Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.
I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the “whiteness” of Jesus wasn’t a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren’t nuanced in all the “races” of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them
Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.
I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the “whiteness” of Jesus wasn’t a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren’t nuanced in all the “races” of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them
he’s been whitened to the image of a Germanic man during the Christianisation of central Europe
Was Zeus white? I thought that was also the invention of the Europeans at the time.