RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
June 27, 2012 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2012 at 9:48 pm by LEDO.)
(June 26, 2012 at 10:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No...it is either "real" or "made up." The fact that morons are willing to accept the absurd as real does not make it real.I have done my own research using comparisons of the Hebrew tales, midrash etc and compare them to known star folklore. It actually forms a contigeous story line in the heavens. I have written my own book on the topic.
(June 27, 2012 at 9:29 am)Epimethean Wrote:(June 26, 2012 at 9:47 pm)LEDO Wrote: Actually religion does need a "real" Jesus, Horus, or Marduk, even if it was made up. The cosmic myth origin of religion is based on astrology. If astrology i.e. the constellations predicts a great hero born of a virgin, then it must happen. This is why the heroes of ancient times had enormous power and strength, something Joseph Campbell never understood.
This last statement makes no sense to me, and I don't think Campbell was out to lunch on cosmology.
Joseph Campbell admitted he never fully understood why men in myth all had enormous strength and performed great deeds. Campbell also believed certain stories were a cosmic myth, such as Sargon being found floating down a river in a basket. What Campbell failed to do was to take it a step further and connect the tale to Moses as a cosmic myth. Nor was Campbell able to identify exactly how this tale was a cosmic myth, i.e. what constellation(s) was involved. If he was able to do that he would have realized Moses, Marduk, and Sargon were all connected via a vernal equinox celebration and the same constellations...with Moses having a slight variation with Aries being the constellation of the equinox and not Taurus (the lamb or the golden calf for you Bible scholars).
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.