[gleeaikin]

I am currently reading about how central Asian warrior invasions destroyed the central European agricultural civilizations between 6000 and 4000 years ago. They also did their best to detroy the Goddess religions. The snake was one of the Goddess symbols. This is why in the Bible, God denies mankind knowledge, a snake lures woman into partaking of knowledge, and then has her tempting man into the same error. Got to put down those pesky, smart, sexy women and keep them barefoot and pregnant and dumb.

If this is Mithraic, this was a very masculine religion with no place for women. On the other hand the object in the pokers hand looks like the medical cadeucis with the two snakes, so perhaps this is there because the person died of some disease or as a protection in the afterlife??

[Reily]

The Mithraic Mysteries were very popular with the Roman army, which I guess would make it very masculine oriented.

[Jewbacca]

“This is why in the Bible, God denies mankind knowledge, a snake lures woman into partaking of knowledge, and then has her tempting man into the same error. Got to put down those pesky, smart, sexy women and keep them barefoot and pregnant and dumb.”

What crap.

Ignoring the theological issues, the Torah (from whence the Eden story originates) came from -— shocker — North Africa, not Europe.

[Adder]

And they know this how?