Well isn't that interdasting? Let's follow the crumbs shall we?
smurf (third-person singular simple present smurfs, present participle smurfing, simple past and past participle smurfed)
(slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
(banking) To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
(computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
(Internet slang) To use a smurf account.
Phrygian Cap (smurf hat) - The cap was also part of the iconographic clothing worn by the god Mithras, an eastern deity born from a rock who would later become popular in the Roman Mediterranean during the second and third centuries CE. Mithras was an Indo-Iranian god at the center of a mystery cult — meaning that initiates kept many of the rites and beliefs secret. He was fashioned as a sun-god and bull killer within his Roman context.
Mithras - "Together with the Vedic common noun mitra, the Avestan common noun miθra derives from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitrám (Mitra), from the root *mi- "to bind", with the "tool suffix" -tra- "causing to". Thus, etymologically mitra/miθra means "that which causes binding", preserved in the Avestan word for "Covenant, Contract, Oath"
Absolutely NOTHING iconic, popular or mainstream, is without evil's fingerprints on it. Mother Teresa (trafficker + pics w/Maxwell's mossad dad), Dali Lama (tongue sucker), smurfs etc etc etc.
Apparently it holds some revolutionary tones in France at least, though I dont know how relevant a cultural touchstone it is in the current day. And the creator of the Smurfs being from Belgium, its more likely a reference to dissident culture in their southwest neighbor.
The Smurfs is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest.
Yup... but you have to go back much further than that, because once you get to France, they just symbolize it as a freedom cap or something that completely masks it's true origin.
Well isn't that interdasting? Let's follow the crumbs shall we?
smurf (third-person singular simple present smurfs, present participle smurfing, simple past and past participle smurfed)
(slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
(banking) To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
(computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
(Internet slang) To use a smurf account.
Phrygian Cap (smurf hat) - The cap was also part of the iconographic clothing worn by the god Mithras, an eastern deity born from a rock who would later become popular in the Roman Mediterranean during the second and third centuries CE. Mithras was an Indo-Iranian god at the center of a mystery cult — meaning that initiates kept many of the rites and beliefs secret. He was fashioned as a sun-god and bull killer within his Roman context.
Mithras - "Together with the Vedic common noun mitra, the Avestan common noun miθra derives from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitrám (Mitra), from the root *mi- "to bind", with the "tool suffix" -tra- "causing to". Thus, etymologically mitra/miθra means "that which causes binding", preserved in the Avestan word for "Covenant, Contract, Oath"
Absolutely NOTHING iconic, popular or mainstream, is without evil's fingerprints on it. Mother Teresa (trafficker + pics w/Maxwell's mossad dad), Dali Lama (tongue sucker), smurfs etc etc etc.
https://www.thoughtco.com/phrygian-cap-bonnet-rouge-1221893
Apparently it holds some revolutionary tones in France at least, though I dont know how relevant a cultural touchstone it is in the current day. And the creator of the Smurfs being from Belgium, its more likely a reference to dissident culture in their southwest neighbor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs
Yup... but you have to go back much further than that, because once you get to France, they just symbolize it as a freedom cap or something that completely masks it's true origin.