(Deus Vult, God Wills It) is the battle cry of the Christians during the proclamation of the first crusade. On the Internet, the phrase became a meme thanks to the video game Crusader Kings. Used in conjunction with another motto - Ave Maria.

Origin

(translated from Latin as "God wants it", or "God's will") - the cry of Christians during the proclamation of the first crusade by the pope in 1095. Derived phrase Deus lo vult(from lat.  -  “so God wants”) is the motto Jerusalem Order of the Holy Sepulcher, a Catholic military order.

On February 14, 2012, the computer strategy Crusader Kings II was released, which used the motto Deus Vult.

In December 2013, YouTuber universalbean uploaded a video called Deus Vult!, which included a slideshow of pictures of the crusaders. In October 2015, Metaphysical Gnome user uploaded the video “Ave Maria! Deus Vult,” which consisted of photographs and videos of Christian soldiers in the Free Syrian Army.

In March 2016, a gallery of the first Deus Vult memes appeared on the FunkyJunk website. Throughout 2016, the topic was actively promoted on Reddit and other foreign boards. In July, webcomics of Crusaders yelling Deus Vult began to appear on Imgur. In August, a video version of the comic appeared on YouTube.

Meaning

It is believed that the phrase Deus Vult has become popular again in the context of discussions about Islamic extremism. In most cases, the meme, after all, is used as irony, parody, and not a serious slogan.

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In modern culture

• Deus Vult is the name of a mission in the game Alpha Protocol, set in Rome.
• Deus Vult is also the name of an add-on for the game Crusader Kings by Paradox Interactive.
• Deus Vult is a song by German power metal band Powerwolf.

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The main action of the Battle of Borodino took place in the space of a thousand sazhens between Borodino and the fleches of Bagration. (Outside this space, on the one hand, a demonstration by Uvarov's cavalry was made by the Russians in the middle of the day, on the other hand, beyond Utitsa, there was a clash between Poniatowski and Tuchkov; but these were two separate and weak actions in comparison with what happened in the middle of the battlefield. ) On the field between Borodin and the flushes, near the forest, in an open and visible stretch from both sides, the main action of the battle took place, in the simplest, most unsophisticated way.
The battle began with a cannonade from both sides from several hundred guns.
Then, when the whole field was covered with smoke, in this smoke (from the side of the French) two divisions, Desse and Compana, moved on the right to the flushes, and on the left the regiments of the Viceroy to Borodino.
From the Shevardinsky redoubt, on which Napoleon stood, the fleches were at a distance of a verst, and Borodino was more than two versts in a straight line, and therefore Napoleon could not see what was happening there, especially since the smoke, merging with the fog, hid all terrain. The soldiers of the Desse division, directed at the fleches, were visible only until they descended under the ravine that separated them from the fleches. As soon as they descended into the ravine, the smoke of gun and rifle shots on the flashes became so thick that it covered the entire rise on that side of the ravine. Something black flickered through the smoke - probably people, and sometimes the gleam of bayonets. But whether they were moving or standing, whether they were French or Russian, it was impossible to see from the Shevardinsky redoubt.

1 Quem Deus perdere vult, dementat prius

Whom God wants to destroy, he first of all deprives of reason.

[ * The nickname of conservatives and liberals who were in opposition to the government, from the name of the cave of Adullam, in which, according to biblical legend, King David was hiding from the persecution of Saul. - auth. ]

2 Quos deus perdere vult, dementat prius

Whom God wants to destroy, he first of all deprives of reason.

Late Latin formulation of a thought that is repeatedly found in Greek and Latin writers, for example. in the "Sentences" of Publius Syrus: Stultum facit Fortuna quem vult perdere "Fate makes fools whom it wants to destroy."

cf. tzh. Ovid, "Messages from Pontus", IV, 12, 47: Créde mihi, miserós prudéntia príma relínquit "Believe me, reason leaves the unfortunate above all"

Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat—this seems to be the almost universal opinion in Europe of the French usurper, whom, only a few weeks ago, innumerable flatterers and admirers of success in all countries and in all languages ​​were unanimously extolled as a kind of earthly providence. (K. Marx, Attempted assassination of Bonaparte.)

How could they [opponents of communal landownership] transfer the question to a soil so unfavorable to them? Here one answer is possible: quem Juppiter perdere vult, etc., that is, in a milder Russian form: who, by the nature of things, cannot lose things, to top off his misfortune, he himself makes fatal oversights for himself. (N. G. Chernyshevsky, Criticism of Philosophical Prejudices Against Communal Ownership.)

