Peeps wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 12:48 am
Except none of those little gee gods have any collaboration on doing something drastic like splitting time, like B.C. to A.D., as did Jesus Christ's resurrection. That is the main reason why they are false gods, they did not defeat death. They are instead the gods of the dead. Only Jesus Christ can redeem us from death.
These "powers & authorities/principalities" are the little gee gods/fallen angels.
The Chinese & other rulers of the time of Christ's crucifixion record anomalies, ~12min video:
or watch this 1 minute clip:
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8DNfsEpRhj ... KCfPl2AzkS
1min clip of Talmudic evidence for 30 CE crucifixion:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxjiRhf-GOsw ... ZvajqCcQjz
or the full video:
And Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday, not Friday.
This is not true per se, ALL ancient cultures (proceeding Christ) believed their god not only died but defeated death and was resurrected. You could even say Christ's entire life was simply a repetition and was doing exactly what the gods before him did.
"Can we discern the real historical content of ancient myth? What makes ritual the source of history, as Hornug notes, is that "the overall historical picture... Is heavily determined by recurring typical events"; history go on through the centuries describing events using "the same basic scenario with the same prescribed roles." Are not the great rites marking the birth, marriage, coronation, victories, campaigns, and burial of the King all historical realities, recalled in ritual repetition?.. This gives us "history as celebration," where "history is played out in the form of fixed ritual in accordance with the Annals." - Hugh Nibley; One Eternal Round pg 103
Introduction to Hugh Nibleys One Eternal Round...
The fundamental purpose of the Book of Abraham and ancient Egyptian religious literature is the same
A major mythological cycle common to all ancient civilizations and societies is that of the creation of the world and mankind, the wickedness of mankind that results in the destruction of nearly all mankind, and their subsequent return to wickedness. There are Semitic, Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian accounts of this cycle, the biblical Hebrew account being the most familiar to us. Two Egyptian compositions, the Memphite Theology and the epic of the Heavenly Cow, deal with the creation and the flood, as does the story of Prometheus in Greek literature. The creation account in the Book of Abraham and the accounts of the wickedness of mankind and the flood given in the Book of Moses expands on this same ancient theme.
What is the relationship between myth, ritual, and history? The surviving writings that have come down to us from ancient times are basically mythological accounts that portray actual historic events in ritual context.
The great year rite that is found in various forms throughout the ancient world is an example of this. This celebration took place at a sacred location, most often a temple or high place. There were common elements to this ceremony: the dramatic representation of the death and resurrection of the god, a portrayal of the creation, a ritual combat in which the triumph of the sun god over his enemies was depicted, a triumphal procession where the king or leader played the part of the god followed by a train of lesser gods, an atoning sacrifice by which the people were cleansed of their sins, and festivities and games that recalled a previous Golden Age, now lost. The similarities in these ceremonies throughout the ancient world argue a common origin. There are some remarkable parallels based on the ancient perception of history as a repetition of ritual and mythological themes. -Hugh Nibley; One Eternal Round
Speaking of the Golden Age (Garden of Eden/Paradise)
"Perhaps the most accomplished analyst of mythology in modern times was the late Mircea Eliade, chairman of the Department of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion. From his meticulous, lifelong survey of the subject, Professor Eliade drew a stunning conclusion:
literally every component of early civilizations--from religion to art and architecture--expressed symbolically the desire to recover and to re-live the lost Golden Age. That which symbolically transported the participant back to the First Time, the Golden Age, was sacred. That which did not was transient and mundane, of no interest." -David Talbott, Thunderbolts Project, Origins of Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism; Saturn Myth
Every Ritual has a divine model, an archetype; this fact is well enough known for us to confine ourselves to recall a few examples. "We must do as the gods did in the beginning" (Satapatha Brahmana... all religious acts are to be held to have been founded by gods, civilizing heroes, or mythical ancestors. It may be mentioned in passing that, among primitives, not only do the rituals have their mythical model but any human act whatever acquires effectiveness to the extent to which it exactly repeats an act performed at the beginning of time by a god, a hero, or an ancestor.
... In Egypt of the later centuries, for example, the power of rite and word possessed by the priest was due to imitation of the primordial gesture of the god Thoth, who had created the world by the force of his word. Iranian traditions knows that the religious festivals were instituted by Ormazed to commemorate the stages of the cosmic Creation [ancient hevens], which continued for a year. At the end of each period-representing, respectively, the creation of the sky, the waters, the earth, plants, animals, and man - Mazdean festivals (Bundahisn). Man only repeats the act of creation; ... man is contemporary with the cosmogony and with the anthropogony because ritual projects him into the mythical epoch of the beginning. A bacchant, through his orgiastic rites, imitates the drama of suffering Dionysos; an Orphic, through his initiation ceremonial, repeats the original gestures of Orpheus.
