiff. Bishops, Cardinals and Popes that don the Pallium are actually donning the female genitalia aka Yoni around their necks—aka the female symbol. The Cross represents an ancient phallic symbol and clergy vestment from priest to pope are the ancient attire of Pagan priests.
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The Illegitimacy of the Roman Church
One has to remember that the Catholic Christians became null and void in 476 CE with the fall of the Roman Empire. Their remit was over, their masters had gone into oblivion so their special status as sole religion to the Roman empire had expired. However, the Roman Church could not take no for answer. Now they would use the power of their church to annihilate any opposition—the Bloody Dark Ages had begun the era of Inquisitions, Autos-da-fé and Holy Crusades of 1095 CE were yet to come, and come they did! More brutal, more bloody with priests inventing more macabre torture and killing machines the world had ever seen!
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Short History of Roman Religious Warfare
At the start of the 7th decade of the first century CE. The Romans who had started their campaign of conquest of an Isle two decades earlier. They saw this isle as the larger of two great islands within an archipelago of more than six thousand smaller isles. In a region of the sea, believed at the time to be at the edge of the then-known world. For the Romans, it had been nearly two-decade of continually fighting with no end in sight. The Romans changed their tactics by brutally decimating the religion of the subjugated. This was in 60/1 CE Prydain/Pritani/Pretani/Prettanike/Prittannic Isles—the Romans slaughtered probably thousands of unarmed Druids and Druidess! Nine years later in 70 CE and 4,000 km away to the east. On the far eastern side of the Mediterranean the same enemy, Rome, destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem trying to pacify the Jews, it did not work as it culminated into in a series of Jewish uprisings until the Bar Kokhba revolt 132-135 CE. When the Jews rebelled against their Roman masters, which brought an end to the Jewish homeland. This was not the first time that the Jews were deprived of their homeland. In 721 BCE, and 599 BCE and 66-135* CE the Jewish homeland was lost, until its revival in 1948.
*First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE).
Kitos War (115–117 CE) aka the “Rebellion of the Exile.”
Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE) aka the Second Jewish–Roman War (when Kitos War is not counted), or the Third (when the Kitos War is counted).
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Prydain
Back in 61 CE Prydain, not long after the Romans slaughter of the Druids on Ynys Môn/Ise of Mona/Anglesea. The Romans led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus met a ragtag poorly armed army comprising of Women Warriors as well as men and Charioteers—led by Buddug the Warrior Queen? Tacitus wrote on Paulinus as saying to his men before the battle: “Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers—they’re not even properly equipped. We’ve beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they’ll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you’ll have everything.” [Tacitus, Annuls 14:36]
Like Christianity today, it is all about money (booty) that has never changed!
According to Owen Morgan (1836-1921) aka by his bardic name “Morien (sea-born)” that the two armies met at Trelawnyd* (Englisce, literary means: Town full of Corn) in the old principate of Tegeingl, which is all of modern-day Sir y Fflint/Flintshire today. It was a slaughter with the more armed and discipline Romans having the victory. Slaughtering all but a few, with Buddug taking her own life rather than becoming a prisoner of Rome! You would know Buddug as Boudica or Boadicea.
Since 380 CE The Romans have never stopped the taking of blood and the lives of the innocent, the mighty Roman army has long been consigned to the dustbin of history, but the Roman religion is alive and well 1,640 years after its inauguration.
*Trelawnyd was also known as New Market from 1710-1954 when it reverted back to its Welsh name. Trelawnyd situated 7 miles east of my home, and on a still dark night, we can still hear a mighty roar like thunder of hundreds of the Last of the Charioteers going into battle with the Romans. Well, that is what I tell my Wife!
On a note of interest, my ancient language has no modern words for many things—such as a car/motor car/motor vehicle, which, in my native tongue is called a Cerbyd meaning Chariot in Englisce.
What do you say?
Keep safe!
Cofion
Jero Jones
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