In the evening, Napoleon, between two orders - one to deliver the prepared fake Russian banknotes for import to Russia as soon as possible, and the other to shoot a Saxon, in whose intercepted letter information about orders for the French army was found - made a third order - about classifying the Polish colonel, who threw himself needlessly into the river, into the cohort of honor (légionn d "honneur), of which Napoleon himself was the head. Quos vult perdere - dementat. (L. N. Tolstoy, War and Peace.)

When I observe actions performed by virtue of this strange logic, and such actions are now not uncommon, I am reminded of an ominous Latin proverb: Quos Juppiter perdere vult dementat. And don't let my comrades accuse me of being too harsh! The tactics adopted by the Mensheviks in this case are, in the full sense of the word, suicidal tactics. (GV Plekhanov, Opportunism, Split or Struggle for Influence in the Party?.)

Concerning the handwritten copy of "Eloise", which the Duchess of Luxembourg wished to have, I must tell you what addition I made to it in order to distinguish it by some noticeable advantage from others ... I was very happy with my decision and strengthened myself in it. But, ardently desiring to enrich her copy with something that was not in any other, I did not find anything better than to make from - the ill-fated adventures of endurance and add them there. The idea is reckless, absurd, and can only be explained by blind fate, which carried me to destruction. Quos vult perdere Juppiter, dementat. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confession.)

3 Quem deus perdere vult, dementat prius

4 Nec deus intersit

Let God not interfere.

Horace, "The Science of Poetry", 191:

Néve minor, neu sít quintó prodúctior áctu

Fábula, quae posci vult et spectánda reponi,

Néc deus íntersít, nisi dígnus víndice nódus

There should be five actions in the play: no more, no less,

If she wants to be successful on the stage,

God must not come down to untie trifling knots.

(Translated by M. Gasparov)

There is no doubt that only the intervention of Jupiter himself helped to save four unfortunate bailiffs from death. If we had the good fortune to invent this completely reliable story ourselves, and therefore to be responsible for its content before the court of our reverend mother criticism, then in any case it would not be possible to put forward the classical rule against us: nec deus intersit. (Victor Hugo, Notre Dame Cathedral.)

5 Quos Juppiter perdere vult, dementat prius

6 deus

7 Aut Deus, aut nature

Or God, or nature.

The main position of the philosophical system of the materialist Ludwig Feuerbach, in contrast to the position of Spinoza, who identified nature with the deity ("Deus sive Natura" - "God, or Nature").

Spinoza eliminated the dualism of God and nature, since he declared the actions of nature to be the actions of God. But precisely because the actions of nature are in his eyes the actions of God, God remains for him some kind of being separate from nature, underlying it. God is represented as the subject, nature as the predicate. Philosophy, finally liberated from theological traditions, must eliminate this important shortcoming of the essentially correct philosophy of Spinoza. “Down with this contradiction,” exclaims Feuerbach: “not Deus sive Natura, but aut Deus, aut Natura is the nature of truth. ()

8 Deus ex machina

ex machina

God from the machine.

A dramatic technique that was sometimes used in ancient tragedy: a tangled intrigue received an unexpected resolution in the intervention of a god who, through mechanical devices, appeared among the characters, revealed circumstances unknown to them and predicted the future. In modern literature, the expression is used to indicate an unexpected resolution of a difficult situation, which does not follow from the natural course of events, but is something artificial, caused by outside interference.

“The so-called “machine” served as a technical device for raising the gods into the air, and the technique of the unexpected appearance of a deity at the end of the drama is known under the Latin name deus ex machina (god from the machine). ; it should, however, be noted that Euripides only occasionally uses deus ex machina as a means of denouement. The denouement of a tragedy usually precedes the appearance of a god, which already plays the role of an epilogue. I. M. Troisky, History of ancient literature.

I fully agree with you that the Spanish Revolution (it has the same significance as the Neapolitan Revolution of 1848) gives the history of Europe a new turn and, in particular, as a deux ex machina, cuts the Gordian knot of the disgusting Franco-Prussian war. (K. Marx - F. Engels, September 23, 1868.)

Eugene Sue's novel is the height of absurdity. Most of the characters, and, moreover, the most important ones, are ugly absurd, events are tied up by force, but are unleashed by means of deux ex machina. (V. G. Belinsky, "Parisian secrets". A novel by Eugene Sue.)

