I highly doubt that the treat hog knew anything about that outside of Conan, unless he oinked at Conan and looked it up way after the fact and still missed anything of actual academic value.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the usage of terminology that was used in Conan, hyperborea as well, is not from Conan the barbarian, Robert Howard crimped them from popular racialized archaeology in the 30s and racist neonazis/phrenologists are still just using early 20th century racial theories. Conan has very much superseded the bunk racism in the popular culture so most normal people think they're talking about Conan mythos which is funny

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the usage of terminology that was used in Conan, hyperborea as well, is not from Conan the barbarian

I do know that now, even if admittedly years ago when I saw the movie, I sure didn't.

What I was getting at was I think the aforementioned measurehead on Twitter was probably the same way and I had my doubts he dug much further than that, except long after the fact if that and probably didn't derive any lasting additional understanding from it.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i mean racial psuedoscience is pretty easy & simple to get into, because it has nothing to do with reality.

trying to figure out what historical 'Cimmerians' spoke, where they lived---dozens of books, reading asssyrian records, archaeology linguistics---years of work.

finding out how 'Cimmerians' were a kind of magic white people in the Hitlerian cosmology---idk that probably takes an afternoon with a weird paperback that got republished by american nazi party in the 90s

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

trying to figure out what historical 'Cimmerians' spoke, where they lived---dozens of books, reading asssyrian records, archaeology linguistics---years of work.

It doesn't help that as far as I know the Cimmerians didn't leave written accounts about themselves. I think I read that even the name is derived from what others called them.

In case it seemed like otherwise, I actually enjoyed the Conan movies for what they were (Conan the Destroyer was like the earliest example I can think of a D&D tabletop group chemistry in movie form).

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

based on the type of guy I think it's more likely he picked it up from the most recent total war game set in the bronze age

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Huh, maybe. I didn't know about that.