sansahansan Wrote:
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> Well posted Warwick
>
> Parallels are abundant and are a fundamental
> concept in comparative mythology, which I believe
> many might benefit from
>
> FYI to take your parallels back one more step
>
> when you said this:
> a mountain----pyramid
> scripture and parchment------hieroglyphs on
> papyrus
> Ka'Ba----- the Ka and the Ba
> the Sky---- the Sky
> the swelling sea----- the inundation of the Nile
> the Lord's Punishment---the scales of Ma'at
>
> Within my mind I had a flash and thought thusly:
>
> pyramid -> mountain -> rock, first known
> second generation tool (requiring a tool to make a
> tool)
>
> scripture/parchment -> hieroglyphs on papyrus
> -> carvings in rock -> markings on rock
> -> ownership.
>
> Ka'Ba -> the Ka and the Ba -> Division
> between the spirit and the flesh -> First
> belief in afterlife/first burial rites
>
> The sky -> the sky, always the sky, the place
> above all things, the source of life in the form
> of a sun, does any belief system with an origin
> story neglect the sun as a source ?
>
> The inundation of the nile -> the swelling of
> the sea -> the tides that rose and fell,
> feeding the first coastal dwellers -> perhaps
> even the pre-mythical source of the story of a
> flood that cleansed the land and renewed life
> across multiple non-contact cultures.
>
> Lord's punishment -> the scales of Ma'at ->
> Judgement of your fellow man ->
> Superiority/Authority of one man over another for
> whatever mystical reason.
>
> Fascinating little brain spark to chase. Now I
> have a new challenge -- what other archetypical
> religious fundamental concepts might be traceable
> back to primordial beginnings?
>
> True, it's mostly speculation to form those
> connections, but within that speculation might not
> the germ or seed of a new line of research find
> soil and light?
>
> Hmm perhaps this should have been a new topic.
> I'm feeling frisky and thoughtful today though.
>

Please don't think that I meant that I view these congruencies as direct associations.

Besides the expedient coopting that I mentioned there is also

the basic anthropological fact that groupings ofman have allways tended to adopt certain basic elemental concepts..like the sun, the Mother , the Moon, solstices and equinoxes , building tall constructs etc etc etc etc as divine..INDEPENDANTLY of each other.

I was also attempting to demonstrate how easy it is to cherry pick compelling congruencies

and I was hoping to spur Oggy into elaborating on his employment of the term Sacred


warwick






" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
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Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019