But here comes the savior in the person of Uncle Chelsky, old man Ochinin. Taking advantage of the extreme disorder of his nephew's affairs, this beneficent deux ex machina ransoms Masha from him, barely alive from all the blows inflicted on her. (I. S. Turgenev, "Niece". Roman, op. Evgenia Tur.)

The author needed two - three - four faces to develop the plot - so these two - three - four faces appeared in the story without any relation to the rest of the world, as if they lived on an uninhabited island, where everything they needed appeared to them like a pike by command. For the denouement, some mysterious deux ex machina, such as a rich uncle, an angry boss, a fire, a flood, a beneficent nobleman, etc., was usually cited, from nowhere. (N. A. Dobrolyubov, Good intention and activity.)

The plot and denouement [in A. N. Ostrovsky's drama "Thunderstorm] also sin against the requirements of art. The plot consists in a simple case - in the departure of her husband; the denouement is also completely accidental and arbitrary; this thunderstorm, which frightened Katerina and forced her to tell her husband everything, is nothing less than a deux ex machina, no worse than a vaudeville uncle from America. (He, the Ray of light in the dark realm.)

"The wise man on the throne" was the deux ex machina of eighteenth-century French philosophy. With one blow he resolved all theoretical difficulties, all the contradictions generated by the metaphysical point of view from which the "philosophers" considered all social phenomena. (GV Plekhanov, Essays on the history of materialism. Holbach.)

The religious ending does not constitute an organic conclusion from the entire book. This is deux ex machina. And I am convinced that, despite Tolstoy's assurances, he still could not internally reconcile two opposing principles: the truth of the artist and the truth of the believer. (Romain Rolland, Life of Tolstoy.)

9 Deus in nobis

The creator of a poetic work is an "original" and "original" genius. Genius - Deus in nobis. His sun is the ideal of eternal beauty. He may constitute a link in the planetary system of geniuses, but he can never and must never be a companion of another genius. (N. K. Kozmin, Nikolai Ivanovich Nadezhdin.)

10 Deus loci communis

I'm reading the sequel to The Cliff, and my hair is falling out of boredom, I don't remember such diabolically intolerable conversations in any literature. Yes, and all the faces - and Marfinka (I have just started working on Vera, but she has already minted out eight pages of conversation), and Mark, and everyone seems to me to be commonplaces, and Goncharov is some kind of god and king and poet of a commonplace, deus loci communis. (I. S. Turgenev - P. V. Annenkov, November 21, 1869.)

11 Deus nobis haec ótia fécit

God has given us these leisures.

Virgil, Bucoliki, I, 6-10:

Ó Melibóee, deús nobís haec ótia fécit:

Námqu(e) erit ílle mihí sempér deus: íllius áram

Sáepe tenér nostrís ab ovílibus ímbuet ágnus.

Ílle meás erráre bovés, ut cérnis, et ípsum

Lúdere quae vellém calamó permísit agrésti.

Oh, Melibey, God brought us peace, -

For he will always be my god; his altar is often

Tender near our sheepfolds will be nourished by a lamb.

He allowed my cows to roam, as you see,

Well, I myself, what I want, is to play on a rural reed.

(Translated by S. Shervinsky)

In this eclogue, Virgil, through the shepherd Titir, thanks Octavian Augustus for returning to him the land confiscated in favor of Octavian's veterans, and glorifies him as the god who brought peace after the civil wars.

On the pediment we read Virgil's verse: deus nobis haec otia fecit. (K. N. Batyushkov, Journey to Sirey Castle.)

One of my pleasures is to think that during the next holidays you will visit me, I will be able to provide you with a good room, a good bed. But, you ask, how did I get from Noirmoutier to St. Mary. You left me at the church doors, and I suddenly find myself on the bell tower. O Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit. (Prosler Mérimée, Abbé Aubin.)

□ How I envy you in these hot days of vacation, your fragrant dreams under the big orange trees of the island of Sardinia, these nightly concerts of the Mediterranean Sea and even the naive songs of our Sardinian workers, these Africans of Europe, the ancient people of our time. Non nobis Deus haec otia fecit. [ God did not give us these leisure. - auth. ] (Hector Berlioz, Memoirs.)

12 Deus sive nature

God or nature.

The formula expressing the identification of nature with a deity is one of the provisions of Spinoza's rationalistic philosophy.

