Salome by Marriages https://open.spotify.com/track/2y6NgveLUWyBmXMQpMvEWJ?si=6gZx9KlWTzu4a5tHny288w … #NowPlaying
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this is a song about Salome, daughter of Herod II and Herodias. Her skillful performance as a dancer earned her a boon from her father. She used this boon to demand her father execute John the Baptist and present his head on a platter to Herodias.
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John had criticized Herod and Herodias and called their marriage illegitimate (Herodias had divorced her previous husband to marry Herod II, a political upgrade for her). He was killed for this.
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that's the same John the Baptist who was Jesus' teacher.
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Replying to @danlistensto
i.e. whose cult in the competitive cult-founding league that was the youth culture of the Levant at the time Jesus joined then ripped off half of his cultists and most of his techniques from
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Replying to @chaosprime
he ripped off John's "fux wit da big man and pay da price" technique too
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
stealing both content AND followers? that's cold
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Replying to @suchaone @danlistensto
that's just what it takes to become undisputed league champion
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follow at chaosprime and at suchaone shall be the whole of the Law
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