Uruanna

Virgil wrote the Aeneid just after the end of the Roman Republic though, under Augustus. Don’t know what the Republic proper thought about themselves on the subject. How well known was that myth before him?

After the introduction chapters, the story has been splitting each chapter with a past section and a modern section. The two are very different in mood, the modern part is more slice of life with a little mystery here and there, the bulk of the story is in the past part. I didn’t know this was getting an anime so I’m curious to see how they’ll get to that, worse case scenario is they don’t do the dark stuff at all and just make it SOL.

Japan has the expression “3 day supreme ruler” for this guy in 1582 who murdered the previous guy who was on the verge of unifying the country after centuries of civil war, claimed the sought-after title of Shogun (supreme military commander of the country), and got murdered himself after 13 days. In and out.

Other way around, the Scot / Benandonner is the one who tore up the causeway when Fionn tricked him.

It remained in use into the first century BCE, and also we found a giant trilingual inscription at Mt. Behistun. We did misread Sumerian as Akkadian for a while before we figured out it was a whole other language.

Not Celts.

The image of the winged helmet comes from 19th c. archaeology mistakes, and the fact that we later figured out that the Celts did have crests and that some of those had wings (with a whole bird, which is what Roman descriptions talk about) does not validate that misinterpretation. It’s cherrypicking. Sticking with the wings specifically in the form that came from that misinterpretation, and not the actual ceremonial helmets that we found later, is still spreading the myth. The image that someone else posted up there looks nothing like the meme that is just the classic Asterix / German opera depiction.

I think it’s a farther cry to claim that the Celts had “winged helmets” when what they had was a whole ass turkey pigeon up there.

Decoratively and ceremonially, not in combat.

Helmets with wings never existed beside some statues here and there, it’s a myth that celts had that. 19th c. archaeologists found helmets with the cheek protections flattened and turned up, and thought they were wings. They had the same Roman styled helmets. Except Arminius here who clearly couldn’t follow instructions.

I’m not sure the tutorial worked, he’s wearing the cheek protection on the top.

When Horizon Zero Dawn was first revealed, it played really hard on that Turok appeal of hunting giant “dinosaurs” with a bow, even if they were metal.