Spinoza eliminated the dualism of God and nature, since he declared the actions of nature to be the actions of God. But precisely because the actions of nature are in his eyes the actions of God, God remains for him some kind of being separate from nature, underlying it. God is represented as the subject, nature as the predicate. Philosophy, finally liberated from theological traditions, must eliminate this important shortcoming of the essentially correct philosophy of Spinoza. "Down with this contradiction!" exclaimed Feuerbach; not Deus sive Natura, but aut Deus, aut Natura [ Or God, or Nature. - auth. ] is the nature of truth". (GV Plekhanov, Fundamental Questions of Marxism.)

13 Dominus et deus noster sic fieri jubet

So commands our lord and god.

With these words, according to Suetonius (Domitian, 13), the Roman emperor Domitian once began an official letter on behalf of the procurators, after which no one dared to call him otherwise, either verbally or in writing.

Declaring himself a god, Domitian, after the famous phrase "dominus et deus noster sic fieri jubet", began with systematic cruelty and increasing suspicion to persecute, as an insult to the shrine and as treason, any carelessly spoken word, any free expression that could be interpreted as a protest against his reckless orders. (D. I. Pisarev, Apollonius of Tyana.)

14 Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo deus

Here is a spectacle worthy of a god looking back at him, contemplating his creation.

Seneca, On Providence, II, 9.

Fessler, the head of the educational institution founded by Zlobin in Volsk, wrote in his memoirs, prepared for publication (but not printed), after the death of Speransky: “The terrible news soon came to us that a respectable and virtuous husband, a true Christian, invariably a faithful patriot, an indefatigable statesman, the famous Speransky fell under the tricks and blows of his enemies, and being suddenly seized, he was taken to Nizhny Novgorod without interrogation. His fate reminded me of the words of Seneca: "ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus." (Russian antiquity, 1902, No. 4.)

15 East deus in nobis

There is a god in us.

Ovid, "The Science of Love", III, 549 ff.:

Ést deus ín nobís, et súnt commércia cáeli:

God dwells in the soul, heavenly paths are open to us,

And inspiration flies to us from the ethereal heights.

(Translated by M. Gasparov)

The same thought about the divine inspiration of poets in the later work of Ovid "Fasta", VI, 5 ff.:

est deus ín nobís, agitánte caléscimus íllo:

"There is a god in us, and we light up under his influence: our impulse carries the seeds of the sacred mind."

This idea goes back to the doctrine of the divine origin of poetry, developed by Plato in the dialogue "Ion". Sometimes the expression Est deus in nobis is also used in a more general sense - cf. below in the quote from Koni

A monument was erected over the grave of the "atheist", and in the presence of a select public, one of the most profound and brilliant thinkers of our time, Renan, summarizing the life and significance of the one who calmed down in this grave, said: "est Deus in nobis." There is a god, gentlemen, he lives in us. (A. F. Koni, Spinoza in Russian translation.)

It has rightly been observed that poets are born, which means that a poet, by vocation, emerges as a poet from the womb of his mother, and with this inclination alone, with which heaven has endowed him, without any education and without any skill, he creates such works that confirm the correctness words: est Deus in nobis and so on. (Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote of La Mancha.)

I know very well what a high price a good poet has. - I also do not forget at all that these are chosen natures, for Plato calls them interpreters of the will of the gods, and Ovid spoke like this: est Deus in nobis ... (He is the Licentiate of Widrière.)

16 Flat ubi vult

17 Homo homini deus est

Man is god to man.

sq. Aurelius Symmachus (Letters, IX, 114) quotes a verse from a lost play by the comedian Caecilius Statius, a younger contemporary of Plautus: Homo homini deus est, si suum officium sciat "Man is a god to man if he knows his duties."

As a proverb expression, it is also testified in the Greek tradition (Zinovy, I, 91): "Man is a deity to man: it is said about those who unexpectedly receive salvation or beneficence from someone."

Let them think about the difference between the life of a man in the educated countries of Europe and the life of a savage in the New World: this difference is so great that one can rightly say: hominem homini deum esse (that is, that man is a god for man). (M. M. Stasyulevich, Philosophy of history in its main systems.)

The path to the realization and triumph of the moral human republic, where the high moral ideal of homo homini deus est becomes a real reality, lies not through sentimental moral preaching, but it can be achieved through active impartial intervention in the historical process, through energetic, persistent, unswerving practical activity, directed towards the final destruction of class contradictions, i.e., towards the creation of a truly harmonious society. (L. I. Axelrod, Ethics of Kautsky.)

