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^ LOL Although your point is taken Tazarah, I believe Archae is referring to actual historical depictions being misrepresented as something else. Modern artistic depictions of personages are a dime a dozen.
Just as Lord Jesus is portrayed as European in the vast majority of images, the Buddha-- Siddhartha Gautama-- is portrayed as East Asian in the vast majority of portraits despite him being South Asian (Indian).
Not to mention obese, since enlightened sages in East Asian cultures were fat which was the opposite of those in India who constantly fasted like the Buddha himself who became emaciated. Similarly, Euro Jesus is depicted with long flowing hair because priests and other holy men in Europe grew their hair long which differed from the hair style of Judean men at that time who kept their hair short (unless one took a Nazarean vow).
So how persons or peoples are misrepresented also depends on the intention behind them. Is it one of pure ignorance OR is it a purposeful deception??
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Yes, it has been a tradition in many countries to depict Biblical figures as belonging to ones own people. But in some countries outside of Europe, he still can be depicted as a European because of colonialism and similar historical reasons.
Here are one European Jesus, one Ethiopian, one East Asian and one Swedish (picture from the 18th century).
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Dan Calloway must have known that these people are not Native Americans when he posted this picture. They are Africans from the Beja people which lives in parts of Egypt and Sudan.
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Wait until you see some of the AI-generated crap people have used to back up various pseudo-historical or pseudo-archaeological claims. Some examples in the below article:
quote:Originally posted by BrandonP: Wait until you see some of the AI-generated crap people have used to back up various pseudo-historical or pseudo-archaeological claims. Some examples in the below article:
As if all the other BS associated with generative AIs wasn't enough already!
I seen some of it, among other "reconstructions" of the alleged Egyptian ruins in Grand Canyon. That myth has been around since early 1900s and it is still upheld by some fantasts.
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