Food for thought

[Anto Kennedy]

all of the above ^

That's some interesting stuff. I'm not surprised with the findings of your research either, I just never have had a chance to study astronomy/astrology.

Have you included you're own theory as to what this all means, in you're book, if so, care to share that with me?

Of course SOME myths are meant as allegories just as some ,even many,have some basis in actual people or events. It can be virtually impossible to tell. You may be right,or not.

Myth is allegory by definition, and it isn't impossible to tell whatsoever.

The belief systems of some ancient religions were literal. Egyptian religion is a good example.

So is Amaunet literally a snake, or a representation of the primordial void in the Ogdoad system. Is Ra really a bird, or does that depiction merely represent how he (the sun) sails across the skies.

Egyptian religion is anything but literal, and their holy texts explicitly state that.

It's a lot of fun trying to work out exactly what people long dead actually believed.

Long dead? This may come as a shock to you, but the barbarian Irish still exist, the native americans, north and south, still exist. Various African and Asian cultures still exist and still retain their polytheistic, allegorical belief systems.

Not everyone in the world was assimilated into the white, rationally superior, Aryan imperialist sphere of influence.

Take a trip to Donegal and tell them that they can't tell if their myths are allegories or literal descriptions of historical events. With a name like Padraig, I would expect better of you.

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Sargon commissioned the study of the stars in the Early Bronze Age. This was the Golden Age of astrology/astronomy. Cosmically, historically, and politically it appears that the first cosmic myth (a proto-text) on which the Bible was based would have appeared in Ur around 1930 BCE after the Amorite conquest. Most likely at the temple of Sin.

Sargon was no Sumerian though, remember that.

One other thing, but very important. The "true teaching", if there is such a thing, is passed down orally from master to initiate. When it get's written down (by Sargon's daughter no less) just keep in mind that she doesn't have the authority to do so. This is the beginning of the vulgar religion, created by certain kings and emporers to take power away from the temple economy, and the "gods".

I'm always wary when reading Akkadian/Babylonian records, the Egyptian Resurrection Books are far superior and apparently written by the priests themselves.

The Irish, for example, never wrote a single word of their beliefs down. It was the greatest taboo in irish society, and most probably in Sumer & Egypt too. It took Latinized Christian monks to write down the first installments of Irish mythology.

So if it's written down, it's not with the blessing of the people who created the myth, and thus understand it's true meaning. Always keep that in the back of you're head.