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• Ancient Chinese Theology: Shàngdì, Pángǔ, Tiān and the Dao

  By snowconenyc on 2019-11-14 • ( 0 )

  

  Before the evolution of the more esoteric and all-encompassing principle of Heaven (Tiān) which we find so prevalent in classical Chinese philosophical circles after the advent of the Zhou Dynasty, the primary divine entity that is worshipped and looked to as… Read More ›

• Vedic Cosmogony: Skepticism, Puruṣa and Hiraṇyagarbha

  By snowconenyc on 2019-11-02 • ( 0 )

  

  When one looks at the early creation myths, i.e. mythos, of the Indo-Aryans[2], what we today call Hinduism, one is confronted with the fact that their early mythology was not so clearly codified or synthesized as its sister cultures in… Read More ›

• The Image of Man

  By snowconenyc on 2019-11-02 • ( 0 )

  

  God made in the image of Man A reflection of the highest ideal by definition as it were Circling each other Like two big goldfish In a pool of water Laying at the feet of Buddha himself Many shapes and… Read More ›

• Orphic Theogony: Thanes and the Great Cosmic Egg

  By snowconenyc on 2019-10-18 • ( 0 )

  

  While Hesiod’ Theogony remains the standard, orthodox version of theogony (i.e. the story of the origin and genealogy of the gods) to the ancient Greeks, there exists an alternate tradition attributed to pseudo-historical and somewhat mythical figure of Orpheus, a character whose… Read More ›

• Classic Hellenic Theogony: Chaos, Chronos and Eros

  By snowconenyc on 2019-10-11 • ( 1 )

  

  One of the nice things that you found as you studied more advanced civilizations, as you got further into the first millennium BCE, you had better material and source texts to work with.  You no longer had to rely on… Read More ›

• Ancient Persian Theology: Zarathustra and the Avesta

  By snowconenyc on 2019-09-22 • ( 1 )

  

  In the 2nd and first millennium BCE, some 1500 years before Christianity and the Roman Empire spread throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, we see evidence of the prevalence of a faith that has come to be known as Zoroastrianism, a term… Read More ›

• The Enûma Eliš: Sumer- Babylonian Creation Mythos

  By snowconenyc on 2019-09-18 • ( 0 )

  

  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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