RE: God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.
July 31, 2011 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2011 at 12:56 pm by Hannah.)
(July 31, 2011 at 12:29 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:The priests of Aten would have become pariahs practically overnight in Egypt upon the death of Akhenaten.
Occam's razor, Pap. Easier to kill them or absorb them back into the Amun cult from whence they came. But even that is not the biggest problem with the idea. Akhenaten died c 1335 BC. We see no evidence of monotheism anywhere in the ANE until the Persian period begins in 539 with Cyrus' coup de main on Babylon. That is nearly 800 years. Where were they for all that time?
Quote:They left a land of no volcanos and went to a land of volcanos and shit themselves.
Except, (again) there are no volcanoes in Palestine.
They didn't go to Palestine! My theory, and I'm not alone in this, is that they somehow went down into or across to Saudi Arabia which has many volcanic harrats.....volcanic fields of lava vents, steam vents, volcanos, earthquakes, etc due to siesmic activity. Terrible conditions, as mentioned in the Bible. Forty years wandering the desert before going to 'the promised land' as a punishment by god or forty years wandering around trying to find their way out of the damn awful place? The law was made there. The church was established there. The fear was instilled there. Then they went off to a better place and that's when things started to lighten up a bit.
Where were they? They wouldn't have stood out. They were just as pagan as the pagans. Monotheism is a misleading term. It's just a sign of a successful 'pagan' belief system that over time muscled out all competition.
