FOF #1357 – Tranny 3000 BC
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Move over Raquel Welch! There’s a new pre-historic diva making headlines across the world and she’s 997,000 years younger than you. Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old skeleton which they believe is the remains of a transgender person.
Found in the suburbs of Prague, the male skeleton was found buried in the same manner as women who were laid to rest at that time.
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Awesome podcast as usual. I am an avid reader of gay history pre-dark ages. So, there is a historian, John Boswell, who was an eminent professor of pre-modern history. He was no slouch. All of the history he studied and reported about he himself translated from hebrew, latin, ancient greek, aramaic, etc. He didn’t accept anyone else’s interpretation, so he translated everything he could from original documents himself with his grad students. Anyway, he was gay. He wrote a book titled “Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe.” To be honest, this book is very difficult to read because it is …well it just is, and I’m used to reading technical chemistry journals.
However, it is the definitive book on ancient homosexuality. He breaks it ALL down, and if you like gay history, then you’ll love what you read in it. Maybe I’ll start posting short analyses of chapters – -kinda like cliff notes.
The MOST INTERESTING thing about the book is that nearly all of the material describing the rituals involved in ancient gay marriages (EVEN gay marriage ceremonial rituals!!) was translated from extremely old bibles stored in an old church in Syria or THE VATICAN!! In fact, it was the Christian church that preformed the ceremony openly. He got special permission to study the Vatican’s collection. So, Fausto is right. The current church and the bible are awash with opinions and premises which were not present when Jesus was alive and when the church first formed, and the Vatican is hiding the books which are evidence of that!
The reason we don’t have access to books about ancient gays is NOT because it was illegal to write about them. There are tons of original Roman government documents, etc. which specifically mention gay rights, but these things are either hidden from us, OR they are miss translated by hetero historians…on purpose?
That’s interesting, mododavid. I just got in the post my latest Amazon.com order, “Homosexuality & Civilization” by Louis Crompton. Hardly cracked it yet, but it’s about 600 pages and begins in Greece around 700 BCE and continues through Judea, Rome, China, Italy, Spain, France, England and Japan through the ages, so it should be comprehensive on the different cultural views. Also, I checked the bibliog and it references Boswell twice, once for the book you mentioned and again for one called “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality”.