RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
March 13, 2013 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 4:44 pm by Confused Ape.)
(March 13, 2013 at 4:05 pm)EGross Wrote: Compare it to reading one of the first editions of of Sleeping Beauty, where the prince finds her sleeping, had repeated sex with the sleeping woman, she gives birth to twins, who immeditely climb on her to suckle, one sucks the poison from her finger and she awakens. That's the old version. Now compare that to Disney! lol
That's not the only foke tale that got sanitised.
Old version of Cinderella
Quote:The next morning, the prince went to Aschenputtel's house and tried the slipper on the eldest stepsister. The sister was advised by her mother to cut off her toes in order to fit the slipper. While riding with the stepsister, the two doves from Heaven told the Prince that blood dripped from her foot. Appalled by her treachery, he went back again and tried the slipper on the other stepsister. She cut off part of her heel in order to get her foot in the slipper, and again the prince was fooled. While riding with her to the king's castle, the doves alerted him again about the blood on her foot.
In the end, during Aschenputtel's wedding, as she was walking down the aisle with her stepsisters as her bridesmaids, (they had hoped to worm their way into her favour), the doves from Heaven flew down and struck the two stepsisters' eyes, one in the left and the other in the right. When the wedding came to an end, and Aschenputtel and her prince marched out of the church, the doves flew again, striking the remaining eyes of the two evil sisters blind, a punishment they had to endure for the rest of their lives.
The basic idea of the story goes back a long way - 1st Century BC in Greece - and there's also a version of it from 9th Century China
(March 13, 2013 at 4:05 pm)EGross Wrote: At which point, it is no longer about "which is the real story", since it is fiction, but which one is the better story! And THAT is how one should approach Toldot Yeshu - good fiction, a fun read, and an insight to the times, but as real as Sleeping Beauty.
Which version do you think makes the better story?
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
