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  • Strange Origins - Lucifer

    Strange Origins - Lucifer
    2026/06/28
    https://buymeacoffee.com/kobecooman3The Codex GigasSome men would gladly die, give up their life, for a chance at greatness. So what if you already know your life will be taken from you, and you haven’t reached that greatness yet. Would you call upon the devil and give up more than your life alone? Herman decided that yes, earthly greatness was worth your eternal soul. And so came about the creation of the codex gigas. Try this one on for size, but be careful, it’s definitely xxl.The codex gigas can be found today in the national library of Sweden, Stockholm. It weighs 74 kgs. For the pages, 320 of them, 160 donkey skins were used. To be able to open this book, you need two people at the least. According to modern calculations it would have taken one man between 25 to 30 years to create. Yet the myth surrounding its creation begs to differ.Herman the recluse was a monk who had broken his vows and would see punishment in its most narrow way, immurement. Literally walling somebody up. They would be walled into a cell with a window for light to read by and receive food by. They could stand, kneel and pray or lie down. They got to read and eat. Herman would never write again. He makes a deal with the abbot, to give him one extra night wherein he would produce a book of such grandeur, it would give honor and respect to the monastery for all eternity. As morning approached, the book was nowhere near finished. Herman makes a deal with somebody else, the Devil. By the time Herman and the Devil were through the book contained close to all important knowledge of the day, around the 13th century.The book includes:* The complete Latin Vulgate Bible, both Old and New Testament* Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews* Josephus: The Jewish War* Isidore of Seville’s encyclopaedia Etymologiae* The Chronicle of Bohemia by Cosmas of Prague* A calendar* Medical texts* A guide to exorcisms* A list of the brothers of the Podlažice monastery* Various shorter texts on topics including alphabets and other reference material* And ever more remarkable, the only known full-length medieval portrait of the Devil himself on page 290, and the Heavenly City depicted on the facing page.What is missing: 10 to 12 pages containing information too dangerous to be allowed to roam freely.Herman makes a deal with the Devil and leaves the only known full-length medieval portrait of said Devil in his contemporary shape as a thank-you note.Now, all of what you just read is most likely nothing but a myth. The reality is, I think, almost more unbelievable. One of the details that made so many people believe this myth, even though no original source was ever found, is that the handwriting for the entire book is steady and unchanged. If one man wrote it, he defied aging or accidents or all the things that would obviously alter a person’s handwriting, for three decades. Nobody could believe it.And that might be one of the saddest things afflicting modern man. Our incapacity to believe that civilisations before us were capable of feats of such grandeur, they outshine both our personal achievements as our collective achievements.The pyramids were built by aliens, the codex gigas was written by the devil and even Robert Johnson, the famous blues guitarist, had to sell his soul to be able to play the guitar that well.There is a pattern here. Mankind, or one of its representatives, achieves greatness, and years later the Devil, or occasionally other potential culprits, run off with the honor.So too it was with the missing pages containing the information too dangerous to be released. They probably never existed neither. The more likely explanation there is that they contained the Benedictine Rule, the code of conduct governing monastic life, removed quietly when the manuscript changed hands between monasteries. Yet once more the Devil claiming his prize after the facts.Where the hell did he come from?One of the first mentions of a devil-like persona is the Hebrew ha-Satan, which means something along the lines of ‘the accuser’ or ‘adversary’. The ‘ha’ functions as a role or job description without actually naming the entity. His job was close to modern day prosecutors, but by Godly employ. In the book of Job, he is the one who is tasked, by God, to test Job’s righteousness. Ha-satan was not perpendicular to or in contrast with God. There was no dichotomy between good and evil. The ancient Hebrew texts portray more of a holistic way of viewing religion. God is all, good and evil are but manifestations of the same divinity.And then, the Jews were taken into Babylon.When Cyrus the Great, the great Persian ruler, went on his rampage of epic proportions and vanquished the Lydian kingdom in the west, he stretched out his empire all the way till the shores of the Aegean sea. All that now stood before him was the colossal power of the neo-babylonian empire, the head of the snake, the main force behind the mesopotamian civilisation. You might ...
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  • A Chronicle of Crowns

