Canaanite religion Canaanite religion is the name for the group of Ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age through the first centuries of the Common Era. Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Beliefs[edit] Pantheon[edit] Ba'al with raised arm, 14th-12th century BC, found at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit), Louvre A great number of deities were worshiped by the followers of the Canaanite religion; this is a partial listing: Afterlife; Cult of the Dead[edit] Cosmology[edit] So far, none of the inscribed tablets found in 1929 in the Canaanite city of Ugarit (destroyed ca. 1200 BC) has revealed a cosmology. From the union of El Elyon and his consort were born Uranus (Pronounced Oo(as in room)-ran-aws) and Ge (Pronounced Yee), Greek names for the "Heaven" and the "Earth". Mythology[edit] History[edit] The Canaanites[edit] Some[who?] Influences[edit] Contact with other areas[edit] Hebrew Bible[edit] Sources[edit]
The Dark Bible: Women's Inferior Status The Dark Bible Women's Inferior Status Back To Table Of Contents Blue words represent Bible quotes Burn The Daughter! "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." Comment A priest's daughter, if found to have lost her virginity without marriage, can receive the death penalty, but in the form of incineration. How many fundamentalist priests who so easily condemn others would carry out the burning of their daughters if they found them "whoring"? (See also Genesis 38:24) Cut Off Her Hand! "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her." Only in an overly obsessive male dominated culture could men create such atrocious laws. Female Births Get Penalty (See also Psalms 51:3-5) Female Inferiority
Sin (Mythology) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nanna (Sumerian: DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA) was the Sumerian god of the moon in Mesopotamian mythology, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, identified with Semitic Sin (Akkadian: Sîn, Su'en). His sacred city was Ur. NameThe original meaning of the name Nanna is unknown. The pre-classical sign LAK-32 later collapses with ŠEŠ (the ideogram for "brother"), and the classical Sumerian spelling is DŠEŠ.KI, with the phonetic reading na-an-na. The Semitic moon god is in origin a separate deity from Sumerian Nanna, but from the Akkadian Empire period, the two naturally undergo syncretization and are identified. BackgroundNanna's chief sanctuary at Ur was named E-gish-shir-gal ("house of the great light"). The "wisdom" personified by the moon-god is likewise an expression of the science of astrology, in which the observation of the moon's phases is an important factor. He was named Sin in Babylonia and Assyria, and was also worshipped in Harran.
Japanese mythology Japanese myths, as generally recognized in the mainstream today, are based on the Kojiki, the Nihon Shoki, and some complementary books. The Kojiki, or "Record of Ancient Matters", is the oldest surviving account of Japan's myths, legends and history. The Shintōshū describes the origins of Japanese deities from a Buddhist perspective, while the Hotsuma Tsutae records a substantially different version of the mythology. One notable feature of Japanese mythology is its explanation of the origin of the imperial family which has been used historically to assign godhood to the imperial line. Note: Japanese is not transliterated consistently across all sources, see: #Spelling of proper nouns Creation myth[edit] In the Japanese creation myth, the first deities which came into existence, appearing at the time of the creation of the universe, are collectively called Kotoamatsukami. Kuniumi and Kamiumi[edit] From their union were born the Ōyashima, or the eight great islands of Japan:
Bahira Bahira (Arabic: بحيرى, Classical Syriac: ܒܚܝܪܐ), or "Sergius the Monk" to the Latin West, was a Syriac or Bahrani[1] Gnostic Manichean Nasorean or Nestorian (or Arian[2]) monk who, according to tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career.[3][4] Islamic tradition[edit] Muhammad meets the monk Bahira. From Jami' al-Tawarikh ("The Universal History") c. 1315. The story of Muhammad's encounter with Bahira is found in the works of the early Muslim historians Ibn Hisham, Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, and Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, whose versions differ in some details. It was a miraculous movement of a cloud that kept shadowing Muhammad regardless of the time of the day. Christian tradition[edit] In the Christian tradition Bahira became a heretical monk, whose errant views inspired the Qur'an. Bibliography[edit] References[edit]
