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Re: Skull piles

Posted By: Martel (firewall-b.swan.lon.ac.uk)
Date: 3/26/2004 at 8:16 p.m.

In Response To: Skull piles (ThorsHammer)

: Hey folks...

: I haven't lurked here in ages, and I've never posted.
: But, Wednesday night, in my Islamic Art &
: Architecture class, I learned something of mild
: interest.

: Ghengis Khan, when burning/pillaging his way through
: Asia, used to pile the skulls of his defeated enemies
: as a victory symbol.

: ...Sound like anyone we know?

: And, just in case y'all are like the HBO forum, where
: people wield flames the size of Trow for no real
: reason, I really did search the forum before posting
: this.

: -Nate

Cool. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was exactly the influence which Bungie was using- Myth has a /lot/ of references from history and myth in it, many of them extremely subtle.

Oh, and welcome to the Asylum!

Messages In This Thread

  • Skull piles
    ThorsHammer (pcp01462170pcs.hershy01.pa.comcast.net) -- 3/26/2004 at 10:12 a.m.
    • Re: Skull piles
      General Pepper (vt-manchester1b-53.bur.adelphia.net) -- 3/26/2004 at 4:41 p.m.
    • Re: Skull piles
      Martel (firewall-b.swan.lon.ac.uk) -- 3/26/2004 at 8:16 p.m.

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