Hi there I have a question that has arose again about the name wormwood being linked to the name Chernobyl some saying that the worm wood prophecy from revelations fits the Chernobyl event via Chernobyl meaning wormwood I understand from another thread that Chernobyl means artenisia vulgaris But a lot of people are also claiming that the name vulgaris and Chernobyl also go hand in hand with the name wormwood so you could refer to Chernobyl as vulgaris or common wormwood either won’t be wrong. Is there any one who can help debunk this or shed some understanding on it thanks
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Vulgaris is Latin for "common". Scientists like to use Latin names to classify thing, so it appears all over the place. Just a few examples:
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Artemisia is a reference to a Greek God: Artemis.
Ok so vulgaris means common, so artemisia vulgaris is basically common wormwood, so Chernobyl = artemisia vulgaris = common wormwood which would link the name chernobyl to worm wood.
I don't understand where you got this part (other than some people are claiming it).
Parenthetically, Chernobyl is also the name of the gobsmackingly excellent docu-drama on Sky Atlantic. If you haven't watched it then I cannot recommend it highly enough. Brace yourself though (spoiler alert) it does not have a happy ending.
So basically Chernobyl does infact mean wormwood some people say no it means artemisia vulgaris and others say that it means mugwort which are both correct but Chernobyl can also be called wormwood and is commonly recognised as wormwood so I guess the worm wood prophecy has some similarities with the Chernobyl event after all I don’t believe the super natural however it is kinda weird I must say...
Have you read this?
@Nyarlathotep
It's also worth noting that though revelation is a disjointed incoherent rant, nothing in it suggests it's a long drawn out affair. The Chernobyl disaster was entirely man made of course, but it happened in 1986, if it is part of end times then it seems to have gone pretty quiet since.
Now for the tortured rationalisations, and semantics to paint everything since as part of this "prophesy."
"The Chernobyl disaster was entirely man made of course, but it happened in 1986, if it is part of end times then it seems to have gone pretty quiet since. "
Spudnik, you were the one to infer a connection. So please explain what had happened with the "end of times" stuff that is supposed to follow wormwood. If we are going to have a story, let us hear all of it.
I don't see how a nuclear power plant equates to a star falling from the sky.
"The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter."
(Written by people that thought meteorites were stars.)
Well I can confirm that wormwood does taste bitter (kind of has that chlorophyll taste that I associate with fresh cut grass).
I can confirm that Absynthe does not make the heart grow fonder. Though it can leave you with a hangover that makes you take stock of your lifestyle choices.