(November 11, 2011 at 2:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Euhemerism?Correct!
Only that Euhemerus did not have the knowledge and the information we now have.
The key figure in the gods-men-giants issue is the giants, the forefathers of the gods.
Compare the life story of the giants with that of the Neanderthals and you will be having the id of the giants.
The gods (in the case of the Hebrew tradition the men) meet the giants, enslave them, rape their women and finally exterminate them.
Homo sapiens meet the Neanderthals, mate with them and drive them to extinction.
Neanderthals were built naturally as Arnold Schwarzenegger. They were shorter than the Hss but an adult Neanderthal could lift an Hss over his head and throw him a few meters away.
(November 11, 2011 at 2:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The virgin mary is definitely not the plump little booby doll used as a fertility idol.Neither Venus was.
But where did the story of the virgin who bears the son of a god comes from?
5,000 years ago it was said of the King, and of the layman as well, that he was not born by a common mother. That his mother was the mother that could give birth to gods.
Those born by common mothers ran the risk to be considered animals and be executed.
The plump little booby doll, as you call it, it was an image of the Mother anyone wished to have in order to survive Judgment.
For the ordinary mother nobody cared!
By calling the figurines of the Mother fertility idols (I am referring to scientific community) they get rid of the problem but not of the shame. The makers of the sculptures were passing from generation to generation along with her figurines the story of the Mother until it was written down.
Those who happened to read the cuneiform and hieroglyphic texts cannot be fooled by anyone.
Let us consider the fashioning of people by the God.
In Egyptian theology people are fashioned by the god Khnum in a potter’s wheel.
In Egyptian tradition people are made by the two above mentioned mothers: the ordinary mother and the Mother who gives birth to gods (as Virgin Mary did).
In the Sumerian tradition when the gods decided to fashion people called the Mother of the land and ordered her to produce the people. The Mother, in order to comply, summoned some Mother-wombs and asked them to create the people.
The people were then created by these Mother-wombs.
No nonsense about males producing people without help from females.
(The Mother-wombs were raped by the gods but that’s another story)
In order to evaluate myths one has to dig very deep!