RE: Brahma and Abraham
September 18, 2020 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2020 at 11:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Comparative mythology, not comparative godology. The reason that the two are compared is due to the similarities between the myths about each, not whether both characters are gods. Leprechauns are a christianized and diminutive form of an irish god - but the objection above would insist that this was a less-than-apt comparison on account of only one of them being a god. That's something that happens, alot, with myths. When one culture wants to incorporate some piece of another cultures mythological narrative, they rarely give that out-group narrative equal footing with their own. They use the themes, they include the theologically useful claims, they appropriate the names. Rarely do they claim that the other guys gods are equally divine - never so in the case of henotheism, monolatry or monotheism.*
There's no shortage of scholarly work on the subject of abraham and brahma. Let wonder lead you to knowledge.
(*I'll keep it in mind, but at present the only thing that pops up is contemporary paganism - a significantly artificial outlier)
There's no shortage of scholarly work on the subject of abraham and brahma. Let wonder lead you to knowledge.
(*I'll keep it in mind, but at present the only thing that pops up is contemporary paganism - a significantly artificial outlier)
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