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2014/04/17 06:26:36
Subject: Proof
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Regular Dakkanaut
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2014/04/17 10:34:03
Subject: Re:Proof
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Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon
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Temple carvings on Alaca Hüyük, Anatolia. Draw your own conclusions 
A bit disappointed the rabbits didn't make it to the final version, though.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
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2014/04/17 10:58:45
Subject: Proof
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Alluring Sorcerer of Slaanesh
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3D Printers are the first STC Machines and we'll be colonising Mars soon enough.
It's all real, who would have thunk it.
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2014/04/19 13:42:12
Subject: Proof
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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Anatolia used to be part of the Byzantine Empire AKA Eastern Roman Empire. Their symbols included, among others the Twoheaded eagle shown here. It existed from 4th cen AD-15th cen AD so yes probably at lest a thousand years old carving.
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You shouldn't be worried about the one bullet with your name on it, Boldric. You should be worried about the ones labelled "to whom it may concern"-from Blackadder goes Forth!
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2014/04/19 15:50:41
Subject: Re:Proof
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Eagles, and double headed eagles, have been used as symbols since before the Byzantines.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2014/04/19 18:53:19
Subject: Proof
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Fresh-Faced New User
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Aw man guys it looks like that wasn't actually proof that 40k is real after all
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2014/04/19 23:23:29
Subject: Re:Proof
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Changing Our Legion's Name
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Don't listen to the posters trying to dismiss this incredible find!!
They are simply agents of the Emperor trying to keep his secrecy.
Only the truly divine would hide himself to deny his own divinity.
Join the lectitio divinitatus brothers and find that the God emperor of mankind is real and that he is within us all!
 
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2014/04/19 23:24:17
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2014/04/20 21:09:01
Subject: Proof
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for that matter, the emperor's symbol before the unification of terra was the Lightning Bolt, I'm not sure if that can be related to the Aquila.
I like that thinking though, always fun to know where all the cultural/historical references might have come from in the 40k universe.
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2014/04/21 02:55:29
Subject: Proof
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 lcmiracle wrote:for that matter, the emperor's symbol before the unification of terra was the Lightning Bolt, I'm not sure if that can be related to the Aquila.
I like that thinking though, always fun to know where all the cultural/historical references might have come from in the 40k universe.
It is clear the emperor was Julius Cesar!
Or was he Nero and Caligula?
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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2014/04/21 02:57:53
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2014/04/21 03:25:20
Subject: Proof
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Powerful Spawning Champion
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It's funny how one link can lead me to reading up on Neolithic cultures for an hour. Gotta love the internet.
I really dig history, it's my favorite thing to read about. This sort of stuff blows me away, I just wish we knew what humans did in the past!! RAWR!!
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2014/04/22 00:07:19
Subject: Proof
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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Much of the same things they do now. They worked, they ate, they bitched about their spouses, their kids, their neighbors, their government, taxes...
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It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised. |
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2014/04/22 09:48:23
Subject: Re:Proof
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Just for the record in case it is not known:
The Emperor was born in Anatolia according to the HH novels.
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2014/04/23 14:13:02
Subject: Proof
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Death-Dealing Dark Angels Devastator
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The two headed eagle pops up throughout history it is a symbolic of looking into the past and the future. In ancient cultures around the world there is significant proof of them believing that thunder and lightning is evidence of the divine (Zues, Brontes, Jupiter, Thor, Xolotl, Set, Punraz- to name a few were all thunder gods) so it makes sense that GW would base the Emperor (a godlike being) on a thunder god.
so yeah, just saying...
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