Revilo P. Oliver

by Revilo P. Oliver (1987) OVER THE PAST year or two, several correspondents, one of whom enclosed a copy of a published newsletter, have enlightened me about the true origin of the famous colossal statue of the goddess Eleutheria, who, most inappropriately wearing the radial crown of Apollo Helios,…

Early Christianity: weirder than you think On the 115th anniversary of his birth, we bring you a previously unpublished piece, from 1973, written by the great wit, writer, and scholar, Revilo Pendleton Oliver, born in Texas on 7 July, 1908. by Revilo P. Oliver IF WE HAD all the early versions, oral and…

Adolf Hitler’s painting of the Munich Opera House A review of Billy Price’s Adolf Hitler: the Unknown Artist
by Revilo P. Oliver WHEN YAHWEH’S Master Race began to prepare the Aryan boobs in the United States for eventual use as a horde of crazed cattle, stampeded into Europe to consummate…

by Revilo P. Oliver I HAVE JUST seen the disclosure of a crucial historical fact, hitherto kept profoundly secret by the rulers of the United States, which will force you, as it has forced me, drastically to revise our understanding of recent history. It is an article, entitled “Tigers of a Different…

Mithras Sacrificing the Bull, Roman, c. 150 CE; now in the Louvre by Revilo P. Oliver LATER ZOROASTRIANISM (APPENDIX 2, continued) ONE CONSEQUENCE OF THE Greek conquest of Asia was that Zoroastrianism survived in bastard cults that would have given its founder apoplexy. A very good example is the spectacular…

Alexander the Great by Revilo P. Oliver CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
LATER ZOROASTRIANISM (APPENDIX 2) SINCE one of the later Zoroastrian sects exerted a great influence on early Christianity, some mention of it in these pages seems called for. A first-rate theologian always wants to rise and shine by devising…

by Revilo P. Oliver CHAPTER TWELVE:
AHURA MAZDA (APPENDIX 1) IN MY highly condensed summary of the Zoroastrian religion, I have assumed that when Zoroaster tells us there is only one supreme god of good, he means what he says, and that when he gave to that god an unprecedented name, Ahura Mazda, he coined…

by Revilo P. Oliver BUDDHISM GAUTAMA, who was later called the Buddha (“enlightener”), is said to have been an Aryan princeling in the part of India that lies at the foot of the Himalayas and is now called Nepal. He is reported to have had the distinctive mental trait that makes us distressed…

by Revilo P. Oliver GOD’S HOUSE WHEN A RESIDENCE is sold these days, the new owner almost always makes changes: He has it painted another color, he has the interior redecorated and installs new furniture, he may remove a partition between small rooms or divide a very large room, he may have the kitchen…