(November 11, 2011 at 5:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Hehehe, giants or cyclops figures have another interesting theory behind them. Ever seen a mammoth skull sans tusks?
Do you have to offer, as an example, a recorded incident of some people who found large animal bones and made stories of giants out of them (giants who produced gods who produced humans!!)?
Definitely not, because there are no humans that stupid.
Who were those who met normal people a little bit taller than themselves and produced a story of giants?
Wikipedia Wrote:The Patagones or Patagonian giants are a mythical race of people, who first began to appear in early European accounts of the then little-known region and coastline of Patagonia. They were supposed to have exceeded at least double normal human height, some accounts giving heights of 12 to 15 feet (3.7 to 4.6 m) or more. Tales of these improbable people would take a hold over European concepts of the region for some 250 years, until they were substantially debunked at the end of the 18th century.
Venus, as well as Freya and Ishtar, do not belong to the race of the gods, they are giantesses: Venus is a Titan, not a goddess, Freya is not pure goddess, she is not Aesir she is a Vanir and Ishtar (Inanna) was judged by the gods found not to be pure and was executed.
The Great Mother did not belong to the race of the gods (Virgin Mary does not, too)!
(November 11, 2011 at 5:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You're making some case about these figurines being connected to judgment, but I don't know why you believe that the people that carved those idols believed in "judgement" in the way you're leveraging it.
The oldest texts of the humanity, and for that reason the most sacred of all archaic texts, are the Pyramid Texts (2400 to 2200 BC). The main and only subject of these texts is the judgment of living people, of people alive, by the gods.
The Mother depicted in the idols, she produced gods and non-gods, she herself being a non-god. The gods who fathered her children were judging them at a certain age and those found to be not as expected, were exterminated.
That is what is written in the texts, when you read the texts literally and not between the lines.
Your line of thinking is the line of thinking of the Egyptologists who insist on believing what the ancient Greeks taught them about Egyptian theology and refuse to read, to actually read, what is written in the Egyptian texts which we today can read but the ancient Greek philosophers could not.
Do you know how the Egyptologists were punished for being that stubborn? They keep translating a single text for decades now –the count must be around 50-60 official translations by now- but they are unable to decide what the text is about.
(“The dispute of a man with his Ba” is the title of the story. Look it up, it will be worth your time).
(November 11, 2011 at 5:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It seems to you that myths are all about rape, and mothers stories to their children, but to me this seems to be a fairly strange way to distill the entirety of mythology.
Well, that is the hard core of mythology. Legends handed down to us from peoples of all races and all continents.