The Great Virgin Mother Isis - Ancient Mythology is not a Cheeseburger

[michaelsherlock]

I have seen no indication you have any understanding of the meaning of the word 'scholarship' . All I see is an under educated autodidact with an attitude..

Using primary sources coupled with highly recognized scholarly appraisals to argue a case is, at least I thought, an appropriate way to examine an idea!

I have no interest wasting my time trying to teach you on this medium. I might have some success on a one-on-one over a few months. Unlikely though,you seem convinced you are right and everyone else is wrong.,

Not at all. I could well be wrong. But you have not presented anything in the way of a rebuttal, minus the abusive ad hominem attacks, attacks which are quite uncharacteristic of a learned mind, in my humble opinion.

I appreciate your near offer to educate me, but having grown up in a welfare district, under the sole supervision of a father who 2 years prior to my birth, spent the majority of his young adult life, in maximum security prison (a good father though), I know how to hurl colorful abuse and mindless personal attacks quite well on my own. But thank you for your offer OB1!

Why am I so hostile? My discipline is Social Anthropology,which I spent 5 years studying at university. Some of my studies covered mythology.

Ok, now we are whipping out the papers and comparing their lengths! I also went to University and studied Law, Political Science and Sociology, during which time I studied mythology, in particular from a functionalist point of view, which I found fascinating. I particularly liked Levi-Strauss' idea that mythology serves the function of mediating, explaining and reconciling duality, duality like, virginity and motherhood, for example! So yes my learned friend, I too have been indoctrinated.

Your undisciplined approach,citing a few atypical sources with perhaps one of scholastic merit,is irritating to me.

Atypical sources. You mean like Plutarch, Herodotus, Apuleius, Morford and Lenardon, Rosalie David, Dr Reginald E. Witt, Dr Jenny March, Dr G. Johannes Botterweck, etc...

Ok, I am open to your ideas. What are typical sources? Who would be acceptable to you? And one more question; did you actually read the article through? It seems that you believe that I used Joseph Campbell to establish a factual point, when I only used him in two places, one to relate a Buddhist parable relevent to the common misunderstanding of mythology, and two, as a final rhetorical quip on the Isis and Mary comparison. Yet, you seemed to have zoomed in on him, and assuming you actually did study at University, you would know that he is not the most respected professor of mythology, for the reason that he assumes a single, almost metaphysical mold to the human spirit, in otherwords, he tends to oversimplify with assertions, rather than proofs, in much the same way as Max Muller did with his Solar paradigm.

My fault,not yours. I guess I should be more tolerant,but I really can't be bothered.

You need to work on your character. It is certainly something to be bothered with, for if that is lacking, then you mean nothing, to no one, not even yourself, and no amount of information can help you with that. That is a personal journey, one which mythology has symoblically described in many myths!

Anyway, kind regards. Michael.
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