07-05-2023, 06:14 AM
Thanks, duke, bryn.
Always enjoy reading your feedback.
@Duke - small clarification: the god riding the buffalo is Yama, god of death. And yes, the gods are born and die and come back again in endless cycles. There are similarities between the ancient Vedic religion, the ancient Persian religion (well before Zoroaster), and religions all the way up to Greece. We'll never know whose ancestor was who, due to the cultural and genetic mixing that has been happening since the days of the Turkana boy, hence ancestors who may have looked like me, but who knows (explaining one's poem is a mortal sin, but this is Miscellaneous, so I take the liberty).
We'll never know what the early Hebrews thought: there are only hints of it in the OT, but it points to an ancient polytheism with gods battling each other.
@Bryn - thanks most of all for the spelling correction on for(e)bear. I had the right one at first, then googled the wrong spelling (or rather, found the right spelling of the wrong word).
Always enjoy reading your feedback.
@Duke - small clarification: the god riding the buffalo is Yama, god of death. And yes, the gods are born and die and come back again in endless cycles. There are similarities between the ancient Vedic religion, the ancient Persian religion (well before Zoroaster), and religions all the way up to Greece. We'll never know whose ancestor was who, due to the cultural and genetic mixing that has been happening since the days of the Turkana boy, hence ancestors who may have looked like me, but who knows (explaining one's poem is a mortal sin, but this is Miscellaneous, so I take the liberty).
We'll never know what the early Hebrews thought: there are only hints of it in the OT, but it points to an ancient polytheism with gods battling each other.
@Bryn - thanks most of all for the spelling correction on for(e)bear. I had the right one at first, then googled the wrong spelling (or rather, found the right spelling of the wrong word).