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08/28/04 5:51 PM

#1471 RE: otraque #1468

You are way ahead of me in the study of prehistoric mythology. I have followed a few of my favorites beyond the structured dynastic period into the mist of prehistory only to be met by more questions.

I will reread your post when I have more time. From what I do know I agree with what you have put forth. I have singled out your quietest remarks because they rang a bell.

The quietest movement reminds me somewhat of Moses. It is the influence of Moses that most intrigues me and why I follow that particular thread.

Given the influence Moses has over the three scriptured religions did a little of the great legislator creep into the quietest movement?

Moses was instructed "in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts, vii, 22).

Moses studied in the royal house of Pharaoh whose main title was Chief Priest of Egypt.

In his schooling Moses learned that the Egyptians developed an ideal character type, the man who conforms to maat, which they commended to others. This was ‘the silent man, i.e. one who was wise and cautious, and also modest and reticent; they spoke, too, of ‘the really silent man, whose whole character was infused with maat. In sum it may be said that maat was the order established at the creation and the rightful order which the king and every member of society had to maintain, as well as the just reward promised to those who kept it faithfully.

The reticence of Moses is described in Exodus 4:10.

But Moses said to the Lord, “Please, O Lord, I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant; I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

This also caught my eye, but is extremely subjective on my part. But what Buddhism teaches we are in a prison of illussion run by evil gods, we but the fools that believe in the illussion and therefore be but puppets/pawns of the gods'.
To recognize this is to be free, the way out.


I have always maintained that we are not made in god’s image but rather we made god in our image bestowing upon the deity both that which is good and bad about our species.

That the gods are evil and that we have so readily relinquished our freedom does not speak well for us.

-Rion