James WuJul 22, 2023

TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The “single burning” story is just myth.

Instead, the Library of Alexandria was slowly defunded and its librarians, intellectuals purged from Alexandria. Over generations its prominence and scholarship slowly faded away, and the collection was likely slowly lost to corruption, war, plunder, dilapidation, or dispersed across other private and public collections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia

Show threadKeith M. JudgeJul 23, 2023
@analogist What you recount is only half true. The Serapeum was burned down once the Roman Empire decided to escalate their genocide of original Christianity, Gnostic Christianity, by co-opting Priapus, the mushroom, which put them in touch with the Chrism spirit. The Holy Roman Empire would continue genociding the Gnostics; the most galling example being the Albigensian Crusade, or genocide of the Cathars.
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@analogist Serapis is obviously as important as or more important than Harpocretes to this history.
Jul 23, 2023 at 7:56pmWeb
Show threadKeith M. JudgeJul 23, 2023
@analogist