(July 8, 2009 at 5:24 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote:Quote:Actually heaven was both the sky and the afterlife. Rulers became stars and common souls became part of the Milky Way which the ancients correctly deduced was a group of stars. Meteors were seen as souls coming to earth to enter the body. The heavens had gates. Souls would enter via Cancer and leave via Capricorn.
The symbol for judgement was the scale. It is the constellation of Libra. It is where souls were weighed to sell if they could enter heaven. It is also harvest time when crops are weighed.
Interesting stuff, where did you get that info from.
BTW, have you pieced the story togther yet?
You can use any concordance for the Hebrew stuff. The fcosmic olklore comes from Allen's "Star Names Their Lore and Meaning." I quote heavily from it in my own soon to published work since its copyright has expired. The book is also considered to be one of the best on the topic. Ann Wright has a constellation web site which quotes him extensively also.
The souls being weighed is standard Egyptian Book of the Dead stuff.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
