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06-05-2012, 09:37 PM | #431 |
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Gday Gakusei Don,
You may be right about Osiris - the myth started on Earth and was euhemerised. But Mithras killed the bull in the sky didn't he? i.e. heaven. AoI - we've thrashed that out a million times - I think there is evidence of a heavenly crucifixion there. Been a bit busy lately - I only get snatches of time to post. K. |
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im not sure about that bull sacrifice being complete mythology. the mythras worship had two major parts among their polytheism bull sacrifice, and a feast. the feast wasnt mythical, and it was roman custom to have another cult process sacrifices. im not sure beef wasnt on the table as part of the feast, or the blood not brought into the caves. the only reason their isnt historicity to a bull sacrifice is the lack of a alter, but with roman tradition of having victimarius doing the sacrifice's and the romans syncretism regarding religion. I dont now why we could rule out beef on the plate. |
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There is conjecture between Mithras and the Zodiac. But I'm not aware of any text that states that Mithras killed the bull in the sky. If you have any cites on that, I'd love to read them. Yeah, same here. We can leave AoI for another time, I think. |
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But that would mean the marcionites usef hebrews. That's new. New to me at least
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Mithras must be real because the Romans wouldn't worship a dead Persian peasant. QED HISTORIC MITHRAS. :wave: |
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Such an argument is like trying to argue that Josephus wrote about a Messiah called Jesus in Antiquities of the Jews. But what is most disturbing is that NO epistle is identified as the Epistle to the Hebrews in Against Heresies--NONE-ZERO-NIL It would appear that the author of Against Heresies did NOT know of the Epistle to the Hebrews. |
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