Why didn't pagan Europe have prophets equivalent to Middle Eastern desert hermit madmen?
>Like lets say a madman comes out of the Teutonic forest goes to an unimportant Germanic tribe and starts destroying statues of Odin and Donar while claiming that he has "revelations" from the valkyries from the One True God(TM) and calling for the conversion of neighbouring tribes.
Why didn't this happen?
Why did only sandnigger tribes have to put up with the BS of such people?
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>Why didn't this happen?
Because if someone pulled that shit they'd get brutally murdered.
The merchants in Mecca made the mistake of not killing Mohammad.
They had madmen comeout of the woodworks to strip catholic churches of their idols during the reformation
Not enough weird plants and mirages
Alexander of Abonoteichus comes to mind
>Scimitar
>Ginger beard
I....
Who the fuck drew that retarded shit
Because you need to have a dogmatic religion that has a stake in proselytizing its shit.
And in Pagan Europe there was only religion with a dogma attached to it: the Dacian Religion.
>Dacian religion was considered by the classic sources as a key source of authority, suggesting to some that Dacia was a predominantly theocratic state led by priest-kings. However, the layout of the Dacian capital Sarmizegethusa indicates the possibility of co-rulership, with a separate high king and high priest.[151] Ancient sources recorded the names of several Dacian high priests (Deceneus, Comosicus and Vezina) and various orders of priests: "god-worshipers", "smoke-walkers" and "founders".[151] Both Hellenistic and Oriental influences are discernible in the religious background, alongside chthonic and solar motifs.
As such, they had a prophet, albeit Semi-Legendary.
>en.wikipedia.org
There wasn't enough contrast between cosmopolitan urban culture and mystical wilderness, on top of a lack of obsession with purity and cleanliness that the Middle East had.
Desert prophets were a thing because you had millions of people living in large megacities bumping shoulders with strange foreigners all the time, and many of these cultures shared a belief in ritual purity that the desert, devoid of city life entirely, offered.
You can see this kind of contrast lead to someone like Joseph Smith, modern Evangelicals, modern East Asian cults, and Salafis.
There were tons, they were called "Philosophers".
They already had the druids.
Priests and learned men =/= prophets
nope, the druids pass on the teachings that originated with a prophet, and it's possible that a handful of them were prophets
Too bad the romans killed 6 gorrilian druids or else we'd know for sure.
some similar stuff was in Gaul.
Me on the left.
that image reminds me of isis for some reason
hmmm really stimulates the thought process
WHO IS ZALMOXIS ?
Dacians are super cool and mysterious.
Druids didn't go and kill other people(germanics, latins) for not believing in Cernunnos, and did not promise the entire world hellfire if they did not convert.
But that's where you are wrong you fucking retard
No need to insult. Have any evidence druids forcefully converting populations?
It was common in arabia to dye ones beard red, mohammed himself did that for example. Even besides that fact you had dutch pirates who looked like that and lived in north africa
In the east they are more cunning in deceiving people. see fakirs and gurus for example, in europe you had very religious people who did not dare lie/steal, and if they did theyd rather just use force
em.....they did actually, one reason the Romans despised them.
*cough*
what are the odds that was just propoganda?
Sacrifices=/=new religion from the ravings of a single man hellbent on converting everyone
I'm talking about pre-christian times
Islam is not hellbent on converting everyone. They've always had religious minorities living among them. How many religious minorities were there living in Europe under Christendom besides Jews (whose conditions were far worse under Christendom than under Islam)? How many religious minorities lived under majority "druidic" areas?
slim to none...they've found significant evidence of human sacrifice among the pre-roman populations western-europe.
also the Romans were generally tolerant of other faiths...even hostile ones like Judaism, but they stamped out Druidism.
that wasn't the question being answered.
pretty slim written record before Christian times....Greeks and Romans had plenty of Oracles though.
in that sense they were more like the Roman Empire. They conqured but tolerated minorities in their midst. They were after their own kind of Pax Romana (dar al islam)
polytheim doesn't have prophets.
kek
Buddhism and Hinduism sure do...