To: ckilmer
I have a better question.
Why before this sudden fixation on the Sun and the Moon was the chief god of almost all religions SATURN????
In many of these religions the Sun and Moon are not even part of their pantheon of gods.
Strange.
22 posted on 01/03/2003 8:35 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
beats me.
I'm not sufficient familiar with the gods of the period to speculate
but it sounds like you are...
why don't you take a shot at answering your question.
23 posted on 01/03/2003 9:21 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: Swordmaker
Did you say Saturn?? Need to look up the Saturnists at
http://www.kronia.com/ and other places. Have fun! Be prepared to be called a kook, though. Personally, I think Immanuel Velikovsky was real close to the truth of the matter of ancient mythology...
24 posted on 01/03/2003 9:30 PM PST by Lafayette
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Saturn -- the chief of Gods. Thank you -- cronos...
I think the Egyptian myth starts with some overgod Amun who mastur****s and creates a God and Goddess -- the God of air and the Goddess of moisture. These two unite and create two more gods -- of earth and of sky. The earth and Sky bro and sis get together and are interrupted by their dad, the God of air but they manage to give birth to Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephtyhys who give birth to all the lower gods.
This myth was then taken up by the Minoans and then the Greeks who turned the Gods before Osiris to Kronos and the Titans.
I don't think the Indus or Yello river valley civilisations worshipped Saturn.