RE: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
June 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2012 at 1:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In the case of gods being embellished stories about men, for example, they would still be the product of imagination. I'm not so single minded in my appraisal of where god narratives come from. The single minded criticism would more aptly describe your constant insistence that gods et all originate from your favorite narratives (and favorite interpretations of those narratives) which is precisely what I keep attempting to remind you of every single time you post......sigh. Snake gods, for example.....are difficult to paint as being based on men, aren't they? Yet we do have giant snakes for gods. If you were to say that "gods which can be shown to have their origins in this narrative were based on embellished or artistic stories of men that existed (and you could demonstrate that such men existed or that it was even likely that they did) you might have a valid conclusion. You constant insistence that the very idea of a god springs from these narratives without demonstrating that they do (in addition to failing to demonstrate that these narratives are factual or even remotely possible) is why your posts are consistently bad on precisely the same lines, without fail, every time, from the very beginning of the post....
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