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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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