0 Comments | March 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm by mahud
My spiritual beliefs have been and remain to an extent shaped by Christianity. Growing up I didn’t really have much exposure to spirituality. I was raised in a monotheistic culture. I knew the stories of the Old and New Testaments. I sang Christian Hymns every morning at school. But It was never something that had […]
1 Comment | January 16, 2010 at 4:17 am by mahud
The Sumerian King List (SKL) was initially composed during the Third Dynasty of Ur (late 3rd millennium) and extended during the reign of the first dynasty of Isin (Early 2nd millennium). Many scholars maintain that the pre-flood king list is in fact a later addition to the SKL document. According to the SKL (WB […]
0 Comments | February 28, 2009 at 7:53 am by mahud
In Chinese mythology it is the character of the maimed and limping Yu who plays the role of cosmic walker in nine steps within a nine fold cosmos, incorporating Daoist philosophy of an ever changing universe through the cyclic processes of yin giving perpetually birth to yang giving birth to yin (and so on), in […]
4 Comments | January 4, 2009 at 2:22 pm by mahud
My Pagan-Mythic Path is greatly influenced by the mystery of the lunar cycle, focusing mainly upon the waning and waxing crescents, that I term the ‘lunar double-door.’ It is within the lunar double-door that the opposites of manifest cosmic reality become one (more on that aspect of my mythos later).
My mythos is greatly influenced […]
2 Comments | December 8, 2008 at 10:49 pm by mahud
In my recent post Would You Like to Know the Truth? Part 2 (Will war and suffering ever end?), Tom challenged the idea that Jesus and the repentant thief, who hung next to him upon the cross, entered paradise upon the point of death. Now, I personally do not accept this Biblical account as historical, […]
4 Comments | December 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm by mahud
This post is one of many in the Fifth Mythology Synchroblog: Mythical Monsters and Otherworldly Entities (View the list of other bloggers below)
Seven-Headed Serpent of Mesopotamia
There is an Akkadian Seal impression (mid to late 3rd millennium B.C.), excavated from Tell Asmar (Iraq, near Eshnunna), that depicts two gods slaying a gigantic monster with seven serpentine […]
0 Comments | November 18, 2008 at 12:10 am by mahud
This post contains an extract from my current book project titled The Cosmic Double-Death (And Cyclic re-creation through the Dying God). The bibliography for this post is too extensive to include here, but may be available on request.
The Proto-Gospel
And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
between your seed and her seed.
He (or […]
7 Comments | May 1, 2008 at 7:15 am by mahud
This post is one of many in the third Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
…the primordial image of Mother Earth…is found throughout the world in countless forms and variants. It is the Terra Mater or Tellus Mater so familiar to Mediterranean religions, who gives birth to all beings.
…In some religions Mother Earth […]
3 Comments | January 12, 2008 at 1:29 am by mahud
The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord is observed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches after Epiphany, while the Eastern Orthodox Commemorates Jesus’ baptism on Epiphany 1..
It is not the day when Christ was born that should be called Epiphany”, says St. John Chrysostom, “but the day when He was baptized. Not […]
0 Comments | October 18, 2007 at 1:30 pm by mahud
Dionysus, accompanied by his army of bacchic revellers, was accredited as the universal distributor of his own worship and the knowledge of the vine. Like Noah, he was the inventor of wine, and like Soma, he himself was the ambrosial drink poured out, everywhere releasing mankind from suffering. Below, in one of many magnificent […]
2 Comments | June 2, 2007 at 7:39 pm by mahud
I came across an interesting tradition at Dance of the Mind earlier, regarding the Leviathan, found in the Talmudic tractate Baba Batra:
Rab Judah said in the name of Rab: All that the Holy One, blessed be He, created in his world he created male and female. Likewise, Leviathan the slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous […]
0 Comments | May 29, 2007 at 7:32 pm by mahud
Origen, in Against Celcus (6:24-25), relates the description of a diagram, drawn by Celcus, of ten separate circles joined by a single circle that represented the universal soul. The name of the universal soul was ‘Leviathan’ (The multi-headed sea serpent of Hebrew mythology) , its name given to both the centre and the circumference of […]
0 Comments | February 1, 2007 at 9:24 am by mahud
The most striking use of sacred space in the Old Testament appears to be employed to reflect the relationship that exists between God and Israel, His chosen people. The same understanding of sacred space is also apparent in the New Testament where the relationship is between God and ‘spiritual Israel’, through the person of Jesus […]
2 Comments | November 14, 2006 at 1:53 am by mahud
I see a parallel between the opening chapters of the book of Exodus, and the intro to the Iliad, but I’ve never really discussed it with anyone before. Is there a connection do you think, or is it just coincidence, that both match up on a number of different points? I can’t help but think […]
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