The Judaeo-Christian Sabbath is also an imitatio dei. The Sabbath rest reproduces the primordial gesture of the Lord, for it was on the seventh day of the Creation that God "... rested ... from all his work which he had made" (Gen. 2:2). The message of the Saviour is first of all an example which demands imitation. After washing his disciples' feet, Jesus said unto them: "For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done unto you" (John 3:15) Humility is only a virtue; but humility practiced after the Saviour's example is a religious act and a means of salvation: "... as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34; 15:12) This Christian love is consecrated by the example of Jesus. Its actual practice annuls the sin of the human condition and makes man divine. He who believes in Jesus can do what he did; his limitations and impotence are abolished. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also (John 14:12). The liturgy is precisely a commemoration of the life and Passion of the Saviour. -Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History; The Myth of Eternal Return
“The New Year ritual reenacts the mythical beginning of the cosmos.” (-Mircea Eliade; The Myth of Eternal Return)
-King Coronation...
-The dramatic representation of the death and resurrection of the ancient sun god. Descent and ascension.
-An atoning sacrifice of the KIng in which the people were cleansed of their sins. (Abraham and Isaac)
-A ritual combat in which the triumph of the sun [hero] god over his enemies was depicted.
There were common elements to this ceremony: the dramatic representation of the death and resurrection of the god, a portrayal of the creation, a ritual combat in which the triumph of the god over his enemies was depicted, a triumphal procession where the king or leader played the part of the god followed by a train of lesser gods, an atoning sacrifice by which the people were cleansed of their sins, and festivities and games that recalled a previous Golden Age, now lost.” -Hugh Nibley, One Eternal Round.
-The atonement... was an integral part of all ancient festivals. Atonement = re-conciliation, re-demption, re-surection, re-store, re-lease, salvation, and so on, all refer to a return to [God] a former state.
"I refer to that handbook of the archaic world called the book of Moses, and call attention to the great assembly at Adam-ondi-Ahman for the presentation of the original model (D&C 107:53-57). "Adam [Man] in the presence of God is the quintessential atonement."
The essential feature of this great world festival everywhere is that it aims, if but for a few short days, to recapture the freedom, love, equality, abundance, joy, and light of a Golden Age, a dimly remembered but blessed time in the beginning when all creatures lived together in innocence without fear or enmity, when the heavens poured forth ceaseless bounty, and all men were brothers under the loving rule of the King and Creator of all. ( -The Christmas Quest: Hugh Nibley)
"The aim of archaic cultic activities not only in Egypt but also everywhere else was, according to Karl Albert,, the goal [of the ancient civilizations was always] to restore the primal community of Gods and men, or as we would say, to achieve atonement; and the ordinances were inseparable from the doctrines that went with them, Everywhere, we find myth and legends about how the prima bond that existed between heaven and earth in the Golden Age was broken by the wickedness of men" (Temple and Cosmos; pg.399-401)
“Almost always when the plan is mentioned something is said about its glad reception, 'when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy' (Job 38:7). The great year-rites, common to all ancient societies, are a rehearsal of the Creation, usually presented in dramatic form; invariably the rites end with a great and joyful acclamation: so all the gods and all the spirits came together to hail God upon his throne.and they rejoiced before him in his temple, the source of all good things. The word poema, meaning literally creation, owes its prominence, as Walter Otto has shown, to the circumstance that the first poets were all inspired people who sang one and the same song, namely the Song of Creation.
The whole purpose of the book of Jubilees is to show that the great rites of Israel, centering about the temple and the throne, are a celebration 'which had been observed in heaven since the creation'.The thing to notice here is that man shares fully in these heavenly jubilations; the poet is simply intoxicated with the assurance that man, a mere speck of 'wet dust,' is allowed not only to know about the secret councils of the beginning, but actually to share in them, not only as a participant but as one of the directors!” -(Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment; pg. 287)
The Myth of Eternal Return:
“Every celebration of a New Year starts the world out on a new dispensation, the “unimaginably mighty works” of the creator Goethe reminds us, with everything, “herrlich wie am ersten Tag” (as glorious as on the day of creation), so the angel chorus sang a New Hymn of the creation. This calls for a “new” garden of Eden. To launch the new age of the world.”-Hugh Niblley