Is Jesus's nativity an Egyptian myth? In my first published book, The Christ Conspiracy (1999), I provided an image from the birth cycle of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III (1386/1388-1349-51 BCE), found in the temple of the god Amun at Luxor, Egypt. Like many others before me, including professional Egyptologists, I contended for a possible influence of such imagery on Christianity, as concerns the birth or nativity stories about Jesus Christ, specifically in the canonical gospels of Luke and Matthew. Here is the image in question: The description reads: ‘The Annunciation, Conception, Birth and Adoration of the Child’ In Christ Con, I included a summary derived from the following commentary by Egyptologist Dr. In my book Christ in Egypt, published in 2009, I followed up this discussion with a lengthy 20-page analysis of this Luxor artifact, examining not just the imagery but also the inscription that appears on a panel which precedes the above scenes. The Luxor birth cycle The gospel source? E. Philae mammisi Horus and Isis
Chinese mythology Chinese mythology refers to those myths found in the historical geographic area of China: these include myths in Chinese and other languages, as transmitted by Han Chinese as well as other ethnic groups (of which fifty-six are officially recognized by the current administration of China).[1] Chinese mythology includes creation myths and legends, such as myths concerning the founding of Chinese culture and the Chinese state. As in many cultures' mythologies, Chinese mythology has in the past been believed to be, at least in part, a factual recording of history. Thus, in the study of historical Chinese culture, many of the stories that have been told regarding characters and events which have been written or told of the distant past have a double tradition: one which presents a more historicized and one which presents a more mythological version.[2] Historians have written evidence of Chinese mythological symbolism from the 12th century BC in the Oracle bone script. Major concepts[edit]
The Dark Bible: God, Satan, Jesus, Heaven The Dark Bible God, Satan, Jesus, Heaven Back To Table Of Contents Blue words represent Bible quotes The Back Parts of God "And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend..." "And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. Comment In verse 11 we read that God spoke to Moses, face-to-face. I'll leave it to the readers to ponder the possible sexual orientation of God as he shows Moses his bare bottom. Beasts In Heaven "And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. Here we have a rare description of heaven where it appears frightening with strange beasts. (See also Rev. 5) The Brethren Of Jesus "After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days." This verse describes Jesus and his brethren. Christ With Horns Christ's Temper
FAITH or fiction Yahweh: The Volcano God The Bible says that Yahweh used a “pillar of cloud” (volcano smoke) to guide the Hebrews through the wilderness by day, and a “pillar of fire” (volcano fire/smoke) by night. Exodus 13:21: “By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night." It is well known that volcanic eruptions can cause lightning. This is caused by friction between particles. Exodus 19:16: "On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Psalms 97:1-5: “The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice. Exodus 20:18: "When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. The mountain that is currently called Mount Sinai is not the one described in the Bible.
The History of Jehovah - Secret Identity of Israel's Yahweh Revealed! by M-Theory 13 January 2004 from HiddenMysteries Website In a September 22nd, 2002 speech to visiting Christian Zionists, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asserted, "This land is ours... God gave us the title deeds..." However, recent scholarly research, including discoveries by an archaeological team from the University of Tel Aviv, not only deconstruct the Biblical Old Testament and Torah stories upon which this claim rests, but grant previously unthinkable credence to an ancient historian’s claim that the Israelites of Exodus were actually the Hyksos, and therefore of Asiatic origin. To trace the foundations of this ongoing Biblical bonfire, we must go back to 1999. All hell broke loose in Israel in November of that year when Prof. "the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander the desert, did not conquer the land, and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes". Moreover, the Jewish God YHWH had a female consort - the goddess Asherah! Hathor was the wife of Horus, the God of War.
Moses - The Gospel According to Egypt Religious Controversy and the Egyptian 18th Dynasty Zarw(1) was also the site of an Egyptian temple to the Aten.(2) Aten, a form of the solar god Ra(3) was known from earlier Egyptian dynasties(4) and had become a favorite of Amenhotep III. The Aten was also the source of Amenhotep's most popular nickname ("the Dazzling-Sun-Disc").(5) Because the mayor of Zarw, Heby, also held the title of "Steward of the Harem of the Royal Wife" of Thutmose IV, it is likely that Amenhotep III had himself spent at least part of his own youth at Zarw and had received religious training under the influence of the Aten temple.(6) The cult of the amorphous god Amun (meaning "hidden" or "unseen"(7) and source of the ending to Christian, Jewish and Muslim prayers - Amen)(8) was champion of the 17th Dynasty Pharaohs who drove out the Hyksos and reunited Egypt. At the city of Akhetaten, the ancient religion of the Aten received a make-over. © Charles N.