    A Chronicle of Crowns
    2026/06/21
    FIND ME ON SUBSTACK TIKTOK BUYMEACOFFEE====>>>>>>> KOBI ONEEvery single man in her life had brought her closer to ruin and had plotted to take from her everything, sanity included. It was all she had left to think about now. Endlessly wandering these corridors of the Royal Palace of Santa Clara in Tordesillas, Spain, time had left this once so fine a mind as to be almost void, nothing but some grief and a lot of cold hatred.Whenever she sat in her chaise-longue, here in this prison of a room, she was confronted with the ghost of one of these men. Just outside her window, but ten metres removed from her windowpanes, lies her dead husband, Philip the Handsome. May he rot in anguish.For her, there is no escape, no solace, no refuge. She has lost all but her life and she will hold on to it for as long as she can, even if it is just to spite the men that still live.IntermezzoThe woman you have just met, imprisoned in a Royal Palace, is none other than Juana la Loca. She will sit in this palace for 46 years with almost no visitors, no contact with the outside world and absolutely no freedom. This is her epic and extremely tragic story. Buckle in.Act One — Maximilian and the Wedding MachineHe didn’t get this far without having to suffer for it at the hands of the people of Bruges first, during the initial rebellion against Habsburg take-over. But now that he had ironed out every fold in this finely woven tapestry of Flemish cloth, it was Habsburg business as usual. The wedding machine kicks back into fifth gear and Europe shakes in its boots, while shaking those very same boots to a political game of musical chairs.Maestro, cue the wedding music.The Habsburg motto of the era: Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube. Let others wage war. You, happy Austria, marry. Max would stay true to this established Habsburg tradition. His firstborn is a man some of you will already know as he who accidentally gave way to ‘Flamenco’, the name we gave to that fiery dance and music of the Andalusian Roma gypsy’s. This is mentioned in my first installment of Strange Origins. His name is Philip the Handsome. A nickname easily earned when one stems from the Habsburg dynasty, a family known for many things. Beauty not being one of them. In the spirit of full disclosure and honesty, the chroniclers, such as Venetian ambassador Querini, indeed describe him as to be genuinely beautiful. Readers of my latest Sunday article will know the worst king to have ever lived, which was roundabout his actual nickname, Louis XI, who tried to steal the regions of the fallen Burgundian duke. Now in direct opposition of Maximilian, who married this duke’s daughter and reclaimed all the territories for himself. To undermine the authority of Maximilian and his now firstborn son, he spread rumours that Philip was in fact a girl. Medieval gossip, surviving the tooth of time. Oddly enough, later on in his life, during his actual reign, Philip the Handsome would foster relationships with France, in stark opposition to his very anti-French father, Max.Max’s daughter was named Margaret, later known as the Lady of Mourning, which bodes well for her love life, does it not? The nickname was given to her by her own court poet, which is a job I am willing to take if you are employing. She earned the nickname by jumping out of a window after her second husband, Philibert of Savoy, dies. She was saved and had her husband’s heart embalmed to keep it with her forever. She vowed then and there never to marry again and became a very successful and respected woman in politics. All this leads me personally to believe she was much more clever and cunning than most historians give her credit. I believe the window-jumping and coincidental surviving was all staged as a political move towards independence, claiming her right to not be married off again in her father’s political aspirations and if so, Margaret, I applaud thee.Her first marriage explains her father’s resentment for the French and her own resentment towards her father and fight for independence. To calm both sides of the Burgundian borders, the French king on one side and soon to become Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian of Austria, on the other, Max married off his daughter to Louis XI’s Dauphin, which indeed means both dolphin as does it mean the firstborn of the French king. She was sent off to the French court to be raised there, at the age of three. So she just tragically lost her mother and is now sent to a different country to be raised by a family that was hitherto a mortal enemy of hers, at the age of three. Dang these middle ages… Worst of all, nine years later, Max makes a political move that Louis XI didn’t like all that much so Louis calls off the wedding and sends Margaret packing, back “home” after nine years. She is now twelve years old.Fernando and Isabella — The Other Side of the DealBack in Spain, the country is being united under one crown for the first time...
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  • Strange Origins #1 Rebooted

    Strange Origins #1 Rebooted
    2026/06/15

    For a look @ the article visit

    https://kobione.substack.com/p/strange-origins?r=3emhb2



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