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Author specializing in ancient philosophy and theology
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The Enûma Eliš: Sumer- Babylonian Creation Mythos
Like all ancient mythological traditions, in order to have a contextual understanding of ancient myth and the culture within which it evolved, one must look at the historical and archeological record, along with the extant textual and writing material, most… Read More ›
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Ancient Egyptian Mythos: The Weighing of the Heart, Ra and Ma’at
Perhaps the earliest mythological tradition we find documented, or evidence of, is that of the ancient Egyptians, a culture and civilization that evolved out of the settlement of the Nile delta river region in Northern Africa around the turn of… Read More ›
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The Ancient Hebrews: The Tanakh, Torah and Five Books of Moses
As a specific example of how a word, a concept, can be disfigured and lose its fullness and richness of meaning as it moves through successive languages of translation and cultural evolution, let’s look at how the Hebrew word Torah, which… Read More ›
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From Language to Writing: The Dawn of History
The development of alphabet based language systems in general, a development that occurs in the Mediterranean at around the end of the second millennium BCE or so, represents a major evolution in the history of mankind. It’s invention, if we… Read More ›
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A Brief History of Modern Man: The Laurasian Hypothesis
The genesis of this work stemmed from an initial seed thought, an idea as it were. A question really, “Is it possible that the basic metaphysics underlying the theo-philosophy of the ancient Chinese as well as the Greeks, stemmed from the… Read More ›
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Overarching Themes: The Laurasian Hypothesis and a New Metaphysics
While we have attempted to describe the nature of the work, and its underlying “purpose”, in Aristotelian terms[1], whenever the author stops to think about it, or whenever he is asked “why” he’s doing it, there never appears to be… Read More ›
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The Hetu and Luoshu Diagrams: Numerology in Chinese Antiquity
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