"Ave, Maria" ("Hail Mary") is the most popular of the Catholic prayers addressed to St. Mary, the mother of Jesus. It is also known as "Angelic Salutation" ("Angelico salutatio"). The prayer has two parts. The first part is taken from the Gospel of Luke (1:28 and 1:42). The second part (“Sancta Maria…”) appears only in the 14th century. as an appeal to St. Mary with a request to pray for us. The final version was formed by the 16th century. and included in the collection of prayers published by Pope Pius V in 1568.

Text, transliteration "Ave, Maria" ("Hail Mary")

Ave, Maria, gratiā plena;
Dominus tecum:
benedicta tu in mulierĭbus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatorĭbus,
nunc et in horā mortis nostrae.
Amen.

a "ve, mari" a, gra "cia ple" on;
to "minus te" kum:
benedi "kta tu" in mulie "ribus,
at benedi "ctus fru" ctus ve "ntris tu" and, e "zus.
sa "nkta mari" a, ma "ter de" and,
o "ra pro but" bis peccato "ribus,
nunc et in ho "ra mo" rtis no "strae.
a "main.

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Interlinear translation of "Ave, Maria" ("Hail Mary")

Hail Mary, full of mercy;
The Lord is with you
Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Prytanne, Mary, poўnaya milastsi;
Pan with you:
Blessed you syarod zhanchyn
And blessed is the fruit of cherava tvaigo, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us, sinners,
tsyaper and ў gadzіnu our death.
Amen.

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Liturgical Catholic translation of "Ave, Maria" ("Hail Mary")

Rejoice, Mary, full of grace!
The Lord is with you;
blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

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• DEUS VULT - / de "oohs voohlt" /, Latin. God wills (it): cry of the Crusaders.
  
• DEUS VULT - foreign term Etymology: Latin: God wills it - rallying cry of the First Crusade
  
• DEUS VULT - [L] foreign term: God wills it--rallying cry of the First Crusade
  
• DEUS VULT — Pronunciation: ˌ d ā -u ̇ s- "wu ̇ lt Function: foreign term Etymology: L: God wills it …
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• DEUS - /dee"euhs, day"-/ ; Lat. /de "oos/, n. God. Abbr.: D. [ 1250-1300; deiuos; c. Skt deva, Lith dievas, OIr día ...
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• DEUS - deus, Deus BrE AmE ˈdeɪ ʊs ˈdi ː ‿əs ˌ deus ex ˈ machina ˈmæk ɪn ə ˈmɑːk-, § ...
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• DEUS - ex machina [U] - an artificial or very unlikely end to an event, in which any ...
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• — foreign term Etymology: Latin those whom a god wishes to destroy he first drives mad
  
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• SICUT PATRIBUS SIT DEUS NOBIS — foreign term Etymology: Latin as to our fathers may God be to us
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• DITAT DEUS—foreign term Etymology: Latin God enriches
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• DEUS RAMOS - biographical name de 1830-1896 Portuguese poet
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• DEUS EX MACHINA — noun Etymology: New Latin, a god from a machine, translation of Greek theos ek mēchanēs Date: 1697 a god introduced …
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• NON VULT CONTENDERE - |nänˌvəltkənˈtendəˌrē, |nōn- noun or non vult (plural non vult contenderes or non vults) Etymology: Latin non vult contendere …
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• QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT - foreign term Etymology: Latin: those whom a god wishes to destroy he first drives mad
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• DEUS OTIOSUS - (Latin: neutral god, or hidden god), in the history of religions and philosophy, a high god who has withdrawn from ...
  
• DEUS EX MACHINA - (Latin god from the machine) a person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly ...
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• DEUS (NOGUEIRA RAMOS), JOO DE - born March 8, 1830, So Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve, Port. died Jan. 11, 1896, Lisbon lyric poet who fashioned a …
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• QUI QUAE VULT - (lat.) qui quae vult dicit, quae non audiet - whoever says what he wants will hear what he does not want
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• MUNDUS VULT - (lat.) mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - the world wants to be deceived, let it be deceived
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• CUR.ADV.VULT - abbr. from curia advisari vult "the court will confer"
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• DEICIDE - I. ˈdēəˌsīd noun (-s) Etymology: probably from French déicide, from Middle French deicide, from dei- (from Latin, from ...
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• DEUCE-ACE — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French deus as, from Old French, from deus two, deuce + as ace …
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