mleku on Nostr: listening to this bulgarian orthodox chanting i'm reminded of one of the things that ...

listening to this bulgarian orthodox chanting i'm reminded of one of the things that i found odd about the language

in bulgarian, there is Bog, or Bozhe, the vocative form, meaning God, like in russian (and serbo-croation) also, Boga is like the way of saying the same as the arabic Allah (The God) and like that usage, it is the definite article, meaning a singular thing

the word for Jesus is Gospod, and like in russian also Gospodi is the swear like saying Jesus! in english

what's interesting and i found strange, was that Gospodin is the word for "mister" - and the feminine is Gospozha (yes basically the same in all of eastern european languages)

it's interesting because of the distinction, where much of western europe, the protestant and catholic, consider Jesus and God to be one (the trinity doctrine) in Orthodox, they distinguish them in an important way - obviously, that Jesus is a human being

it's one of the areas that bugs me about most mainstream forms of christianity

this concept of the identity of Jesus and God

you don't give two names to one thing, you have the proper name, and a nickname or vocative

you have Alexander, and then you have Sasho

you have Hristo, and then you have Itso

you have Nikola and then you have Niki

they have a distinct form in slavic languages, often called the vocative, and very often end in an I, O or E, Yo or Ya (for female names) to indicate the diminuitive or affectionate form of a name

Jesus is a man, and i use the present tense in a very intentional way

this nonsense conflating two different roles and two different persons is clearly a remnant of some other thing, and i suggest that it is a remnant of the confusion and bullshit of the cult of kings, the mandate of heaven, the divine right of kings, the religion of farming humans and not treating them as humans, but instead cattle