Inventions To Thank Pagans For

[mom'sfolly]

First European exporers to American: pre-Christian Norsemen
Fireworks: Chinese folk, long ago

 

[Year of the Rooster]

English and Romance languages. The Romans spoke Latin which is where we get most of our languages/english derivatives from. W00t for Latin!

 

[deb1]

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[ebwy]

baking
soap
trousers

 

[CheepSunglasses]

Public Administration (Sumerians)!

 

[purr]

Honoring women most pagan communities were matriarchal

 

[Wifezilla]

Public Administration (Sumerians)!

Stupid Sumerians!

 

[PortageGirl]

”I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:”

The Hippocratic Oath, though no one really knows who actually wrote it, is at the very least based on tenets which Hippocrates, who is considered the ‘father of western medicine, and a ‘heathen’ held dear.

The modern version of the oath, leaves off references to any deity, except to say in the sixth paragraph that “Above all, I must not play at God” (it neither says or implies WHICH god, as this is a personal matter of each person taking the oath and it matters not at all which deity

 

[hen-thusiast]

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Geez - who need any of that stuff?? I mean plumbing?? Good thing they didn't invent any of the important stuff.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Can't forget the KISS! Moms had always kissed babies, but the Romans invented kissing. (the adult kind)